Lucas Bustamante / Palm oil crops and deforestation in the Ecuadorian Choco Esmeraldas, Ecuador

Lucas Bustamante / Palm oil crops and deforestation in the Ecuadorian Choco, Esmeraldas, Ecuador

John Shaw / Abandoned house in middle of a wheat field. Palouse farming area, south eastern Washington, USA, August.

Jabruson Motion / Conservation workers carrying a sedated Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) towards vehicles and a transport box, part of a relocation programme, Sei Serdang, Prima, Batang Serangan, Langkat, North Suma...

Chien Lee / African Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis) plantation and refinery, Kalabakan, Sabah, Malaysia

Alex Mustard / Brandt's cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus) hunts for a meal in a school of Pacific chub mackerel (Scomber japonicus) beneath an oil rig. Eureka Rig, Los Angeles, California, USA, September

Alex Mustard / Brandt's cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus) hunts for a meal in a school of Pacific chub mackerel (Scomber japonicus), beneath an oil rig. Eureka Rig, Los Angeles, California, United States of Ame...

Igor Shpilenok / Young female Kamchatka brown bear (Ursus arctos beringianus) playing with oil drum, Kronotsky Nature Reserve, Kamchatka, Far East Russia. May. These bears can develop addiction to sniffing the aviatio...

Igor Shpilenok / Young female Kamchatka brown bear (Ursus arctos beringianus) playing with oil drum, Kronotsky Nature Reserve, Kamchatka, Far East Russia. May. These bears can develop addiction to sniffing the aviatio...

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

Bruno D'Amicis / Fennec fox (Vulpes zerda) wild caught adult, kept in sheep pen in village, Kebili Governorate. Tunisia, April. Winner of the Fritz Polking Portfolio Award of the GDT Competition 2015.

Cyril Ruoso / Oilseed rape (Brassica napus) fields in flower, Burgundy, France, May.

Cyril Ruoso / Pollution washed up in mangroves, Sungei Buloh Natural Park, Singapore. Non-ex

Kevin Schafer / Oil refinery with Mount Baker behind, seen from Fidalgo Bay, Anacortes, Washington

Kevin Schafer / Oil refinery at sunrise spewing gas effluence out of smoke stacks, Anacortes, Washington

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Oil storage tanks near Sabetta, South Tambey Gas field, Yamal, Siberia, Russia. February 2014.

Jean E. Roche / Flooded petrol station in Arles city flooded by the Rhone in December 2003. Camargue, France.

Gary K. Smith / Marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus) adult female circling over Oilseed rape crop, Norfolk, England, May. Digital composite.

Tom Gilks / Tanzanian boys doing homework using oil lamp, Tanzania.

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / African penguin; (Spheniscus demersus); Rehabilitation at Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB); Cape Town; South Africa.

Michael Pitts,Michael Pitts / Engine room ventilator shafts of oil tanker 'Seiko Maru'. Sunk in Chuuk Lagoon 17/18th February 1944, Chuuk Lagoon, Pacific

Jabruson / Old abandoned Oil Palm trees (Elaeis guineensis), on the edge of plantation limits, at the edge of Korup National Park, South West Cameroon.

Denis-Huot / Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) playing in the waves of an oil tanker, Port Aransas, Texas, USA

Denis-Huot / Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) playing in the waves of an oil tanker, Port Aransas, Texas, USA

Anup Shah / Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) juvenile female 'Joya' aged 6 years using rocks as tools to crack open palm oil nuts, Bossou Forest, Mont Nimba, Guinea. December 2010.

Anup Shah / Western chimpanzees female 'Jire' aged 52 and her daughter 'Joya' aged 6 years and son 'Jeje' aged 13 years feeding on palm oil fruits stored by villagers, Bossou Forest, Mont Nimba, Guinea. December...

Floris van Breugel / Natural iridescent oil film from decaying leaves at the surface of a pool, with a cottonwood leaf floating. Escalante National Monument, Utah. November.

Steven Kazlowski / Trans-Alaskan Pipeline, with blooming fall tundra colours, that runs from Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic coast to Valdez at the north central coast of Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Cape gannet (Morus capensis) drying after a swim in the pool. Its feathers are still coated in oil and once the bird is strong enough it will be washed. Southern African Foundation for the Conservatio...

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Cape gannet (Morus capensis) drying in a heated pen (a heat lamp illuminates the pen with a red light) after its first wash, which removed some of the oil that coated its feathers. Some oil remains on...

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Cape Gannet (Morus capensis) being rinsed after a wash with soap to remove the oil that coated its feathers at the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB). Vulnerab...

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Cape Gannet (Morus capensis) being washed to remove the oil that coats its feathers at the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB). Vulnerable species. Third place...

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Cape gannet (Morus capensis) coated in oil swimming in pool at the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB). Vulnerable species. Third place in Mankind and Nature p...

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Cape gannet (Morus capensis) coated in oil swimming in pool at Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB). Vulnerable species. Third place in Mankind and Nature portf...

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Cape gannet (Morus capensis) coated in oil swimming in pool at the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB). Cape Town, South Africa. Vulnerable species. Third place...

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Cape gannet (Morus capensis) being washed to remove the oil that coats it feathers. After it will be hand reared in rehabilitation at the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal B...

Guy Edwardes / 2020VISION / Oil Beetle (Meloe proscarabaeus). Powerstock Common, Dorset, England, UK, April.

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Edge of saltmarsh with oil storage depot in the background, Canvey Island, Essex, England, UK, February

Peter Lewis / Fawley Oil Refinery at sunset, Fawley, nr Southampton, Hampshire, UK, September 2009

Peter Lewis / Sunset over Fawley oil refinery viewed from Portsdown Hill, Hampshire, UK, October 2010

Peter Lewis / Sunset over Fawley oil refinery viewed from Portsdown Hill, Hampshire, UK, October 2010

Fabrice Cahez / Male Whinchat (Saxicola rubetra) perched on Oil seed rape (Brassica napus) in a field, Vosges, France, April

Christophe Courteau / Rusty barrels at the historical site of Virgohamna where, in 1897, the hydrogen balloon 'Omen' (the Eagle) sailed northward in a failed attempt to reach the north pole with 3 Swedish ballooners led by...

Benoit Stichelbaut / Workers cleaning beach of spilt oil from cargo boat "TK Bremen", beached by heavy winds. Erdeven, Brittany, France, December 16th 2011.

Benoit Stichelbaut / Cargo boat "TK Bremen" beached by heavy winds. Erdeven, Brittany, France, December 16th 2011.

Ernie Janes / Track through field of flowering Oil-seed rape, Langham, Norfolk, UK

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Gas flare at a Gazprom oil production facility near Noviy Urengoy. Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia.

Juergen Freund / Moromaho Island is home to thousands of Coconut palms (Cocos nucifera). Twice a year farmers come to this island to harvest copra, the meat of the coconut, which is the source of coconut oil. Wakatobi...

Juergen Freund / Aerial view of palm oil plantations (Elaeis guineensis). Sabah, Malaysia, June 2009.

Juergen Freund / Aerial view of Palm oil plantation (Elaeis quineesis Jacq) New Britain Pam Oil Limited (NBPOL), Papua New Guinea, October 2008

Roberto Rinaldi / Wreck of crude oil super-tanker "Amoco Milford Haven", populated by shoals Swallowtail anthias (Anthias anthias) and Bogues (Boops boops). The tanker sank on April 14th, 1991 after three days of fire....

Roberto Rinaldi / Stern of crude oil super-tanker "Milford Haven", which sank on April 14th, 1991 after three days of fire. Genoa, Italy, 2007.

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

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Pumping unit in the oil fields near Niznevartovsk. Khanty Mansiysk, Western Siberia, Russia, 2000.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Inuit children playing on pile of empty oil drums. Moriussaq, Northwest Greenland, 1997.

Gerrit Vyn / Flock of oiled Brown Pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis) on a beach behind an oil covered containment boom. This nesting colony is the largest in Louisiana and was heavily contaminated by the BP Deepwat...

Gerrit Vyn / Aerial view of oiled bird nesting colonies in Barataria Bay area of the Mississippi River delta, with oil spill containment booms attempting to prevent more oil coming ashore. These waters are contami...

Gerrit Vyn / Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla) juvenile, heavily oiled as a result of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Baldwin County, Alabama. USA, June 2010.

Gerrit Vyn / Human footprint and oiled beach from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. Baldwin County, Alabama. USA, June 2010.

Paul Hobson / Flock of Pink Footed geese (Anser brachyrhynchus) flying low over Liverpool bay, with gas rig behind. England, UK. November.

Philip Stephen / Fishing vessel "Harvester" and the "Jotun B" oil production platform. North Sea, May 2010.

Philip Stephen / Fishing vessel "Harvester" and the "Jotun B" oil production platform. North Sea, May 2010.

Philip Stephen / "Beryl Bravo" oil platform blowing off gas, North Sea, March 2010.

Philip Stephen / Fishing vessel "Ocean Harvest" operating close to the "Beryl Alpha" production platform, 160 miles Northeast of Aberdeen, in the North Sea. March 2010.

Gerrit Vyn / Aerial view of large flock of molting Brant. These geese have found refuge on a shallow lake. During their summer moult the geese are flightless. The Teshekpuk Lake area is the most important goose m...

Michel Poinsignon / Wind turbine with oil seed rape flowers in the foreground, Sarre, Germany

Wild Wonders of Europe / Carwardine / Aerial view of Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) swimming through oil slick, Skjalfandi Bay, Northern Iceland, July 2009

Juan Carlos Munoz / Aerial view of palm oil plantation on deforested land, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia 2007

Thomas Marent / African Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis) plantation and people, eastern Madagascar

Ross Hoddinott / Crop of oilseed rape flowering {Brassica napus}, near Hartland, Devon, UK. April 08.

Jouan Rius / Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) chick defends itself with projectile oil, Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK

Dan Burton / Aerial view of the shipwrecked 'Napoli' with tugs and oil spill visible on water's surface, near Sidmouth and Branscombe, Devon, UK, 2007

Jack Dykinga / Red-barked Gumbo Limbo (Bursura simaruba) amid Oil Nut Plants (Orbygnia guaycoyule) in the jungle of the Sierra Madre Foothills, Jalisco, Mexico, Central America

MORLEY READ / Burning off gas beside pool of waste water, Shushufindi oil prodcution site, Ecuador

Doug Perrine / Old bottle for Sperm whale oil, Whaler's village museum, Hawaii

Bob Barbour / Waves, Pipeline, Hawaii

Bob Barbour / Surfer rides wave, Pipeline, Oahu, Hawaii

Gerry Ellis / Oil pipeline crossing taiga, Alaska

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

Mitsuaki Iwago / King Penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) covered in oil, South Georgia Island

Pete Oxford / Cofan Indians inspecting oil waste pit. Amazonian Ecuador

MORLEY READ / Laying pipeline for oil extraction in rainforest. Ecuador, South America

Ross Couper-Johnston / Burning oil well with water control from heat-shielding shed, Kuwait, Arabia, post Gulf war.

Morley Read / Aerial shot of an oil palm plantation in the Amazon rainforest, near the town of Coca, Orellana Province, Ecuador, 2018. (non-ex)

Gerry Ellis / African Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis) plantantion next to rainforest, West Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia

Gerry Ellis / Recently cleared and burnt tropical rainforest to convert area for oil palm plantation, West Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia

Gerry Ellis / Recently cleared and burnt tropical rainforest to convert area for oil palm plantation, West Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia

Gerry Ellis / Recently cleared and burnt tropical rainforest to convert area for oil palm plantation, West Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia

Gerry Ellis / Rainforest tree being logged to clear area for oil palm plantation, western Cameroon

Juan Carlos Munoz / Patchwork of agricultural fields including Oilseed rape (Brassica napus) with hills in background, high angle view. Cuestahedo, Merindad de Montija, Burgos, Castile and Leon, Spain. June 2019.

David Woodfall / Aerial view of a flooded farm with straw bales covered with white sheeting, surrounded by fuel oil in the water, Fishlake, South Yorkshire, UK. November 2019.

David Woodfall / Aerial view of a flooded farm with straw bales covered with white sheeting, surrounded by fuel oil in the water, Fishlake, South Yorkshire, UK. November 2019.

David Woodfall / Aerial view of a flooded farm with straw bales covered with white sheeting, surrounded by fuel oil in the water, Fishlake, South Yorkshire, UK. November 2019.

David Tipling / Palm oil plantation created from felling tropical rainforest. South of Honiara, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 2018.

Nick Upton / Black oil beetle (Meloe proscarabaeus) walking on a coast path, seeking a site to dig a burrow for its eggs, north Cornwall, UK, April.