Milan Radisics / Aerial shot of an open mine pit and process plant in a copper mining and hydrometallurgical process plant complex, near Gerena, Seville, Spain, August 2018.

Milan Radisics / Aerial shot of an open mine pit and process plant in a copper mining and hydrometallurgical process plant complex, near Gerena, Seville, Spain, August 2018.

Milan Radisics / Aerial shot of mining waste and other toxic by-products collected in dry stacks and a big pond, in a large copper mining and hydrometallurgical process plant complex near Gerena, Seville, Spain, Augu...

Konrad Wothe / Fritillary butterfly (Argynnis sp) with Scarce copper butterflies (Lycaena virgaureae) Queyras, Alps, France. August.

Andy Rouse / Rufus-breasted hermit hummingbird (Glaucis hirsutus) and Copper-rumped hummingbird and(Amazilia tobaci) hovering, Tobago

Peter Schwarz/ BIA / Large Copper (Lycaena dispar) butterfly, Overijssel, Netherlands

Jussi Murtosaari / Scarce Copper (Lycaena virgaureae) male in meadow on ox-eye daisy, Joutsa (formerly Leivonmaki), Finland, July.

Claudio Contreras,Claudio Contreras / Long-beaked Coralfish (Chelmon rostratus) eye, Inanuran Island, Danajon Bank, Central Visayas, Philippines, April

Igor Shpilenok / Kamchatka Brown Bear (Ursus arctos beringianus) by malachite (copper mineral) outcrop. Kronotsky Zapovednik Nature Reserve, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far East, Valley of the Geysers, October.

Ben Lascelles / Mineral rich landscape and copper lake from the Bogo La pass at17000 ft, Tibet, June 2010

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of 'The Entomologist'. Rare copper print with original hand colouring, drawn by George Spratt, printed by George Madely, and sold individually as part of a series through Charles Tilt's F...

Roger Powell / European Bee-eater (Merops apiaster) courting a female by offering her a Small Copper butterfly (Lycaena phlaeas). Alentejo, Portugal, April.