Eric Baccega / Afar men mining salt at Lake Assale. Danakil depression, Afar region, Ethiopia, March 2015.

Robin Chittenden / Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) on statue's head, Norwich Cathedral, Norfolk, UK, June

David Tipling / Tribal performers from Hagen at Sing-sing, Mount Hagen Show in Western Highlands Papua New Guinea. Headress contains Papuan Lorikeet birds and King of Saxony plumes. August 2011

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Local villager attending the release of European bison / Wisent (Bison bonasus) in the Tarcu mountains nature reserve, Natura 2000 area, Southern Carpathians, Romania. May 2014.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Salt extraction at Lake Assale on the Danakil depression, Afar men lever out salt blocks for trade. Afar Region, Ethiopia, Africa. November 2014.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Salt extraction at Lake Assale in the Danakil depression, Afar men lever out salt blocks for trade. Afar Region, Ethiopia, Africa. November 2014.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Salt extraction at Lake Assale on the Danakil depression, Afar men extract salt blocks for trade. Afar Region, Ethiopia, Africa. November 2014.

TJ Rich / Portrait of Vedda tribesman carrying axe, Dambana, Sri Lanka, December 2012.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Mbuti Pygmy man at hunting camp with ivory headed axe, Ituri Rainforest, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa, January 2012.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Mbuti Pygmy man at hunting camp with ivory headed axe, Ituri Rainforest, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa, January 2012.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Ivory headed axe used by local Mbuti pygmy people, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Ruslana Votgyrgina, a young Chukchi girl, using a hatchet to chop firewood at a reindeer herders' summer camp. Iultinsky District, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia, August 2013.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Ruslana Votgyrgina, a young Chukchi girl, using a hatchet to chop firewood at a reindeer herders' summer camp. Iultinsky District, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia, August 2013.

Nick Upton / Three Backwell Enviromental Trust volunteers coppicing young trees using hand saws and axes to increase biodiversity and to improve the woodland habitat for Hazel Dormice (Muscardinus avellanarius) ne...

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Nenets woman chopping wood with axe at Reindeer / Caribou herders' winter camp. Yamal, Siberia, Russia, 1993.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Forestry worker stripping bark off Pine (Pinus) logs near Gus-Zheleznyy. Ryazan Province, Russia, 2006.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Forestry workers stripping bark off Pine (Pinus) logs near Gus-Zheleznyy. Ryazan Province, Russia, 2006.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Fur clad Inuit hunters cutting frozen meat with axe. Northwest Greenland, 1980.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Cree woman chopping firewood at winter camp. Lake Bourinot, Canada, 1988.

Wild Wonders of Europe / Geslin / Codrii Reserve warden, Central Moldova, July 2009

Shattil & Rozinski / Carvings of men wielding axes on the Habu Temple, Luxor, Egypt, 2001

Barry Bland / Heli hiking on Franz Joseph Glacier, South Island, New Zealand.

Ugo Mellone / Woman from the Wiwa community cutting wood for cooking in village, El Encanto, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. December, 2021.

Ashley Cooper / Ice climber climbing the frozen Low Water Beck waterfall, Lake District National Park, Cumbria, UK. February, 2021.

Ashley Cooper / Ice climber on a frozen waterfall, Launchy Ghyll, Thirlmere, Lake District National Park, Cumbria, UK February, 2021.

Ashley Cooper / Ice climbers climbing frozen waterfall, Launchy Ghyll, Thirlmere, Lake District National Park, Cumbria, UK February, 2021.

Ashley Cooper / Ice climber climbing frozen waterfall, Whorneyside Force, below Crinkle Crags, Lake District National Park, Cumbria, UK. February, 2021.

Patricio Robles Gil / Logger - man carrying axe and a chainsaw, Sierra Chincua Sanctuary, Mexico.