Roland Seitre / Childres with African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys / Geochelone sulcata) Dakar, Senegal, West Africa, Vulnerable species. Three newly hatched babies and one adult over 100 years old

Roland Seitre / Antoine Cadi, scientist, and assistant measure the shell of an African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys / Geochelone sulcata) Sahel desert, Ferlo North Reserve, Senegal, West Africa, Vulnerable species....

Roland Seitre / African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys / Geochelone sulcata) Sahel desert, Ferlo North Reserve, Senegal, West Africa, Vulnerable species

Tim Laman / Aerial view of waterfall and rain forest near Punta Dolores, south coast region of Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, Central Africa. January 2008

Tim Laman / Aerial view of the south coast of Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, Central Africa, January 2008

Jane Burton / Golden Guinea pig in long grass

Juergen Freund / Traditional outrigger canoe of a Papuan fisherman viewed from underwater, Papua New Guinea

Mike Wilkes / Woman and child cleaning fish, The Gambia

John Downer / Huli wigman with Cassowary chick, Papua New Guinea 1992

Karl Ammann / Hunter with smoked carcass of silverback Gorilla {Gorilla gorilla} for food, Cameroon

NEIL NIGHTINGALE / Huli man at sing-sing nr. Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea. Traditional dress. 1990.

John Downer / Aerial view of 'Swidden' agriculture, clearing in rainforest. Papua New Guinea 1992

Jabruson / Wave breaking on beach, Sal, Cape Verde Islands

Nigel Bean / Temperate rainforest of Mount Kilum, Cameroon, West Africa

Mike Wilkes / Senegal parrots pair at nest hole {Poicephalus senegalus} Gambia

Fiona Rogers / Western chimpanzee, male 'Tua' aged 53 years curious about a 'head support' used by villagers to carry heavy items made from palm leaves (Pan troglodytes verus). Bossou Forest, Mont Nimba, Guinea. Jan...

Jabruson / Dropped into the ocean or washed overboard, hardwood tree trunks wash ashore along Gabon's Atlantic seaboard - Pongara National park. Logs disrupt nests and nesting behaviour of sea turtles along the...

Jabruson / People walk passed hardwood log on beach, dropped into the ocean, washed overboard, abandoned hardwood tree trunks wash ashore along Gabon's Atlantic coast. Logs disrupt nests and nesting behaviour of...

Jabruson / African offshore petroleum reserves, with petroleum tanker and gas burning off, oil discovery in the Atlantic Ocean off the shores of Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon, Central Africa

Jabruson / African offshore petroleum reserves, with petroleum tanker and gas burning off, oil discovery in the Atlantic Ocean off the shores of Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon, Central Africa

Anup Shah / Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) juvenile female 'Joya' aged 6 years using rocks as tools to crack open palm oil nuts, Bossou Forest, Mont Nimba, Guinea. December 2010.

Anup Shah / Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) female 'Jire' aged 52 years being groomed by alpha male 'Foaf' aged 30 years, whilst she feeds on palm oil fruit, Bossou Forest, Mont Nimba, Guinea. Januar...

Anup Shah / Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) juvenile female 'Joya' aged 6 years carrying rocks while walking on hind legs, Bossou Forest, Mont Nimba, Guinea. January 2011.

Anup Shah / Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) infant male 'Flanle' aged 3 years spinning in circles, Bossou Forest, Mont Nimba, Guinea. January 2011.

Anup Shah / Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) young male 'Peley' aged 12 years sitting on a tree buttress, Bossou Forest, Mont Nimba, Guinea. December 2010.

Anup Shah / Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) young male 'Jeje' aged 13 years stealing pineapple from villagers fields, Bossou Forest, Mont Nimba, Guinea. December 2010.

Anup Shah / Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) young male 'Jeje' aged 13 years disciplining juvenile female 'Joya' aged 6 years and infant male 'Flanle' aged 3 years who are playing together, Bossou For...

Anup Shah / Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) juvenile female 'Joya' aged 6 years playing with infant male 'Flanle' aged 3 years, Bossou Forest, Mont Nimba, Guinea. January 2011. Sequence 1 of 2.

Anup Shah / Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) juvenile female 'Joya' aged 6 years throwing rocks at other chimpanzees, Bossou Forest, Mont Nimba, Guinea. January 2011

Fiona Rogers / Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) infant male 'Flanle' aged 3 years playing on ground, Bossou Forest, Mont Nimba, Guinea. January 2011.

Fiona Rogers / Western chimpazee (Pan troglodytes verus) infant male 'Flanle' aged 3 years playing on a branch, Bossou Forest, Mont Nimba, Guinea. January 2011.

Jabruson / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) silverback 'Makumba' portrait, leader of tourist habituated gorilla family group, Bai Hokou, Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, Central African Republic.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Woman looking out to sea as fishermen arrive on the beach in Mbour, in the 'Petite Cote', south of Dakar, Senegal, September 2006.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Fishermen off the beach in Mbour, in the 'Petite Cote', south of Dakar, Senegal, September 2006. September 2006.

Robin Chittenden / Slender billed gull (Chroicocephalus genei) in flight, Western Division, Gambia, March

Robin Chittenden / Slender billed gull (Chroicocephalus genei) on shoreline, Western Division, Gambia, March

Robin Chittenden / Slender billed gull (Chroicocephalus genei) in flight, Western Division, Gambia, March

Robin Chittenden / Grey headed gull (Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus) in shallow water, Western Division, Gambia, March

Robin Chittenden / Caspian tern (Hydroprogne caspia) in flight, Western Division, Gambia, March

Robin Chittenden / Grey headed gull (Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus) in flight, Western Division, Gambia, March

Robin Chittenden / Royal tern (Thalasseus maximus) in flight, Western Division, Gambia, March

Robin Chittenden / Grey headed Gull (Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus) on shoreline, Western Division, Gambia, March

Robin Chittenden / Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia) in flight, Western Division, Gambia, March

Robin Chittenden / Red-billed Hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus erythrorhynchus) Western Division, Gambia, March

Robin Chittenden / Abyssinian Roller (Coracias abyssinicus) in flight, Western Division, Gambia, February

Robin Chittenden / Yellow billed oxpecker (Buphagus africanus) Gambia, February

Robin Chittenden / Beautiful sunbird (Cinnyris pulchellus) Western Division, Gambia February

Chris Mattison / Cochran's running frog (Kassina cochranae), captive, occurs in West Africa

Chris Mattison / Cochran's running frog (Kassina cochranae), captive, occurs in West Africa

Chris Mattison / Ahl's river frog 1+Phrynobatrachus latifrons+2, captive, occurs in West Africa

Roland Seitre / Bottle-nosed Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) at surface with calamari fishermen in the background. Senegal, West Africa.

Roland Seitre / Bottle-nosed Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) at surface with calamari fishermen in the background. Senegal, West Africa.

Roland Seitre / Bottle-nosed Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) at surface with calamari fishermen in the background. Senegal, West Africa.

Roland Seitre / Bottle-nosed Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) dorsal fin at sea surface. Senegal, West Africa.

Roland Seitre / Bottle-nosed Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) dorsal fins at sea surface. Senegal, West Africa.

Roland Seitre / Bottle-nosed Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) dorsal fins at sea surface. Senegal, West Africa.

Roland Seitre / Roan Antelope (Hippotragus equinus) and Eland (Taurotragus oryx) herd. Fathala Reserve, Toubacouta, Senegal.

Roland Seitre / Bottle-nosed Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) dorsal fins at sea surface, calamari fishermen and land in the background. Senegal, West Africa.

Roland Seitre / Bottle-nosed Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) dorsal fins at sea surface. Senegal, West Africa.

Roland Seitre / Bottle-nosed Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) dorsal fin at sea surface. Senegal, West Africa.

Roland Seitre / Bottle-nosed Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) dorsal fins at sea surface, man on small boat in background. Senegal, West Africa.

Roland Seitre / Bottle-nosed Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) dorsal fins at sea surface. Senegal, West Africa.

Roland Seitre / Bottle-nosed Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) dorsal fins at sea surface. Senegal, West Africa.

Roland Seitre / Bottle-nosed Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) at surface with calamari fishermen in the background. Senegal, West Africa.

Roland Seitre / Close up of the posterior spur on the shell of an African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys / Geochelone sulcata) Sahel desert, Ferlo North Reserve, Senegal, West Africa, Vulnerable species.

Roland Seitre / Newly hatched baby African spurred tortoises (Centrochelys / Geochelone sulcata) emerging from burrow, Sahel desert, Ferlo North Reserve, Senegal, West Africa, Vulnerable species. First field study on...

Roland Seitre / African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys / Geochelone sulcata) Sahel desert, Ferlo North Reserve, Senegal, West Africa, Vulnerable species. Two newly hatched babies and one adult over 100 years old, Fir...

Roland Seitre / Newly hatched baby African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys / Geochelone sulcata) held in the hand of a research scientist, Sahel desert, Ferlo North Reserve, Senegal, West Africa, Vulnerable species. F...

Roland Seitre / Egg of an African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys / Geochelone sulcata) held in the hand of a research scientist, Sahel desert, Ferlo North Reserve, Senegal, West Africa, Vulnerable species. First fiel...

Roland Seitre / Antoine Cadi, scientist, and assistants measure the ventral shell of an African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys / Geochelone sulcata) Sahel desert, Ferlo North Reserve, Senegal, West Africa, Vulnerable...

Roland Seitre / African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys / Geochelone sulcata) Sahel desert, Ferlo North Reserve, Senegal, West Africa, Vulnerable species.

Roland Seitre / Antoine Cadi, scientist, and others radio tracking a tagged African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys / Geochelone sulcata) Sahel desert, Ferlo North Reserve, Senegal, West Africa, Vulnerable species. Fi...

Roland Seitre / Antoine Cadi, scientist, checks the ground surrounding the burrow of an African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys / Geochelone sulcata) Sahel desert, Ferlo North Reserve, Senegal, West Africa, Vulnerable...

Roland Seitre / Antoine Cadi, scientist, and others check the ground surrounding the burrow of an African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys / Geochelone sulcata) Sahel desert, Ferlo North Reserve, Senegal, West Africa,...

Roland Seitre / Antoine Cadi, scientist, checks the burrow of an African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys / Geochelone sulcata) Sahel desert, Ferlo North Reserve, Senegal, West Africa, Vulnerable species. First field s...

Roland Seitre / Andrea Gomis, director of the reserve, and Antoine Cadi, scientist, carry an African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys / Geochelone sulcata) Sahel desert, Ferlo North Reserve, Senegal, West Africa, Vulne...

Roland Seitre / Antoine Cadi, scientist, and Andrea Gomis, director of the reserve, study an African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys / Geochelone sulcata) Sahel desert, Ferlo North Reserve, Senegal, West Africa, Vulne...

Roland Seitre / African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys / Geochelone sulcata) Sahel desert, Ferlo North Reserve, Senegal, West Africa, Vulnerable species

Mike Wilkes / Young fisherman bringing fish ashore from boat off Tanji beach, The Gambia, December 2010

Anup Shah / Bonobo young male 'Api' aged 13 years reaching out with curiosity - wide-angle perspective (Pan paniscus). Lola Ya Bonobo Santuary, Democratic Republic of Congo. Oct 2010.

Fiona Rogers / Bonobo female scratching her head with a stick (Pan paniscus). Lola Ya Bonobo Santuary, Democratic Republic of Congo. Oct 2010.

Fiona Rogers / Bonobo female 'Opala' leaning on a branch - portrait (Pan paniscus). Lola Ya Bonobo Santuary, Democratic Republic of Congo. Oct 2010.

Fiona Rogers / Bonobo female baby 'Sanza' aged 5 months playing with her mother 'Tshilomba' (Pan paniscus). Lola Ya Bonobo Santuary, Democratic Republic of Congo. Oct 2010.

Fiona Rogers / Bonobo adolescent male portrait (Pan paniscus). Lola Ya Bonobo Santuary, Democratic Republic of Congo. Oct 2010.

Anup Shah / Bonobo male baby 'Mayali' aged 2-3 weeks lying in his mother's arms (Pan paniscus). Lola Ya Bonobo Santuary, Democratic Republic of Congo. Oct 2010.

Anup Shah / Bonobo mature male 'Tembo' charging display to show dominance - wide angle perspective (Pan paniscus). Lola Ya Bonobo Santuary, Democratic Republic of Congo. Oct 2010.

Robin Chittenden / Slender Billed Gull (Chroicocephalus genei) in flight. Gambia, Africa, February.

Robin Chittenden / Slender Billed Gull (Chroicocephalus genei) in flight. Gambia, Africa, February.

Tim Laman / Aerial view of river gorge of the Rio Iladyi on the Southwest of Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, Central Africa, with cascades in the upper gorge visible. January 2008

Tim Laman / Sunset and surf from the volcanic black sand beach on South coast of Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, January 2008.

Tim Laman / Sunset from high on Pico Basile, Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, January 2008

Tim Laman / Aerial view of Oil Company facilities at Malabo, Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, Central Africa, January 2008

Tim Laman / Primatologist, Tom Butynski, wading across the Rio Ole, Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition, International League of Conservation Photographers, January 2008. Model rel...

Tim Laman / Looking down over a waterfall on the Rio Santo Antonio in the upper region of the Gran Caldera Volcanica de Luba, Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, January 2008

Tim Laman / Expedition members trek along the South coast of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea, Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition, International League of Conservation Photographers, January 2008. Model released

Tim Laman / Aerial view of Punta Sagre, site of "Moraka Playa" base camp of the Bioko Biodiversity Protection Program 2008 Caldera Expedition, on the south coast of Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, Central Africa...