Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) sub-adult female 'Mosoko' aged 8 years crossing a river, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central African Republic

Morley Read / Aerial shot tracking over a cattle farm cut out of the Amazon rainforest, the farm has fish ponds for raising Tilapia and is surrounded by primary rainforest, Napo Province, Ecuador, 2017. (non-ex)

Joris van Alphen / Aerial view of clearing with felled logs in Bialowieza Forest UNESCO World Heritage Site, Poland. Highly commended in the Wildlife Photojournalism Category of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awa...

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) cub sitting in coniferous woodland clearing at dusk. Glenfeshie, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK.

Christophe Courteau / Mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei), dominant silverback in forest clearing. Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda.

Nayan Khanolkar / Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) in forest clearing. Camera trap image. Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India. January 2018.

Danny Green / Moose Bull (Alces alces) walking in forest clearing, Denali National Park, USA, September

Gerry Ellis / Burned rainforest, cleared for oil palm agriculture, Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. October, 2015

Gerry Ellis / Smoking fire, set by humans to clear rainforest to plant oil palms, Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. October, 2015

Gerry Ellis / Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) sub-adult male in trees in haze caused by forest clearing, West Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. October, 2015

Markus Varesvuo / Golden Eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) mating in snowy forest clearing. Kuusamo, Finland, February

Markus Varesvuo / Golden Eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) mating in snowy forest clearing. Kuusamo, Finland, February

Jabruson Motion / Small group of African forest elephants (Loxodonta africana cuclotis) running into forest clearing, trumpeting to dominant male feeding and cooling down in a mineral pool, Dzanga Bai, Dzanga-Ndoki Nat...

Jabruson Motion / THIS VIDEO CLIP WILL BE AVAILABLE TO VIEW ONLINE SOON. TO VIEW NOW, PLEASE CONTACT US. -Two male African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) play fighting in a forest clearing, Dzanga Bai, Dzanga-Nd...

Jabruson Motion / THIS VIDEO CLIP WILL BE AVAILABLE TO VIEW ONLINE SOON. TO VIEW NOW, PLEASE CONTACT US. -Two male African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) play fighting in a forest clearing, Dzanga Bai, Dzanga-Nd...

Jabruson Motion / THIS VIDEO CLIP WILL BE AVAILABLE TO VIEW ONLINE SOON. TO VIEW NOW, PLEASE CONTACT US. -Flock of Congo african grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus erithacus) flying through a forest clearing, Dzanga Bai...

Anup Shah / Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) mature male 'Halik' aged 26 years sitting in a forest clearing watched from a tree by female 'Juni' aged 12 years. Gunung Leuser National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia. Re...

Mark MacEwen / Forest Elephants, (Loxodonta cyclotis) in forest around Dzanga Bai Clearing, Central African Republic, Africa.

Anup Shah / Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) young male 'Jeje' aged 13 years walking through a forest clearing, Bossou Forest, Mont Nimba, Guinea. December 2010.

Jabruson / African Forest elephant (Loxodonta africana cyclotis) bull at edge of Dzanga Bai in early evening, Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, Central African Republic

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) dominant male silverback 'Makumba' aged 32 years feeding on sedge grasses in Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central African Re...

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) dominant male silverback 'Makumba' aged 32 years sitting in a forest clearing, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central African...

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) dominant male silverback 'Makumba' aged 32 years sitting in a forest clearing, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central African...

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) dominant male silverback 'Makumba' aged 32 years sitting in a forest clearing, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central African...

Anup Shah / African Forest elephant (Loxodonta africana cyclotis) herd drinking and wallowing in a river, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central African Republic. December 2011.

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) juvenile males 'Mobangi' aged 5 years and 'Tembo' aged 4 years walking in to a bai with dominant male silverback 'Makumba' aged 32 years drinking in t...

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) juvenile male 'Mobangi' aged 5 years feeding on sedge grasses in a bai with the rest of his group, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reser...

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) juvenile male 'Mobangi' aged 5 years standing with sub-adult male 'Kunga' aged 13 years in Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Cent...

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla). dominant male silverback 'Makumba' aged 32 years, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central African Republic, December 2011

Anup Shah / Forest elephant herd (Loxodonta cyclotis) drinking and wallowing in a river, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central African Republic

Klaus Echle / Badger (Meles meles) foraging on a misty day in woodland clearing, Black Forest, Germany. Highly commended in Animals in their Environment category, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2011 competition

Eric Baccega / Moose (Alces alces) bull walking in forest clearing, Cap Breton Highlands National Park, Nova Scotia, Canada, September

Eric Baccega / Moose (Alces alces) head portrait of bull standing in forest clearing, Cap Breton Highlands National Park, Nova Scotia, Canada, September

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

Jabruson / Sitatunga scratching {Tragelaphus spekei} while searching for seeds in dung left by elephants drinking , Maya Maya Nord Bai forest clearing, Odzala NP, Congo, West Africa

Jabruson / Sitatunga {Tragelaphus spekei} searching for seeds in dung left by elephants drinking , Maya Maya Nord Bai forest clearing, Odzala NP, Congo, West Africa

Jabruson / Sitatunga {Tragelaphus spekei} searching for seeds in dung left by elephants drinking , Maya Maya Nord Bai forest clearing, Odzala NP, Democratic Republic of Congo.

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

Jabruson / Bush pigs {Potamochoerus porcus} leaving 'mangoire' in bai for forest , Odzala NP, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Jabruson / Western lowland gorilla male silverback "Faust" eating soil for mineral content in bai (forest clearing) Odzala NP, Democratic Republic of Congo. Died July 2004, probably due to Ebola virus.

Jabruson / Western lowland gorilla family group feeding in Bai /forest clearing {Gorilla gorilla gorilla } Odzala NP, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Jabruson / Western lowland gorillas and Forest elephants in clearing in tropical rainforest, Obandas Bai, Odzala NP, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Jabruson / Sitatunga doe and calf {Tragelaphus spekei} searching for seeds in dung left by elephants drinking , Maya Maya Nord Bai forest clearing, Odzala NP, Congo, West Africa

Jabruson / Western lowland gorilla female carrying infant and feeding in bai (forest clearing), Odzala NP, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Jabruson / Western lowland gorilla family feeding in Moba bai forest clearing in Odzala NP, Democratic Republic of Congo.

John Waters / African elephants at Dzanga bai (forest clearing) mineral lick Central African Republic

Jabruson / Western lowland gorillas and Forest elephant in rainforest clearing, Odzala NP, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Michael W. Richards / Chimpanzee troupe nut cracking in rainforest clearing (Pan troglodytes) Tai Forest, Ivory Coast, Africa

John Waters / African elephants dig for minerals at Dzanga bai forest clearing Central African Republic {Loxidonta africana}

Morley Read / Aerial shot ascending from a cattle farm cut out of the Amazon rainforest, the farm has fish ponds for raising Tilapia and is surrounded by primary rainforest, Napo Province, Ecuador, 2017. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Aerial shot tracking over an area of rainforest cleared by slash and burn for cultivation of crops including maize, manioc and banana, Amazon rainforest, Napo Province, Ecuador, 2017. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Aerial shot tracking over an area of rainforest cleared by slash and burn for cultivation of crops including maize, manioc and banana, Amazon rainforest, Napo Province, Ecuador, 2017. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Aerial shot tracking over an area of rainforest cleared by slash and burn for cultivation of crops including maize, manioc and banana, Amazon rainforest, Napo Province, Ecuador, 2017. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Aerial view descending over the rainforest, with two Ceiba trees and a clearing planted with maize, Napo Province, Ecuadorian Amazon, 2017. (non-ex)

Robert Valentic / European legless lizard (Pseudopus apodus thracius) male in a forest clearing in the Dadia Forest, Thrace district , Greece, August. Controlled conditions.

Claudio Contreras / Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) standing in forest clearing. Captive.

Loic Poidevin / Brown bear (Ursus arctos) female and cub standing in forest clearing. Finland. May.

Felis Images / Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris) rolling on ground, looking at Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) herd. In forest clearing along with Peacock. Mudumalai National Park, Tamil Nadu, India. Photo Phillip Ros...

Oscar Dewhurst / Emperor Tamarin (Saguinus imperator) in a rainforest clearing. The animal is one of many being studied, hence the metal band hanging from its neck. Madre de Dios, Peru. March. Cropped

David Woodfall / Red Deer (Cervus elaphus ) in woodland clearing with Silver Birch (Betula pendula) background in Scots Pine Forest

Sven Zacek / Reflection of sun in forest pool. Haanja Nature Park, Vorumaa, Southern Estonia. May.

Andrew Walmsley / Cut stump of palm oil tree during restoration work carried out by staff from the Orangutan Information Centre, North Sumatra. The staff begin by clearing oil palms from purchased land, often former il...

Andrew Walmsley / Cut stump of palm oil tree during restoration work carried out by staff from the Orangutan Information Centre, North Sumatra. The staff begin by clearing oil palms from purchased land, often former il...

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) cub sitting in coniferous woodland clearing at dusk. Glenfeshie, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK.

Pal Hermansen / Rocks and pebble field in coniferous forest, view from Slattdalsberget, Skuleskogen National Park, High Coast World Heritage Site, Vasternorrland, Sweden. August, 2018.

Pal Hermansen / Coniferous forest and clearing with pond. Aerial view, High Coast World Heritage Site, Vasternorrland, Sweden. August, 2018.

Nick Upton / Roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) buck browsing on Lime (Tilia sp) leaves at the woodland edge, at dusk. Near Bath, England, UK. May.

Nick Upton / Roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) buck grazing in grassy woodland clearing at dusk, near Bath, England, UK. May.

Nayan Khanolkar / Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris), male near tree previously spray marked by female. Camera trap image. Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India. January 2018.

Ashley Cooper / Electricity wires running through woodland near Ambleside in the Lake District, England, UK. May.

Ashley Cooper / Sugar cane (Saccharum) crop growing in the Daintree rainforest area of North of Queensland, Australia. February 2010.

Ashley Cooper / Trees planted by the Australian Rainforest Foundation in the Daintree rainforest. Queensland, Australia, February 2010.

Ashley Cooper / Aerial view of meandering river in rainforest on Fiji, March 2007.

Ashley Cooper / Aerial view of meandering river in rainforest on Fiji, March 2007.

Ashley Cooper / Aerial view of rainforest and mountains on Fiji. March 2007.

Luke Massey / Group of Wild boar (Sus scrofa) piglets in woodland clearing, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, UK, May.

Luke Massey / Wild boar (Sus scrofa) feeding in a forest clearing, with a piglet arriving, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, UK, May.

Five Films / Timelapse of mist clearing over an area of Atlantic Forest at dawn, Reserva Ecologica de Guapiacu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2015.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Mist clearing over Loch Garten, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK, August.

Nick Upton / Hornet (Vespa crabro) workers arriving back at their nest in a hollow tree trunk, with others emerging and one clearing debris from inside, Lower Woods Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust reserve, Wickwar,...

Francois Savigny / Bengal tiger resting beside stream (Panthera t tigris}, Bandhavgarh, India.

Ingo Arndt / Clearing forest for Agriculture - trees burning Madagascar. Slash and burn

Nick Garbutt / Eastern Ring-tailed Vontsira (Galidia elegans elegans) foraging in forest clearing. Marojejy National Park, north east Madagascar.

Philippe Clement / Holder C9700H municipal tractor with snow blower clearing snow from road in forest after heavy snowfall in winter, Bavarian Forest, January 2017.

Nick Upton / Several young Birch trees (Betula sp.) felled by Eurasian beavers (Castor fiber) close to a drainage channel used for access, creating a clearing in mixed woodland, Bamff Estate, Alyth, Tayside, Perth...

Nick Upton / Several young Birch trees (Betula sp.) felled by Eurasian beavers (Castor fiber) creating a clearing in mixed woodland, Bamff Estate, Alyth, Tayside, Perthshire, Scotland, UK, April.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Herd of Red deer (Cervus elaphus) stags in clearing in snow covered pine forest, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK, December.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) feeding in clearing in pine forest, Inshriach, Glenfeshie, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK, December.

Danny Green / Moose bull (Alces alces) walking in forest clearing, Denali National Park, Alaska, USA, September

Nick Upton / Feral Domestic cats (Felis catus) resting on an old cable drum in a forest clearing, Plaka, Kos, Dodecanese Islands, Greece, August.

Nick Upton / Feral Domestic cats (Felis catus) resting on an old cable drum in a forest clearing, Plaka, Kos, Dodecanese Islands, Greece, August.

Will Burrard-Lucas / Mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) baby peering through a clearing in the leaves. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. November

Cyril Ruoso / African forest buffalo (Syncerus caffer nanus) in clearing, Lobeke / Lake Lobak National Park, Cameroon, July,

Cyril Ruoso / Bonobo (Pan paniscus) conservationist clearing selected area for agriculture, but allowing for greater forest protection for the apes, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Jeff Foott / Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) killed Lodgepole Pine (Pinus contorta) forest, Colorado