Jabruson / Boy walking on large pile of hardwood logs ready for loading onto railway trucks that will collect timber from lumber yard located inside the Lope National Park. Onward shipment via sea takes place f...

Paul Harris / 2020VISION / Recently burnt heathland, showing new Bracken growth (Pteridium aquilinum), Caesar's Camp, Fleet, Hampshire, England, UK, May.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Machinery that cuts, peels and calculates the volume of the wood, cutting eucalyptus trees in the municipality of Linhares, Esparito Santo State, Eastren Brazil, January 2012. No release available.

Juergen Freund / A barge full of logs. Illegal timber is brought into Sarawak from Kalimantan by both land and sea. Illegal logging in protected areas involves a complex network of people from all walks of life. The i...

Juergen Freund / Fisherman collecting freshly blasted or dynamited schooling fish in the reef. Phillipines, April 2009.

Andy Rouse / Harvested potatoes in Virunga Volcanoes National Park with agricultural land behind and forest beyond where the mountain gorillas live, Rwanda, April 2010. Encroachment of the human population on habi...

Juergen Freund / Split-level shot of old coral reef destroyed by dynamite fishing. New corals are not able to colonise the rubble. Misool, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia, January 2010

Juergen Freund / Old coral reef destroyed by dynamite fishing. New corals are not able to colonise the rubble. Misool, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia, January 2010

Claudio Contreras / Fast flowing silted river, deforestation, Port-a-Piment, Haiti, October 2010

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Burning off impure gas in Gazprom's Yamsavey gas fields near Nadym. Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia, 2000.

Gerrit Vyn / Clearing / timber removal in the Olympic National Forest, Washington, USA, March 2010

Jouan & Rius / Smoke from bush fire in Pilbara region, Western Australia. August 2009

Richard Du Toit / Fire in dry season burning agricultural fields, Western Cape, South Africa

Laurie Campbell / Flash flood, Kinloch Rannoch, Perthshire, Scotland, UK, June

Mark Bowler / Aerial view of cloud forest cleared for pasture near to populations of Yellow-tailed woolly monkeys, Alto Mayo, Amazonas, Peru, June 2008

Mark Bowler / Aerial view of rainforest clearance for agriculture, small-scale deforestation slash and burn, Amazon rainforest, Peru

Tim Laman / Aerial view of river, mangrove forest and shrimp ponds in the Sarawak Mangrove Reserve area, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia, June 2006

Martin Dohrn / Sunset in tropical rainforest after destruction by fire, Brazil

Gerry Ellis / Temperate rainforest clear cutting with logging road, Olympic National Forest, Washington

Gerry Ellis / Rainforest logging activities near eastern boundary of the Kikori Delta, Papua New Guinea

Gerry Ellis / Logging road and erosion in lowland tropical rainforest east of Aird River Delta, Kikori Basin, Papua New Guinea

Gerry Ellis / Clearing of tropical rainforest south of Lake Kutubu for Gobe oil camp, Papua New Guinea

Konrad Wothe / Slash and burn rainforest destruction, Madagascar

Michael Quinton / Yellowstone fire, burning forest, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Jabruson / Dropped into the ocean or washed overboard, abandoned hardwood tree trunks wash ashore along Gabon's Atlantic seaboard. These disrupt nests and nesting behaviour of sea turtles along the entire length...

Jabruson / Oil pipeline with area of forest cleared to allow easy inspection fo the pipelines. Gamba town, Ogooue-Maritime / Nyanga, Gabon, February 2009.

Jabruson / Oil pipeline with forest cleared to allow easy inspection fo the pipeline. Gamba town, Ogooue-Maritime / Nyanga, Gabon, February 2009

Jabruson / Oil pipeline with forest cleared to allow easy inspection fo the pipeline. Gamba town, Ogooue-Maritime / Nyanga, Gabon, February 2009

Jabruson / Area cleared of forest to make way for petroleum oil extraction. The town of Gamba was set-up after Shell discovered oil in the region back in the 1960s, Gamba town, Ogooue-Maritime / Nyanga, Gabon, F...

Jabruson / Firewood collected from Waza National Park. Inefficient monitoring and lack of controls allow enterprising merchants to remove and collect wood from the Waza National Park and surrounding hinterland,...

Jabruson / Firewood collected from Waza National Park. Inefficient monitoring and lack of controls allow enterprising merchants to remove and collect wood from the Waza National Park and surrounding hinterland,...

Jabruson / Firewood collected from Waza National Park. Inefficient monitoring and lack of controls allow enterprising merchants to remove and collect wood from the Waza National Park and surrounding hinterland,...

Jabruson / Road construction through rainforest. Graders clear the surface to a newly constructed road as the rainy season breaks. Lope National Park to Libreville highway. Gabon, January 2009

Jabruson / Trucks used for large-scale hardwood timber extraction with hardwood logs being taken from lumber yard located inside the Lope National Park. Onward shipment via sea takes place from Libreville, Gabon...

Jabruson / Trucks used for large-scale hardwood timber extraction with hardwood logs being taken from lumber yard located inside the Lope National Park. Onward shipment via sea takes place from Libreville, Gabon...

Jabruson / Trucks used for large-scale hardwood timber extraction with hardwood logs being taken from lumber yard located inside the Lope National Park. Onward shipment via sea takes place from Libreville, Gabon...

Jabruson / Bulldozer used for large-scale hardwood timber extraction with hardwood logs being readied for loading onto railway trucks that will collect timber from lumber yard located inside the Lope National Pa...

Jabruson / Trucks used for large-scale hardwood timber extraction with hardwood logs being taken from lumber yard located inside the Lope National Park. Onward shipment via sea takes place from Libreville, Gabon...

Jabruson / Bulldozer used for large-scale hardwood timber extraction with hardwood logs being readied for loading onto railway trucks that will collect timber from lumber yard located inside the Lope National Pa...

Jabruson / Large-scale hardwood timber extraction with hardwood logs being readied for loading onto railway trucks that will collect timber from lumber yard located inside the Lope National Park. Onward shipment...

Jabruson / Women primarily control the sale of charcoal and wood in Sao Tome market, Sao Tome, Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, Gulf of Guinea. Lack of cooking fuels puts pressure on natural resourc...

Jabruson / Women selling wood for fuel in Sao Tome market, Sao Tome, Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, Gulf of Guinea. Lack of cooking fuels puts pressure on natural resources and much comes from woo...

Jabruson / Women primarily control the sale of charcoal in Sao Tome market, Sao Tome, Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, Gulf of Guinea. Lack of cooking fuels puts pressure on natural resources and mu...

Jabruson / Colour coding, markings and metal stays on hardwood timber tree trunk base. Large-scale hardwood timber extraction with hardwood logs marked-up and readied for loading onto railway trucks that will co...

Jabruson / Colour coding, markings and metal stays on hardwood timber tree trunk bases with new (Ipomoea spp) leaf growth over logs. Large-scale hardwood timber extraction in Gabon. 2009

Jabruson / Large-scale hardwood timber extraction with hardwood logs being readied for loading onto railway trucks that will collect timber from lumber yard located inside the Lope National Park. Onward shipment...

Jabruson / Large-scale hardwood timber extraction with hardwood logs being readied for loading onto railway trucks that will collect timber from lumber yard located inside the Lope National Park. Onward shipment...

Jabruson / Cyclist moves through lumber yard showing large-scale hardwood timber extraction with hardwood logs being readied for loading onto railway trucks that will collect timber from lumber yard located insi...

Jabruson / Large-scale hardwood timber extraction with hardwood logs being readied for loading onto railway trucks that will collect timber from lumber yard located inside the Lope National Park. Onward shipment...

Jabruson / Alequadio Toma holds a piece of freshly made charcoal. The fuel is being readied for collection after its manufacture near the Sao Nicolau Plantation - close to the Obo National Park and the Bom Suces...

Jabruson / Alequadio Toma & Liticia da Cruz prepare charcoal for collection after its manufacture near the Sao Nicolau Plantation - close to the Obo National Park and the Bom Sucesso Botanic Gardens, Sao Tome, D...

Jabruson / A young woman Liticia da Cruz collects newly made charcoal near the Sao Nicolau Plantation - close to the Obo National Park and the Bom Sucesso Botanic Gardens, Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Pri...

Jabruson / Firewood collection from Waza National Park. Inefficient monitoring and lack of controls allow enterprising merchants to remove and collect wood from the Waza National Park and surrounding hinterland....

Jabruson / Firewood collection from Waza National Park. Inefficient monitoring and lack of controls allow enterprising merchants to remove and collect wood from the Waza National Park and surrounding hinterland....

Jabruson / Large-scale hardwood timber extraction with trucks carrying hardwood timber stop on the route from near the Lope National Park to Libreville, Gabon. 2009

Jabruson / Forest clearance for agriculture, cabbage farming on the edge of the Obo National Park, near Bom Sucesso Botanic Gardens, Sao Tome, Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, Gulf of Guinea 2009

Jabruson / Forest clearance for agriculture with cabbage farming on the edge of the Obo National Park, near Bom Sucesso Botanic Gardens, Sao Tome, Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, Gulf of Guinea 200...

Mark Carwardine / Aerial view of deforested hills, formerly tropical rainforest, on the east coast of Madagascar, October 2008

Ann & Steve Toon / Wild fire raging in Imfolozi game reserve, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa, June 2012

Will Watson / Clearance of coastal rainforest for subsistence agriculture, Manabi Province, Ecuador. February 2012.

Roy Mangersnes / Landscape of deforested Cloud forest habitat, the forest is cleared to make room for Coca (Erythroxylum coca) plantations, Bolivia, November

Roy Mangersnes / Landscape of deforested Cloud forest habitat, the forest is cleared to make room for Coca (Erythroxylum coca) plantations, Bolivia, November

Paul Harris / 2020VISION / Recently burnt heathland, with some new growth, Caesar's Camp, Fleet, Hampshire, England, UK, May.

Paul Harris / 2020VISION / Recently burnt heathland round Silver birch tree (Betula pendula), with some new growth, Caesar's Camp, Fleet, Hampshire, England, UK, May.

Paul Harris / 2020VISION / Recently burnt heathland, with new growth, Caesar's Camp, Fleet, Hampshire, England, UK, May.

Paul Harris / 2020VISION / Recently burnt heathland, showing new Bracken growth (Pteridium aquilinum), Caesar's Camp, Fleet, Hampshire, England, UK, May.

David Woodfall / Asylum seeker group sitting around fire in woodlands after decorating whicker easter egg with wildflowers on Easter Sunday, Wales, April 2009.

David Woodfall / Asylum seeker group sitting around fire in woodlands after decorating whicker easter egg with wildflowers on Easter Sunday, Wales, April 2009.

Sebastian Kennerknecht / Flash flood during heavy rain storm, partially caused by the deforestation on escarpment, Hawf Protected Area, Yemen

Pete Oxford / Gas burn-off stations along Napo River, Amazon, Ecuador

David Woodfall / Destruction of countryside in green belt close to market town, for building of houses in flood plain, future Glasdir estate, Ruthin, Vale of Clwyd, Denbighshire, Wales, UK. This is a highlighted area...

David Woodfall / Destruction of countryside in green belt close to market town, for building of houses in flood plain, future Glasdir estate, Ruthin, Vale of Clwyd, Denbighshire, Wales, UK. This is a highlighted area...

David Woodfall / Destruction of countryside in green belt close to market town, for building of houses in flood plain, future Glasdir estate, Ruthin, Vale of Clwyd, Denbighshire, Wales, UK. This is a highlighted area...

David Woodfall / Destruction of countryside in green belt close to market town, for building of houses in flood plain, future Glasdir estate, Ruthin, Vale of Clwyd, Denbighshire, Wales, UK. This is a highlighted area...

David Woodfall / Destruction of countryside in green belt close to market town, for building of houses in flood plain, Vale of Clwyd, Denbighshire, Wales, UK. This is a highlighted areas in UK at risk of flooding and...

Sandesh Kadur / Power lines frame the irreversible damage caused by over 30 years of iron-ore mining in Kudremukh National Park, Karanataka, Western Ghats, Southern India. If mining continues, the lives of hundreds...

Bertie Gregory / 2020VISION / Monochrome image of a Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) cygnet, with digger in the background, Bradfield Nature Reserve, Berkshire, March 2011

Christian Ziegler / Fodder Cane (Saccharum spontaneum), invasive species occupies cleared land, central Panama

Christian Ziegler / Erosion patterns in deforested areas, central Panama

Christian Ziegler / Domestic Cattle (Bos taurus) on low-quality pasture in deforested area, central Panama

Christian Ziegler / Cloud forest contrasting with intense farming on slopes, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Sediment-loaded stream in deforested area, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Kevin Schafer / Rainforest clearing for slash and burn agriculture, central Sulawesi, Indonesia

Pete Oxford / Slash and burn clearing, Intag Valley, northwest Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Slash and burn clearing, Intag Valley, northwest Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Naranjilla (Solanum quitoense) crop growing amid clear-cut forest, Intag Valley, northwest Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Slash and burn clearing, Intag Valley, northwest Ecuador

Doug Wechsler / Habitat destruction from highway construction. Tapichalaca Reserve, Ecuador, Zamora Chichipe.

Philippe Clement / Broken dead Spruce Trees (Picea) afflicted by Spruce Bark Beetle (Ips typographus) infestation. Bavarian Forest National Park, Germany, May 2011.

Colin Monteath / Native plant seedlings in protective plastic shields for reclamation of native forest, Punakaiki, west coast, New Zealand

Christian Ziegler / Lowland tropical rainforest cleared for cattle farming, Soberania National Park, Panama

Ernie Janes / Hedge sparrow / Dunnock (Prunella modularis) nest with three eggs, nest exposed in hedge by summer hedge cutting, UK

Ernie Janes / Remains of building destroyed in cliff collapse due to coastal erosion, Happisburgh, Norfolk, UK, March 2009

Christian Ziegler / Red Mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) old growth stands clear cut for tourist housing, Hopkins, Belize

Christian Ziegler / Red Mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) old growth stands clear cut for tourist housing, Hopkins, Belize

Christian Ziegler / Red Mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) old growth stands clear cut for tourist housing, Hopkins, Belize