SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Information Centre for Saxon Switzerland National Park with Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) mural on building. Bad Schandau, Germany.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Electric car charging point in front of Saxon Switzerland National Park information centre. Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) branding on wall. Bad Schandau, Saxony, Germany.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Electric car charging point in front of Saxon Switzerland National Park information centre. Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) branding on wall. Bad Schandau, Saxony, Germany.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Mural on wall as part of Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) branding in town. Bad Schandau, Germany.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Painting on wall of Saxon Switzerland National Park information centre, part of Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) branding. Bad Schandau, Germany.

Francisco Marquez / Close up of branded mark on horse. Mares and foals are caught into corrals where each yeguero (owner of the mares) identifies their animals, separates the foals from their mothers, worm them, cut the...

Francisco Marquez / Branding irons heating in fire. Mares and foals are caught into corrals where each yeguero (owner of the mares) identifies their animals, separates the foals from their mothers, worm them, cut their...

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Touring bus showing wildlife branding on side, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada, June

Kirkendall-Spring / Barry Crago uses an electric branding iron to mark his cattle on the Willow Creek Ranch, Wyoming, USA, September 2016. Model released.

Mike Read / Board showing various brands belonging to owners of New Forest ponies, New Forest National Park, Hampshire,England, UK, September 2012

Mike Read / Fire used for heating branding irons on pony round up, New Forest National Park, Hampshire, England, UK, September

Gavin Hellier / Jalan Tun Sambantham, archway into Little India, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2012

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Seabird branding at Scottish Seabird Centre, showing economic and educational benefits of presence of Bass Rock, North Berwick, Scotland, UK, August 2011

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Seabird branding at Scottish Seabird Centre, showing economic and educational benefits of presence of Bass Rock, North Berwick, Scotland, UK, August

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Seabird branding at Scottish Seabird Centre, showing economic and educational benefits of presence of Bass Rock, North Berwick, Scotland, UK, August 2011

Pete Oxford / Giant Land Crab (Cardisoma guanhumi) branding a claw. Mahahual Penninsula, South Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, October.

Kevin Schafer / Amazon River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) being freeze-marked by biologists Tony Martin and Vera da Silva, Mamiraua Reserve, Amazonia, Brazil

Kevin Schafer / Amazon River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) researcher, Tony Martin, branding female, Mamiraua Reserve, Amazon, Brazil

Pete Oxford / Cattle branding at a hacienda in the Andes Mountains during the annual cattle round-up, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Cattle branding at a hacienda in the Andes Mountains during the annual cattle round-up, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Domestic Cattle (Bos taurus) being caught and branded in a corral by Chagra cowboys at a hacienda during the annual overnight cattle round-up, Andes Mountains, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Domestic Cattle (Bos taurus) being caught and branded in a corral by Chagra cowboys at a hacienda during the annual overnight cattle round-up, Andes Mountains, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Domestic Cattle (Bos taurus) being caught for branding in a corral by Chagra cowboys at a hacienda during the annual overnight cattle round-up, Andes Mountains, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Close up of a cattle brand in the fire at a hacienda during the annual overnight cattle round-up, Andes Mountains, Ecuador

Mike Read / New Forest pony brands, Turf Hill, New Forest National Park, Hampshire, UK

Kevin Schafer / Amazon River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) being freeze-marked by biologist Tony Martin, Mamiraua Reserve, Amazonia, Brazil

Kevin Schafer / Amazon River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) being freeze-marked by research team, Mamiraua Reserve, Amazonia, Brazil

Pete Oxford / Domestic Cattle (Bos taurus) being caught for branding in a corral by Chagra cowboys at a hacienda during the annual overnight cattle round-up, Andes Mountains, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Domestic Cattle (Bos taurus) being caught and branded in a corral by Chagra cowboys at a hacienda during the annual overnight cattle round-up, Andes Mountains, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Domestic Cattle (Bos taurus) being caught and branded by Chagra cowboys at a hacienda during the annual overnight cattle round-up, Andes Mountains, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Domestic Cattle (Bos taurus) being caught and branded by Chagra cowboys at a hacienda during the annual overnight cattle round-up, Andes Mountains, Ecuador

Ross Couper-Johnston / Guacho branding cattle Mercedes N Argentina

Ingo Arndt / Trees used for Tree Beekeeping are marked with a unique family mark called 'tamga' which is carved into the bark at the base of the tree. Tree hive beekeeping is a traditional practice that da...