JIM CLARE / Nests of Guanay cormorants, (Phalacrocorax bougainvilliiorum), after breeding has finished, shows build-up of guano around the nest. The colonies are strictly protected and the guano will be harvested...

Magnus Lundgren / Wild Wonders of China / Green turtle, Chelonia mydas, also known as green sea turtle, is a large sea turtle of the family Cheloniidae. Green turtles are listed as endangered by the IUCN and CITES and is protected from exploi...

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Coffee shop with Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) on counter. Many civets are drugged to sleep quietly and not escape. Coffee beans are fed to civets, ferment in the gut, excreted and use...

Staffan Widstrand / African Wild Dog / Painted Dog, (Lycaon pictus) standing alert whilst other are rest, Zimanga Private Nature Reserve, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

John Shaw / Trona Pinnacles, tufa towers that are a USA National Natural Landmark, near Trona, California, USA, January.

Steven David Miller / An Apostlebird (Struthidea cinerea) dangling upside down from a tree branch, Cania Gorge National Park, Queensland, Australia. Others from the group are on the ground. September.

Steven David Miller / An Agile wallaby (Macropus agilis) chewing on a seed pod washed up on the beach. The wallabies are drawn to the beach at dawn and dusk in search of mangrove seed pods washed ashore and plants growing...

Neil Aldridge / A sign on a fence of a game reserve bordering South Africa's Kruger National Park warns poachers that the horns of the reserve's rhinos have been treated and are unfit for human consumption. September...

David Pattyn / Group of snowshoe hikers passing snow covered mountain refuges in spring. These refuges are used in summer by herders to sleep while watching for their cattle, Gran Paradiso National Park, Aosta Valle...

Nick Hawkins / Fish sheltering below fish aggregating device. The rafts, which are illegal in many areas, are used in commercial fishery to attract larger species towards the sheltering fish. Cocos Island National P...

Erlend Haarberg / Wild reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) in August. Antlers are covered in velvet. Forollhogna, Norway, August.

Erlend Haarberg / Wild reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) in the rutting season. Antlers are fully developed and are not covered by velvet any more. Forollhogna, Norway. September.