SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive. Equipped with a bird, gas lamp and net, he fishes without the aid of a rod by using an unusual method - first practiced in 960 AD. The fisherman, pictured in southern China, releases a cormorant bird which dives into the water and retrieves a carp, before returning to the fisherman’s reed raft. The stunning images of cormorant fishing were captured on the River Li in Guilin, China by Russian photographer Viktoriia Rogotneva when he visited the fishermen of Guilin.
Throwing their arms up in the air, these energetic squirrels play a game of ball with a walnut .
With blue waves tumbling over them, these surfers glide underneath a tunnel of water .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
MOUTH OPEN wide, this little stoat appears to be in mid-song as he belts out a tune for his onlookers .
TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .
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SURROUNDED by divers, a hungry green sea turtle enjoys being the centre of attention .
A terrified moose, trapped in a frozen lake, bobs her head above the icey water and awaits her rescue .
