Andrew Cooper / Aerial view of the restoration of blanket bog, Dartmoor Mires Project, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, England, UK, October 2015.

Andrew Cooper / Aerial view of the restoration of blanket bog, Dartmoor Mires Project, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, England, UK, October 2015.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Excavation works being carried out along river as part of re-naturalisation of river course to reduce flooding. Part of Eddleston Water Project led by Tweed Forum, Peebles, Tweeddale, Scotland, UK, Ju...

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Excavation works being carried out along river as part of re-naturalisation of river course to reduce flooding. Part of Eddleston Water Project led by Tweed Forum, Peebles, Tweeddale, Scotland, UK, Ju...

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Two scientists counting fish as part of the Eddleston Wate Project, where sections of river are being re-naturalised to improve biodiversity and reduce flooding. Peebles, Tweeddale, Scotland, UK, June...

Jean E. Roche / Digger clearing ditch at Notre Dame d'Amour, Camargue, France, March.

Jean E. Roche / Digger excavating canal at edge of field, Fielouse, Camargue, France, May.

Jean E. Roche / Reinforcement of dykes along the Rhone River after severe flooding in 2003. Camargue, France 2003.

Nick Turner / Commercial oolitic limestone extraction for construction and dry stone walling, Huntsmans Quarry, Naunton, Gloucestershire, UK. July 2015.

Nick Turner / Commercial oolitic limestone extraction for construction and dry stone walling, Huntsmans Quarry, Naunton, Gloucestershire, UK. July 2015.

Nick Turner / Commercial oolitic limestone extraction for construction and dry stone walling, Huntsmans Quarry, Naunton, Gloucestershire, UK. July 2015.

Nick Turner / Commercial oolitic limestone extraction for construction and dry stone walling, Huntsmans Quarry, Naunton, Gloucestershire, UK. July 2015.

Nick Turner / Commercial oolitic limestone extraction for construction and dry stone walling, Huntsmans Quarry, Naunton, Gloucestershire, UK. July 2015.

Erlend Haarberg / Digger removing snow from the road to the top of Mount Dalsnibba, Norway, June 2012.

David Tipling / Restoration work on shooting pools, Pope's Marsh, Cley Norfolk Wildlife Trust Reserve, Norfolk, UK, March 2014.

David Tipling / Restoration work on shooting pools, Pope's Marsh, Cley Norfolk Wildlife Trust Reserve, Norfolk, UK, March 2014.

David Tipling / Restoration work on shooting pools, Pope's Marsh, Cley Norfolk Wildlife Trust Reserve, Norfolk, UK, March 2014.

Alex Hyde / Digger moving coal between heaps. Yorkshire, UK, January 2014.

Denis-Huot / Work to rebuild tracks in the park after the flooding of Lake Nakuru, Nakuru National Park, Kenya, November 2012.

Guy Edwardes / 2020VISION / Excavators restoring peat bog after peat extraction, Westhay Moor SWT reserve, Somerset Levels, Somerset, England, UK, April 2011

Ashley Cooper / View of construction work for a hydro project on hillside near Encumeada, Madeira. February, 2023.

Will Watson / Removal of Sallow (Salix caprea) trees with digger from pond edge to restore the pond, Breinton Orchard, Herefordshire Cider Museum, Herefordshire, England, UK, February.

Will Watson / Desilting using a large mechanical rake at Berrington Hall Pool SSSI, Herefordshire, England, UK.

Will Watson / Desilting using a large mechanical rakes at Berrington Hall Pool SSSI, Herefordshire, England, UK. December, 2021. Model released.

Will Watson / Bulrushes (Typha latifolia) being removed from pool using large machinery as part of desilting of pool, Berrington Hall Pool SSSI, Herefordshire, England, UK. February, 2022.

Will Watson / New Zealand pigmyweed (Crassula helmsii), an invasive species, being removed from a pond using an excavator, Herefordshire, England, UK. February 2022. Model released.

Will Watson / New Zealand pigmyweed (Crassula helmsii), an invasive species, being removed from a pond using an excavator, Herefordshire, England, UK. February 2022. Model released.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / A digger installing a woody structure in small burn to provide habitat for fish and reduce the flow of water, Dellifure, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK. September.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Digger being used to create wader scrapes, shallow pools, in wetland habitat, on Northwoods Rewilding Network land partner, Ballinlaggan, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK. December, 2020.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / An excavator working on wetland creation and wader scrapes, Ballinlaggan Farm, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK. December, 2020.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Aerial view of an excavator working on wetland creation and wader scrapes and surrounding farmland, Ballinlaggan Farm, Cairngorms Natinal Park, Scotland, UK. December, 2020.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Aerial view of conservation workers and an excavator restoring an upland stone path leading to the Old Man of Storr, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK. October, 2020.

Ashley Cooper / Mechanical digger used to carry out repair work to the extremely popular Three Peaks footpath, Ingleborough, Yorkshire Dales National Park, Yorkshire, UK. April, 2021.

Robert Valentic / Striped legless lizard (Delma impar) in a St Albans housing development site undergoing total clearance of habitat, Melbourne, Australia. Crticially endangered species.

Mike Read / Machinery clearing vegetation out of South Drain, Shapwick Heath National Nature Reserve, Avalon Marshes, Somerset Levels and Moors, England, UK, August.

Wendy Shattil / Construction to replace boundary posts with 30 foot steel boundary walls. Sonoran Desert between Mexico and Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona, USA. November 2019.