Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) sub-adult female 'Mosoko' aged 8 years crossing a river, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central African Republic

Ben Hall / Fallow deer (Dama dama) in woodland clearing at dawn, Cheshire, UK November

Morley Read / Aerial shot tracking over a cattle farm cut out of the Amazon rainforest, the farm has fish ponds for raising Tilapia and is surrounded by primary rainforest, Napo Province, Ecuador, 2017. (non-ex)

Joris van Alphen / Aerial view of clearing with felled logs in Bialowieza Forest UNESCO World Heritage Site, Poland. Highly commended in the Wildlife Photojournalism Category of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awa...

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) cub sitting in coniferous woodland clearing at dusk. Glenfeshie, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK.

Christophe Courteau / Mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei), dominant silverback in forest clearing. Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda.

Nayan Khanolkar / Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) in forest clearing. Camera trap image. Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India. January 2018.

Danny Green / Moose Bull (Alces alces) walking in forest clearing, Denali National Park, USA, September

Gerry Ellis / Burned rainforest, cleared for oil palm agriculture, Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. October, 2015

Gerry Ellis / Smoking fire, set by humans to clear rainforest to plant oil palms, Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. October, 2015

Gerry Ellis / Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) sub-adult male in trees in haze caused by forest clearing, West Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. October, 2015

Markus Varesvuo / Golden Eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) mating in snowy forest clearing. Kuusamo, Finland, February