Pete Oxford / Quechua indian child swimming, Añangu Community, Yasuni NP, Napo River, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Quechua indian children swimming, Añangu Community, Yasuni NP, Napo River, Ecuador

Julia Bayne / Three children standing with bikes on path, Leicester, England

Julia Bayne / Three children cycling on path, Leicester, England

Mark Raycroft / German Shepherd (Canis familiaris) puppy held by a young girl

Mark Raycroft / German Shepherd (Canis familiaris) puppy held by a young girl

Mark Raycroft / Rottweiler (Canis familiaris) at a picnic with young girl

Gerry Ellis / Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) poached eggs being sold in market, Sabah, Borneo

Tui De Roy / Long-finned Pilot Whale (Globicephala melas) stranded pod of 65, young volunteers comfort and cool a cow and tiny calf while waiting for rising tide, Golden Bay, New Zealand

Mark Moffett / Local children show beetles they have collected for sale, Tam Dao National Park, Vietnam

Tui De Roy / Galapagos Giant Tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra) field trip to show children wild tortoises, Charles Darwin Research Station, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Flip Nicklin / Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) interacting with children, Dolphin Quest Learning Center, Hawaii

Fred Bavendam / Galapagos Sea Lion (Zalophus wollebaeki) observed by guide and tourists, Mosquera Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Mark Moffett / Red Palm Weevil (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus) larvae cooked by Kutapae family, Hala, Papua New Guinea

Flip Nicklin / Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) interacting with children, Dolphin Quest Learning Center, Hawaii

John Cancalosi / Mayoruna indian mother and children, Amazonia, Peru

John Cancalosi / Maya children playing in water, Lacandon rainforest, Chiapas, Mexico

Onne van der Wal / Read, Billy and Adrian van der Wal posing on the boom of their Moorings Charter in Isla Espiritu Santo, Mexico.

Onne van der Wal / Read, Billy and Adrian van der Wal posing on the boom of their Moorings Charter in Isla Espiritu Santo, Mexico.

Onne van der Wal / Three children playing on a long sandy beach, South Island, New Zealand.

Onne van der Wal / Read, Billy and Adrian van der Wal posing on the boom of their Moorings Charter in Isla Espiritu Santo, Mexico.

Onne van der Wal / Read, Billy and Adrian van der Wal posing on the boom of their Moorings Charter in Isla Espiritu Santo, Mexico.

Onne van der Wal / Young people racing optimists.

Barry Bland / Children racing optimist dinghies, Wroxham Open Regatta Week, Wroxham Broads, Norfolk, England, UK.

Roberto Rinaldi / Children on the stairs to the Nanga Sumpa Iban longhouse, Delok river, Sarawak, Borneo. 2002

Onne van der Wal / Polynesian children beside a traditional boat, smiling for the camera in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia.

Roberto Rinaldi / Young Yapese dancers in traditional costume. The children are taught the movements and songs from a very early age, Yap, Micronesia

Katherine Feng / Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) eight day old baby and care-taker He Yong Guo being watched through the window by tourists at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, Wolon...

Thomas Mangelsen / Mountain Lion (Puma concolor) watchers hoping to get a glimpse of a mom and cubs living in den, Miller Butte, National Elk Refuge, Wyoming

Gerry Ellis / River ghetto, Amazon River, Iquitos, Peru

Norbert Wu / Reef-walking, Great Barrier Reef, Heron Island, Australia

Gerry Ellis / Young boy spear fishing at sunset in the mouth of the Kikori River Delta, Papua New Guinea

Mark Moffett / Donkey (Equus asinus) carrying two children between Sirjan and Kerman, Iran

Flip Nicklin / Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus) has baleen removed by Inupiat Eskimos, Barrow, Alaska

Mark Moffett / Local animal trader with a German snake buyer, Tam Dao National Park, Vietnam

Mark Moffett / Tourists from cities come to Tam Dao for weekends and holidays, children playing in pool near the border of Tam Dao National Park, Vietnam

Mark Moffett / Schoolgirls Vu Hong Nhung and Hang Thi Thu share their home with a stuffed deer, Tam Dao National Park, Vietnam

Mark Moffett / Marjorie Matocq and James Patton examining mammals illegally caught for sale to tourists, Tam Dao National Park, Vietnam

Flip Nicklin / Bottlenose Whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus) researcher Hal Whitehead and children aboard Baleena tracking individuals, off Nova Scotia, Canada

Mark Moffett / Village woman and children, concealing attire, must be worn in public by all women over the age of seven, Kaht, Iran

Jim Brandenburg / Philipoosie Novalinge shows kids how to use crossbow, he was a role model for the documentary Nanook of the North, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada