Paul D Stewart / Copperplate engraving of rays with contemporary hand colouring from 'Bilderbuch fur Kinder' by F.J. Bertuch, Weimar, 1795. This book set out to explain and illustrate a range of topics for children.

David Tipling / 2020VISION / European hare (Lepus europaeus) in set aside field seeded with Corn Marigolds (Chrysanthemum segetum), Norfolk, England, UK, September

David Tipling / 2020VISION / European hare (Lepus europaeus) in set aside field seeded with Corn Marigolds (Chrysanthemum segetum), Norfolk, England, UK, September. Did you know? Hares are the fastest UK land mammal, sprinting at...

Fergus Gill / 2020VISION / Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus) doe in a field of set aside at dawn. Perthshire, Scotland, June.

Jeff Rotman / Mattanza fishermen landing Giant Bluefun tuna (Thunnus thynnus) using a technique in which a maze of nets are set, leading to a central pool, Favignana, Italy, May / June Model released.

Jeff Rotman / Mattanza fishermen landing Giant Bluefun tuna (Thunnus thynnus) using a technique in which a maze of nets are set, leading to a central pool, Favignana, Italy, May / June Model released.

Jeff Rotman / Mattanza fishermen landing Giant Bluefun tuna (Thunnus thynnus) using a technique in which a maze of nets are set, leading to a central pool, Favignana, Italy, May / June 1990

John Waters / Lesser Egyptian jerboa (Jaculu jaculus) temporarily captive for photography in desert set, August, Qatar, Arabian Gulf.

Wild Wonders of Europe / Benvie / Orange / Fire lily (Lilium bulbiferum) with set up for outdoor studio photography, Fliess, Naturpark Kaunergrat, Tirol, Austria, July 2008

Tim Laman / Shrimp fry fishing in the Sibsa River. Each fisherman, working from his own boat, has set a net to capture shrimp fry passing on the current as the tide rises and brings water in from the sea. Nolian...

Colin Varndell / Badger emerging from set {Meles meles} UK

Andy Sands / House Mouse {Mus domesticus / musculus} sitting-up outside farm building, Captive, UK.

Andy Sands / Brown Rat {Rattus norvegicus} Feeding on grain, captive, UK.

Jane Burton / Domestic Cat {Felis catus} 6-week, Abyssinian kitten walking in grass with Buttercups.

Terry Andrewartha / Grey partridge on set-aside land {Perdix perdix} Norfolk, UK

Terry Andrewartha / Red legged partridge on set aside land {Alectoris rufa} Norfolk, UK

Jabruson / Lions {Panthera leo} hunting man. Serengeti NP, Tanzania. Set up image.

David Tipling / Illegal trapper with limesticks on back of motorcycle going to orchard to set up Cyprus, September 2011

David Tipling / Limesticks illegally set in an olive tree to trap migratory birds for ambelopoulia Cyprus, September 2011

David Tipling / BirdLife Field Officer with limesticks found set illegally in an olive grove in autumn Cyprus, September 2011

Gavin Hellier / Town set in countryside between Pyongyang and Kaesong, Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea (DPRK), North Korea, 2012

Jabruson / Area cleared of forest to make way for petroleum oil extraction. The town of Gamba was set-up after Shell discovered oil in the region back in the 1960s, Gamba town, Ogooue-Maritime / Nyanga, Gabon, F...

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Members of the Kent Bat Group set harp traps to catch swarming bats. Kent, UK, September 2010, Model released.

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Members of the Kent Bat Group set harp traps to catch swarming bats. Kent, UK, September 2010, Model released.

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Members of the Kent Bat Group set harp traps to catch swarming bats. Kent, UK, September 2010, Model released.

Tom Marshall / Badger (Meles meles) bovine tuberculosis vaccination deployment. Peanuts are used to attract badgers into open live traps for approx. one week prior to vaccination to allow them to become aclimatised...

Tom Marshall / Badger (Meles meles) bovine tuberculosis vaccination deployment. Peanuts are used to attract badgers into open live traps for approx. one week prior to vaccination to allow them to become aclimatised...

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 / Peanuts are used to attract badgers (Meles meles) into open live traps for approx. one week prior to vaccination with bovine tuberculosis vaccination. to allow them to become aclimatised to trapping e...

Ann & Steve Toon / Hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) can get its head stuck in discarded plastic can holder. Set-up shot with captive animal, UK, July

Ann & Steve Toon / Hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) can get their head stuck in discarded plastic can holder. Set-up shot with captive animal

Staffan Widstrand / Camera lenses from photogrpahy hide tent, set up for photogrpahing bears, Karmansbo, Vastmanland, Sweden August 2011

Staffan Widstrand / Photography tent / hide, set up for bear watching, Karmansbo, Vastmanland, Sweden August 2011

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Ivan, a Selkup elder, checking his fishing net set under the ice of the Pechalka River in Krasnoselkup, Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia 2012

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / A traditional Selkup 'chang' (deadfall trap) set to catch Capercaille in a forest clearing, Krasnoselkup, Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia

Mark Carwardine / Guard on anti-poaching patrol sitting on hammock set up for overnight camp, Preah Monivong Bokor National Park, Elephant Mountains, south-western Cambodia (formerly Kampuchea)

Vladimir Medvedev / Dead female Amur / Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) caught in a snare trap set by poachers, Lazovsky Zapovednik Nature Reserve, Primorsky Krai, Far Eastern Russia. September 1998.

Shibai Xiao / Man holding a rusty trap set by poachers in the forest, China, January 2007.

David Tipling / 2020VISION / European hare (Lepus europaeus) in set aside field seeded with Cowslips (Primula veris), Norfolk, England, UK, April

David Tipling / 2020VISION / European hare (Lepus europaeus) in set aside field seeded with Corn Marigolds (Chrysanthemum segetum), Norfolk, England, UK, September

David Tipling / 2020VISION / European hare (Lepus europaeus) in set aside field seeded with Corn Marigolds (Chrysanthemum segetum), Norfolk, England, UK, September. Did you know? The first time Hares were bred in captivity was 19...

Fergus Gill / 2020VISION / Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus) doe in a field of set aside at dawn. Perthshire, Scotland, June.

Fergus Gill / 2020VISION / Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus) doe in a field of set aside at dawn. Perthshire, Scotland, June.

Fergus Gill / 2020VISION / Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus) doe in a field of set aside at dawn. Perthshire, Scotland, June.

Fergus Gill / 2020VISION / Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus) doe in a field of set aside at dawn. Perthshire, Scotland, June.

Fergus Gill / 2020VISION / Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus) doe in a field of set aside at dawn. Perthshire, Scotland, June.

Fergus Gill / 2020VISION / Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus) doe in set aside field. Perthshire, Scotland, June.

MYN / Denis Palanque / Outdoor studio set up to photograph Lady orchid (Orchis purpurea) in grassland, Optevoz, Isere, Rhones-Alpes, France, April. meetyourneighbours.net project

Roland Seitre / Apparatus set up for the release of Spanish Imperial Eagles (Aquila adalberti). Chicks use the artificial nest and food is delivered through the tubes to minimise human contact. Cadix, Sandra Moreno,...

Roland Seitre / Apparatus set up for the release of Spanish Imperial Eagles (Aquila adalberti). Chicks use the artificial nest and food is delivered through the tubes to minimise human contact. Cadix, Sandra Moreno,...

Roland Seitre / Apparatus set up for the release of Spanish Imperial Eagles (Aquila adalberti). Chicks use the artificial nest and food is delivered through the tubes to minimise human contact. Cadix, Sandra Moreno,...

Roland Seitre / Apparatus set up for the release of Spanish Imperial Eagles (Aquila adalberti). Chicks use the artificial nest and food is delivered through the tubes to minimise human contact. Cadix, Sandra Moreno,...

Roland Seitre / Apparatus set up for the release of Spanish Imperial Eagles (Aquila adalberti). Chicks use the artificial nest and food is delivered through the tubes to minimise human contact. Cadix, Sandra Moreno,...

Roland Seitre / Apparatus set up for the release of Spanish Imperial Eagles (Aquila adalberti). Chicks use the artificial nest and food is delivered through the tubes to minimise human contact. Cadix, Sandra Moreno,...

Roland Seitre / Apparatus set up for the release of Spanish Imperial Eagles (Aquila adalberti). Chicks use the artificial nest and food is delivered through the tubes to minimise human contact. Cadix, Sandra Moreno,...

Roland Seitre / Apparatus set up for the release of Spanish Imperial Eagles (Aquila adalberti). Chicks use the artificial nest and food is delivered through the tubes to minimise human contact. Cadix, Sandra Moreno,...

Fabrice Cahez / Common crane (Grus grus) silhouetted flock flying past sun about to set, Lake du Der, Champagne, France. February

Fabrice Cahez / Common crane (Grus grus) flock flying over low sun just about to set, Lake du Der, Champagne, France. February

Benoit Stichelbaut / Maxi trimaran "Banque Populaire V", skippered by Pascal Bidegorry, departing Marseille for their Mediterranean record attempt, May 2010. They set a new record of 14 hours 20 minutes and 34 seconds fro...

Benoit Stichelbaut / Maxi trimaran "Banque Populaire V", skippered by Pascal Bidegorry, departing Marseille for their Mediterranean record attempt, May 2010. They set a new record of 14 hours 20 minutes and 34 seconds fro...

Benoit Stichelbaut / Maxi trimaran "Banque Populaire V", skippered by Pascal Bidegorry, departing Marseille for their Mediterranean record attempt, May 2010. They set a new record of 14 hours 20 minutes and 34 seconds fro...

Benoit Stichelbaut / Maxi trimaran "Banque Populaire V", skippered by Pascal Bidegorry, departing Marseille for their Mediterranean record attempt, May 2010. They set a new record of 14 hours 20 minutes and 34 seconds fro...

Benoit Stichelbaut / Maxi trimaran "Banque Populaire V", skippered by Pascal Bidegorry, departing Marseille for their Mediterranean record attempt, May 2010. They set a new record of 14 hours 20 minutes and 34 seconds fro...

Benoit Stichelbaut / Maxi trimaran "Banque Populaire V", skippered by Pascal Bidegorry, departing Marseille for their Mediterranean record attempt, May 2010. They set a new record of 14 hours 20 minutes and 34 seconds fro...

Nick Turner / Electronics recycling at a recycling centre, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, February 2008.

Nick Turner / Electronics recycling at a recycling centre, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, February 2008.

Alex Mustard / Staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) spawning at night in late summer, showing the onset of the release of bundles of eggs and sperm, when most of the bundles are still set in the polyps and just a f...

Alex Mustard / Staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) spawning at night in late summer, showing the onset of the release of bundles of eggs and sperm, when most of the bundles are still set in the polyps and just a f...

Alex Mustard / Boulder star coral (Montastrea annularis) a sequence of three photos showing a colony spawning at night in late summer. The first photo shows the bundles of eggs and sperm set in the polyps of the cor...

Rick Tomlinson / Man overboard cannister set off accidentally onboard SY "Adele" whilst exploring the Bransfield Strait, Antarctica, January 2007.

MYN / John Tiddy / Field studio set up for photographing Spider orchids for Meetyourneighbours.net project in tTypical box / ironbark bush habitat, very sparse and stony. A softbox used for backgrounds and a diffusion...

MYN / John Tiddy / Field studio set up for photographing Tall greenhood orchid (Pterostylis melagramma) for the Meet your neighbours project, Victoria, Australia, June, 2011. meetyourneighbours.net project

Thomas Rabeil / Booted Eagle (Aquila pennata) in tree set in arid landscape with mountains. Termit Massif, Termit Tin Toumma National Park, Sahelo-Saharan Biome, Niger.

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Red deer (Cervus elaphus) and woman walking dog and talking on phone, Roehampton Flats in background, Richmond Park, London, UK, September. Did you know? Richmond Park was set up by King Charles I as...

Philippe Clement / Badger (Meles meles) faeces near its set. Luxembourg, Europe, April.

Philippe Clement / Badger (Meles meles) faeces near its set. Luxembourg, Europe, April.

George Sanker / Elk / Wapiti (Cervus canadensis) with young set against vast mountain landscape with low clouds. Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA, June 2011.

Nick Upton / 2020VISION / 'Squidgy' an 18 month female Common / Eurasian crane (Grus grus) dancing in Barley stubble near two males 'Mennis' and 'Bart', within the flock of birds released by the Great Crane Project onto the So...

Nick Upton / 2020VISION / Mixed flock of 18 month and brown headed 6 month Common / Eurasian cranes (Grus grus), released by the Great Crane Project onto the Somerset Levels and Moors, foraging in set-aside Barley crop, with v...

Nick Upton / 2020VISION / Six month juvenile Common / Eurasian crane (Grus grus) 'Christmas shoes' recently released by the Great Crane Project onto the Somerset Levels and Moors, pecking adult crane cut out decoy in set-aside...

Nick Upton / 2020VISION / Six month juvenile Common / Eurasian crane (Grus grus) 'Christmas shoes' recently released by the Great Crane Project onto the Somerset Levels and Moors, forages for grain beside adult crane cut out d...

Nick Upton / 2020VISION / Six month juvenile Common / Eurasian crane (Grus grus) 'Christmas shoes' recently released by the Great Crane Project onto the Somerset Levels and Moors, standing alert by adult crane cut out decoy in...

David Noton / Minterne House set in autumn fields. Minterne Magna, Dorset, England, November 2010.

David Noton / Minterne House set in autumn fields. Minterne Magna, Dorset, England, November 2010.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Nenets men checking fishing net set under ice on lake in the Gydan Peninsula. Western Siberia, Russia, 2000. 40 BELOW bookplate.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Two Inuit men from Igloolik checking a fishing net set under lake ice on the Melville Peninsula. Nunavut, Canada, 1990. Editorial use only.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Wooden set gun trap used historically for Polar bears but now illegal. Longyearbyen museum, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, June 2006.

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.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Scientists set up a GPS receiver to collect data as part of the WAGN (West Antarctic GPS Network) Project, which measures movement of land & ice. Patriot Hills. Antarctica, January 2006.

Jeff Rotman / Mattanza fishermen landing Giant Bluefun tuna (Thunnus thynnus) using a technique in which a maze of nets are set, leading to a central pool, Favignana, Italy, May / June

Jeff Rotman / Mattanza fishermen landing Giant Bluefun tuna (Thunnus thynnus) using a technique in which a maze of nets are set, leading to a central pool, Favignana, Italy, May / June Model released.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Edik Seratetto, a young Nenets man, carrying Muksun fish he has caught in a net set under the sea ice and pulled up through an ice hole, Seyakha, Yamal Peninsula, Western Siberia, Russia, March 2011

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Pyotr and Edik Seratetto, young Nenets men, checking their fishing net set under the sea ice to catch Muksun fish, pulling up fish through the ice hole, Seyakha, Yamal Peninsula, Western Siberia, Russ...

Florian Möllers / Member of the Snare Removal Unit at Budongo Conservation Field Station removes snare set for duikers and bush pig that could seriously harm or mutilate chimpanzees which might accidentially get caug...

Florian Möllers / Andi Dominic, member of the snare removal team at Budongo Conservation Field Station showing a snare set for medium-sized duikers and bush pig in the rainforest. Budongo Forest Reserve, Masindi, Ugand...