Alex Hyde / Water cascading over naturally formed tufa dam. Tufa is a kind of limestone, formed from the precipitation of carbonate minerals which builds up around mosses and water plants to form a solid limeston...

Pascal Pittorino / Przewalski's horse (Equus ferus przewalski) head portrait, captive, Lozere, France, December.

Jussi Murtosaari / European robin (Erithacus rubecula) adult with autumn leaves in background, Punkaharju, Etela-Savo / Southern Savonia, Ita-Suomi / Eastern Finland, Finland. September

Dong Lei / Chestnut-headed Tesia (Tesia castaneocoronata) perched, Sichuan Province, China.

Erlend Haarberg / Mountain hare (Lepus timidus) head portrait. Vauldalen, Sor-Trondelag, Norway, April.

Angelo Gandolfi / Pampas deer (Ozotoceros bezoarticus) buck in velvet standing by flowering tree, Pantanal, Brazil

Fiona Rogers / Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) mature male 'Halik' aged 26 years lying down - portrait. Gunung Leuser National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia. Apr 2012. Rehabilitated and released (or descended from thos...

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Close up portait of three children, Askole village (3,000m), Braldu Valley, Karakoram Range, Pakistan, July 2007.

Benjamin Barthelemy,Benjamin Barthelemy / Grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) hauled out on a beach at sunrise, Donna Nook Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust Reserve, Lincolnshire, England, UK, January.

Carol Walker / Trainer Rich Scott with Cremosso, a young male cremello Wild horse / mustang that had been rounded up from a McCullough Peak herd and put up for adoption, trainer teaching it to be led in paddock, Jul...

Steven Kazlowski / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) head close-up portrait of an adult male, with snowflakes on fur, Barter Island, 1002 area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska

Dave Watts / Pyrenean chamois {Rupicapra rupicapra pyrenaica} Pyrenees, France

Sandra Bartocha / Sea Smoke, a kind of fog formed when very cold air moves over warmer water, Varanger Penninsula, Norway, March 2013.

Nick Hawkins / Fossil leaves of seed ferns, a kind of extinct plant, Joggins Fossil Cliffs UNESCO World Heritage Site, Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, Canada. May 2017

Cyril Ruoso / M'boumontour NGO supports different kind of conservation project within the community with the aim of protecting local Bonobo populations (Pan paniscus). Here villagers mapped themselves the areas th...

Cyril Ruoso / M'boumontour NGO supports different kind of conservation project within the community with the aim of protecting local Bonobo populations (Pan paniscus). Here villagers mapped themselves the areas th...

Cyril Ruoso / M'boumontour NGO supports different kind of conservation project within the community with the aim of protecting local Bonobo populations (Pan paniscus). Here villagers mapped themselves the areas th...

Cyril Ruoso / Locally born Mr Bokika is the leader of M'boumontour NGO which supports different kind of conservation project within the community with the aim of protecting local Bonobo populations (Pan paniscus)....

Cyril Ruoso / M'boumontour NGO supports different kind of conservation project within the community with the aim of protecting local Bonobo populations (Pan paniscus). Here a craftsman is practising his trade read...

Cyril Ruoso / Locally born Mr Bokika is the leader of M'boumontour NGO which supports different kind of conservation project within the community with the aim of protecting local Bonobo populations (Pan paniscus)....

Cyril Ruoso / An agronomist is in charge to help villagers cultivate their own gardens using seeds from pilot garden, set up by M'boumontour NGO, supporting different kind of conservation projects within the com...

Cyril Ruoso / Locally born Mr Bokika is the leader of M'boumontour NGO which supports different kind of conservation project within the community with the aim of protecting local Bonobo populations (Pan paniscus)....

Cyril Ruoso / Locally born Mr Bokika is the leader of M'boumontour NGO which supports different kind of conservation project within the community with the aim of protecting local Bonobo populations (Pan paniscus) D...

Alex Hyde / Water seeping through moss in naturally formed tufa dam. Tufa is a kind of limestone, formed from the precipitation of carbonate minerals which builds up around the mosses (Cratoneuron commutatum and...

Alex Hyde / Water cascading over naturally formed tufa dam. Tufa is a kind of limestone, formed from the precipitation of carbonate minerals which builds up around mosses and water plants to form a solid limeston...

Alex Hyde / Water cascading over naturally formed tufa dam. Tufa is a kind of limestone, formed from the precipitation of carbonate minerals which builds up around mosses and water plants to form a solid limeston...

Laurie Campbell / Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) close up of eye, Cairngorms Reindeer Herd, Inverness-shire, Scotland, UK, December. Introduced species.

Richard Robinson / A Blue shark (Prionace glauca) just below the surface, with nictitating membrane partially shut to protect its eye, Hauraki Gulf, Auckland, New Zealand, June.

Terry Whittaker / Skewbald and chestnut Icelandic horses in the snow, Snaefellsnes Peninsula, Iceland, March.

Mark Taylor / Black Cocker Spaniel puppy standing, against white background

Kristel Richard / Noriker filly portrait, St Oswald, Carynthia, Austria, September.

Cyril Ruoso / Japanese Cedar (Cryptomeria japonica), Jomon Sugi, the oldest and largest of its kind is at least two thousand years old, Yakushima Island, Japan

Denis-Huot / Leopard (Panthera pardus) young male, portraits, Masai-Mara Game Reserve, Kenya

Barrie Britton / Yellow-headed Picathartes / White necked rockfowl (Picathartes gymnocephalus) Kambui Hills, Sierra Leone, Vulnerable species. Photograph taken on location for BBC Africa series, September 2010.

Danny Green / Steller's Eider (Polysticta stelleri) male swimming, Varangerfjord, Norway, April, Vulnerable species. Bookplate from Danny Green's 'The Long Journey North'

Andy Trowbridge / Great Tit (Parus major) perched on branch with yellow from autumn trees in the background. Southern Norway, October.

David Tipling / Emperor Penguins, (Aptenodytes forsteri), family, Weddell Sea, Antarctica

David Pattyn / Great crested grebes (podiceps cristatus) pair mating on a kind of 'lek' the favourite place for lots of grebes to mate on this lake, La Dombes lake area, France, June

David Pattyn / Great crested grebes (podiceps cristatus) pair mating on a kind of 'lek' the favourite place for lots of grebes to mate on this lake, La Dombes lake area, France, June. Second place in the Species Sto...

David Pattyn / Black necked Grebes (Podiceps nigricollis) looking for some kind of shelter for the cold and the rain, La Dombes lake area, France, June (2008 was a very cold and wet summer)

Lisa Hoffner / Samburu livestock, as seen from the air, illegally entering Samburu National Park searching for food and water. Holes are made in the dry Ewaso Nyiro river bed to dig out water searching for any kind...

Lisa Hoffner / Samburu livestock, as seen from the air, illegally entering Samburu National Park searching for food and water. Holes are made in the dry Ewaso Nyiro river bed to dig out water searching for any kind...

Pete Oxford / Huaorani Indian man with penis held in some kind of waistband. Bameno Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, May 2007.

ASHISH & SHANTHI CHANDOLA / Maldhari man milking his cow (Bos indicus) while the calf suckles, Kutch, Gujarat, India, April 2009

Michele Westmorland / Conch Farm and tour guide (No Release) holding Conch shell. The only farm of its kind in the world. Provodenciales, Turks and Caicos, Caribbean. June 2007.

Michele Westmorland / Portrait of Conch Farm tour guide (No Release) holding Conch shell. The only farm of its kind in the world. Provodenciales, Turks and Caicos, Caribbean. June 2007.

Michele Westmorland / Conch (Strombidae) farm, with offshire pens sign. The only farm of its kind in the world. Provodenciales, Turks and Caicos, Caribbean. June 2007

Michele Westmorland / View of Conch (Strombidae) farm, the only one of its kind in the world. Provodenciales, Turks and Caicos, Caribbean. June 2007.

Hiroya Minakuchi / Naked Sea Butterfly (Clione limacina) a kind of sea butterfly, aquarium, Japan

Mark Moffett / Embera Choco people use a distinctive kind of blowgun and secretion from Golden Poison Dart Frog (Phyllobates terribilis) to poison on their darts for hunting, Colombia

Norbert Wu / Jellyfish (Mastigias sp) in polyp stage eats another kind of Jellyfish in landlocked lake, Kakaban Island

Paul D Stewart / 1720 illustration of 'small cape lizard' from southern Africa. Apparently a very devout lizard, it carried three crosses on its back. Henri Chatelain appears to have published the original in French i...

Roberto Rinaldi / Street decorated for feast celebrating a Saint, Malta. ^^^In summer time these kind of festivals are very common with processions marching through decorated streets.

Rick Tomlinson / Gothenburg Port, Sweden. Established in 1621 to secure access to the Atlantic, Gothenburg was planned and settled by Dutch immigrants. The many canals in this region are testament to the vision and am...

Premaphotos / Two-spot ladybird (Adalia bipunctata) larva feeding on a moribund larva of its own kind, UK

Doug Gimesy / Bare-nosed wombat (Vombatus ursinus) joey aged 4 months, recently rescued, wrapped in a blanket and being held by a veterinary student.The wombat became an orphan when her mum was hit by a car. Captiv...

John Waters / Exposed roots of Holm oak (Quercus ilex), brightly coloured green from a kind of powdery mildew of alga, growing by coast, Scilly Isles, UK. May.

Derek Galon / Tilt up shot of Boiling Lake, the second largest of its kind in the world, Dominica, West Indies, 2020.

Tui De Roy / Pinta giant tortoise (Chelonoidis abingdoni) hybrid cross with Wolf giant tortoise (Chelonoidis becki). Found in January 2020, and around 15 years old, she will become the nucleus of a new captive bre...

Luis Quinta / A new species of cave Pseudoscorpion (Titanobochica magna) Algarve region, Portugal. The largest cave Pseudoscorpion in Europe and quite possibly of it's kind in the world. These creature are only...

Doug Gimesy / Portrait of Laurie Levy, Head of the Coalition Against Duck Shooting, standing on the shoreline of the Kerang Wetlands, Victoria, Australia, to protest the start of another duck hunting season. Concer...

Doug Gimesy / Wild Kangaroo Island Kangaroos (Macropus fuliginosus fuliginosus) gathering at the back gate of animal rescuer Sandy Carey's house for a free breakfast with her chicken. Some of these kangaroos a...

Doug Gimesy / Wild Kangaroo Island Kangaroos (Macropus fuliginosus fuliginosus) gathering at the back gate of animal rescuer Sandy Carey's house for a free breakfast with her chicken. Some of these kangaroos a...