Neil Aldridge / Okavango robbers (Rhabdalestes maunensis) fish swimming up the temporary Selinda Spillway, northern Botswana. This shallow river cuts across the Kalahari Desert and joins the Okavango River system wit...

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Machinery that cuts, peels and calculates the volume of the wood, cutting eucalyptus trees in the municipality of Linhares, Esparito Santo State, Eastren Brazil, January 2012. No release available.

Ross Hoddinott / 2020VISION / Local school child cuts and collects growing tree saplings at Westhay to maintain wetland habitat, Westhay Nature Reserve (Somerset Wildlife Trust), Somerset Levels, Somerset, UK. June 2011. Did you k...

Doug Allan / Inuit hunter cuts up dead Narwhal {Monodon monoceros} Arctic Bay, Canadian Arctic

Fred Bavendam / West Indian Manatee (Trichechus manatus) named Sadie has propeller cuts on the tail, but her calf remains intact, every year boats kill dozens of manatees, Kings Bay, Crystal River, Florida

Heather Angel / Rose chafer (Cetonia aurata) feeding on Rock rose (Cistus x hybridus) pollen. Cuts in petals where chafer's legs were inserted to prevent it from falling off. In garden, Surrey, England, UK. June.

Neil Aldridge / A vet cuts identification notches into the ear of a sedated White rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) in a secure enclosure known as a boma as part of a translocation operation to bring rhinos from South...

Tony Wu / Diagram showing the origin of different whale meat cuts at Tore Tore Market, Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, Kansai, Honshu, Japan. February 2018.

Tony Wu / Sashimi set with three cuts of whale meat sourced from the Southern Ocean and North Pacific. Other whale products in counder below. Tore Tore Market, Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, Kansai, Honshu, Ja...

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Salt extraction at Lake Assale on the Danakil depression, Afar man cuts salt blocks for trade. Afar Region, Ethiopia, Africa. November 2014.

Pete Oxford / Dirt road cuts through savanna, Rupununi, Guyana

Eric Baccega / Salt caravans made up of hundreds of dromedary camels (Camelus dromedarius), donkeys and their pullers transporting salt slab cuts from the salt lake Assale to the Mekele market, Danakil depression, A...

Eric Baccega / Salt caravans made up of hundreds of dromedary camels (Camelus dromedarius) and their pullers transporting salt slab cuts from the salt lake Assale to the Mekele market, Danakil depression, Afar regio...

Ann & Steve Toon / Confiscated Siam rosewood tree (Dalbergia cochinchinensi) wood, showing poachers' cuts to aid debarking, Thap Lan National Park, Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex, eastern Thailand, August.

Bert Willaert / Deforestation seen from Canande Reserve, Ecuador, December 2010.

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Logged forest in the mountains Sayward, East Coast, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, July 2012

Sandesh Kadur / Deforested hillside, cleared for agricultural use, Arunachal Pradesh, India, 2008.

Juan Carlos Munoz / Iberico ham / Jamon iberico, Caceres, Ambroz Valley, Extremadura, Spain.

Juan Carlos Munoz / Thin slice being cut off Iberico ham / Jamon Iberico, Caceres, Ambroz Valley, Extremadura, Spain.

Juan Carlos Munoz / Person cutting thin slices of Iberico ham / Jamon Iberico from ham on stand. Caceres, Ambroz Valley, Extremadura, Spain.

Juan Carlos Munoz / Iberico ham legs curing, Sierra de Aracena Natural Park, Huelva, Andalucia, Spain, Europe

Tim Laman / New road through pristine rain forest. Vogelkop Peninsula, West Papua, Indonesia.

Tim Laman / New road cut through pristine lowland rainforest in New Guinea. This road was built as part of an irrigation project for transmigrants. September 2009

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / A volunteer from Wildwood trust cuts down tree to improve improve water vole habitat on a stream in Kent and to allow growth of bankside vegetation, East Malling, Kent England, February 2011

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / A volunteer from Wildwood trust cuts down tree to improve improve water vole habitat on a stream in Kent and to allow growth of bankside vegetation, East Malling, Kent England, February 2011

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Nina Kunina, a Selkup woman, cuts bark from a birch tree to make a traditional basket near Bistrinka. Purovskiy Region, Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Autumn colour on the banks of the River Shirta as it cuts through boreal forest, Krasnoselkup, Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius), Kent, UK. Members of Kent Mammal Group conduct monthly dormouse survey. Hazel Ryan cuts ID marking into dormouse fur. Marking catalogue. September 2011, Mode...

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius), Kent, UK. Members of Kent Mammal Group conduct monthly dormouse survey. Hazel Ryan cuts ID markings into dormouse fur. September 2011, Model released.

Ross Hoddinott / 2020VISION / Local school child cuts and collects growing tree saplings at Westhay to maintain wetland habitat, Westhay Nature Reserve (Somerset Wildlife Trust), Somerset Levels, Somerset, UK. June 2011.

Kevin Schafer / Toutle River cuts through sediments of eruption, Mount St Helens National Volcanic Monument, Washington

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Boy cuts wild Chanterelle mushroom (Cantharellus sp.), in Scottish woods, UK, Europe, September 2007.

Bruno D'Amicis / Aerial view of small clear cuts in managed spruce forest. High Tatras, Slovakia, June 2009.

Christophe Courteau / Kalahari bushmen, men performing Dance of the Hunt, hunters dancing simulate a hunt, when the hunter kills his prey and cuts the skin. Central Kalahari Desert, Botswana, August 2008,

Philip Stephen / Seabirds scattering as fishing vessel cuts through the waves, creating spray. North Sea, June 2010. Property released.

John Cancalosi / Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness, an 11 mile long canyon that cuts through the north end of Galiuro Mountains. Tucson, Federal Wilderness Area, USA

Jerry Monkman / A logger cuts down a tree in a selective harvest. Dartmouth College forest - Second College Grant, New Hampshire, USA

Igor Shpilenok / Making hay, Maria Balakhonova cuts hay for her cow, Chukhrai, Bryansk Province, Russia

Mark Moffett / Bulldog Ant (Myrmecia gulosa) worker cuts cocoon to help newly formed adult emerge, eastern Australia

Paul Hobson / Peat cuts stacked to dry, Republic of Ireland

Chris Gomersall / M3 motorway extension cuts through chalk downland at Twyford Down, Winchester, Hants.

Kim Taylor / Oak roller weevil {Attelabus nitens} cuts leaf of Turkey oak prior to rolling it, UK.

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Northern Fur Seal (Callorhinus ursinus) young bull entangled in net has swollen neck and cuts, Bering Sea, Saint George Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska

Fred Bavendam / West Indian Manatee (Trichechus manatus) has propeller cuts on the tail, every year boats kill dozens of manatees, Kings Bay, Crystal River, Florida

Juergen Freund / Whale shark hunter cuts holes in jaws of Whale shark, rope tied through holes to tow fish to land while still alive. Pamilacan, Bohol, Philippines. 1997

WILLIAM OSBORN / Windjana Gorge, Napier range of Kimberley, Western Australia, Leonard River cuts through

TOM WALMSLEY / Woman diving and Atlantic spotted dolphin {Stenella frontalis} showing scars from boat propeller injuries Bimini, Bahamas, Caribbean

Juergen Freund / Fisherman cuts fin from Grey reef shark {Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos} Philippines

Onne van der Wal / Worker in shipyard cuts metal with acetelene torch

Kevin Schafer / Toutle River cuts through sediments of eruption, Mount St Helens National Volcanic Monument, Washington

Mark Moffett / Doug Yu, an ecologist, cuts Wasps and Killer Bees from Mark Moffett's hair, Devil's Garden, Manu, Peru

Nick Upton / Dead tree left with a standing trunk, deep coronet cuts on the stump and large branches cut to base, offering more dead wood niches for colonising organisms, Kent, UK, November.

Solvin Zankl / Common poppy (Papaver rhoeas) with piece of petal cut away by a Poppy bee (Osmia papaveris). The bee cuts pieces from the poppy petals with its mandibles and transport them to the nest to use as nesti...

Nick Upton / Rose (Rosa sp.) leaves with circular cuts made by Leafcutter (Megachile sp.) bees for lining their nests, Wiltshire, UK. July.

Nick Upton / Male Purbeck mason wasp (Pseudepipona herrichii), one of most endangered UK invertebrates, grasping female as she cuts open base of Bell heather flower (Erica cinerea) to feed on nectar, Dorset heathl...

Nick Upton / Male Purbeck mason wasp (Pseudepipona herrichii), one of most endangered UK invertebrates, grasping female as she cuts open base of Bell heather flower (Erica cinerea) to feed on nectar, Dorset heathl...

Nigel Cattlin / Sap / latex exuding from cuts in the seedpod of an Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) an annual garden ornamental and a source of opiate narcotics

Nigel Cattlin / Aloe vera pot plant with fleshy succulent leaves. An ornamental and medicinal plant used for healing cuts and burns

Nigel Cattlin / Aloe vera pot plant with fleshy succulent leaves. An ornamental and medicinal plant used for healing cuts and burns