Martin Dohrn / Driver ant / Siafu (Dorylus sp.) in nomadic stage carrying pupae

Konrad Wothe / Tuaregs under date Palm at Mandara Lakes, oasis Um el Ma, Libyan desert, Libya, Sahara, North Africa, December 2007. No release available.

Pete Oxford / Berber tent in the Dunes of Erg Chebbi, near the village of Merzouga, Morocco, June 2009

Staffan Widstrand / Chukchi girl playing beside her family's Yaranga tent, Chukotka, Russia

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Family group portrait outside their yurt (home), Gobi Desert, Mongolia.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Lena Kuboleva, a young Selkup woman, with her daughter Violetta, inside a 'Poymot', (traditional Selkup turf winter hut), at a winter hunting camp in the forest near Ratta, Krasnoselkup, Yamal, Wester...

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Ankole cattle, cultural icon for the traditionally nomadic Bahima people of Uganda, outside Lake Mburu National Park, Uganda, East Africa. After years of disputes between neighbouring communities and...

Konrad Wothe / Dromedary camel (Camelus dromedarius) Caravan in the Libyan desert, Akakus mountains, Libya, Sahara, North Africa, November 2007

Tom Hugh-Jones / Group of Mauritanian nomads gathering in their tents in the evening, SW Mauritania, February 2004.

Bruno D'Amicis / Nomadic shepherd with flock of sheep in the foothills of the High Atlas mountains, Central Morocco, NW Africa

George Chan / Nomadic Kazakh family moving from summer to winter pastures in the Altai Shan Mountains, near the Mongolian border in Xinjiang Province, North-west China. September 2006

George Chan / Nomadic Kazakh family moving from summer to winter pastures in the Altai Shan Mountains, near the Mongolian border in Xinjiang Province, North-west China. September 2006

George Chan / Nomadic Kazakh woman packing belongings on a camel as her family migrates from summer to winter pastures in the Altai Shan Mountains, near the Mongolian border in Xinjiang Province, North-west China....

George Chan / Kazakh family moving their camp in the Altai Mountains near Mongolian Border, Xinjiang Province, North-west China. September 2007, BBC "Wild China" series

Konstantin Mikhailov / Satellite dish outside traditional gers / yurts, Gobi desert, Mongolia, central Asia

HUW CORDEY / Portrait of nomadic tribesman from Gobi desert, living in traditional yurts, Mongolia. January 2004. Filmed for BBC Planet Earth series.

HUW CORDEY / Nomadic tribal people outside their traditional yurt with modern satellite dish and solar panels, Gobi Desert, Mongolia, January 2004. Filmed for BBC Planet Earth series.

Sarah Byatt / Fellata Mbororo warriors, a nomadic cattle herding tribe, in traditional warrior attire, El Obeid, Sudan 1986

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Nomadic settlement (used during winter), Ladakh, North East India

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Nomadic people on hillside, with sheep and goats, Ladakh, North East India

Pete Oxford / Sami man in traditional clothing, standing in front of lavvu teepee, Lapland, Norway, Europe. 1997.

Bengt Lundberg / Small traditional hut used by Laplander people when the herdsmen are out with their caribou livestock, Stekkenjokk, Sweden

Pete Oxford / Cheese drying outside Kazakh nomad's Ger / yurt / tent home, near Tsengle, Khairkhan Mountain behind, Western Mongolia

Martha Holmes / Yak train pulling laden cart, moving camp. Hangay mountains, Mongolia.

Pete Oxford / Kazakh gers / yurt with livestock in landscape. Tsengel Khairkhan Mtn, W Mongolia Eagle hunters -

Juergen Freund / Bajau boy portrait Malaysia. Nomadic tribe of fishermen, 2000

Juergen Freund / Bajau girl with burak on her face, Malaysia. Bajau people live in houses on stilts or are nomadic in houseboats. 2000

Juergen Freund / Bajau boy playing banjo, Malaysia. Bajau people live in houses on stilts or are nomadic in houseboats. 2000

Juergen Freund / Bajau women look out of stilt house, Malaysia. Bajau people live in houses on stilts or are nomadic in houseboats. 2000

Juergen Freund / Bajau woman weaving mats, Malaysia. Bajau people live in houses on stilts or are nomadic in houseboats. 2000

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Elderly couple sitting inside felt-lined yurt (tent) Gobi Desert, Mongolia.

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Family sitting in kitchen area inside yurt (tent) about to eat. Gobi Desert, Mongolia.

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Men and young boy spinning inside yurt (tent), Gobi Desert, Mongolia.

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Portrait of man holding pipe inside felt-lined yurt (hut). Gobi Desert, Mongolia.

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Portrait of young girl with domestic lamb. Gobi Desert, Mongolia.

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Two girls and elder sitting inside yurt beside kitchen area. Gobi Desert, Mongolia.

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Nomadic people tending sheep and goats, with tent shelter, Ladakh, North East India

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Elderly women sitting inside yurt (tent), Gobi Desert, Mongolia.

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Portrait of two tribal men with horses. Gobi Desert, Mongolia.

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Man on horseback, in traditional clothing, Gobi Desert, Mongolia.

Juergen Freund / Bajau family in dugout canoe, Malaysia. Bajau people live in houses on stilts or are nomadic in houseboats.

Juergen Freund / Traditional Bajau lepa boat with carving, Malaysia. Bajau people live in houses on stilts or are nomadic in houseboats.

Juergen Freund / Traditional Bajau lepa boat with carving, Malaysia. Bajau people live in houses on stilts or are nomadic in houseboats.

Juergen Freund / Traditional Bajau lepa boat with carving, Malaysia. Bajau people live in houses on stilts or are nomadic in houseboats.

Juergen Freund / Bajau fisherman spear fishing underwater. Malaysia. Nomadic tribe who live on the sea

Juergen Freund / Bajau fisherman with catch, Malaysia. Nomadic tribe who live on the sea.

Martha Holmes / Horseman herding horses, Hangay mountains, Mongolia 1992

David Woodfall / Three semi nomadic people from Bristol camping on the banks of the Severn estuary. This area many be threatened by proposed tidal barrage. Gloucestershire, England, UK April 2010