Michael Quinton / Yellowstone fire, new growth of wild flowers after forest fire, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Michael Quinton / Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus) on fire burnt forest floor, with sprouting new growth vegetation, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Tui De Roy / Galapagos Fur Seal (Arctocephalus galapagoensis) pup, eyes and flippers badly burned by waters heated by new lava flow, Cape Hammond, Fernandina Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Tui De Roy / Galapagos Fur Seal (Arctocephalus galapagoensis) with badly burned flippers from swimming through lava heated waters, Cape Hammond, Fernandina Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Hermann Brehm / Regrowth after fire among fallen timber and burned trees. Wyoming Yellowstone NP, USA

Niall Benvie / Regrowth after fire among fallen timber and burned trees, Yellowstone NP, Wyoming, USA

Tim Fitzharris / Fire damage on Grand Teton, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

Ingo Arndt / Burned trees in front of Grand Prismatic Pool, Midway Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Christian Ziegler / Frequent burning and severe erosion create a desert like landscape, central Panama

Christian Ziegler / Fodder Cane (Saccharum spontaneum), invasive species being burned thus preventing trees from replacing it, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Pete Oxford / Slash and burn clearing, Intag Valley, northwest Ecuador

Christian Ziegler / Red Beaks Orchid (Pyrorchis nigricans) flowering after burn, western Australia

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) showing fire damage, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park, California

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Blackboy Tree (Xanthorrhoea sp) group and shrubs charred by bush fire, Lucky Beach, Western Australia, Australia

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Blackboy Tree (Xanthorrhoea sp) group and shrubs charred by bush fire, Lucky Beach, Western Australia, Australia

Pete Oxford / Florida Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) male at burrow after burn, Georgia

Pete Oxford / Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris) seedling after prescribed burn, Georgia

Chien Lee / Slash-and-burn is a common forest clearing practice, Borneo, Malaysia

Theo Allofs / Autumn colors on burned hills along the Top of the World Highway between Dawson City, Yukon, and Tok, Alaska

Tony Phelps / {Lachenalli rubida} growing on burned restioveld, South Africa

Gerry Ellis / African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) orphan, Kinna, one week old, being fed by keepers, David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, Tsavo East National Park, Kenya

Gerry Ellis / Deer Plateau after 1990 forest burn scar near Blackmail, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Michael Quinton / Elk (Cervus elaphus) bull resting on burned forest floor and bugling, Yellowstone Fire, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Tui De Roy / Blue-fronted Parrot (Amazona aestiva) perched on charred tree trunk in recently burnt Cerrado habitat, Emas National Park, Brazil