Milan Radisics / Aerial shot of mining waste and other toxic by-products collected in dry stacks and a big pond, in a large copper mining and hydrometallurgical process plant complex near Gerena, Seville, Spain, Augu...

Espen Bergersen / Time lapse of people emptying plastic bags full of marine litter to show what has been collected during a beach clean, Tussoya, Troms, Norway, 2017.

Ingo Arndt / Vogelkop bowerbird (Amblyornis inornatus) decoration material (fruit and beetle elytra ) collected in order to attract females to his bower, Arfak Mountains, Irian Jaya, New Guinea, Indonesia.

Ingo Arndt / Vogelkop bowerbird (Amblyornis inornatus) decoration material (fungus) collected in order to attract females to his bower, Arfak Mountains, Irian Jaya, New Guinea, Indonesia.

Ingo Arndt / Vogelkop bowerbird (Amblyornis inornatus) decoration material (blue rotten wood) collected in order to attract females to his bower, Arfak Mountains, Irian Jaya, New Guinea, Indonesia.

Alex Mustard / Nudibranch (Flabellina lineata) in aquarium, taken in the field in Gulen, Norway. North East Atlantic Ocean. Collected for scientific research.

Pete Oxford / Head-hunted human skulls, collected by the Konyak Naga tribe, North East India, October 2014.

David Kjaer / Great bustard (Otis tarda) chicks hatched from eggs collected under licence from the Castilla-La Mancha region of Spain.

Sam Hobson / Blood samples collected by scientists working with urban goshawks (Accipiter gentilis). Berlin, Germany, May 2014. Nominated in the Melvita Nature Images Awards competition 2014.

Paul D Stewart / Male Large Blue Butterfly (Maculinea eutryphon / arion) collected in 1865. It is here surrounded by other extant UK blue butterfly species. The large Blue was first recorded as a British species in 17...

David Shale / Solenosmilia sp and eunicid polychaete and bamboo coral. Collected from coral sea mount near Dragon vent field on SW Indian Ridge, Indian Ocean.

David Shale / Pencil urchin (Cidaroid). Collected from coral sea mount near Dragon vent field on SW Indian Ridge, Indian Ocean.

David Shale / Pencil urchin (Cidaroid). Collected from coral sea mount near Dragon vent field on SW Indian Ridge, Indian Ocean.

David Shale / Black coral (Antipatharia) with tendrils extruded to catch prey. Collected from coral sea mount near Dragon vent field on SW Indian Ridge, Indian Ocean.

Juergen Freund / Fisherman with a net full of freshly blasted or dynamited schooling fish collected from the reef. Phillipines, April 2009.

Pete Oxford / Boy sitting on rolls of Balata made from latex collected from Balata / Bullet Wood tree, Nappi, Rupununi, Guyana, used for crafts, February 2010

Laurent Geslin / Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) eggs, collected from Lake of Geneva, France, December 2007.

Mark Bowler / Silver arowana (Osteoglossum bicirrhosum) Amazonian fish occuring in Varzea flooded forests of the amazonian rainforest. These babies with their yolk sacks have been collected for the ornamental fish...

Mark Bowler / Silver arowana fish (Osteoglossum bicirrhosum) young fish are collected from the father fish who guards the young in his mouth and then released in a fish farm to grow until the price increases with d...

SINCLAIR STAMMERS / Photomicrograph of fully embryonated (Neoascaris / Toxocara vitulorum) eggs containin larvae immediately prior to hatching. Parasitic nematodes which normally infect cattle, collected from Egyptian ca...

Mark Moffett / Harvester Ant (Messor sp) returning to nest with a seed it has collected to husk and store, near Kerman, Iran

Doug Gimesy / Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) that was found walking across burnt ground after a fire, is collected by Forest and Wildlife Lachlan Clarke, (right), assisted by a member of the Australian Defence For...

Doug Gimesy / Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) that has come down from a tree after a bush fire and is walking across burnt ground, is collected by Forest and Wildlife Officer Lachlan Clarke. Gelantipy, Victoria, Au...

Doug Gimesy / Rear left ankle of a male Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) showing venomous spur. Healsville, Victoria, Australia. Collected about 15 minutes earlier as part of formal population monitoring researc...

Doug Gimesy / 1554 recovered Grey-headed Fly-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) carcases collected during a heat-stress at event at Melbourne's Yarra Bend Grey-headed Flying-fox colony - about one third of those estimate...

Doug Gimesy / Portrait of 1554 recovered Grey-headed Fly-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) carcases collected during a heat-stress at event at Melbourne's Yarra Bend Grey-headed Flying-fox colony - about one third of th...

Doug Gimesy / Park Ranger and Grey-headed Flying-fox Project Officer Stephen Brend on his way to get more supplies and coordinate rescue attempts, walks past a wheelbarrow filled with dead Grey-headed Flying-foxes...

Doug Gimesy / Wheelbarrow filled with just some dead Grey-headed flying-foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) that were collected earlier that day, the result of an extreem heat event at Melbourne's Yarra Bend Grey-headed...

Terry Whittaker / Two men on cliff top with Common guillemot / murre (Uria aalge) eggs collected from cliff face. Skoruvikurbjarg cliffs, Langanes Peninsula, Iceland. May 2018.

Terry Whittaker / Common murre / guillemot (Uria aalge) and Black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) eggs in box and egg boxes. Collected from Skoruvikurbjarg cliffs, Langanes Peninsula, Iceland. May 2018.

Terry Whittaker / Two men washing Common murre / guillemot (Uria aalge) eggs in stream. Collected from Skoruvikurbjarg cliffs, Langanes Peninsula, Iceland. May 2018.

Terry Whittaker / Seabird eggs including those of Common murre/ guillemot (Uria aalge) in fridge. Collected from Skoruvikurbjarg cliffs, Langanes Peninsula, Iceland. May 2018.

Terry Whittaker / Common murre / guillemot (Uria aalge) egg collected from Skoruvikurbjarg cliffs, candled over light. Iceland. May 2018

David Woodfall / Kevin Whales, man with litter he has picked from street and sorted for recycling. Jaywick, Essex, England, UK.

David Woodfall / Kevin Whales, man with litter he has picked from street and sorted for recycling. Jaywick, Essex, England, UK.

Steven David Miller / Satin bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus) female inspecting bower and blue objects collected by male from nearby campsites. Ulladulla, New South Wales, Australia. July.

Steven David Miller / Satin bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus) female inspecting bower and blue objects collected by male from nearby campsites. Ulladulla, New South Wales, Australia. July.

David Woodfall / 'Leave only footprints' sign with rubbish collected by volunteers from Rhosilli beach, Gower, South Wales, UK. March 2019.

David Woodfall / 'Leave only footprints' sign with rubbish collected by volunteers from Rhosilli beach, Gower, South Wales, UK. March 2019.

David Woodfall / Sea weed collected in boom at low tide, used in pharmaceutical industry products. North Uist, Scotland, UK, July.

David Woodfall / Hand dug peat in stacks, collected by hand, for domestic use. North Uist, Scotland, UK, June.

John Shaw / Salt cones on the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia., March. The Salar is the world's largest salt flat, at over 10500 square kilometres. Salt is shoveled into these cones, to be collected later. March 2012...

Nick Hawkins / Invasive European green crabs (Carcinus maenas) collected by park staff in Kejimkujik Seaside National Park near Port Joli, Nova Scotia, Canada. July.

Juan Carlos Munoz / Seashells collected outside Panyee fishing village. Phang Nga Bay, Andaman Sea, Thailand.

Juan Carlos Munoz / Seashells collected outside Panyee fishing village. Phang Nga Bay, Andaman Sea, Thailand.

Juergen Freund / Fungi collected by scientists / mycologists in Daintree Rainforest Observatory, Queensland, Australia. February 2015

Juergen Freund / Plant physiologist Dr. Lucan Cernusak studies and collects data from leaves collected from the Daintree Rainforest Observatory tree canopies. ueensland, Australia February 2015

Juergen Freund / Plant physiologist Dr. Lucan Cernusak studies and collects data from leaves collected from the Daintree Rainforest Observatory tree canopies, Queensland, Australia February 2015

Juergen Freund / Plant physiologist Dr. Lucan Cernusak studies and collects data from leaves collected from the Daintree Rainforest Observatory tree canopies. Queensland, Australia. February 2015

Juergen Freund / Collected by Dr. Raymond Dempsey from the canopy of trees in the Daintree rainforest, leaf disks are frozen to be taken to the JCU lab for futher processing and analysis. Daintree Rainforest, Queensla...

Juergen Freund / Collected by Dr. Raymond Dempsey from the canopy of trees in the Daintree rainforest, leaf disks are frozen to be taken to the JCU lab for futher processing and analysis. Daintree Rainforest, Queensla...

Andrew Walmsley / Rainforest restoration work by staff from the Orangutan Information Centre, North Sumatra. Oil palms are cleared from purchased land, often former illegal plantations, then plants grown from seed coll...

Andrew Walmsley / Rainforest restoration work by staff from the Orangutan Information Centre, North Sumatra. Oil palms are cleared from purchased land, often former illegal plantations, then plants grown from seed coll...

Andrew Walmsley / Rainforest restoration work by staff from the Orangutan Information Centre, North Sumatra. Oil palms are cleared from purchased land, often former illegal plantations, then plants grown from seed coll...

Andrew Walmsley / Rainforest restoration work by staff from the Orangutan Information Centre, North Sumatra. Oil palms are cleared from purchased land, often former illegal plantations, then plants grown from seed coll...

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Ranger creating luxury organic body and hair products using Spear thistle (Cirisum vulgare) collected from estate. Alladale Wilderness Reserve, Sutherland, Scotland.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Rangers creating luxury organic body and hair products using Spear thistle (Cirisum vulgare) collected from estate. Alladale Wilderness Reserve, Sutherland, Scotland.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Rangers creating luxury organic body and hair products using Spear thistle (Cirisum vulgare) collected from estate. Alladale Wilderness Reserve, Sutherland, Scotland.

Nick Upton / Alan Sumnall of GWT releasing White-clawed crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes) collected from a well stocked location at at an ARK site stream, safe from Signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) an...

Nick Upton / GWT team placing White-clawed crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes) collected from a well-stocked stream in buckets for release at an ARK site, safe from Signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) and...

Nick Upton / White-clawed crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes) collected from a well-stocked stream being released at an ARK site stream, safe from Signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) and Crayfish plague, E...

Nick Upton / White-clawed crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes) collected from a well-stocked stream in a bucket ready for release at an ARK site, safe from Signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) and Crayfish p...

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Dry cattle dung, collected in a plastic bucket by Mongolian herdsmen, to use as fuel, Inner Mongolia, China. This is the main source of heat during the winter in these open grassland steppes.

Alex Mustard / Diver cleaning plastic from a dive site in Lembeh. The group of divers collected three large sacks (much bigger than the small collecting bag pictured) from an area about the size of two tennis courts...

Magnus Lundgren / Wild Wonders of China / Scientists verifying data collected about the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis) nearby populations, Tai O, western side of Lantau Island, Hong Kong, China. June, 2016.

Magnus Lundgren / Wild Wonders of China / Scientists verifying data collected about the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis) nearby populations, Tai O, western side of Lantau Island, Hong Kong, China. This Image is a part of the...

Robert Thompson / Small elephant hawk-moth (Deilephila porcellus) on stem. Captive, larvae collected previous year. Downings, County Donegal, Republic of Ireland. May.

Robert Thompson / Small elephant hawk-moth (Deilephila porcellus) on stem. Captive, larvae collected previous year. Downings, County Donegal, Republic of Ireland. May.

Robert Thompson / Eyed hawkmoth (Smerinthus ocellatus) on tree trunk. Captive, larvae collected previous year. Annagarriff Wood National Nature Reserve, Dungannon, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK. April.

Robert Thompson / Elephant hawk-moth (Deilephila elpenor). Released from captivity, larvae collected previous year. Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK. May.

Robert Thompson / Elephant hawk-moth (Deilephila elpenor) on leaf. Released from captivity, larvae collected previous year. Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK. May.

Tony Wu / Plastic items collected from a tidal pool, Dalebrook, South Africa. December 2017.

Matthew Maran / Farmer spreading slurry on organic dairy land. Slurry collected from the cattle herd is recycled as natural fertiliser, Devon, England, UK, July.

Huw Cordey / Pathway made of plastic shoes ( flip flops) washed up on the beach and collected within 20 metres of the middle of the picture. In the background is a Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea)...

Georgette Douwma / Veined or Coconut octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus) with rubbish collected on the sea bed, for use as house. Ambon, Indonesia.

Jaymi Heimbuch / Domestic Dog (Canis familiaris) named Jack, a scent detection dog with Conservation Canines, found raptor foot, which is now being collected by field technician Colette Yee, northeast Washington

Nick Upton / Rook (Corvus frugilegus) flying with twigs it has collected for its nest, Cornwall, UK, March.

Staffan Widstrand / Seashells collected from beach, Triton Bay, Mainland New Guinea, Western Papua, Indonesian New Guinea

Five Films / Crane lifting a bag filled with collected marine plastic for recycling onto a boat, Svalbard, Norway, August 2017.

Michel Roggo / Wood collected by North American Beaver (Castor canadensis) close to beaver lodge, Northern Rockies, British Columbia, Canada July. Photographed for The Freshwater Project

Pal Hermansen / Boy with bag of Common eider duck (Somateria mollissima) down collected from breeding birds, Flatey, Iceland. Highly commended in the Man and Nature Category of Terre Sauvage Nature Images Awards 2017...

Pal Hermansen / Eider down collector replacing Eider duck (Somateria mollissima) down feathers with grass, collected from wild breeding birds, Flatey, Iceland. Highly commended in the Man and Nature Category of Terre...

Nick Upton / Violet / Stony / Rock sea urchin (Paracentrotus lividus) shell on white background, collected in Greece.

Nick Upton / Violet / Stony / Rock sea urchin (Paracentrotus lividus) shell on white background, collected in Greece.

Ingo Arndt / Farmer with bags of Migratory locusts (Locusta migratoria capito) collected for human consumption using mosquito nets in early morning when they can not fly long distances, near Isalo National Park, M...

Ingo Arndt / Migratory Locust (Locusta migratoria capito) collected for food, near Isalo National Park, Madagascar. August 2013.

Ingo Arndt / Migratory Locust (Locusta migratoria capito) collected for food, drying on roof, near Isalo National Park, Madagascar. August 2013.

Ingo Arndt / Eurasian Collared-dove (Streptopelia decaocto) nest built from wire collected at a nearby junkyard, in collection at State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart / Staatliches Museum fr Naturkunde Stuttg...

Ingo Arndt / Vogelkop bowerbird (Amblyornis inornatus) decoration material (flowers) collected in order to attract females to his bower, Arfak Mountains, Irian Jaya, New Guinea, Indonesia.

Ingo Arndt / Vogelkop bowerbird (Amblyornis inornatus) decoration material (fruit) collected in order to attract females to his bower, Arfak Mountains, Irian Jaya, New Guinea, Indonesia.

Ingo Arndt / Researchers collect Broad nosed caiman eggs. {Caiman latirostris} Sante Fe, Argentina. Project Yacare: eggs collected and hatched in captivity, young caiman then released back into habitat Alejandro...

Ingo Arndt / Researchers search for Broad nosed caiman eggs {Caiman latirostris} Sante Fe, Argentina. Project Yacare: eggs collected and hatched in captivity; young then released back into habitat. Alejandro Larr...

Adrian Davies / Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) egg in clutch of Robin eggs. Museum specimen collected from Surrey, UK.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Agile gibbon (Hylobates agilis) carrying bananas collected from a feeding platform climbing up a tree, Tanjung Puting National Park, Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia, October.

Andy Sands / Red Bartsia Bee (Melitta tricincta) Bee that occurs mainly on calcareous grassland where Red Bartsia flowers pollen is collected exclusively from this plant, Oxfordshire, England, UK, September

Andy Sands / Red Bartsia Bee (Melitta tricincta) Bee that occurs mainly on calcareous grassland where Red Bartsia flowers pollen is collected exclusively from this plant, Oxfordshire, England, UK, September