07-02-2021 - Algonac, Michigan, USA: Muskrat Crossing sign, St. John's Marsh © Jim West

07-02-2021 - Algonac, Michigan, USA: Man hiking, St. John's Marsh, a wet prairie with hiking trails. Native cattails and other plants have been largely replaced by the invasive phragmites. © Jim West

07-02-2021 - Algonac, Michigan, USA - St. John's Marsh, a wet prairie. Native cattails and other plants have been largely replaced by the invasive phragmites. © Jim West

10-10-2019 - Michigan, USA: Workers harvesting cranberries, DeGRandchamp Farms. The cranberry bog is flooded allowing the floating fruit to be collected. © Jim West

10-10-2019 - Michigan, USA: Workers harvesting cranberries, DeGRandchamp Farms. The cranberry bog is flooded allowing the floating fruit to be collected. © Jim West

10-10-2019 - Michigan, USA: Workers harvesting cranberries, DeGRandchamp Farms. The cranberry bog is flooded allowing the floating fruit to be collected. © Jim West

10-10-2019 - Michigan, USA: Workers harvesting cranberries, DeGRandchamp Farms. The cranberry bog is flooded allowing the floating fruit to be collected. © Jim West

10-10-2019 - Michigan, USA: Workers harvesting cranberries, DeGRandchamp Farms. The cranberry bog is flooded allowing the floating fruit to be collected. © Jim West

10-10-2019 - Michigan, USA: Workers harvesting cranberries, DeGRandchamp Farms. The cranberry bog is flooded allowing the floating fruit to be collected. © Jim West

10-10-2019 - Michigan, USA: Workers harvesting cranberries, DeGRandchamp Farms. The cranberry bog is flooded allowing the floating fruit to be collected. © Jim West

10-10-2019 - Michigan, USA: Workers harvesting cranberries, DeGRandchamp Farms. The cranberry bog is flooded allowing the floating fruit to be collected. © Jim West

10-10-2019 - Michigan, USA: Workers harvesting cranberries, DeGRandchamp Farms. The cranberry bog is flooded allowing the floating fruit to be collected. © Jim West

10-10-2019 - Michigan, USA: Workers harvesting cranberries, DeGRandchamp Farms. The cranberry bog is flooded allowing the floating fruit to be collected. © Jim West

10-10-2019 - Michigan, USA: Workers harvesting cranberries, DeGRandchamp Farms. The cranberry bog is flooded allowing the floating fruit to be collected. © Jim West

10-10-2019 - Michigan, USA: Cranberry bog, DeGRandchamp Farms © Jim West

10-10-2019 - Michigan, USA: Cranberries growing, DeGRandchamp Farms © Jim West

15-09-2017 - Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Old tires dumped at Peche Island, a wetland park in the Detroit River © Jim West

16-08-2017 - Coachella Valley, California, USA, Constructing wetlands to remediate and suppress the rising dust from the receding shoreline of the Salton Sea. The project is on the reservation of the Torrez Martin... © David Bacon

21-04-2016 - Wild primroses, Brandon Marsh nature reserve, Warwickshire © John Harris

21-04-2016 - Reedmace Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve, Warwickshire. Ripe seedheads disintegrating into a cottony fluff from which seeds are dispersed by wind. © John Harris

21-04-2016 - Reedmace Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve, Warwickshire. Ripe seedheads disintegrating into a cottony fluff from which seeds are dispersed by wind. © John Harris

21-04-2016 - Reedmace Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve, Warwickshire. Ripe seedheads disintegrating into a cottony fluff from which seeds are dispersed by wind. © John Harris

21-04-2016 - Reedmace Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve, Warwickshire. Ripe seedheads disintegrating into a cottony fluff from which seeds are dispersed by wind. © John Harris

21-04-2016 - Reedmace Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve, Warwickshire. Ripe seedheads disintegrating into a cottony fluff from which seeds are dispersed by wind. © John Harris

21-04-2016 - Reedmace Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve, Warwickshire. Ripe seedheads disintegrating into a cottony fluff from which seeds are dispersed by wind. © John Harris

21-04-2016 - Reedmace Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve, Warwickshire. Ripe seedheads disintegrating into a cottony fluff from which seeds are dispersed by wind. © John Harris

21-04-2016 - Reedmace Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve, Warwickshire. Ripe seedheads disintegrating into a cottony fluff from which seeds are dispersed by wind. © John Harris

21-04-2016 - Reedmace Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve, Warwickshire. Ripe seedheads disintegrating into a cottony fluff from which seeds are dispersed by wind. © John Harris

21-04-2016 - Little grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis) or Dabchick, Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve, Warwickshire. © John Harris

23-08-2014 - Electricity pylons cross marshland on the Kent shore of the Thames estuary. © Philip Wolmuth

23-08-2014 - Electricity pylons cross marshland on the Kent shore of the Thames estuary. © Philip Wolmuth

14-02-2014 - Naples, Florida - A canal in the Picayune Strand State Forest near Everglades National Park, where the Army Corps of Engineers is in the midst of a wetlands restoration project that is part of the Com... © Jim West

12-03-2013 - Waders on Frodsham Marsh, Runcorn, chemical works on the horizon © John Harris

12-03-2013 - Waders on Frodsham Marsh, Runcorn © John Harris

12-03-2013 - Sunset over the Manchester ship canal, Frodsham Marsh, Runcorn © John Harris

21-08-2010 - Heather growing alongside a stream in a wetland blanket bog. Kerry, Ireland © Paul Box

15-05-2010 - A Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea) fishing on the River Chess at Batchworth Lock, Rickmansworth, in Hertfordshire. © David Mansell

15-05-2010 - A Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea) fishing on the River Chess at Batchworth Lock, Rickmansworth, in Hertfordshire. © David Mansell

27-04-2010 - Burning the marsh at Metro Beach Metropark on the shoreline of Lake St. Clair. The controlled burn to eliminate an invasive grass. Their aim is to restore native vegetation that has been crowded out b... © Jim West

27-04-2010 - Workers wearing fire resistant clothing burning the marsh at Metro Beach Metropark on the shoreline of Lake St. Clair. The controlled burn is to eliminate an invasive grass. Their aim is to restore na... © Jim West

19-03-2010 - River Rouge Michigan - An oil storage tank in a wetlands near the Detroit River. Detroit USA © Jim West

28-12-2009 - A red tailed hawk in a field, San Joaquin Delta swampland. © David Bacon

13-06-2009 - Soda Lake in the Carrizo Plain National Monument, is a vast open grassland, rimmed by mountains and has great biodiversity. However, it is now threatened by energy development, including the threatene... © David Bacon

13-06-2009 - Soda Lake in the Carrizo Plain National Monument, is a vast open grassland, rimmed by mountains and has great biodiversity. However, it is now threatened by energy development, including the threatene... © David Bacon

13-06-2009 - Soda Lake in the Carrizo Plain National Monument, is a vast open grassland, rimmed by mountains and has great biodiversity. However, it is now threatened by energy development, including the threatene... © David Bacon

13-06-2009 - The Soda Lake in the Carrizo Plain National Monument, is a vast open grassland, rimmed by mountains and has great biodiversity. However, it is now threatened by energy development, including the threa... © David Bacon

13-06-2009 - Soda Lake in the Carrizo Plain National Monument, is a vast open grassland, rimmed by mountains and has great biodiversity. However, it is now threatened by energy development, including the threatene... © David Bacon

13-06-2009 - Salt crust on the lake bed, at Soda Lake in the Carrizo Plain National Monument. Which is a vast open grassland, rimmed by mountains and has great biodiversity. However, it is now threatened by energy... © David Bacon

10-02-2009 - Reeds at Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve, Coventry. © John Harris

29-10-2007 - Pollarded willow trees growing on the edge of a dainage ditch. At Somerset Levels, near Wedmore, Somerset. © David Mansell

29-10-2007 - A agricultural barn and pollarded willow trees, at the Somerset Levels. © David Mansell

29-10-2007 - Walker crossing a footbridge over the North Drain river just before it is to be removed by the Environment Agency. Somerset Levels, near Wedmore, Somerset © David Mansell

29-10-2007 - Somerset Levels, near Wedmore, Somerset. © David Mansell

29-10-2007 - Pollarded willow trees growing on the edge of a dainage ditch. At Somerset Levels, near Wedmore, Somerset. © David Mansell

29-10-2007 - Artificial man-made river draining water from the surrounding fields, Somerset Levels, near Wedmore, Somerset © David Mansell

31-07-2006 - Mountain biking around the Scottish Highlands. © Paul Box

31-07-2006 - Mountain biking around the Scottish Highlands. © Paul Box

10-01-2006 - Slimbridge wildfowl trust and wetlands centre. Near Gloucester. © Paul Box

10-01-2006 - Slimbridge wildfowl trust and wetlands centre. Near Gloucester. © Paul Box

10-01-2006 - Slimbridge wildfowl trust and wetlands centre. Near Gloucester. © Paul Box

10-01-2006 - Slimbridge wildfowl trust and wetlands centre. Near Gloucester. © Paul Box

10-01-2006 - Slimbridge wildfowl trust and wetlands centre. Near Gloucester. © Paul Box

10-01-2006 - Slimbridge wildfowl trust and wetlands centre. Near Gloucester. © Paul Box

10-01-2006 - Slimbridge wildfowl trust and wetlands centre. Near Gloucester.Flamingos washing. © Paul Box

10-01-2006 - Slimbridge wildfowl trust and wetlands centre. Near Gloucester. © Paul Box

10-01-2006 - Slimbridge wildfowl trust and wetlands centre. Near Gloucester. © Paul Box

10-01-2006 - Slimbridge wildfowl trust and wetlands centre. Near Gloucester. © Paul Box

10-01-2006 - Slimbridge wildfowl trust and wetlands centre. Near Gloucester. © Paul Box

10-01-2006 - Slimbridge wildfowl trust and wetlands centre. Near Gloucester. © Paul Box

10-01-2006 - Slimbridge wildfowl trust and wetlands centre. Near Gloucester. © Paul Box

10-01-2006 - Slimbridge wildfowl trust and wetlands centre. Near Gloucester. © Paul Box

10-01-2006 - Slimbridge wildfowl trust and wetlands centre. Near Gloucester. © Paul Box

10-01-2006 - Slimbridge wildfowl trust and wetlands centre. Near Gloucester. © Paul Box

10-01-2006 - Slimbridge wildfowl trust and wetlands centre. Near Gloucester. © Paul Box

10-01-2006 - Slimbridge wildfowl trust and wetlands centre. Near Gloucester.A tagged bird. © Paul Box

10-01-2006 - Slimbridge wildfowl trust and wetlands centre. Near Gloucester.A Flamingo. © Paul Box

10-01-2006 - Slimbridge wildfowl trust and wetlands centre. Near Gloucester.A Flamingo. © Paul Box

10-01-2006 - Slimbridge wildfowl trust and wetlands centre. Near Gloucester. Flamingos. © Paul Box

10-01-2006 - Slimbridge wildfowl trust and wetlands centre. Near Gloucester. Flamingos. © Paul Box

10-01-2006 - Slimbridge wildfowl trust and wetlands centre. Near Gloucester. Flamingos. © Paul Box

10-01-2006 - Slimbridge wildfowl trust and wetlands centre. Near Gloucester. Flamingos. © Paul Box

10-01-2006 - Slimbridge wildfowl trust and wetlands centre. Near Gloucester. Flamingos. © Paul Box

10-01-2006 - Slimbridge wildfowl trust and wetlands centre. Near Gloucester. Flamingos. © Paul Box

08-11-2005 - Mountain biking in Arkle, Cape Wrath, Scotland. © Paul Box

02-05-2005 - An aeriel view of a car traveling throuh iSimangaliso Wetland Park, on South Africas east coast (also called Elephant coast). © Gerry McCann

02-05-2005 - An aeriel view of a car traveling throuh iSimangaliso Wetland Park, on South Africas east coast (also called Elephant coast). © Gerry McCann

02-05-2005 - An aeriel view of a car traveling throuh iSimangaliso Wetland Park, on South Africas east coast (also called Elephant coast). © Gerry McCann

02-05-2005 - An aeriel view of hippopotamuses at iSimangaliso Wetland Park, on South Africas east coast (also called Elephant coast). © Gerry McCann

02-05-2005 - Scenery at iSimangaliso Wetland Park, east coast of South Africa (also called Elephant coast). A World Heritage Site. © Gerry McCann

02-05-2005 - Scenery at iSimangaliso Wetland Park, on South Africas east coast (also called Elephant coast). © Gerry McCann

02-05-2005 - Wreckage of Catalina Flying Boats from the Second World War, at iSimangaliso Wetland Park, on South Africas east coast (also called Elephant coast). © Gerry McCann

02-05-2005 - Coastline scenery at iSimangaliso Wetland Park, on South Africas east coast (also called Elephant coast). © Gerry McCann

02-05-2005 - Coastline scenery at iSimangaliso Wetland Park, on South Africas east coast (also called Elephant coast). © Gerry McCann

02-05-2005 - Coastline scenery at iSimangaliso Wetland Park, on South Africas east coast (also called Elephant coast). © Gerry McCann

02-05-2005 - Coastline scenery at iSimangaliso Wetland Park, on South Africas east coast (also called Elephant coast). © Gerry McCann

02-05-2005 - Coastline scenery at iSimangaliso Wetland Park, on South Africas east coast (also called Elephant coast). © Gerry McCann

02-05-2005 - This mosaic is at the entrance to the Visitor Centre at Kosi Bay.At iSimangaliso Wetland Park, on South Africas east coast (also called Elephant coast). © Gerry McCann

01-05-2005 - A mounted head and tusks, decorating a game lodge at iSimangaliso Wetland Park, on South Africas east coast (also called Elephant coast). © Gerry McCann

01-05-2005 - Tourists birdwatching from specially adapted vehicles which escorts travellers through the landscape at iSimangaliso Wetland Park, on South Africas east coast (also called Elephant coast). © Gerry McCann

01-05-2005 - Tourists at iSimangaliso Wetland Park, on South Africas east coast (also called Elephant coast). © Gerry McCann