A forest of pristine and healthy Staghorn Coral reef growing on top of a volcanic lava flow in a shallow tropical sea. Band

A forest of pristine and healthy Staghorn Coral reef growing on top of a volcanic lava flow in a shallow tropical sea. BandA forest of pristine and healthy Staghorn Coral reef growing on top of a volcanic lava flow in a shallow tropical sea. Lava Flow, Banda Neira, Banda Islands, Maluku Province, Indonesia.

Skylights illuminate the vaulted spiralling geometric ceiling of the Borujerdis House

Flowering African Feather Grass

A Cape Fur Seal sleeping in the sun at a wharf

Backlit grasses and reeds seeding on a windy alpine plain at sunset

A Yellow-billed Oxpecker sitting on the shoulder of an African Buffalo

Trees surround a flooded wetland forest after a heavy rain storm

A Nile Hippopotamus wallows in the muddy shallows of the Mara River

An expert from the Antarctic Heritage Trust working on Discovery Hut on Ross Island

A dusting of snow covers a beech forest canopy on a mountainside

A small boulder coral forming on a reef exposed at low tide

Red kangaroos graze the landscape of an abandoned homestead

A Bhutanese hotel caters to bird watchers intent on seeing the wetland home of the Vulnerable Black-necked Crane