Steven Kazlowski / An Inupiaq whaling crew prepare to paddle their seal skin boat / umiak, in an open lead in the Chukchi Sea, during spring whaling season, off the Arctic coastal village of Point Hope, Alaska, May 2008

Mark Brownlow / Rebreather instructor Ian Thomas and cameraman Didier Noirot prepare to dive under the ice, Lake Baikal, world's deepest and oldest (and largest by volume) freshwater lake, Siberia, Russia. BBC Plane...

Tom Marshall / Badger (Meles meles) bovine tuberculosis vaccination deployment. Staff from Cheshire Wildlife Trust, UK, prepare live traps for vaccination. In autumn 2012, wet weather meant many traps had to be take...

Tom Marshall / Badger (Meles meles) bovine tuberculosis vaccination deployment. Staff from Cheshire Wildlife Trust, UK, prepare live traps for vaccination, including bedding in with vegetation along natural badger '...

Tom Marshall / Badger (Meles meles) bovine tuberculosis vaccination deployment. Staff from Cheshire Wildlife Trust, UK, prepare live traps for vaccination. Traps are carefully set into natural badger 'runs' along he...

Tom Marshall / Badger (Meles meles) bovine tuberculosis vaccination deployment. Staff from Cheshire Wildlife Trust, UK, prepare live traps for vaccination. Traps are carefully set into natural badger 'runs' along he...

Tom Marshall / Badger (Meles meles) bovine tuberculosis vaccination deployment. Staff from Cheshire Wildlife Trust, UK, prepare live traps for vaccination. Notes on the cage inform anyone coming across the trap of t...

Jabruson / Alequadio Toma & Liticia da Cruz prepare charcoal for collection after its manufacture near the Sao Nicolau Plantation - close to the Obo National Park and the Bom Sucesso Botanic Gardens, Sao Tome, D...

Neil Aldridge / Zu/'hoasi Bushmen prepare the hide of a goat by removing the hair. With restrictions on the animals that they are allowed to hunt, Bushmen communities rely on these animals for food, clothing, quivers...

Neil Aldridge / Defra Field Workers prepare personal protection equipment and vaccine for use on European Badgers (Meles meles) as part of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) vaccination trials on farmland, with cows in the ba...

Neil Aldridge / Zu/'hoasi Bushmen prepare the hide of a goat by removing the hair. With restrictions on the animals that they are allowed to hunt, Bushmen communities rely on these animals for food, clothing, quivers...

Neil Aldridge / Defra Field Workers prepare vaccine for use on European Badgers (Meles meles) as part of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) vaccination trials in Gloucestershire, UK June 2011. Part of winning portfolio for Do...

Jabruson / 'Epombepombe' (Strychos sp) ball-like forest fruit frequently eaten by the Agile Mangabey (Cercocebus agilis). This fruit shows signs of an attempt to access the fruit with bite marks scoring the hard...

Steven Kazlowski / Inupiaq subsistence whalers prepare to pull up a bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) catch along the edge of the open lead in the pack ice. Chukchi Sea, offshore from Barrow, Arctic coast of Alaska, Ap...

Juergen Freund / Spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus)volunteers prepare bananas to feed the bats, Tolga Bat Hospital, Atherton, North Queensland, Australia. January 2008.

Philip Stephen / Fishermen onboard the Peterhead-registered fishing vessel Demares prepare to haul nets in the rough waves of the North Sea, February 2006

Tim Laman / Foja Mountains RAP Expedition High Camp at 2000 m elevation in the upper montane forest. Field assistants prepare breakfast. Foja Mountains, Papua, Indonesia, 2008. (taken during Conservation Interna...

Jeff Wilson / The crew of United States Coastguard Cutter 'Healy' prepare decks in the Bering sea, Alaska, USA. The ship served as a platform for the Frozen Planet crew whilst filming Spectacled eider ducks overwin...

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Forest Nenets men prepare to set a fishing net under the ice on a frozen river in the Purovsky region of the Yamal. Western Siberia, Russia, February 2009. Editorial use only.

Mark Moffett / Students picking lettuce to prepare salad under direction of Michelle Obama and White House chef Sam Kassat, White House, Washington D.C.

Diane McAllister / Tundra / Whistling swans (Cygnus columbianus) circling around as they prepare to land on partially frozen Swan Lake. Lemmon Valley, Nevada, USA, December

Diane McAllister / Tundra / Whistling swans (Cygnus columbianus) circling around as they prepare to land on Swan Lake. Lemmon Valley, Nevada, USA, December

Juergen Freund / Researchers Guido and Katja Westhoff prepare a sea snake for skin sampling. Guido will take a positive print from the skin using a polymer, then use an electron microscope to discover whether sea snak...

Tim Laman / Semi-permanent fishermans camp at Tanjung Besi, Gam Island. These outsiders from Buton Island, Sulawesi, come here for months at a stretch to fish at night for small fish. Men prepare to take their b...

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Inuit woman using Ulu (traditional Inuit woman's knife) to prepare Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) for drying. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada, 1992.

Mark Brownlow / Rebreather instructor Ian Thomas and cameraman Didier Noirot prepare to dive and film under the ice, Lake Baikal, world's deepest and oldest (and largest by volume) freshwater lake, Siberia, Russia. B...

Jeff Rotman / Fishermen prepare gill net, Inhassoro, Mozambique, November 2008

Steven Kazlowski / An Inupiaq whaling crew prepare to paddle their seal skin boat / umiak, in an open lead in the Chukchi Sea, during spring whaling season, off the Arctic coastal village of Point Hope, Alaska, May 2008

Philip Stephen / Cod fishermen onboard a Peterhead-registered fishing vessel Demares prepare to haul nets in the rough waves of the North Sea, February 2006

Juergen Freund / Farmer and his trusted carabao (water buffalo) ploughing the fields to prepare it for planting rice, Camarines Sur, Luzon, Philippines 2008

Juergen Freund / Farmer and his trusted carabao (water buffalo) ploughing field to prepare it for planting rice, Camarines Sur, Luzon, Philippines 2008.

Tim Laman / Members of a Western Highlands Province group prepare to perform in the cultural show. They are wearing Bird of Paradise and other plumes in their headdresses. Mount Hagen, Western Highlands Province,...

Tim Laman / Members of a Western Highlands Province group prepare to perform in the cultural show. They are wearing Bird of Paradise and other plumes in their headdresses. Mount Hagen, Paua New Guinea. September...

Tim Laman / Members of a Western Highlands Province group prepare to perform in the cultural show. They are wearing Bird of Paradise and other plumes in their headdresses. Mount Hagen, Paua New Guinea. September...

Rob Cousins / Bristol Pilot Gig Club's Ladies crew prepare for practice in their gig "Isambard" on Bristol's Floating Harbour, England, UK. July 2008, Model Released

Michael Quinton / Northern Hawk Owl (Surnia ulula) male pauses to prepare Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) prey for owlets before returning to nest, Slana, Alaska

Doug Perrine / Tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) makes unsuccessful lunge at fledgling Black-footed albatross chick (Phoebastria nigripes) at beach where the chicks gather to prepare to take their first flight, East I...

Kerstin Hinze / Grey Herons (Ardea cinerea) on the frozen river Preenestorm. One taking off with a fish, others prepare to chase it, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Wolgast, Germany

Pete Oxford / Tavy, the local name for slash and burn agricultural practices, used by locals to prepare soil for planting or grazing, northeast Madagascar

Sue Flood / Inuit people prepare Polar bear skin {Ursus maritimus} Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canadian Arctic

Sue Flood / Inuit people prepare Polar bear skin {Ursus maritimus} Baffin Island, Canada

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Fishermen prepare fish for market, Amana res. Amazonas, Brazil

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Women prepare bodo fish for eating, Mamiraua Ecol. Stn, Amazonas, Brazil

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Fishermen prepare paternoster line for fishing, Canelas Is, Para, N Brazil

Pete Oxford / Huaorani prepare blow gun, rainforest tribe, Napo Province, Ecuador. Minihun & Tepa Boya

Kim Taylor / Bal-byter Ant (Camponotus fulvopilosus) prepare to attack intruder. digital composite,

Mark Moffett / Stag Fly (Phytalmia cervicornis) female watches as two males prepare to fight, Papua New Guinea

ASHISH SHANTHI CHANDOLA / Khamti women prepare a meal, NE India. Khamtis are of Burmese origin with a special ability to catch and train elephants.

ASHISH SHANTHI CHANDOLA / Khamti women prepare a meal, NE India. Khamtis are buddhists of Burmese origin with a special ability to catch and train elephants.

ASHISH & SHANTHI CHANDOLA / Khamti women prepare a meal with Indian elephants behind. Arunachal Pradesh, NE India.

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of 'The Country of the Iguanodon' by the apocalyptic artist John Martin, commissioned by Gideon Mantell as the frontis for his popular book 'The Wonders of Geology' (1838). Martin was vis...

Onne van der Wal / The crew of "US61" prepare to hoist the spinnaker during the 12 Metre World's Competition 2005, Newport, Rhode Island, USA.

Onne van der Wal / Boomerang approaching the weather mark as the crew prepare to set the spinnaker, Newport, Rhode Island, USA.

Rick Tomlinson / Crew prepare the sails aboard the superyacht "Adele".

Rick Tomlinson / Crew aboard ID35 "Tomahawk" prepare for a spinnaker hoist during Key West Race Week, 1997.

Rick Tomlinson / Crew of an ID35 prepare for a spinnaker hoist during Key West Race Week, 2000.

Rick Tomlinson / Farr 40's prepare for a spinnaker hoist at the windward mark, SORC, 1999.

Rick Tomlinson / Farr 40's prepare for a spinnaker hoist at the windward mark, SORC, 1999.

Rick Tomlinson / Crew on ID35 "Smiling Bulldog" prepare to hoist the spinnaker at the windward mark during Key West Race Week, 2000.

Rick Tomlinson / Crew aboard "The Card" prepare the jury mizzen for the second time in the Southern Ocean. Whitbread Round the World Race, 1989-90.

Rick Tomlinson / Crew aboard "Juno" prepare the spinnaker pole for the windward mark rounding, Key West Race Week, 1991.

Rick Tomlinson / Four crew prepare for a sail change on "Drum" during the Whitbread Round the World Race, 1985-6.

Onne van der Wal / Approaching the weather mark as the crew prepare to set the spinnaker, Newport, Rhode Island, USA.

Rick Tomlinson / Lisa McDonald skipper of "Amer Sport Too" says goodbye to husband Neal McDonald, skipper of "Assa Abloy" as the boats prepare to leave the dock in Annapolis for leg 7 of the Volvo Ocean Race, 2001-200...

Sue Flood / Doug Allan and Andrew Taqtu prepare to dive through ice hole Arctic Bay Nunavut Canada

Erwan Quéméré / Great Glen Raid competitors prepare to enter the Caledonian Canal at Corpach, Scotland. ^^^Rowing the narrow stretches and sailing the lochs, the Great Glen Raid crosses Scotland along the Caledonian...