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  • Skateboarder passing traffic survey attached to a lamppost. London, UK.
    20150303_skateboarder traffic survey...jpg
  • The Trig Point, a concrete ring, at the highest point, Hallsfell spur, of Blencathra Mountain, Lake Districts, Cumbria, UK.  Trig Points are the common name for Triangulation Pillars  are used by Ordnance Survey to determine the exact shape of the country by creating direct line of sight to another Trig Point.  The beautiful hills and valleys of the Lake District National Park surrounds the mountain. The sky is cloudy and overcast.
    UK-Tourism-Lake-District-9097.jpg
  • A pupil from the St. Columb Minor school in Cornwall, completes a community energy survey by talking to customers in the local Co-Operative supermarket. The school won an Ashden Award in 2010 for it's appraoch to sustainable energy.
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  • A pupil from the St. Columb Minor school in Cornwall, completes a community energy survey by talking to customers in the local Co-Operative supermarket. The school won an Ashden Award in 2010 for it's appraoch to sustainable energy.
    10-stcolumbminor-0293.jpg
  • Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than 270 million cluster bomb submunitions dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) are a humanitarian organisation clearing the remnants of conflict worldwide and have been working in Lao PDR since 1994. The community liaison teams are the eyes and ears of MAG, their job is to go out and liaise with communities to find out what and where the problem unexploded ordnance (UXO) problem is. The photograph shows a completed Community Liaison survey map of Ban Namoune, Xieng Khouang province which can be used as a basis for UXO clearance in the future.
    A0012470cc_1_1.jpg
  • A market researcher working for the Heathrow Aiport operator BAA, conducts her surveys in the departures concourses of this aviation hub's terminal 5. Asking very detailed but brief questions of this young mother and her rather suspicious daughter, both travelling to the US, the unseen woman employee samples opinion on the airport's performance and the passengers overall experience of using this airport. Terminal 5 has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year and by analysing the data from these surveys helps the operator discover room for improvement. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport345-13-07-2009_1.jpg
  • The £18.2m Millennium Bridge (a Thames crossing linking the City of London at St. Paul's Cathedral with the Tate Modern Gallery at Bankside) was London's newest river crossing for 100-plus years and coincided with the Millennium, it was hurriedly finished and opened to the public on 10 June 2000 when an estimated 100,000 people crossed it to discover the structure oscillated so much that it was forced to close 2 days later. Over the next 18 months designers added dampeners to stop its wobble but it already symbolised what was embarrassing and failing in British pride. Now the British Standard code of bridge loading has been updated to cover the swaying phenomenon, referred to as Synchronous Lateral Excitation. Here a surveyor stands with legs spread peering into a tripod-mounted theodolite to measure its 370 metres (1,214 ft) steel length.
    bridge_surveyor04-09-2000_1.jpg
  • Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than 270 million cluster bomb submunitions dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974. The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) are a humanitarian organisation clearing the remnants of conflict worldwide and have been working in Lao PDR since 1994. The community liaison teams are the eyes and ears of MAG, their job is to go out and liaise with communities to find out what and where the problem unexploded ordnance (UXO) problem is. The Community Liaison officers draw a rough map of the village in consultation with the villagers of Ban Kua to show where past UXO accidents and visible UXO are located.
    A0011664cc_1_1.jpg
  • Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than 270 million cluster bomb submunitions dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974. The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) are a humanitarian organisation clearing the remnants of conflict worldwide and have been working in Lao PDR since 1994. The community liaison teams are the eyes and ears of MAG, their job is to go out and liaise with communities to find out what and where the problem unexploded ordnance (UXO) problem is. The Community Liaison team works with the villagers of Ban Kua to create a rough map of the village in consultation with the villagers of Ban Kua to show where past UXO accidents and visible UXO are located.
    A0011613cc_1_1.jpg
  • Surveyor holding a prism pole or ranging pole. Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, and science of accurately determining the terrestrial or three-dimensional position of points and the distances and angles between them, commonly practiced by surveyors, and members of various engineering professions.
    20150119_surveyor_B_1.jpg
  • Surveyor holding a prism pole or ranging pole. Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, and science of accurately determining the terrestrial or three-dimensional position of points and the distances and angles between them, commonly practiced by surveyors, and members of various engineering professions.
    20150119_surveyor_A_1.jpg
  • A Google Street View mapping car drives alongside a public park in the borough of Lambeth,on 1st June 2017, in south London, England.
    google_car-01-01-06-2017.jpg
  • Two assessors inspect damage to buildings after the IRA Bishopsgate bomb in the City of London. They stand on a junction looking up at buildings whose windows were blown out by the force of this notorious blast that shook London’s financial district. The Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded a truck bomb on Bishopsgate. Buildings up to 500 metres away were damaged with one and a half million square feet (140,000 m) of office space being affected and over 500 tonnes of glass broken. Repair costs reached approx £350 million. It was said that Roman remains could be viewed at the bottom of the pit the bomb created. One person was killed when the one ton fertiliser bomb detonated directly outside the medieval St Ethelburga's church.
    city_assessors-26-04-1993_1.jpg
  • A view of densely pupulated apartment blocks in Shanghai, China on 14 February, 2011.  While the latest introduction of property tax by the central government has yet to show its cooling effects on asset prices,  it is providing extra impetus for rent increases in many Chinese cities, according to a survey conducted by China Youth Daily. In the survey, 81.6 per cent of the 4,060 respondents interviewed said they "are suffering from the increase in rents". Among them, 34.8 per cent said their quality of life has been "greatly affected by the increase".
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  • A pedestrian walks past roles of densely populated apartment blocks in Shanghai, China on 14 February, 2011.  While the latest introduction of property tax by the central government has yet to show its cooling effects on asset prices,  it is providing extra impetus for rent increases in many Chinese cities, according to a survey conducted by China Youth Daily. In the survey, 81.6 per cent of the 4,060 respondents interviewed said they "are suffering from the increase in rents". Among them, 34.8 per cent said their quality of life has been "greatly affected by the increase".
    QS110214Shanghai009.jpg
  • A view of densely pupulated apartment blocks in Shanghai, China on 14 February, 2011.  While the latest introduction of property tax by the central government has yet to show its cooling effects on asset prices,  it is providing extra impetus for rent increases in many Chinese cities, according to a survey conducted by China Youth Daily. In the survey, 81.6 per cent of the 4,060 respondents interviewed said they "are suffering from the increase in rents". Among them, 34.8 per cent said their quality of life has been "greatly affected by the increase".
    QS110214Shanghai006.jpg
  • An early sun rises over the misty surface of the River Thames at Dorchester, Oxfordshire. We see a scene of golden light across the perfectly still waters, a landscape of peace and tranquillity. The mirror-like surface is at Dorchester-on-Thames, just above the Thame's confluence with the River Thames. The River Thames is the second longest river in the United Kingdom and the longest river entirely in England (215 miles or 346 km long). It rises at Thames Head in Gloucestershire, and flows into the North Sea at the Thames Estuary. Historically the Thames was only so-named downstream of the village; upstream it is named the Isis, and Ordnance Survey maps continue to label the river as "River Thames or Isis" until Dorchester.
    thames-14-07-1999_1_1.jpg
  • Anti-HS2 activists survey trees recently felled in Denham Country Park by contractors working on behalf of HS2 Ltd on 21 September 2020 in Denham, United Kingdom. The activists contend that the trees were felled in connection with the HS2 high-speed rail link in an area of the park not indicated for felling on official maps supplied by HS2 Ltd.
    MK-20200921-HS2-Tree-Felling-Denham-...jpg
  • Anti-HS2 activists survey trees recently felled in Denham Country Park by contractors working on behalf of HS2 Ltd on 21 September 2020 in Denham, United Kingdom. The activists contend that the trees were felled in connection with the HS2 high-speed rail link in an area of the park not indicated for felling on official maps supplied by HS2 Ltd.
    MK-20200921-HS2-Tree-Felling-Denham-...jpg
  • HS2 workers survey ground clearance work for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 13th July 2020 in Harefield, United Kingdom. Thousands of trees have been felled in the Colne Valley for the £106bn project which will remain a net contributor to CO2 emissions during its projected 120-year lifetime.
    MK-20200713-HS2-Rebellion-Harefield-...jpg
  • HS2 workers survey ground clearance work for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 13th July 2020 in Harefield, United Kingdom. Thousands of trees have been felled in the Colne Valley for the £106bn project which will remain a net contributor to CO2 emissions during its projected 120-year lifetime.
    MK-20200713-HS2-Rebellion-Harefield-...jpg
  • A young boy directs his radio-controlled boat on the still waters of the river Thames early in the morning, on 14th July 1999, in Dorchester, England. The River Thames is the second longest river in the United Kingdom and the longest river entirely in England 215 miles or 346 km long. It rises at Thames Head in Gloucestershire, and flows into the North Sea at the Thames Estuary. Historically the Thames was only so-named downstream of the village; upstream it is named the Isis, and Ordnance Survey maps continue to label the river as River Thames or Isis until Dorchester.
    early_thames2-14-07-1999.jpg
  • Young men watch a ball fly over their heads into the distance during a spontaneous game of cricket routinely held in the 1990s among the tombs and mausolea of dead British Raj officials and family members, buried in Victorian-era Park Street cemetery, on 18th November 1996, in Kolkata, India. The Park Street cemetery was amed “Park Street” after the private deer park built by Sir Elijah Impey around Vansittart’s garden house. The cemetery opened in 1767 served as a burial ground for the European expatriates who were settled in Calcutta during the colonial period. The cemetery was closed in 1840 due to lack of burial space and is now a heritage site, preserved by the Archaeological Survey of India ASI.
    calcutta-18-11-1996.jpg
  • Nitrous oxide Mosa cream charger canisters lie in the gutter of a surburban south London street, on 2nd September 2019, in London, England. Nitrous oxide is illegal under the 2016 Psychoactive Substances Act but laughing gas is now the fourth most used drug in the UK, according to the Global Drug Survey 2015.
    nitrous_oxides-01-02-09-2019.jpg
  • Mrs Farzana Samimi on her talk show ‘Banuî with psychiatrist, Mohammed Yasin Babrak.<br />
<br />
Farzana’s show centres on problems faced by Afghan women - largely a taboo subject. Currently, for security reasons guests have to talk by phone: “I remember one guest - a young girl -  who was forced ( by her parents) to marry.” Says Farzana. “But because she came on TV, her parents threatened to kill her”.  <br />
<br />
 One of Farzana’s colleagues was shot dead by unknown gunmen in Kabul in May 2005 and Farzana’s  husband wants her to stop presenting but she says:  “The show is very important. For a lot of women, their only source of help is from the TV.”<br />
A survey of women in Kabul found that 98 percent suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic depression or severe anxiety. Dr Babrak, Farzana’s co presenter says. “Most women who come to me suffer from mood swings and schizophrenia," <br />
 Farzana can empathize: “During the Taliban I was depressed and I am still traumatised. It took me two years after the collapse of the Taliban to stop wearing the burkha. Educated women wouldn’t come out on the streets even after the Taliban fell. But gradually women got more courage and things are changing.”
    afghan26_10_086_1.jpg
  • The Bara Gumbad and the Mehman Khana, Lodhi Gardens, New Delhi, India. The site is now protected by the Archeological Survey of India. The gardens are a hotspot for morning walks for the Delhiites.
    SFE_140314_128_1.jpg
  • The Sheesh Gumbad, Lodhi Gardens, New Delhi, India. The site is now protected by the Archeological Survey of India. The gardens are a hotspot for morning walks for the Delhiites.
    SFE_140314_108_1.jpg
  • Dawn light through trees in Lodi Gardens, New Delhi, India. The site is now protected by the Archeological Survey of India. The gardens are a hotspot for morning walks for the Delhiites.
    SFE_140314_088_1.jpg
  • Muhammad Shah Sayyids Tomb, Lodi Gardens, New Delhi, India. The site is now protected by the Archeological Survey of India. The gardens are a hotspot for morning walks for the Delhiites.
    SFE_140314_085_1.jpg
  • Muhammad Shah Sayyids Tomb, Lodi Gardens, New Delhi, India. The site is now protected by the Archeological Survey of India. The gardens are a hotspot for morning walks for the Delhiites.
    SFE_140314_076_1.jpg
  • The Sheesh Gumbad, Lodhi Gardens, New Delhi, India. The site is now protected by the Archeological Survey of India. The gardens are a hotspot for morning walks for the Delhiites.
    SFE_140314_052_1.jpg
  • The Sheesh Gumbad, Lodhi Gardens, New Delhi, India. The site is now protected by the Archeological Survey of India. The gardens are a hotspot for morning walks for the Delhiites.
    SFE_140314_051_1.jpg
  • The Sheesh Gumbad, Lodhi Gardens, New Delhi, India. The site is now protected by the Archeological Survey of India. The gardens are a hotspot for morning walks for the Delhiites.
    SFE_140314_038_1.jpg
  • People practising yoga in the early morning at the Mehman Khana, Lodhi Gardens, New Delhi, India. The site is now protected by the Archeological Survey of India. The gardens are a hotspot for morning walks for the Delhiites.
    SFE_140314_013_1.jpg
  • A motor launch passes a narrow boat with parrot and dog in the early morning on a still River Thames at Dorchester, Oxfordshire. In the foreground is a caged parrot and a small Scotty dog. We see a scene of early misty light across the perfectly still waters, a landscape of peace and tranquillity. The mirror-like surface is at Dorchester-on-Thames, just above the Thame's confluence with the River Thames. The River Thames is the second longest river in the United Kingdom and the longest river entirely in England (215 miles or 346 km long). It rises at Thames Head in Gloucestershire, and flows into the North Sea at the Thames Estuary. Historically the Thames was only so-named downstream of the village; upstream it is named the Isis, and Ordnance Survey maps continue to label the river as "River Thames or Isis" until Dorchester.
    thames_boats-14-01-2014_1.jpg
  • Two local children squeeze through railings of the  unkempt cemetery attached to the Blaenau Baptist Church in the south Wales town of Abertillery (Welsh: Abertyleri). The kids have walked their dog through this field filled with old headstones and graves, playing safely in the open-air of this Welsh community. Rows of terraced Victorian homes line the distant end of this ground and then clinging to far hill side and beyond. Its population rose steeply during the period of (now defunct) mining development in South Wales, being 10,846 in 1891 and 21,945 ten years later. Lying in the mountainous mining district of the former counties of Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, in the valley of the Ebbw Fach. In 2003, Abertillery was found to have the cheapest house prices in the United Kingdom, according to a survey by the Halifax Building Society.
    wales_cemetery02-15-06-1986_1_1.jpg
  • Naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough watches video of killer whale sequence from The Trials of Life at home in London. Sir David Frederick Attenborough (born 1926) is a British broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 years. He is best known for writing and presenting the nine Life series, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, which collectively form a comprehensive survey of all life on the planet. He is also a former senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s. Attenborough is widely considered a national treasure in Britain, although he himself does not care for the term. He is a younger brother of director, producer and actor Richard Attenborough.
    david_attenborough04-17-09-1990_1.jpg
  • Naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough watches video of killer whale sequence from The Trials of Life at home in London. Sir David Frederick Attenborough (born 1926) is a British broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 years. He is best known for writing and presenting the nine Life series, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, which collectively form a comprehensive survey of all life on the planet. He is also a former senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s. Attenborough is widely considered a national treasure in Britain, although he himself does not care for the term. He is a younger brother of director, producer and actor Richard Attenborough.
    david_attenborough03-17-09-1990_1.jpg
  • Naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough watches video of killer whale sequence from The Trials of Life at home in London. Sir David Frederick Attenborough (born 1926) is a British broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 years. He is best known for writing and presenting the nine Life series, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, which collectively form a comprehensive survey of all life on the planet. He is also a former senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s. Attenborough is widely considered a national treasure in Britain, although he himself does not care for the term. He is a younger brother of director, producer and actor Richard Attenborough.
    david_attenborough02-17-09-1990_1.jpg
  • Naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough watches video of killer whale sequence from The Trials of Life at home in London. Sir David Frederick Attenborough (born 1926) is a British broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 years. He is best known for writing and presenting the nine Life series, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, which collectively form a comprehensive survey of all life on the planet. He is also a former senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s. Attenborough is widely considered a national treasure in Britain, although he himself does not care for the term. He is a younger brother of director, producer and actor Richard Attenborough.
    david_attenborough01-17-09-1990_1.jpg
  • Commuters crowd through one of the metro stations in Shanghai, China on 11 May 2010.  A recent survey by domestic media have shown that over 75% of white collar workers are having the thought of leaving major commercial cities such as Shanghai and Beijing; as high cost of living, especially that of housing, have wiped out gains in income and stress of daily life are increasingly hindering their pursuit of happiness.
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  • Youngsters wearing cartoon costumes usher in the first week of summer vacation by attending an Anime festival and enjoying a rare opportunity of carefree fun in Shanghai, China on 03 July 2009.  Chinese youth face one of the toughest school system and most unrealistic parental expectation level in the world, a recent survey showed that three-quarters of parents expect their children to achieve scores above 90%, and almost one in ten expects their children to achieve perfect scores in all subjects.
    QS090703Shanghai009.jpg
  • A teenage boy wearing a samurai costume attends an Anime and Cosplay festival and enjoys a rare opportunity of carefree fun in Shanghai, China on 03 July 2009.  Chinese youth face one of the toughest school system and most unrealistic parental expectation level in the world, a recent survey showed that three-quarters of parents expect their children to achieve scores above 90%, and almost one in ten expects their children to achieve perfect scores in all subjects.
    QS090703Shanghai008.jpg
  • Great Fountain Geyser at Lower Geyser Basin Yellowstone National Park. The Lower Geyser Basin possess a large variety of thermal features, including mud pots, geysers, pools, springs, and fumaroles. This is one of the grand geysers of Yellowstone. It has the distinction of having the first written description recorded by the 1869 Folsom-Cook Expedition. But it remained unnamed until the 1872 Hayden Survey. The intricately terraced sinter cone is 150 feet in diameter with a 14x20 foot crater.
    2007_08_07_Lower Geyser Basin_R.jpg
  • Anti-HS2 activists survey trees recently felled in Denham Country Park by contractors working on behalf of HS2 Ltd on 21 September 2020 in Denham, United Kingdom. The activists contend that the trees were felled in connection with the HS2 high-speed rail link in an area of the park not indicated for felling on official maps supplied by HS2 Ltd.
    MK-20200921-HS2-Tree-Felling-Denham-...jpg
  • Anti-HS2 activists survey trees recently felled in Denham Country Park by contractors working on behalf of HS2 Ltd on 21 September 2020 in Denham, United Kingdom. The activists contend that the trees were felled in connection with the HS2 high-speed rail link in an area of the park not indicated for felling on official maps supplied by HS2 Ltd.
    MK-20200921-HS2-Tree-Felling-Denham-...jpg
  • HS2 workers survey ground clearance work for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 13th July 2020 in Harefield, United Kingdom. Thousands of trees have been felled in the Colne Valley for the £106bn project which will remain a net contributor to CO2 emissions during its projected 120-year lifetime.
    MK-20200713-HS2-Rebellion-Harefield-...jpg
  • Nitrous oxide Mosa cream charger canisters lie in the gutter of a surburban south London street, on 2nd September 2019, in London, England. Nitrous oxide is illegal under the 2016 Psychoactive Substances Act but laughing gas is now the fourth most used drug in the UK, according to the Global Drug Survey 2015.
    nitrous_oxides-07-02-09-2019.jpg
  • A country walker checks his Ordnance Survey map on a footpath alongside the A20 road, on 21st October 2018, near Hollingbourne, Kent, England.
    kent_walk-09-21-10-2018.jpg
  • Mrs Farzana Samimi on her talk show ‘Banuî with psychiatrist, Mohammed Yasin Babrak.<br />
<br />
Farzana’s show centres on problems faced by Afghan women - largely a taboo subject. Currently, for security reasons guests have to talk by phone: “I remember one guest - a young girl -  who was forced ( by her parents) to marry.” Says Farzana. “But because she came on TV, her parents threatened to kill her”.  <br />
<br />
One of Farzana’s colleagues was shot dead by unknown gunmen in Kabul in May 2005 and Farzana’s  husband wants her to stop presenting but she says:  “The show is very important. For a lot of women, their only source of help is from the TV.”<br />
A survey of women in Kabul found that 98 percent suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic depression or severe anxiety. Dr Babrak, Farzana’s co presenter says. “Most women who come to me suffer from mood swings and schizophrenia,"
    afghan26_10_076_1.jpg
  • Mrs Farzana Samimi on her talk show ‘Banuî with psychiatrist, Mohammed Yasin Babrak.<br />
<br />
Farzana’s show centres on problems faced by Afghan women - largely a taboo subject. Currently, for security reasons guests have to talk by phone: “I remember one guest - a young girl -  who was forced ( by her parents) to marry.” Says Farzana. “But because she came on TV, her parents threatened to kill her”.  <br />
<br />
One of Farzana’s colleagues was shot dead by unknown gunmen in Kabul in May 2005 and Farzana’s  husband wants her to stop presenting but she says:  “The show is very important. For a lot of women, their only source of help is from the TV.”<br />
A survey of women in Kabul found that 98 percent suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic depression or severe anxiety. Dr Babrak, Farzana’s co presenter says. “Most women who come to me suffer from mood swings and schizophrenia,"
    afghan26_10_074_1.jpg
  • A man meditates at dawn in the Bara Gumbad tomb in Lodi Gardens, New Delhi, India. The site is now protected by the Archeological Survey of India. The gardens are a hotspot for morning walks for the Delhiites.
    SFE_140314_146_1.jpg
  • The Sheesh Gumbad, Lodhi Gardens, New Delhi, India. The site is now protected by the Archeological Survey of India. The gardens are a hotspot for morning walks for the Delhiites.
    SFE_140314_053_1.jpg
  • The Sheesh Gumbad, Lodhi Gardens, New Delhi, India. The site is now protected by the Archeological Survey of India. The gardens are a hotspot for morning walks for the Delhiites.
    SFE_140314_023_1.jpg
  • The Sheesh Gumbad, Lodhi Gardens, New Delhi, India. The site is now protected by the Archeological Survey of India. The gardens are a hotspot for morning walks for the Delhiites.
    SFE_140314_018_1.jpg
  • Workmen drilling to survey the density of the ground on arroz cru, which will give them a better idea about the power needed for excavation. A third of Altamira in the state of Para, Brazil will be flooded to make way for the Belo Monte dam, nearly all the people affected are the poorest in society or indigenous communities that will have nowhere to go if they were made homeless, and the Government payoff for their properties is low therefore making it difficult to find new accomodation. At present, the Arara land is protected from development, sale or new residents as it has been their ancestral land for hundreds of years, this is now one of the key areas under threat
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  • Among headstones and graves, two local children play in the unkempt cemetery attached to the Blaenau Baptist Church in the south Wales town of Abertillery (Welsh: Abertyleri). Along with their pet Labrador dog who enjoys joining in on the fun, the children are playing safely in the open-air of this Welsh community. Rows of terraced Victorian homes line the distant end of this ground and then clinging to far hill side and beyond. Its population rose steeply during the period of (now defunct) mining development in South Wales, being 10,846 in 1891 and 21,945 ten years later. Lying in the mountainous mining district of the former counties of Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, in the valley of the Ebbw Fach. In 2003, Abertillery was found to have the cheapest house prices in the United Kingdom, according to a survey by the Halifax Building Society.
    wales_cemetery01-15-06-1986_1_1.jpg
  • Deep in the West Sussex countryside are a group of Territorial Army soldiers. They have stopped in a remote lane to consult their Ordnance Survey maps during a day of learning to navigate with maps and compasses. Over a weekend learn the skills needed to be part-time army volunteers known as the TA and have far to go. Together they look at maps and argue where they should go next. Looking on with mild amusement is their senior officer who accompanies them to assess their leadership skills and initiative. Behind them a road sign tells them the road ahead is a dead end to traffic. It is a very English summer landscape of lush green vegetation and grasses. The TA work as part of Britain’s reserve land forces. Together with the Regular Army they provide support at home and overseas including Iraq and Afghanistan. .
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  • Youngsters dressed in cartoon costumes play a shooter video game at an Anime and Cosplay festival and enjoying a rare opportunity of carefree fun in Shanghai, China on 03 July 2009.  Chinese youth face one of the toughest school system and most unrealistic parental expectation level in the world, a recent survey showed that three-quarters of parents expect their children to achieve scores above 90%, and almost one in ten expects their children to achieve perfect scores in all subjects.
    QS090703Shanghai006.jpg
  • Great Fountain Geyser at Lower Geyser Basin Yellowstone National Park. The Lower Geyser Basin possess a large variety of thermal features, including mud pots, geysers, pools, springs, and fumaroles. This is one of the grand geysers of Yellowstone. It has the distinction of having the first written description recorded by the 1869 Folsom-Cook Expedition. But it remained unnamed until the 1872 Hayden Survey. The intricately terraced sinter cone is 150 feet in diameter with a 14x20 foot crater.
    2007_08_07_Lower Geyser Basin_P.jpg
  • The ships rib boat returns to the RV Cefas Endeavour sitting off the coast of Folkestone in the English Channel, Folkestone, Kent. RV Cefas Endeavour is an ocean-going fisheries research vessel that is owned by the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science. It is used to support all aspects of CEFAS activities from fish stock surveys to launching autonomous monitoring equipment.
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  • A hill climber stands on the top of the trig-point and looks across distant landscapes from the top of The Beacon, on 15th September 2018, in Malvern, Worcestershire, England UK. Worcestershire Beacon, also popularly known as Worcester Beacon, or locally simply as The Beacon, is a hill whose summit at 425 metres 1,394 ft[1] is the highest point of the range of Malvern Hills that runs about 13 kilometres 8.1 mi north-south along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border, although Worcestershire Beacon itself lies entirely within Worcestershire. A triangulation station, also known as a triangulation pillar, trigonometrical station, trigonometrical point, trig station, trig beacon, or trig point, and sometimes informally as a trig, is a fixed surveying station, used in geodetic surveying and other surveying projects in its vicinity.
    malvern_beacon-09-15-09-2018.jpg
  • Archaeologists surveying a cave site in the Carajas national forest, an unique type of svaanna deep in the rainforest. The Carajas Open Cast Iron Ore mine is the largest iron mine in the World, estimates say the site can be mined at today's rates for another 400 years. In the Amazonian State of Para, Brazil, it is operated by the State owned Vale mining corporation, prevoously CVRD. The company has come under some controversy about the mine, and recently has started expanding the mine on the site of a series of ancient caves.
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  • Archaeologists surveying a cave site in the Carajas national forest, an unique type of svaanna deep in the rainforest. The Carajas Open Cast Iron Ore mine is the largest iron mine in the World, estimates say the site can be mined at today's rates for another 400 years. In the Amazonian State of Para, Brazil, it is operated by the State owned Vale mining corporation, prevoously CVRD. The company has come under some controversy about the mine, and recently has started expanding the mine on the site of a series of ancient caves.
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  • The head of an opium poppies oozing sap in an upland field in remote Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. After the petals fall from the opium poppy, the heads are incised with a 4 bladed tool; the tool is used to score the skin lightly from top to bottom. During the day, the sap oozes out of the cuts and hangs in tears on the poppy head. The next day the sap is then scraped into a metal container. As recently as 1998, Lao PDR was the third largest illicit opium poppy producer in the world.  From 1998 to 2005, opium poppy cultivation in Lao PDR was reduced by 93 per cent.  In more remote areas where cash crops are not viable, surveys from UNODC have shown that between 2008 and 2011 the area under opium poppy cultivation has doubled and continues to rise.
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  • Two Hmong ethnic minority men smoke opium at home in Lao PDR. Opium addicts are usually adult males. By taking opium, they lose the energy to work hard which leaves heavy tasks to women and children which then impoverishes the entire household. As recently as 1998, Lao PDR was the third largest illicit opium poppy producer in the world.  From 1998 to 2005, opium poppy cultivation in Lao PDR was reduced by 93 per cent.  In more remote areas where cash crops are not viable, surveys from UNODC have shown that between 2008 and 2012 the area under opium poppy cultivation has more than tripled. Although in 2013 the area of poppy fields in the country has again fallen, the number of regular opium users was still estimated at between 14,000 to 15,000 in the 10 northern provinces.
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  • An Akha subsistence farmer scores opium poppies in an upland field in remote Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. After the petals fall from the opium poppy, the heads are incised with a 4 bladed tool; the tool is used to score the skin lightly from top to bottom. During the day, the sap oozes out of the cuts and hangs in tears on the poppy head. The next day the sap is then scraped into a metal container. As recently as 1998, Lao PDR was the third largest illicit opium poppy producer in the world.  From 1998 to 2005, opium poppy cultivation in Lao PDR was reduced by 93 per cent.  In more remote areas where cash crops are not viable, surveys from UNODC have shown that between 2008 and 2011 the area under opium poppy cultivation has doubled and continues to rise.
    A0016463cc_1.jpg
  • An Akha subsistence farmer scores opium poppies in an upland field in remote Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  After the petals fall from the opium poppy, the heads are incised with a 4 bladed tool; the tool is used to score the skin lightly from top to bottom. During the day, the sap oozes out of the cuts and hangs in tears on the poppy head. The next day the sap is then scraped into a metal container. As recently as 1998, Lao PDR was the third largest illicit opium poppy producer in the world.  From 1998 to 2005, opium poppy cultivation in Lao PDR was reduced by 93 per cent.  In more remote areas where cash crops are not viable, surveys from UNODC have shown that between 2008 and 2011 the area under opium poppy cultivation has doubled and continues to rise.
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  • An upland field of opium poppies ready for harvesting in remote Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR. As recently as 1998, Lao PDR was the third largest illicit opium poppy producer in the world.  From 1998 to 2005, opium poppy cultivation in Lao PDR was reduced by 93 per cent.  In more remote areas where cash crops are not viable, surveys from UNODC have shown that between 2008 and 2011 the area under opium poppy cultivation has doubled and continues to rise.
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  • A For sale sign for the estate agent (realty) Kinleigh Folkard & Haywood sits outside properties in Fawnbrake Road, London SE24. We are looking up at the tall sign that is on top of a wooden pole. Edwardian houses are in the background as well as autumnal trees. An airliner flies overhead and late afternoon sunshine warms the landscape in orange light. Kinleigh Folkard & Haywood is a London-based company, founded in 1977 by Lee Watts and Philip King. Apart from sales and lettings, they offer financial services, mortgage advice, surveying, conveyancing and property management. They have 50 offices across London with over 500 employees.
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  • Seen through a fisheye lens, we see an aerial view of the city of Florence (Firenze) as a lady tourist surveys the urban landscape using a tourist map. She has climbed the 84.7 meters (277.9 ft) high Gioto's Belltower (or campanile) of Duomo Cathedral. Due to the nature of the extreme-wide lens, the curvature of the horizon makes a global sort of perspective. Far below are the tiled rooftops of this Italian city's housing and properties and further into the distance are the green fields of Tuscany. On the marble ledge that is unguarded against accidental or intentional leaps, there is the graffiti of world tourism. The languages of world youth are written on this Renaissance building. The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church (Duomo), begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to designs of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436
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  • The ships rib boat from the RV Cefas Endeavour sitting off the coast of Folkestone in the English Channel, Folkestone, Kent. RV Cefas Endeavour is an ocean-going fisheries research vessel that is owned by the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science. It is used to support all aspects of CEFAS activities from fish stock surveys to launching autonomous monitoring equipment.
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  • RV Cefas Endeavour sitting off the coast of Folkestone in the English Channel, Folkestone, Kent. RV Cefas Endeavour is an ocean-going fisheries research vessel that is owned by the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science. It is used to support all aspects of CEFAS activities from fish stock surveys to launching autonomous monitoring equipment.
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  • A hill climber stands on the top of the trig-point and looks across distant landscapes from the top of The Beacon, on 15th September 2018, in Malvern, Worcestershire, England UK. Worcestershire Beacon, also popularly known as Worcester Beacon, or locally simply as The Beacon, is a hill whose summit at 425 metres 1,394 ft[1] is the highest point of the range of Malvern Hills that runs about 13 kilometres 8.1 mi north-south along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border, although Worcestershire Beacon itself lies entirely within Worcestershire. A triangulation station, also known as a triangulation pillar, trigonometrical station, trigonometrical point, trig station, trig beacon, or trig point, and sometimes informally as a trig, is a fixed surveying station, used in geodetic surveying and other surveying projects in its vicinity.
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  • Archaeologists surveying a cave site in the Carajas national forest, an unique type of svaanna deep in the rainforest. The Carajas Open Cast Iron Ore mine is the largest iron mine in the World, estimates say the site can be mined at today's rates for another 400 years. In the Amazonian State of Para, Brazil, it is operated by the State owned Vale mining corporation, prevoously CVRD. The company has come under some controversy about the mine, and recently has started expanding the mine on the site of a series of ancient caves.
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  • Archaeologists surveying a cave site in the Carajas national forest, an unique type of svaanna deep in the rainforest. The Carajas Open Cast Iron Ore mine is the largest iron mine in the World, estimates say the site can be mined at today's rates for another 400 years. In the Amazonian State of Para, Brazil, it is operated by the State owned Vale mining corporation, prevoously CVRD. The company has come under some controversy about the mine, and recently has started expanding the mine on the site of a series of ancient caves.
    _MG_8033_1.jpg
  • Archaeologists surveying a cave site in the Carajas national forest, an unique type of svaanna deep in the rainforest. The Carajas Open Cast Iron Ore mine is the largest iron mine in the World, estimates say the site can be mined at today's rates for another 400 years. In the Amazonian State of Para, Brazil, it is operated by the State owned Vale mining corporation, prevoously CVRD. The company has come under some controversy about the mine, and recently has started expanding the mine on the site of a series of ancient caves.
    _MG_8017_1.jpg
  • Archaeologists surveying a cave site in the Carajas national forest, an unique type of svaanna deep in the rainforest. The Carajas Open Cast Iron Ore mine is the largest iron mine in the World, estimates say the site can be mined at today's rates for another 400 years. In the Amazonian State of Para, Brazil, it is operated by the State owned Vale mining corporation, prevoously CVRD. The company has come under some controversy about the mine, and recently has started expanding the mine on the site of a series of ancient caves.
    _MG_8010_1.jpg
  • The heads of opium poppies oozing sap in an upland field in remote Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. After the petals fall from the opium poppy, the heads are incised with a 4 bladed tool; the tool is used to score the skin lightly from top to bottom. During the day, the sap oozes out of the cuts and hangs in tears on the poppy head. The next day the sap is then scraped into a metal container. As recently as 1998, Lao PDR was the third largest illicit opium poppy producer in the world.  From 1998 to 2005, opium poppy cultivation in Lao PDR was reduced by 93 per cent.  In more remote areas where cash crops are not viable, surveys from UNODC have shown that between 2008 and 2011 the area under opium poppy cultivation has doubled and continues to rise.
    DSCF4747cc_1.jpg
  • The heads of opium poppies oozing sap in an upland field in remote Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. After the petals fall from the opium poppy, the heads are incised with a 4 bladed tool; the tool is used to score the skin lightly from top to bottom. During the day, the sap oozes out of the cuts and hangs in tears on the poppy head. The next day the sap is then scraped into a metal container. As recently as 1998, Lao PDR was the third largest illicit opium poppy producer in the world.  From 1998 to 2005, opium poppy cultivation in Lao PDR was reduced by 93 per cent.  In more remote areas where cash crops are not viable, surveys from UNODC have shown that between 2008 and 2011 the area under opium poppy cultivation has doubled and continues to rise.
    A0029073cc_1.jpg
  • Two Hmong ethnic minority men smoke opium at home in Lao PDR. Opium addicts are usually adult males. By taking opium, they lose the energy to work hard which leaves heavy tasks to women and children which then impoverishes the entire household. As recently as 1998, Lao PDR was the third largest illicit opium poppy producer in the world.  From 1998 to 2005, opium poppy cultivation in Lao PDR was reduced by 93 per cent.  In more remote areas where cash crops are not viable, surveys from UNODC have shown that between 2008 and 2012 the area under opium poppy cultivation has more than tripled. Although in 2013 the area of poppy fields in the country has again fallen, the number of regular opium users was still estimated at between 14,000 to 15,000 in the 10 northern provinces.
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  • A Hmong ethnic minority man smokes opium at home in Lao PDR. Opium addicts are usually adult males. By taking opium, they lose the energy to work hard which leaves heavy tasks to women and children which then impoverishes the entire household. As recently as 1998, Lao PDR was the third largest illicit opium poppy producer in the world.  From 1998 to 2005, opium poppy cultivation in Lao PDR was reduced by 93 per cent.  In more remote areas where cash crops are not viable, surveys from UNODC have shown that between 2008 and 2012 the area under opium poppy cultivation has more than tripled. Although in 2013 the area of poppy fields in the country has again fallen, the number of regular opium users was still estimated at between 14,000 to 15,000 in the 10 northern provinces.
    A0009854cc_1.jpg
  • A Hmong ethnic minority man smokes opium at home in Lao PDR. Opium addicts are usually adult males. By taking opium, they lose the energy to work hard which leaves heavy tasks to women and children which then impoverishes the entire household. As recently as 1998, Lao PDR was the third largest illicit opium poppy producer in the world.  From 1998 to 2005, opium poppy cultivation in Lao PDR was reduced by 93 per cent.  In more remote areas where cash crops are not viable, surveys from UNODC have shown that between 2008 and 2012 the area under opium poppy cultivation has more than tripled. Although in 2013 the area of poppy fields in the country has again fallen, the number of regular opium users was still estimated at between 14,000 to 15,000 in the 10 northern provinces.
    A0009853cc_1.jpg
  • An Akha subsistence farmer scores opium poppies in an upland field in remote Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. After the petals fall from the opium poppy, the heads are incised with a 4 bladed tool; the tool is used to score the skin lightly from top to bottom. During the day, the sap oozes out of the cuts and hangs in tears on the poppy head. The next day the sap is then scraped into a metal container. As recently as 1998, Lao PDR was the third largest illicit opium poppy producer in the world.  From 1998 to 2005, opium poppy cultivation in Lao PDR was reduced by 93 per cent.  In more remote areas where cash crops are not viable, surveys from UNODC have shown that between 2008 and 2011 the area under opium poppy cultivation has doubled and continues to rise.
    A0016484cc_1.jpg
  • An Akha subsistence farmer scores opium poppies in an upland field in remote Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. After the petals fall from the opium poppy, the heads are incised with a 4 bladed tool; the tool is used to score the skin lightly from top to bottom. During the day, the sap oozes out of the cuts and hangs in tears on the poppy head. The next day the sap is then scraped into a metal container. As recently as 1998, Lao PDR was the third largest illicit opium poppy producer in the world.  From 1998 to 2005, opium poppy cultivation in Lao PDR was reduced by 93 per cent.  In more remote areas where cash crops are not viable, surveys from UNODC have shown that between 2008 and 2011 the area under opium poppy cultivation has doubled and continues to rise.
    A0016460cc_1.jpg
  • An Akha subsistence farmer scores opium poppies in an upland field in remote Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. After the petals fall from the opium poppy, the heads are incised with a 4 bladed tool; the tool is used to score the skin lightly from top to bottom. During the day, the sap oozes out of the cuts and hangs in tears on the poppy head. The next day the sap is then scraped into a metal container. As recently as 1998, Lao PDR was the third largest illicit opium poppy producer in the world.  From 1998 to 2005, opium poppy cultivation in Lao PDR was reduced by 93 per cent.  In more remote areas where cash crops are not viable, surveys from UNODC have shown that between 2008 and 2011 the area under opium poppy cultivation has doubled and continues to rise.
    A0016447cc_1.jpg
  • A field shelter in an upland field of opium poppies in remote Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR.  As recently as 1998, Lao PDR was the third largest illicit opium poppy producer in the world.  From 1998 to 2005, opium poppy cultivation in Lao PDR was reduced by 93 per cent.  In more remote areas where cash crops are not viable, surveys from UNODC have shown that between 2008 and 2011 the area under opium poppy cultivation has doubled and continues to rise.
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  • A senior Met police officer surveying the square from the steps. The London Stock Exchange was attempted occypied in solidarity with Occupy Wall in Street in New York and in protest againts the economic climate, blamed by many on the banks. Police managed to keep people away fro the Patornoster Sqaure and the Stcok Exchange and thousands of protestors stayid in St. Paul's Square, outside St Paul's Cathedral. Many camped getting ready to spend the night in the square.
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  • Surveyor operating a theodolite. A theodolite is a precision instrument for measuring angles in the horizontal and vertical planes. Theodolites are mainly used for surveying applications.
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