Terry Whittaker / Man sorting seabird eggs, including those of Common guillemots (Uria aalge) into egg boxes, Skoruvikurbjarg cliffs, Langanes Peninsula, Iceland, May.

Ingo Arndt / Villagers collecting eggs from Olive ridley sea turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) during the first two days of the arribada (mass nesting event). This is the only place in the world where it is legal to...

Ingo Arndt / Aerial view of crowd of people at the Rheinkultur Festival, Bochum, Germany.

Colin Monteath/ Hedgehog House / Kayakers paddling back to cruise ship Polar Pioneer, Lemaire Channel, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica

Pedro Narra / Local people gathered for education program to conserve the wildlife of the Bissagos Islands including the endangered Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) Bissagos Islands, Guinea Bissau, October 2014. 3rd P...

Juergen Freund / Schooling silversides (Atheriniformes) split level with karst limestone cliff and West Papuan fishermen in their dugout outrigger canoe. Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Second Place in the Portfolio Award of t...

Pete Oxford / Head-hunted human skulls, collected by the Konyak Naga tribe, North East India, October 2014.

Andy Rouse / Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) with tourists watching from cars, Ranthambore, India

Pete Oxford / Yellow-tailed Surgeonfish (Prionurus laticlavius) school and snorkelers, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Thomas Marent / Indian Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) crossing road near tourists, Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India

David Noton / Cyclists riding bikes along riverside path at dawn, near Vang Vieng, Laos, March 2009.

Jean E. Roche / Bull run, with Camargue bulls leaping over hay bales, Camargue, France, July 2012.

Ernie Janes / Boat full of people watching Common Seals (Phoca vitulina) on sand bank at Blakeney Point, Norfolk, August 2013.

Inaki Relanzon / Zebu cattle (Bos indicus) market in Ambalavao, central Madagascar, November 2012.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / A child sitting by wall with empty glass bottles, in the small village of Khumnu. Annapurna Sanctuary, central Nepal, November 2011.

Tom Gilks / Fishermen preparing nets, Remba Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya.

Jeff Rotman / Fishermen clean Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua) on deck of fishing trawler, with herring gulls (Larus argentatus) flocking in the background. Stellwagen Banks, New England, United States, North Atlantic O...

Nick Garbutt / Baby Spot-tail Sharks (Carcharhinus sorrah) on sale in fish souk (market) all caught in the Persian Gulf and many bound for markets in Asia. Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. April 2013

Franco Banfi,Franco Banfi / Local man looking down at shoal of Bigeye scad (Selar crumenophthalmus) Waigeo island, Raja Ampat, Irian Jaya, West Papua, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean

Franco Banfi / Diver with rebreather inside sea cage used for aquaculture with thousand of Gilt-head bream (Sparus aurata) Ponza Island, Italy, Tyrrhenian Sea, Mediterranean. Model released.

Franco Banfi / Diver with rebreather inside sea cage used for aquaculture with thousand of Gilt-head bream (Sparus aurata) Ponza Island, Italy, Tyrrhenian Sea, Mediterranean. Model released.

Nick Garbutt,Nick Garbutt / Tourist watching masses of butterflies drinking from temporary pools. Various species including Large Orange Sulphur (Phoebis agarithe), Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae), White-angled Sulphur (Anteo...

Michael Pitts,Michael Pitts / Divers on the wreck of the tugboat, 'Tienstin'. Abu Galawa, Red Sea, July 2010

Jabruson,Jabruson / Grey-cheeked Mangabey (Lophocebus albigena) juvenile and village children looking on. Captive, kept as a pet until large enough to be eaten. Bayanga near Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, Central African Re...

Juergen Freund / Non-diver tourists surrounded by fish, trying out the sea walker from the Sunlover Pontoon, Great Barrier Reef, Queenland, Australia, November 2012

Christophe Courteau,Christophe Courteau / Villagers walking along a road during a heavy rain shower, Virunga National Park, North Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, August 2010.

David Tipling / Tourist photographing King Penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) Fortuna Bay, South Georgia, November 2006. No release available.

Gavin Hellier / Shanghai night skyline, the view along Huangpu River and the Bund, Shanghai, China 2010. No release available.

Gavin Hellier / Elevated view over the Djemaa el-Fna at sunset, Marrakech, Morocco, 2011. No release available.

Gavin Hellier / The restored Souq Waqif with mud rendered shops and exposed timber beams at dusk, Doha, Qatar, Arabian Peninsula 2011. No release available.

Gavin Hellier / Cobbled street lined with colourful houses known as Kujundziluk, one of the oldest streets in Mostar leading to the Old Bridge, Old Town, Mostar, Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Balkans, 2007. No...

Gavin Hellier / Khao San Road at dusk, Banglamphu, Bangkok, Thailand, 2010. No release available.

Steven Kazlowski / Crew bleeds a full deckload of Pacific cod fish (Gadidae family) before putting them in salt water tanks, on the fishing trawler Western Dawn, Gulf of Alaska, USA. No release available.

Jeff Rotman / Whitetip reef sharks (Triaenodon obesus) pack silhouetted following scent trail in water column, Cocos Island, Costa Rica, Pacific Ocean

Ernie Janes / Greylag geese (Anser anser) in flight with paraglider behind, Cley bank, Norfolk, UK

Nick Turner / Men pulling on a rope in a tug of war competition, Cotswold Olimpicks, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, June 2011.

Nick Turner / Family walking up steps from Durdle Door Beach onto the South West Coast Path National Trail, Dorset, UK, May 2009.

Alex Mustard / Diver swimming through dense school of Silversides (Atherinidae) inside a coral cavern, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies, Caribbean Sea. Model released

Inaki Relanzon / Trashumancia / seasonal migration, large herd of moving livestock, French Pryrenees, Spain, June 2011.

Solvin Zankl / Research scientist Dr. Anne von Philipsborn sorting a laboratory culture of Common fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) at the Vienna Drosophila RNAi Center, Institute for Molecular Pathology, Austri...

Chadden Hunter / Frozen Planet team, training on snow mobiles, Svalbard. Taken on location for BBC Frozen Planet series, 2008

John Abbott / Tourists watching large colony of Marine Iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) Punta Espinosa on Fernandina Island, Galapagos, August 2010

Gary K. Smith / Domestic sheep (Ovis aries) being moved from pen at livestock market after auction, Hawes Mart, Yorkshire, UK, September 2011

Sven Zacek / People in a cross-country skiing competition. Tartu, Estonia, Europe, February.

Ernie Janes / Fishing boat just off Holme Beach Nature Reserve with waders flying and on shore, The Wash, Norfolk, UK, September 2011

Sandesh Kadur / Greater adjutant storks (Leptoptilos dubius) at a landfill dite near the city of Guwahati, Assam, India, Critically Endangered

Jeff Rotman / Snake charmer with scorpions climbing over his hands and face, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, December 2007, Model released

Mark Bowler / Beekeeper looking at the comb of a Honeybee (Apis mellifera) nest. Scotland, UK, May 2010. Model released.

Juergen Freund / Schooling Silverside fish (Antherinidae) split level with karst limestone walls, West Papuan fisherman in boat, North Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia, February 2002.

Jeff Rotman / Mattanza fishermen landing Giant Bluefun tuna (Thunnus thynnus) using a technique in which a maze of nets are set, leading to a central pool, Favignana, Italy, May / June 1990

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 / Newly harvested cultured Golden South Sea pearls of Oyster (Pinctada maxima) displayed in hand, Palawan, Philippines, May 2009

Juergen Freund / Mahonia Na Dari (Guardian of the Sea) Teacher Lorna Romaso leads a group of 16 students to snorkel and learn about the reef. West New Britain, Papua New Guinea, May 2010

Brent Stephenson / Steller's Sea Lions (Eumetopias jubatus) resting on rocks above the tideline. Zodiac with tourists watching in the background. The Brothers, Alaska, United States, July.

Juergen Freund / School of yellow line scads (Selaroides leptolepis) Misool, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia

Juergen Freund / Snorkeler swimming through a school of Oxeye scads (Selar boops) in the house reef of Miniloc Island Resort, El Nido island, Palawan, Philippines, May 2009. Model released.

Kristel Richard / Young police riders training on horses at sunrise, Bhavnagar Police Station, Gujarat, India, January 2011

Inaki Relanzon / Volcanic eruption, Eyjafjallajokull, near the Myrdalsjokull glacier, South Iceland, april 2010.

Inaki Relanzon / Volcanic eruption, Eyjafjallajokull, near the Myrdalsjokull glacier, South Iceland, april 2010.

Juan Carlos Munoz / Catch of lobsters being unloaded in the fishing village of Kalk Bay, False Bay, South Africa

Paul Hobson / Wasps (Vespula vulgaris) swarming around jam pot at a cafe, Peak District, England, UK, August

David Tipling / Three people watching common starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) arriving to roost at Palace Pier Brighton. UK, February

Kristel Richard / The Khampa herdsmen gather to participate in the horse festival, near Huangyan, in the Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the Sichuan Province, China, June 2010

Christophe Courteau / Kalahari bushmen, family playing traditional game, dry season, Central Kalahari Desert, Botswana, August 2008

Christophe Courteau / Kalahari bushmen, family sitting round fire in the bush, dry season, Central Kalahari Desert, Botswana, August 2008

Christophe Courteau / Kalahari bushmen, family group playing skipping game, Central Kalahari Desert, Botswana, August 2008

Christophe Courteau / Kalahari bushmen, family group preparing food in the bush, rainy season, Central Kalahari Desert, Botswana, March 2009

Juan Manuel Borrero / Side-necked Terrapin (Podocnemis unifilis) hatchlings in the hand, and ready to be released. Pacaya Samiria National Reserve. Amazon Basin. Loreto. Peru

Nick Garbutt / Ox cart and Grandidier's Baobabs (Adansonia grandidieri) Near Morondava, western Madagascar.

Stephen Dalton / Honeybees (Apis mellifera) on new frame in beehive, UK

Jeff Rotman / Shark handler wearing chain mail suit feeding Caribbean Reef shark (Carcharhinus perezi) Bahamas, Caribbean Sea. Model release Model released.

Onne van der Wal / Shoal of fish beneath nets and small fishing boats in the Grenadines, Caribbean, February 2010.

David Woodfall / Large numbers of children fishing for shrimp fry on coastal margin land damaged by typhoon Sidr in November 2007, Sundarbans, Bangladesh, October 2008

Dan Burton / Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) in enclosure, Lapland, Sweden, November 2009

Kristel Richard / A Sikh man makes his Nukra horse dance to the rhythm of a drum during the Maghi Mela festival, Muktsar, Punjab, India. January 2010

Kristel Richard / A gaucho (cowboy) tries to remain on the back of a wild horse rearing vertically (Equus caballus) in the rodeo during the Fiesta de la Patria Gaucha, Tacuarembo, Uruguay, April 2008

Sue Flood / Russian Icebreaker, NS 50 Lyet Pobyedi (50 Years of Victory) approaching Rubini Rock, bird colony, Tikhaya Bukhta, Franz Josef Land, Russian Arctic, July 2008

Sue Flood / Tourists standing in a circle around the North Pole, July 2008

Angelo Gandolfi / Dromedary camel (Camelus dromedarius) train crossing Merzouga dunes, Tafilalt, Sahara, Morocco, March 2007.

David Tipling / People watching flock of Japanese / Red crowned cranes {Grus japonensis} Akan, Hokkaido, Japan, February 2008

Hugh Pearson / BBC Producer, Hugh Pearson, recording sound of Cape gannets (Morus capensis) Bird Island, off the coast of the Eastern Cape, South Africa, January

Ingo Arndt / Researcher Jim Lewis curator of the true bug collection at INBio, San Jose, Costa Rica

Katherine Feng / Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) sixteen cubs escape photo attempt, Wolong Nature Reserve, China, sequence 2 of 3

Pete Oxford / Child selling necklaces on the beach made from seeds and shells found locally, Mangily, near Ifaty, southwestern Madagascar

Jean-Pierre Zwaenepoel / Hindu man feeding troop of Southern plains grey / Hanuman langur {Semnopithecus dussumieri} nr Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.

Flip Nicklin / Two scuba divers swimming through sea cave with schooling Grunts, Cocos Island, Costa Rica

Gerry Ellis / African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) orphan, Maluti, six months old, charging camera, David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, Tsavo East National Park, Kenya

Gerry Ellis / African Lion (Panthera leo) kill surrounded by tourists, Tanzania border, Kenya

Pete Oxford / Chagras or cowboys on an overnight ride at a hacienda during the annual cattle round-up, with Mt Antisana in the background, Ecuador

Thomas Mangelsen / Monarch (Danaus plexippus) butterfly group perching on a female tourist, El Rosario Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary, Mexico

Colin Monteath / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) observed by tourists in a zodiac boat near Melchoir Island, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica

Pete Oxford / Chagra cowboys herding cattle and burning the hillsides to keep cattle on the move and rejuvenate the pasture at a hacienda during the annual overnight cattle round-up, Andes Mountains, Ecuador

Konrad Wothe / Tourists on Russian icebreaker breaking through pack ice, Antarctica

Pete Oxford / Two Chagra cowboys on an overnight ride at a hacienda to herd cattle, Andes Mountains, Ecuador

Konrad Wothe / Cardon (Pachycereus pringlei) cactus photographed by tourist, largest cacti in the world and may live over 200 years, Sonoran Desert, Baja California, Mexico

Norbert Wu / Scuba diver exploring ice caves below Weddell Seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) breathing holes, life below feeds on seal feces, Antarctica