Murray Cooper / Rubber Tree (Hevea brasiliensis) with sap used for rubber, South America

Ernie Janes / Rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) tapping with bucket full of latex, Thailand.

Ernie Janes / Rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) tapping with bucket full of latex, Thailand.

Ernie Janes / Rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) tapping with bucket full of latex, Thailand.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) tapping from a plantation within the limits of Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia, UNESCO World Heritage site, November.

Cyril Ruoso / Rubber tapping from Hevea tree (Hevea) Maninjau lake, Sumatra, Indonesia.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Rubber tapping (Hevea brasiliensis) Central Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. June 2010.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Rubber tapping (Hevea brasiliensis) Central Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. June 2010.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Rubber tapping (Hevea brasiliensis) Central Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. June 2010.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Rubber tapping (Hevea brasiliensis) Central Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. June 2010.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Rubber tapping on Rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) Central Kalimantan, Indonesia Borneo. June 2010.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Rubber tapping on Rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) Central Kalimantan, Indonesia Borneo. June 2010.

Thomas Marent / Rubber Tree (Hevea brasiliensis) plantation, Assam, India

Pal Hermansen / Rubber being harvest from Para rubber tre (Hevea brasiliensis) being harvested, Sri Lanka.

Adrian Davies / Leaf Skeleton of Para rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis)

Cyril Ruoso / Rubber tapping, Maninjau Lake, Indonesia

Thomas Marent / Rubber Tree (Hevea brasiliensis) tapped for sap used as latex, Gunung Leuser National Park, northern Sumatra, Indonesia

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Scars of collecting latex on the trunk of the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) in the Atlantic Rainforest of Southern Bahia, municipality of Una, southern Bahia State, Eastern Brazil. August

Kevin Schafer / Rubber Tree (Hevea brasiliensis) trunk showing incisions and tap to extract latex, Cameroon

Nick Gordon / Man tapping Rubber tree {Hevea brasiliensis} for latex, Rondia State, Amazonia, Brazil.

Luciano Candisani / Rubber tapper extracting latex, Tapajos Arapiuns Reserve, Amazon, Brazil

Bengt Lundberg / Man tapping Rubber tree {Hevea brasiliensis} for latex / sap, Malaysia.

Ingo Arndt / Old Rubber Tree in rainforest showing scars from tapping, Yavari River, Amazon Basin

Ingo Arndt / Old Rubber Tree in rainforest showing scars from repeated tapping, Yavari River, Amazon Basin

John Downer / View down one avenue of trees in Rubber tree plantation {Hevea brasiliensis} Thailand

Nick Garbutt / Collecting latex from Rubber tree {Hevea brasiliensis} Malawi, Southern Africa

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Smoking latex ball of rubber tree {Hevea brasiliensis} Brazil

Murray Cooper / Rubber Tree (Hevea brasiliensis) trunk, South America

Fernando Faciole / Latex extraction from Para rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) in Tapajos National Forest. Jamaraqua, Para, Brazil.

Nigel Cattlin / Woman making an angled cut through the bark of a rubber tree to tap into the latex vessels in the bark of a rubber tree, Malaysia, February

Nigel Cattlin / Woman making an angled cut through the bark of a rubber tree to tap into the latex vessels in the bark of a rubber tree, Malaysia, February

Nigel Cattlin / White latex flowing from the newly made cut in the bark of the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis), Malacca, Malaysia, February

Nigel Cattlin / White latex flowing from the newly made cut in the bark of the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis), Malacca, Malaysia, February

Nigel Cattlin / Underneath the canopy of a mature Malaysian rubber plantation near Malacca, the trees bear scars of frequent latex harvesting, February

Nigel Cattlin / Young rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) tree sapling in new establishing rubber plantation, Malaysia, February