832-113228 - Illuminated hanging sign "Cafe Rauno", Lueneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

832-98431 - Tourist information, Chilean flag, Arica, Norte Grande, northern Chile, Chile, South America

832-116773 - Map with hiking trails, Teide National Park, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Europe

832-98897 - Trumpet, tin figure, museum sign Hracek, Hradcany, Prague Castle, Prague, Czech Republic, Europe

832-106780 - Entrance sign, Olympic National Park, Quinault Area, Washington, USA

832-89955 - Elephant Booking Office, agency in the Chitwan National Park, Nepal, Asia

832-96646 - Tunnel on the trail from Pico do Arieiro to Pico Ruivo, Madeira, Portugal, Europe

832-70867 - Country road on Pag island, Zadar, Croatia, Dalmatia, Europe

832-80110 - Elephant Booking Office, agency in the Chitwan National Park, Nepal, Asia

832-70868 - Country road on Pag island, Zadar, Croatia, Dalmatia, Europe

832-75920 - Arthurs Pass train station on the TranzAlpine railway line, Trans-Alpine of Kiwi Rail in the Southern Alps, South Island, New Zealand

832-85692 - Bilby Crossing road sign, Shark Bay, Western Australia

832-82884 - Wood viewing platform, nature trail and information boards about the diversity of wood, Festung Ehrenbreitstein fortress, Federal Horticulture Show BUGA 2011, Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Europe

832-70207 - Metro sign, Opera station, Madrid, Spain, Europe

832-87336 - US - Canadian border crossing sign, White Pass, south Klondike Highway, Alaska and British Columbia, B. C., Canada

832-80431 - Sign at the end of the taxi zone in the mountain village of Polop de la Marina, Costa Blanca, Spain, Europe

832-80425 - Sign at the entrance to the mountain village of Polop de la Marina, Costa Blanca, Spain, Europe

832-85952 - Warning sign, Beware of sunglare at sunrise, next to a road, Pilbara, Western Australia, Australia

832-77293 - Sign Parc National de la Reunion national park, Cirque de Cilaos caldera, Reunion island, Indian Ocean

832-58416 - Memorial for the Dachau Death March near Schloss Blutenburg Castle, Munich, Bavaria, Germany, Europe, PublicGround

832-58617 - Das nasse Archiv area, information board on peat extraction and marsh biotope, Moormuseum Moordorf museum near Aurich, Suedbrookmerland, East Frisia, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

832-68171 - Sculptures at the entrance sign to Monument Valley, Navajo Tribal Park, Navajo Nation Reservation, Arizona, Utah, United States of America, USA

832-64146 - Official sign to warn of a radar control with a TraffiTower speed camera, on the federal road B224, Braukstrasse, in a 70 kilometers per hour speed-limit zone, Bottrop, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

832-58368 - Info column, Technical University of Munich, Central Institute for Medical Technology, IMETUM, Garching near Munich, Bavaria, Germany, Europe, PublicGround

832-49949 - Sandtorpark and the International Coffee Plaza office tower in HafenCity, Hamburg, Germany, Europe

832-51508 - Stop sign, cooling towers of Braunkohlekraftwerk Neurath, lignite-fired power plant, Grevenbroich, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

832-58244 - Information office of the National Park Service, operators of the National World War II Memorial, WWII Memorial or Second World War Memorial, Washington DC, District of Columbia, United States of America, PublicGround

832-50379 - Warnign sign, warning of undertow and falling off the platform, Germany, Europe

832-52313 - Welcome sign of the small fishing village of Rockport, Massachusetts, New England, USA

832-54138 - Tourists at a sidewalk cafe on the Rue d'Une Personne, Brussels, Belgium, Benelux, Europe

832-42095 - Safety sign of a joint venture with the German specialty chemicals company SKW Metallurgy in the industrial zone of Pasakha near Phuentsholing, Bhutan, Asia

832-42498 - Pedestrian crossing sign in front of apartment buildings

832-40578 - Speed hump warning sign, Caution Children sign, Faroe Islands, island group in the North Atlantic, Denmark, Northern Europe

832-40248 - Arret, French stop sign, Havre Saint-Pierre, Duplessis district, Quebec, Canada

832-45368 - Warning sign, energy generation, geothermal area, lake M˝vatn, northern Iceland, Europe

832-40509 - Sign "Dieser Bereich wird videoueberwacht", German for "this area is under video surveillance", on a computer screen

832-47727 - Sign at pedestrian traffic lights, Florida, United States, USA

832-40577 - School with a warning sign, Faroe Islands, island group in the North Atlantic, Denmark, Northern Europe

1113-68099 - Metro Shanghai, Info screen, mass transportation system, subway, public transport, underground station, platformcommuters

1061-15 - Pygmy marmoset2. Cebuella pygmaea. Captive adult. La Vallee des Singes Poitou-Charentes, France More info: status: least concern but numbers decreasing.

1061-2 - Neolithic chambered tomb on moor near Morvah Cornwall.UK. MORE INFO: built about 2500 BCE

1061-12 - Captive Colobus guereza adults in La Vallee Des Singes, Poitou - Charentes France. More info: Status, least concern

1061-14 - Captive adult Chimpanzees Pan troglodytes verus in La Vallee Des Singes, Poitou - Charentes France. More info: Status, endangered. This rare sub species of chimp came from a breeding centre in Holland. They were originally rescued from a laboratory when the Netherlands at last made it illegal to experiment on primates.

1061-7 - Huge waves hitting prom inPenzance, Cornwall Uk MORE INFO: we seem unprepared for the coming climatic changes!

1061-8 - Young Indian men bathing in the river flaunting the Environmental rules beside them. Next to the HQ in Mudumalai Wildlife sanctuary/National park/tiger reserve/ biosphere reserve in Tamil Nadu India. more info: conflicts arise where villages are allowed to develop inside protected areas. There is still a lot of wildlife here but a sizable settlement is appearing around the visitor centre with large scale use of the river as laundry, rubbish dump etc. If laws are not enforced they have no value.

1061-18 - Captive adult Red Titi Callicebus discolor in La Vallee Des singes, Poitou - Charentes France. More info: Status. Least concern

1061-16 - Pygmy marmosets. Cebuella pygmaea. group of 3 captive adults grooming. La Vallee des Singes Poitou-Charentes, France More info: status: least concern but decreasing.

1061-4 - Wind turbine and setting sun, Carland Cross wind Farm nr Truro,Cornwall, uk. MORE INFO 15 Vestas turbines, built 1992, one of oldest wind farms in uk

1061-19 - Captive Red Titi Callicebus discolor adult and baby in La Vallee Des singes, Poitou - Charentes France. More info: Status. Least concern

1061-9 - Captive adult Barbery Macaque Macaca sylvanus. in La Vallee Des singes, Poitou - Charentes France. More info: Status, Endangered. Once common but being exterminated by farmers and loss of habitat

1061-11 - Captive adult Chimpanzees Pan troglodytes verus Standing in La Vallee Des Singes, Poitou - Charentes France. More info: Status, endangered. This rare sub species of chimp came from a breeding centre in Holland. They were originally rescued from a laboratory when the Netherlands at last made it illegal to experiment on primates.

1061-13 - Geoffroys marmoset. Callithrix geoffroyi. captive adults. Newquay zoo Cornwall UK. More info: status: least concern but numbers declining due to habitat destruction, pet trade, zoos, biomedical research and persecution.

1061-3 - Japanese Macaque (Macaca fuscata)wild adult, keeping warm in a hot spring. Honshu Japan. Status:least concern but 1/10 of the pop is killed by humans evey year. more info: They spend much of the winter swimming,diving or just contemplating life in the warm water.

1061-17 - Rainbow Lorikeet Trichoglossus haematodus captive adult.Bird Paradise, Hayle, Cornwall, UK. more info: status; least concern but heavy trapping of wild birds, more than 100,000 have been traded on the international market since 1981.

1061-10 - black tailed marmoset Mico melanura. captive adult eating.La Vallee Des singes, Poitou - Charentes France. More info: status, least concern.

1061-5 - 1000s of white dolls hung grotesquely on a canon ball tree for fertility, in the Janardhana swamy Hindu temple in Varkala,Kerala, India. more info: We need to question our need to reproduce more and more of us. As over population is the root of most of our problems.

1061-21 - Captive Western gorilla, gorilla gorilla. Female and baby and adolescent in La Vallee Des singes, Poitou - Charentes France. More info: Status, critically endangered due to loss of habitat, hunting and infectious disease.

1061-20 - Captive Tufted Capuchin Cebus apella in La Vallee Des Singes, Poitou - Charentes France. More info: Status, least concern.

994-20 - Eucalyptus trees after severe bush fire, Brindabella Ranges, New South Wales, Australia. MORE INFO: Eucalyptus trees regenerate after moderate bush fires by resprouting from along the trunk of the trees, however if the fire is too severe they tend to resprout only from the base of the trees as in this instance.

994-4 - Galah (Kakatoe roseicapilla) feathers, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. MORE INFO: The Galah is a native cockatoo of Australia

1022-79 - Silver drummer (kyphosus sydneyanus) silvery grey colour, feeding on brown seaweed, wild, day, schools, marine protected area, diving off Rottnest Island, Western Australia, Indian Ocean. MORE INFO: other name common buffalo bream, dark tail and a distinctive dark line that looks a little like a moustache below the eye, occur in large schools. Distribution more widespread throughout Australia.

1022-89 - common seadragon (phyllopteryx taeniolatus) voracious hunters, camouflage looking like a piece of floating weed, unique to Australia, wild, dusk, shore diving, sand, marine park, metropolitan, Perth city, Indian Ocean, cool temperate waters of Western Australia. MORE INFO: amongst kelp, female seadragon deposits up to 150 eggs into the spongy, soft tissue under the tail of the male seadragon. Once fertilised, eggs incubate about 8 weeks. On hatching, miniature seadragons are independent and will start eating almost immediately.

1022-86 - Western buffalo bream (kyphosus cornelii) silvery brown colour, feeding on seaweed, schools, wild, day, silvery brown colour, marine protected area, diving off Rottnest Island, Western Australia, Indian Ocean. MORE INFO: other name buff bream, lacks the dark edging on the tail fin and dark line under the eye. Restricted to WA as name suggests.

1022-91 - Silver drummer (kyphosus sydneyanus) silvery grey colour, feeding on brown seaweed, wild, day, schools, marine protected area, diving off Rottnest Island, Western Australia, Indian Ocean. MORE INFO: other name common buffalo bream, dark tail and a distinctive dark line that looks a little like a moustache below the eye, occur in large schools. Distribution more widespread throughout Australia.

1022-87 - Western buffalo bream (kyphosus cornelii) silvery brown colour, feeding on seaweed, schools, wild, day, silvery brown colour, marine protected area, diving off Rottnest Island, Western Australia, Indian Ocean. MORE INFO: other name buff bream, lacks the dark edging on the tail fin and dark line under the eye. Restricted to WA as name suggests.

1022-93 - Tube anemones (pachycerianthus delwynae), wild, day, shore diving, sand, metropolitan, Perth city, Cockburn Sound, Western Australia, Indian Ocean. MORE INFO: attractive specie is white with purple tips on the tentacles

1022-90 - common seadragon (phyllopteryx taeniolatus) voracious hunters, camouflage looking like a piece of floating weed, unique to Australia, wild, dusk, shore diving, sand, marine park, metropolitan, Perth city, Indian Ocean, cool temperate waters of Western Australia. MORE INFO: blue water, female seadragon deposits up to 150 eggs into the spongy, soft tissue under the tail of the male seadragon. Once fertilised, eggs incubate about 8 weeks. On hatching, miniature seadragons are independent and will start eating almost immediately.

1022-94 - cray pot, wild, day, Western Australian rock lobster (panulirus cygnus), marine protected area, free-diving off Rottnest Island, Western Australia, Indian Ocean. MORE INFO: checking pots for crayfish, catch and release if to small or females with eggs.

1022-84 - footballer sweep (neatypus obliquus) diagonal yellow bands are edged in black and stand out against the silvery-blue body, wild, day, marine protected area, reef, in small schools diving off Rottnest Island, Western Australia, Indian Ocean. MORE INFO: other name stripey, eating green algae as they sweep over the reef.

1022-82 - bengal sergeant (abudefduf bengalensis) wild, day, marine protected area, diving off Coral Bay, Ningaloo reef, Western Australia, Indian Ocean. MORE INFO: has rounded, white-edged tail lobes.

1022-88 - dead man's fingers (codium galeatum), wild, dusk, shore diving, sand, marine park, metropolitan, Perth city, Western Australia, Indian Ocean. MORE INFO: spongy texture, the fronds divide regularly into two, and their surface appears fuzzy up to a metre long. Common in rough water areas.

1022-92 - common seadragon (phyllopteryx taeniolatus) voracious hunters, camouflage looking like a piece of floating weed, unique to Australia, wild, dusk, shore diving, sand, marine park, metropolitan, Perth city, Indian Ocean, cool temperate waters of Western Australia. MORE INFO: amongst kelp, female seadragon deposits up to 150 eggs into the spongy, soft tissue under the tail of the male seadragon. Once fertilised, eggs incubate about 8 weeks. On hatching, miniature seadragons are independent and will start eating almost immediately.

1022-77 - common seadragon (phyllopteryx taeniolatus) voracious hunters, camouflage looking like a piece of floating weed, unique to Australia, wild, dusk, shore diving, sand, marine park, metropolitan, Perth city, Indian Ocean, cool temperate waters of Western Australia. MORE INFO: amongst kelp, female seadragon deposits up to 150 eggs into the spongy, soft tissue under the tail of the male seadragon. Once fertilised, eggs incubate about 8 weeks. On hatching, miniature seadragons are independent and will start eating almost immediately.

1022-81 - tallfin batfish (platax teira), juvenile, wild, day, marine protected area, diving off Coral Bay, Ningaloo reef, Western Australia, Indian Ocean. MORE INFO: with 3 dark bars, very long dorsal, anal and pelvic fins, feed on plankton from water column.

1022-83 - western king wrasse (coris auricularis), male, dark pink colour with reddish-brown band running around boby and blue-green colouration over the head, wild, day, marine protected area, diving off Rottnest Island, reef edges, sand, seagrass, Western Australia, Indian Ocean. MORE INFO: social structure where dominant male, usually the biggest in the area, will have a harem of females. When the male dies or is absent for any length of time the largest female will change sex and dominate the group.

1022-80 - Jourdan's turban (turbo jourdani) large gastropod shell, reddish-brown, Rottnest Island reef, wild, day, marine protected area, free-diving off, cool temperate waters of Western Australia. MORE INFO: Marine plant common kelp, a dominant feature of the underwater landscape. Protected areas are covered in lush growth of diverse algae, also red algea are here.

921-706 - Semyon Dezhnev settlement, abandoned and ruined, Cape Dezhnev (Chukotskiy Peninsular ) Russia, Asia. MORE INFO: cape that forms the easternmost mainland point of Eurasia. In 1898 it was officially renamed Cape Dezhnev, replacing Captain James Cook's 'East Cape', in honor of Semyon Dezhnyov, the first recorded European to round it (1648). There is a large monument to Dezhnev on the coast.

917-402 - Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) lunge-feeding on Krill. Monterey, California, Pacific Ocean. MORE INFO: Baleen Plates are visible on the top jaw & Krill can be seen escaping from the animals mouths.

917-357 - Blue Whale (Balaenoptera Musculus) breaching, extremely rare unusual image. Monterey, California, Pacific Ocean. MORE INFO: This Blue Whale was engaging in courting/fighting behaviour with another Blue Whale. Both animals were moving much faster than normal, chasing each other, & breaching repeatedly.

1067-36 - Freediver and WWII plane wreck. Yap, Federated States of Micronesia, Pacific Ocean. More info: This is the tail of a Japanese bomber shot down over Yap during the summer of 1944 by U.S. planes.

917-407 - Flying Squid Species in mid-air (Ommastrephes bartramii). Extremely rare unusual image. South Atlantic Ocean. MORE INFO: Flying Squid use membranes between their tentacles (visible on pic) & two fins at the rear of the mantle to glide through the air in a similar way to flying fish. These unique adaptations allow them to avoid predation more easily. Ommastrephid squids are among the strongest swimmers in the Cephalopoda. A number of species are fished commercially. This particular species (Ommastrephes bartramii), is commonly known as "Neon Flying Squid" due to its colouration and its ability to glide over the ocean surface as seen in the photographs. Please note that this is a genuine image of a wild animal in its natural environment. It is not a digital manipulation.

1067-40 - Manta ray (Manta birostris) Juvenile animal swimming near the surface. Raja Ampat, Papua, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean. More info: This is the largest of all ray species.

921-766 - Wild Adult Male and Female, Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus), endangered, colony, rookery, haul out, raft, above water. Bering Islands (Bering Sea) Russia, Asia. MORE INFO: This sea lion in the largest member of the eared seals.

921-779 - Captive Male Siberian Huskies at the Siberian K9 Kennel and Lodge, Petropavlovsk (Kamchatka) Russia, Asia. MORE INFO: Dogs used for sled pulling and races.

917-418 - Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) calf raising its left flipper into the air. Monterey, California, Pacific Ocean. MORE INFO: The animals left eye can be seen.

1067-19 - Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) Adult animal swimming above a coral reef plateau. Palau, Micronesia, Pacific Ocean. More info: This species is listed as endangered by the IUCN.

921-855 - Captive Male Siberian Huskies at the Siberian K9 Kennel and Lodge, Petropavlovsk (Kamchatka) Russia, Asia. MORE INFO: Dogs used for sled pulling and races.

917-422 - Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) 2 adult animals lunge-feeding on Krill. Monterey, California, Pacific Ocean. MORE INFO: Baleen Plates are visible on the top jaw.

921-848 - Wild Male Northern fur seals, endangered, colony, rookery, haul out, raft, above and in water. Bering Islands (Bering Sea) Russia, Asia. MORE INFO: This sea lion in the largest member of the eared seals.

921-789 - Zodiacs with tourists with Wild Female Stella sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus), Endangered, Solo, Bering Islands (Bering Sea), Russia, Asia. MORE INFO: This sea lion in the largest member of the eared seals.

921-815 - Semyon Dezhnev settlement, abandoned and ruined, Cape Dezhnev (Chukotskiy Peninsular ) Russia, Asia. MORE INFO: cape that forms the easternmost mainland point of Eurasia. In 1898 it was officially renamed Cape Dezhnev, replacing Captain James Cook's 'East Cape', in honor of Semyon Dezhnyov, the first recorded European to round it (1648). There is a large monument to Dezhnev on the coast.

1067-43 - Limestone islands and lagoon. Wayag, Raja Ampat, Papua, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean. More info: These islands are uplifted coral reefs now covered by vegetation.

1067-3 - Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) Adult animal surfacing to breathe. Crystal River, Florida, USA. More info: This is a subspecies of the West Indian manatee and has been listed as an endangered species by the IUCN.

1067-16 - Coral reef and limestone islands. Misool, Raja Ampat, Papua, Indonesia. More info: This region is called the heart of marine biodiversity.

1067-7 - Crown-of-Thorns seastar (Acanthaster planci) Adult animal working its way across sand towards a coral reef. Yap, Federated States of Micronesia, Pacific Ocean. More info: This species feeds on coral as an adult and, in the right circumstances, be devestating to large reef areas.

1067-20 - Snorkelers on the surface of a blue hole. Virgin Blue Hole dive site, Palau, Micronesia, Pacific Ocean. More info: Blue holes such as this are submerged limestone sink holes.

1067-17 - Coral reef of soft leather corals (Sarcophyton sp.) and limestone islands. Misool, Raja Ampat, Papua, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean. More info: This region has the highest marine biological diversity in the world.

1067-27 - Yellow boxfish (Ostracion cubicus) Juvenile animal swimming about coral reef. Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. More info: This species incorporates tetrodotoxin within its tissues.

1067-21 - Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) Juvenile animal swimming near spring. Crystal River, Florida, USA. More info: This is a subspecies of West Indian manatee and listed as an endangered species by the IUCN.

1067-1 - Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) Adult animal swimming near a spring. Crystal River, Florida, USA. More Info: This is a subspecies of the West Indian manatee and is listed as an endangered species by the IUCN.