Neil Aldridge / Team of vets and conservation staff move a sedated White rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) into a comfortable resting position in a secure enclosure known as a boma during a translocation operation to...

Laurent Geslin / Vet and KORA team putting a radio collar on wild European lynx (Lynx lynx) for translocation to Kalkalpen National Park, Austria from Switzerland. May 2011.

Jabruson / Angelique Todd with veterinarians during the anaesthesia of 'Blackback' Western Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) 'Ngobo'. Gorilla anaesthetised by veterinary team in order to remove wire snare from wrist. Mo...

Staffan Widstrand,Staffan Widstrand / Mangrove planting team from CRINEO planting Rhzophora mangrove trees, Pulicat Lake, Tamil Nadu, India, February 2013.

Staffan Widstrand / Mangrove planting team from CRINEO planting Mangrove trees (Rhizophora) Pulicat Lake, Tamil Nadu, India, February 2013.

Tui De Roy / Haast Tokoeka (Apterix australis) with Phil Tisch and Tansy Bliss, Department of Conservation Kiwi Recovery team affixing radio trnasmitter. Haast Kiwi Sanctuary, Westland, South Island, New Zealand.

Rick Tomlinson / "Team Russia" bowman Michael Joubert during in-port race training in Alicante, Spain, for the 10th Volvo Ocean Race 2008-2009. For EDITORIAL USE only.

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

Tim Laman / Helicopter arrives at Kwerba Village to airlift the expedition team into the Foja Mountains. Foja Mountains, Papua, Indonesia, 2008. (taken during Conservation International Rapid Assessment Program e...

Jeff Wilson / Frozen Planet team tent at Lake Hoare Camp, Dry Valleys, Antarctica, December 2009. Taken on location for the BBC series, Frozen Planet.

Jeff Wilson / Frozen planet team clothes and equipment ready for Antarctica expedition to Ross Sea, in National Science Foundation hanger, Christchurch, New Zealand, October 2009. Taken on location for BBC series,...

Martin Dohrn / Ammonite night filming crew on location for National Geographic Nighstalkers, Yala National Park, Sri Lanka, 2010. *THIS IMAGE CAN ONLY BE USED IF NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC NIGHTSTALKERS IS REFERENCED*

Juergen Freund / The GEO snake expedition team braving the flooded waters to follow the lead of an aboriginal man looking for snakes in their sacred place. Queensland, Australia, February 2008. Model released.

Solvin Zankl / Bat expert Dirk Karoske and his team take a captured bat from the net with a dragnet. Stralsund, Germany, June 2009

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Nganasan woman running behind her team of Huskies (Canis familiaris). Taymyr, Northern Siberia, Russia, 2004.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Inuit hunter untangling team of Huskies (Canis familiaris) in front of iceberg. Savissivik, Northwest Greenland, 1997.

Nick Upton / Great Crane Project team members Beate Blahy and Roland Digby inspecting Eurasian / Common crane eggs (Grus grus) in reed pool nest in Germany before collecting them for UK reintroduction programme. S...

Nick Upton / Roland Digby of the Great Crane Project team aerating Common / Eurasian crane (Grus grus) eggs in portable incubator on high speed train on return journey from Germany for the UK reintroduction progra...

Staffan Widstrand / Traditional reindeer sledge / troika, Nenets, Kanin Peninsula, Russia. Model released.

Mark Moffett / Weaver Ant (Oecophylla longinoda) group grab an adjacent leaf and stem with mandibles and toes and pull, gradually binding them together to make a nest, Malaysia

Mark Moffett / Weaver Ant (Oecophylla longinoda) group grab an adjacent leaf and stem with mandibles and toes and pull, gradually binding them together to make a nest, Malaysia

Mark Moffett / Weaver Ant (Oecophylla longinoda) group building nest by pulling on leaves and forming chains, Africa

Doug Gimesy / Senior Forest and Wildlife Officer Abby makes final arrangements to drive to Heaslville Sanctuary from East Sale RAAF Base, with a young rescued burn victim Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) named '...

Doug Gimesy / Triage coordinator and Senior Forest and Wildlife Officer Abby Smith - sitting in a Royal Australian Airforce (RAAF) C-27J Spartan - holding a young koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) that was burnt in th...

Doug Gimesy / Baby Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) named 'Micky' - one of six evacuated from the Mallacoota wildlife triage centre to Melbourne for further treatment to burns resulting from the Mallacoota bushfires...

Michel Roggo / Dive camp of Swiss-Russian dive team on frozen Lake Baikal. Near shore, aerial shot. Photographed for The Freshwater Project extended. Near Khuzhir, Olchon Island, Irkutsk Oblast and Buryat Republic,...

Michel Roggo / Dive camp of Swiss-Russian dive team on frozen Lake Baikal. Near shore, aerial shot. Photographed for The Freshwater Project extended. Near Khuzhir, Olchon Island, Irkutsk Oblast and Buryat Republic,...

Michel Roggo / Dive camp of Swiss-Russian dive team on frozen Lake Baikal. Near shore, aerial shot. Photographed for The Freshwater Project extended. Near Khuzhir, Olchon Island, Irkutsk Oblast and Buryat Republic,...

Eric Baccega / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) reintroduction to Bateke Plateau National Park, Gabon through Gorilla Protection Project. Beauval Zoo team and captain standing in front of aeroplane...

Eric Baccega / Beauval Zoo team travelling on boat to observe released female Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) on habituation island. Reintroduction through Gorilla Protection Project. Mpassa river...

Eric Baccega / Beauval Zoo team travelling on boat to observe female Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) on habituation island following their release. Reintroduction through Gorilla Protection Projec...

Eric Baccega / Beauval Zoo team travelling on boat to observe female Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) on habituation island following their release. Reintroduction through Gorilla Protection Projec...

Eric Baccega / Beauval Zoo team travelling on boat to observe female Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) on habituation island following their release. Reintroduction through Gorilla Protection Projec...

Karine Aigner / Christina Romagosa (right), Research Assistant Professor, University of Florida and her team of Python researchers looking through over the stomach contents of different snakes including invasive Burm...

Karine Aigner / Christina Romagosa (right), Research Assistant Professor, University of Florida and her team of Python researchers looking through over the stomach contents of different snakes including invasive Burm...

Yashpal Rathore / Kambala buffalo racing - team preparing for buffalo race on the slushy race track, Karnataka, India, January 2019.

Neil Aldridge / A member of the Rhino Conservation Botswana team holds a drip attached to a young White rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) while vets provide the young rhino with care after its translocation from South...

Neil Aldridge / A team of vets and conservationists guide a blindfolded and partially drugged adult White rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) out of its transport crate and into its new home in the Okavango Delta in nor...

Shane Gross / Lionfish derby, a competition to catch invasive Lionfish (Pterois volitans). One team caught 466 lionfish in a single day during the Green Turtle Cay, Bahamas, June 2016

Shane Gross / Lionfish (Pterois volitans) caught in a Lionfish derby, a competition to catch invasive Lionfish (Pterois volitans). One team caught 466 lionfish in a single day during the Green Turtle Cay, Bahamas,...

Andrew Walmsley / Tree climbing training for Human Orangutan Conflict Response Unit (HOCRU) team members in a forest in North Sumatra, April 2015

Andrew Walmsley / Tree climbing training for Human Orangutan Conflict Response Unit (HOCRU) team members in a forest in North Sumatra, April 2015.

Andrew Walmsley / Tree climbing training for Human Orangutan Conflict Response Unit (HOCRU) team members in a forest in North Sumatra, April 2015.

Suzi Eszterhas / Sumatran Orangutan Society Staff, Rainforest Rehabilitation Team. North Sumatra, Indonesia.

Jabruson Motion / Orangutan capture team on the ground waiting to catch a female Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) and juvenile after darting, part of a relocation programme, Sei Serdang, Prima, Batang Serangan, Langka...

Jabruson Motion / Infant Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) separated from mother and isolated in tree for capture, breaks a branch to drop on the immobilisation team, part of a relocation programme, Sei Serdang, Prima,...

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Men riding ponies at a polo tournament in Leh city at 3520 meters altitude, Ladkh, India. September 2018.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Men riding ponies at a polo tournament in Leh city at 3520 meters altitude, Ladkh, India. September 2018.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Polo tournament at 3520 meters altitude, Leh city. Ladakh, India, September 2018.

Nick Upton / GWT team placing White-clawed crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes) collected from a well-stocked stream in buckets for release at an ARK site, safe from Signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) and...

Nick Upton / GWT team processing White-clawed crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes) in a well-stocked stream to check their size, sex and health ahead of translocation to an ARK site, safe from Signal crayfish (Pac...

Nick Upton / Research team preparing to radio collar Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) caught in a trap. Muraka Forest Reserve, near Lisaku, Estonia. April 2018. Model released.

Nick Upton / White-clawed crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes) found in shallow stream by GWT team for translocation to an ARK site, safe from Signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) and Crayfish plague, Englan...

Clay Bolt / Wallace's giant bee (Megachile pluto) rediscovery team exploring a lowland forest habitat in the North Moluccas, Indonesia. January 2019

Paul Williams / Research team looking for Pallas cats, during production of Big Cats series, Altanbulag, Mongolia. July 2017.

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Wild Wonders of China team celebrating the Bird Love Week at the Tongchuan Crested Ibis Breeding Centre, Shaanxi, China. from left Xie Jianguo, Staffan Widstrand, Chen Jianwei, Jed Weingarten and Mr S...

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / The whole team from the Wild Wonders of China Pioneer mission to Tangjiahe National Nature Reserve, Qingchuan County, Sichuan province, China

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Journalism team at Tangjiahe National Nature Reserve,Qingchuan County, Sichuan province, China

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Portrait of Zhang Qian, Wild Wonders of China team member, Ta Cheng Nature reserve, Yunnan, China, October 2017.

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Zhang Qian, team member of Wild Wonders of China, hiking in the Temperate cloud forest, near the glacier lake at Mount Bawu Bameng, in the Meili Snow Mountain National park, Yunnan China. October 201...

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Wild Wonders of China team in front of Bawu Bameng, 6000 m, along the pilgrimage route around Meili Snow Mountain, 6740 m, a Sacred mountain for Tibetan Buddhists, Yunnan, China, October 2017.

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Wild Wonders of China. team holding up their flag in the lichen-covered (Usnea longissima) temperate cloud forest, in the Meili Snow Mountain National park, Yunnan China. October

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Wild Wonders of China Team members Zhang Qian and Lisa Widstrand, in Upper Yubeng village, in the Meili Snow Mountain National park, Yunnan, China. October 2017.

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Liisa Widstrand, team participant, Wild Wonders of China, hiking in the Baima Snow Mountain Nature Reserve, Yunnan, China, October 2017.

Ashley Cooper / Paramedics and Mountain Rescue team members evacuate an injured walker who had fallen and injured his back, Langdale Valley, Lake District, England, UK. January 2010

Ashley Cooper / Members of Langdale Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team carrying an injured walker from the fells in Langdale, Cumbria, England, UK. August 2007

Ashley Cooper / Members of the Langdale Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team rescue a man fallen through ice on Rydal Water, Lake District, England, UK.

Ashley Cooper / A mountain rescue member uses a flare to attract an approaching sea king helicopter to the casualty site on Fairfield, Lake District, England, UK.

Ashley Cooper / Injured climber with a dislocated shoulder is winched off Jacks Rake Pavey Ark by the Langdale Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team, Lake District, England, UK, August. August 2005

Ashley Cooper / Members of Langdale Ambleside mountain rescue team attracting a helicopter to an injured walker on Bow Fell, Lake District, England, UK. July 2006

Ashley Cooper / A SARDA (Search and Rescue Dog Association) dog on a search for a missing walker, Lake District, England, UK. February 2009

Ashley Cooper / Members of Langdael Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team lowering a stretcher lowerm doing a stretcher lower down a crag in Langdale as part of training. UK. July 2006

Ashley Cooper / The RAF Red Arrows flying over the Lake District during the Windermere Air Show, England, UK. July.

Ashley Cooper / The RAF Red Arrows flying over the Lake District during the Windermere Air Show, England, UK. July.

Ashley Cooper / Mountaineer in blizzard, Cairngorm Scotland UK. February 2007

Ashley Cooper / Mountaineer in blizzard, Cairngorm Scotland UK. February 2007

Ashley Cooper / Mountaineer in blizzard, Cairngorm Scotland UK. February 2007

Tony Wu / Ama diver team, husband and wife, traveling in boat to work at sea. Futo Harbour, Izu Peninsula, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. June 2010.

Cyril Ruoso / Long tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) sitting on football on beach, Gulf of Thailand, Thailand.

Jen Guyton / Dr. Greg Kaltenecker carefully hands a white-headed vulture (Trigonoceps occipitalis) to Diolinda Mundoza, a young Mozambican scientist who is training with this research team to become an ornithologi...

David Fleetham / Two man paddle team of Mark Shimer and Bear Keahi in the Maui Canoe and Kayak Club's 2014 Maui to Molokai race from DT Fleming Beach to Kaunakakai Harbor, Hawaii.

Eric Baccega / Team of guides, guards and trackers for Moutain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) at the Virunga National Park, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa, December 2017.

John Cancalosi / Men playing football near Eldoret, Rift valley, Kenya, July 2017.

John Cancalosi / Men playing football near Eldoret, Rift valley, Kenya, July 2017.

Suzi Eszterhas / Trap set under tree by Koala Hospital rescue team, Port Macquerie, Australia.

Pete Oxford / Children from the capture team marking tranquillised Elephants (Loxodonta africana). The Elephants had been darted from a helicopter in order to be returned to the reserve they had escaped from. Zimba...

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Mountain rescue team at the release site of European bison / Wisent (Bison bonasus) into the Tarcu mountains nature reserve. Natura 2000 area, Southern Carpathians, Romania. May 2014.

Francois Savigny / Research team carries 16ft female Anaconda {Eunectes murinus} Venezuela

Alex Mustard / Discarded football floating in the ocean. Plastic pollution is a major issue for the oceans. Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Dampier Strait, tropical West Pacific Ocean.

Mark Taylor / Seven cats standing on back legs, front paws raised. Digital composite

Tim Laman / Jessica and Russell Laman wade ahead while other team members hike and pull the loaded boat up the Air Putih river, Gunung Palung National Park. August 2010

Sam Hobson / Team of RSPB volunteers approach Grassholm Island. Wales, UK. October

Sam Hobson / Team of RSPB volunteers approach Grassholm Island. Wales, UK. October

David Tipling / Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) survey team checking islet supporting small albatross colony near Weddell Point on South Georgia, January 2015

David Tipling / Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) survey team checking islet supporting small albatross colony near Weddell Point on South Georgia, January 2015

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Scientist from the Heriot Watt scientific dive team collecting Horse mussel (Modiolus modiolus) samples to assess biodiversity. Within a Marine Protected Area, Shetland, Scotland, UK, September 2012.