Juergen Freund / Aerial view of the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia

Doug Perrine / View from sea of beach and fringing forest and palm trees, Rock Islands, Palau, Micronesia

Tui De Roy / Palm trees and water flowing on beach on Palmyra Atoll, a wet, equatorial atoll with fringing reefs, native forests and abundant seabirds, Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, US Line Islands

Michael Pitts / Aerial view of islands with fringing coral reefs, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, Pacific Ocean

Juergen Freund / Island aerial view, the Maldives

Roland Seitre / Aerial view of river, fringing forest and wetlands, natural habitat of the Blue throated / Wagler's macaw (Ara glaucogularis) Santa Ana de Yacuma, Beni, Bolivia, Critically endangered species, July 20...

Roland Seitre / Aerial view of river and fringing forest in the municipality of Trinidad, Beni state, Bolivia, June 2008

Onne van der Wal / Aerial view of the Exumas, Bahamas, Caribbean, June 2009.

Nick Upton / Close up of Heartleaf / Giant oxeye daisy (Telekia speciosa / Buphthalmum speciosum) flowering in a damp woodland fringing Lake Bohinj, Julian Alps, Slovenia, July

Nick Upton / Heartleaf / Giant oxeye daisy (Telekia speciosa / Buphthalmum speciosum) flowering in a damp woodland fringing Lake Bohinj, Julian Alps, Slovenia, July

Inaki Relanzon / Whitsunday Islands, aerial view, Great Barrier Coral Reef, Queensland, Australia, October 2011.

Nick Upton / Welsh mountain Pony (Equus caballus) foal on pastureland fringing Llanrhidian salt marshes. The Gower Peninsula, Wales, UK, September.

Nick Upton / Welsh mountain Ponies (Equus caballus) grazing pastureland fringing Llanrhidian salt marshes. The Gower Peninsula, Wales, UK, September.

Nick Upton / Welsh mountain Ponies (Equus caballus) grazing pastureland fringing Llanrhidian salt marshes. The Gower Peninsula, Wales, UK, September.

Nick Upton / Welsh mountain Ponies (Equus caballus) grazing pastureland fringing Llanrhidian salt marshes. The Gower Peninsula, Wales, UK, September.

Nick Upton / Welsh mountain Ponies (Equus caballus) grazing pastureland fringing Llanrhidian salt marshes. The Gower Peninsula, Wales, UK, September.

Nick Upton / Common Mussels (Mytilus edulis) Dog Whelk (Nucella lapillus), Common limpet (Patella vulgata) and Montagu's stellate barnacles (Chthamalus montagui) exposed at low tide on rocks fringing a sandy beach...

Nick Upton / Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus) and Hop hornbeam (Ostrya carpinifolia) trees and waterfalls fringing Milanovac lake, Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia, July 2010.

Nick Upton / Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus) and Hop hornbeam (Ostrya carpinifolia) trees and waterfalls fringing Milanovac lake, Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia, July 2010.

Tim Laman / Sunlight on fringing forest with dark clouds behind, Anaho Bay, Nuku Hiva Island, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, July 2006

Tim Laman / Coastal view and fringing coral reef, Bora Bora Island, Society Islands, French Polynesia. July 2006

David Woodfall / Pebble beach fringing saltmarsh Bridgewater Bay NNR Severn Estuary Somerset, England, August 2009

David Woodfall / Pebble beach fringing saltmarsh Bridgewater Bay NNR Severn Estuary Somerset, England, August 2009

David Woodfall / Pebble beach fringing saltmarsh Bridgewater Bay NNR Severn Estuary Somerset, England, August 2009

Mark Brownlow / Aerial view of fringing coral reef, Papua New Guinea, August 2007

Mark Brownlow / Aerial view of fringing reef off a Fiji island, Melanesia, Pacific, September 2007

Mark Brownlow / Aerial view of small islands with fringing coral reefs off Fiji, Melanesia, Pacific, September 2007

Juergen Freund / Aerial view of Vava'u Islands with fringing coral reefs, Tonga, Melanesia, Pacific

Juergen Freund / Aerial view of fringing coral reef off Ha'apai islands, Tonga, Melanesia, Pacific

Juergen Freund / Aerial view of fringing coral reef off Ha'apai islands, Tonga, Melanesia, Pacific

Francis Abbott / The beach at Ngemelis island, on the outer fringing reefs of Palau's Rock Islands area, The Republic of Palau, Micronesia, western Pacific Ocean.

Francis Abbott / The beach at Ngemelis island, on the outer fringing reefs of Palau's Rock Islands area, The Republic of Palau, Micronesia, western Pacific Ocean.

Francis Abbott / The beach at Ngemelis island, on the outer fringing reefs of Palau's Rock Islands area, The Republic of Palau, Micronesia, western Pacific Ocean.

Nick Garbutt / Beach and fringing rainforest. Nosy Mangabe, NE Madagascar.

Jouan & Rius / Beach on Nicoya peninsula with fringing palm trees, Costa Rica

Tim Laman / Aerial view of Bora Bora Island, Society Islands, French Polynesia, with fringing reef and lagoon clearly visible. June 2002.

Tim Laman / Aerial view of Bora Bora Island, Society Islands, French Polynesia, with fringing reef and lagoon clearly visible. June 2002.

Michael Pitts / Aerial view of central Solomon Islands, Pacific ocean, 2000 - fringing coral islands

Jeff Rotman / Aerial view of fringing coral reef, Palau Is, Pacific ocean

Doug Perrine / Aerial view of Lamen Island with fringing reef, high volcanic islands in background (Epi, Lopevi and Paama Is) Vanuatu, South Pacific

Doug Perrine / Fringing reef of Epi Island with Lopevi and Paama Islands in background, Vanuatu, South Pacific

Pete Oxford / Looking back to North Malé Atoll, Maldives, Indian Ocean Islands - blue sky, turquoise sea, beach and palm trees

Juergen Freund / Aerial view of Maldive Island, the Maldives, Indian Ocean

Pete Oxford / Looking out to deeper water, North Malé Atoll, Maldives, Indian Ocean Islands

Juergen Freund / Aerial view of island, the Maldives, Indian Ocean

Juergen Freund / Aerial view of islands, the Maldives, Indian Ocean

Adam White / Aerial view of Alphonse island, coral atoll and lagoon (ex volcanic crater), Seychelles, Indian Ocean

GEORGETTE DOUWMA / Aerial view of coral reef landscape at Sanganeb, Sudan, Red Sea

Adam White / Aerial view of island texture, showing island surrounded by coral reef, Seychelles, Indian Ocean

Adam White / Aerial view of island shoreline showing land, sea and coral reef, Seychelles, Indian Ocean

Adam White / Aerial view of island texture, showing island surrounded by fringing coral reef, Seychelles, Indian Ocean

Adam White / Aerial view of Alphonse island, coral atoll surrounded by coral reef, Seychelles, Indian Ocean

Juergen Freund / Aerial view of Lady Elliott Island & fringing reef, Queensland, Australia

Jeff Rotman / Aerial view of fringing coral reef, Palau, Micronesia

Tui De Roy / Palmyra Atoll, a wet, equatorial atoll with fringing reefs, native forests and abundant seabirds, Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, US Line Islands

Jeff Rotman / Aerial view of fringing coral reef and islands, Palau, Micronesia, Pacific Ocean.

Ben Osborne / Aerial view of Great barrier reef, Queensland, Australia

Dave Watts / Aerial view of Lady Elliot Island, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia

Jeff Rotman / Aerial view of fringing coral reef, Palau Is, Pacific Ocean

Jeff Rotman / Aerial view of fringing coral reef, Palau, Micronesia.

Jeff Rotman / Aerial view of fringing coral reefs, Palau Islands, Micronesia.

Phil Chapman / Henderson Island fringing coral reef and boat. The island can only be accessed by dinghy because of the fringing coral. Pacific Ocean