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.
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
The rock restaurant, located in Zanzibar – THIS unique restaurant really does boast breath-taking views - as it is perched on a rock in the middle of the sea .
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .
Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
WITH HIS PAW covering his mouth, this cheeky cub looks amused by something .
An American black bear mimics John Travolta’s famous Saturday Night Fever dance move by hurling its arm in the air .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
SQUABBLING over the last piece of grain, these hungry squirrels are determined to stock up on as much food as possible .
FROM the rolling hills of the Scottish highlands to looming chalk cliffs in Sussex, these stunning photographs capture the spectacular beauty of Great Britain .
