Uri Golman / Local hunter armed with rifle scouting for Polar Bear ( Ursus Maritimus) Ittoqqortoormiit, Scoresbysund, North East Greenland. March 2009.

Suzi Eszterhas / Mara Conservancy Ranger with dead Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) caught in poachers' snare, Masai Mara Conservancy, Kenya, August 2007

Suzi Eszterhas / Mara Conservancy Rangers (Anti-poaching unit) removing snares from bushes, Masai Mara Conservancy, Kenya, August 2006

Suzi Eszterhas / Mara Conservancy ranger undergoing a training course set up by security consultant, Ridgeback, Inc., Masai Mara Conservancy, Kenya, October 2006

Suzi Eszterhas / Security consultant (Ridgeback, Inc.) assisting in rifle cleaning and safety checks for Mara Conservancy rangers, Masai Mara Conservancy, Kenya, October 2006

Peter Cairns / naturepl.com / Deer stalker looking down his gun, Glenfeshie, Cairngorms NP, Scotland, UK, June 2008, model released

Roy Mangersnes / Man with rifle for protection against Polar bears outside the cabin in snowstorm, Agardh bay, East coast of Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, March 2009. Model released

Onne van der Wal / Man shooting gun, South Africa. 2009.

James Aldred / Members of the Wildlife Conservation Society anti-poaching patrol team relaxing with their AK47 and rifle guns beside them, Dzanga-Sanga Bai, Bayanga, Central African Republic, 2003

Karl Ammann / White nosed guenon hunted with rifle for bushmeat, South east Cameroon, Central Africa. Firearms have been ubiquitous in forests since colonial times and have greatly improved hunting success, particu...

Pete Cairns / Dead Red fox {Vulpes vulpes} shot with rifle. Scotland, UK.

Pete Cairns / Gamekeeper with dead red fox (Vulpes vulpes) shot with rifle, Scotland, UK. Model released.

DOC WHITE / Inuit hunter take aim with gun, Canadian Arctic

Pete Cairns / Hunter sits with rifle and ammunition in forest cabin, Slovakia.

Patricio Robles Gil / Paradise rifle bird {Ptiloris paradiseus} Queensland, Australia.

Flip Nicklin / Narwhal (Monodon monoceros)carcass with two tusks with Inuit hunter, Baffin Island, Canada

Sebastian Kennerknecht / Anti-poaching scout checking rifle before deployment, Kafue National Park, Zambia

Sebastian Kennerknecht / Anti-poaching scouts getting gear ready for deployment, Kafue National Park, Zambia

Peter Mather / Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) Gwichin hunter, Clifton Salu, looking for caribou in winter, Yukon, Canada

Tim Fitzharris / Waterfall, Rifle Falls, Rifle Falls State Park, Colorado

Steve Gettle / Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula) male, Rifle River Recreation Area, Michigan

Pete Oxford / Confiscated and decommissioned poacher's rifles at park headquarters, Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Onne van der Wal / Yacht crew carrying a bear rifle and looking at the remains of a whale skeleton at an old whaling station in Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, 1998.

Onne van der Wal / Armed with a bear rifle, a man explores a Hunter's cabin, well preserved by the cold Arctic conditions of Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, 1998.

Tui De Roy / African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) researcher Rosie Woodruff shooting dart to tranquilize and collar an animal, Mpala Research Centre, Kenya

Steve Gettle / Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea) male, Rifle River Recreation Area, Michigan

Staffan Widstrand / Rangers, guides, guards and porters group portrait, Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, Uganda. February, 2023.

Alejandro Prieto / Baird's tapir (Tapirus bairdii) in stream surrounded by hunting dogs. Two local people standing on riverbank, one holding a rifle, called off the dogs mindful of the tapirs endangered status, Oax...

Doug Gimesy / Smoking gun chamber, shotgun chamber open and spent cartridge just removed, Lake Lonsdale, Stawell, Victoria, Australia.

Ugo Mellone / Poacher holding rifle, Aydar, Southern Morocco, Africa, 2020.

Sylvain Cordier / Man loading cartridge into shot gun when out hunting small game, Bas-Rhin, France, November.