Doug Gimesy / Scientist about to bang star picket stakes into rivers to which a fyke net will be secured. This net will then used to try and capture Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) Mitta Mitta River, Dartmout...

Doug Gimesy / Freshwater ecologist banging a star picket stake into the river to which a Fyke net will be secured. This net will then used to try and capture platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) for research, Mitta...

Chadden Hunter / Chadden Hunter (cameraman) filming inside a moulin, the ice chute that drains meltwater through glaciers; camera equipment secured using ropes, scaffolding poles and bicycle wheels, for the Mountains...

Piotr Naskrecki / An unidentified arboreal spider in its shelter made of leaves secured with silk, Guyana

Mark Moffett / Jumping Spider (Ptocacius sp) in night- time leaf shelter secured with bolts of silk, Singapore

Jim Brandenburg / Bamboo (Dendrocalamus sp) scaffolding, secured by worker, used in building skyscrapers, Hong Kong, China

WILLIAM OSBORN / Man fixing nestbox for Blue Tits to tree 2 - 3 metres above ground, England