Chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) with young, Kruger National Park, South Africa, Africa

A male yellow barred jawfish (Opistognathus randalli), broods eggs in its mouth, Anilao, Philippines.

Common Loon (Gavia immer) chicks riding on their mother's back, Lac Le Jeune Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada, North America

Adult king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) amongst chicks at breeding colony at Gold Harbour, South Georgia Island, Polar Regions

View of Champa Devi, a sacred mountain from Sneha's Care, Bhaisipati, Kathmandu, Nepal, Himalayas, Asia

Hundreds of Jizo, Buddha statues, Zen Buddhism, Yoshino, Nara, Honshu, Japan, Asia

Adult gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) with minutes-old newly hatched chick at Gold Harbor on South Georgia

Adult gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) with minutes-old newly hatched chick at Gold Harbor on South Georgia

Adult gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) feeding minutes-old newly hatched chick at Gold Harbor on South Georgia

Microbats constitute the suborder Microchiroptera, found in a sandstone crevice on Bigge Island, Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia, Pacific

View of Champa Devi, a sacred mountain from Sneha's Care, Bhaisipati, Kathmandu, Nepal, Himalayas, Asia

Mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) nanny and kid, Mount Evans, Colorado, United States of America, North America

Infant chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) being groomed, Kruger National Park, South Africa, Africa

Adult Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) returning from the sea with fish for its chick on Flatey Island, Iceland, Polar Regions

Lioness with cub, Masai Mara, Kenya, East Africa, Africa

Lioness (Panthera leo) and its cub, Ndutu, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa

King penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) adult and chick at breeding and nesting colony at Salisbury Plain, South Georgia, Polar Regions

Baby elephant framed by its mother, Maasai Mara, Kenya, East Africa, Africa

Red footed booby and chick, Isla Genovesa, Galapagos Islands, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ecuador, South America

Washing the elephants at Kottoor Kappukadu Elephant rehabilitation centre, Kerala, India, South Asia

Elephants being washed in river, Sigiriya, Central Province, Sri Lanka, Asia

Olive baboon (Papio cynocephalus anubis) infant and mother, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa

Black-browed albatross (Thalassarche melanophris) adult and chick on West Point Island, Falkland Islands, UK Overseas Protectorate, South America

Black-Legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) adult feeding a chick on the nest, Iceland, Polar Regions

Lioness (Panthera leo) with cubs, Zimanga Game Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Africa

Gentoo penguin feeding chick, Neko Harbour, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Yellow mongoose (Cynictis penicillata) with young, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa, Africa

Yellow mongoose (Cynictis penicillata) with young, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa, Africa

Ground squirrels (Xerus inauris), Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Northern Cape, South Africa, Africa

Australasian gannet (Morus serrator) with chick at Cape Kidnappers, North Island, New Zealand, Pacific

Chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) with baby, Kruger National Park, South Africa, Africa

Gentoo penguin feeding large chick, Gourdin Island, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Adult and infant chacma baboon (Papio ursinus), Kruger National Park, South Africa, Africa

Black-Legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) adult and chick on the nest, Iceland, Polar Regions

Lions (Panthera leo), Okavango delta, Botswana, Africa

Crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis) mother with baby, Monkey Forest, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Black-Legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) adult and two chicks on the nest, Iceland, Polar Regions

Elephants (Loxodonta africana), Chobe National Park, Botswana, Africa

Adult black-browed albatross (Thalassarche melanophris) feeding chick in the New Island Nature Reserve, Falkland Islands, South America

Adult gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) feeding chick at Jougla Point, Wiencke Island, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Gentoo penguin feeding large chick, Gourdin Island, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, Polar Regions

African elephants (Loxodonta africana), Okavango delta, Botswana, Africa

Elephant (Loxodonta africana) calf, Chobe National Park, Botswana, Africa

Intensive care, maternity, Korlebu Hospital, Accra, Ghana, West Africa, Africa

Elderly peoples' home, Chedde, Haute Savoie, France, Europe

Bluetit bird feeding hungry young nestling in a garden bird box, The Cotswolds, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Female mute swan, Cygnus olor, and her cygnet in Southrop in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, UK

Indian Langur monkeys, Presbytis entellus, female and baby feeding in Ranthambore National Park, Rajasthan, India

Mare and foal horses in Vallee d'Ossau near Laruns in Parc National des Pyrenees Occident, France

Indian Langur monkeys, Presbytis entellus, female and baby feeding in Ranthambore National Park, Rajasthan, India

Female mute swan, Cygnus olor, and her cygnet in Southrop in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, UK

Indian Langur monkeys, Presbytis entellus, female and baby in Ranthambore National Park, Rajasthan, India

Female mute swan, Cygnus olor, and her cygnet in Southrop in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, UK

Indian Langur monkeys, Presbytis entellus, female and baby in Ranthambore National Park, Rajasthan, India

Connemara pony mare with foal suckling in buttercup meadow, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland

Traditional robes worn by residents at Britain's oldest charitable institution The Hospital Of St Cross founded in 1100's, Winchester, UK

Bluetit bird feeding hungry young nestling in a garden bird box, The Cotswolds, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Indian Langur monkeys, Presbytis entellus, female and baby in Ranthambore National Park, Rajasthan, India

Female mallard duck and ducklings in stream in The Cotswolds, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Grandmother and child from Zhuang Minority Group, Ping An, Guilin. China has a one child policy to limit population.

American Chinese family walk the ancient Great Wall of China at Mutianyu, north of Beijing, China

Pakistani family in mountain village of Altit in Hunza region of Karokoram Mountains, Pakistan

Watched by a group of young children a woman washes dishes in a bucket of water at a humble home on the sidewalk in Bombay, India. A little girl has a gleeful expression despite the poverty of the situation.

Female Olive Baboon carrying young, Grumeti, Tanzania

With flies around his nose a child holds onto his mother's necklace at Gorom Gorom Hospital in Burkina Faso

Cleaning the beach in Mauritius to aid tourism

Burchell's Zebra and foal in Northern Botswana, Africa

Mother Teresa talking with a poor woman and her child from a Red Cross minibus in Calcutta, India

A man balances his little boy on his bicycle, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh, Asia

Friendly Himba women in their hut, Kaokoland, Namibia, Africa

Himba women in front of their hut, Kaokoland, Namibia, Africa

Old man gardening in front of a thatched house in the village of Kurzeme, Ethnographic Open-Air Museum near Riga, Latvia, Baltic region, Europe

Child in a queue waiting to enter the Forbidden City in Beijing, China

Woman and girl child in rural Nepal.

Woman with tribal markings on her face holding her baby close, Northern Nigeria

Aboriginal children caring for an orphaned baby kangaroo (joey), Nyinyikay Homeland, East Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia, Pacific

Small church at Nupsstadur, under Lomagnupur cliffs, dating from the 17th-century, in the care of the National Museum of Iceland, South Iceland, Polar Regions

Indian Langur monkeys, Presbytis entellus, female and baby in Ranthambore National Park, Rajasthan, India

Man wheeling child on bicycle in crowded street in Islamabad in Pakistan

Jedburgh Augustinian Abbey, founded 1136 by King David, in the care of Historic Scotland, Jedburgh, Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Gardeners at work in one of the gardens of Goverdan ecovillage, Maharashtra, India, Asia

Gardeners at work in one of the gardens of Goverdan ecovillage, Maharashtra, India, Asia

Street pedicure in central Thies, Senegal, West Africa, Africa

Vietnamese traditional medicine clinic, medicinal plants for Chinese medicine, Cu Chi, Vietnam, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Zanzibar Red Colobus monkey with young, one of Africa's rarest primates

Woman watering a vegetable garden in Loumbila, Burkina Faso, West Africa, Africa

Family nepali immigrant family kalimpong, indi

Kenya,dadaab refugees camp, somalian border gtz hospital ,the camps were set up around the town of dadaab beginning in 1991 when civil wars erupted on a grand scale in somalia (16 rival factions were involved). The wars, along with a prolonged drought, forced more than 900,000 somalis to flee to neighboring countries. Approximately 400,000 of them, many of whom were in a serious state of exhaustion and starvation, took refuge in kenya. Since then, a majority have returned to their country. However, some 131,000 somalis remain in kenya, and 110,000 are in dadaab, along with some sudanese, ugandans, and about 3,000 ethiopians women waiting the receive care from gtz ngo at the local hospital

Kenya,dadaab refugees camp, somalian border gtz hospital ,the camps were set up around the town of dadaab beginning in 1991 when civil wars erupted on a grand scale in somalia (16 rival factions were involved). The wars, along with a prolonged drought, forced more than 900,000 somalis to flee to neighboring countries. Approximately 400,000 of them, many of whom were in a serious state of exhaustion and starvation, took refuge in kenya. Since then, a majority have returned to their country. However, some 131,000 somalis remain in kenya, and 110,000 are in dadaab, along with some sudanese, ugandans, and about 3,000 ethiopians women waiting the receive care from gtz ngo at the local hospital

Kenya,dadaab refugees camp, somalian border gtz hospital ,the camps were set up around the town of dadaab beginning in 1991 when civil wars erupted on a grand scale in somalia (16 rival factions were involved). The wars, along with a prolonged drought, forced more than 900,000 somalis to flee to neighboring countries. Approximately 400,000 of them, many of whom were in a serious state of exhaustion and starvation, took refuge in kenya. Since then, a majority have returned to their country. However, some 131,000 somalis remain in kenya, and 110,000 are in dadaab, along with some sudanese, ugandans, and about 3,000 ethiopians women waiting the receive care from gtz ngo at the local hospital

Kenya,dadaab refugees camp, somalian border gtz hospital ,the camps were set up around the town of dadaab beginning in 1991 when civil wars erupted on a grand scale in somalia (16 rival factions were involved). The wars, along with a prolonged drought, forced more than 900,000 somalis to flee to neighboring countries. Approximately 400,000 of them, many of whom were in a serious state of exhaustion and starvation, took refuge in kenya. Since then, a majority have returned to their country. However, some 131,000 somalis remain in kenya, and 110,000 are in dadaab, along with some sudanese, ugandans, and about 3,000 ethiopians women waiting the receive care from gtz ngo at the local hospital

European lynx, lynx lynx, family in winter, national park bayrischer wald, germany, captiv

Kenya,dadaab refugees camp, somalian border gtz hospital ,the camps were set up around the town of dadaab beginning in 1991 when civil wars erupted on a grand scale in somalia (16 rival factions were involved). The wars, along with a prolonged drought, forced more than 900,000 somalis to flee to neighboring countries. Approximately 400,000 of them, many of whom were in a serious state of exhaustion and starvation, took refuge in kenya. Since then, a majority have returned to their country. However, some 131,000 somalis remain in kenya, and 110,000 are in dadaab, along with some sudanese, ugandans, and about 3,000 ethiopians women waiting the receive care from gtz ngo at the local hospital

Cambodia american volunteer kathy kremmer taking care of sick babies at an orphanage in pnom penh

Kenya,dadaab refugees camp, somalian border gtz hospital ,the camps were set up around the town of dadaab beginning in 1991 when civil wars erupted on a grand scale in somalia (16 rival factions were involved). The wars, along with a prolonged drought, forced more than 900,000 somalis to flee to neighboring countries. Approximately 400,000 of them, many of whom were in a serious state of exhaustion and starvation, took refuge in kenya. Since then, a majority have returned to their country. However, some 131,000 somalis remain in kenya, and 110,000 are in dadaab, along with some sudanese, ugandans, and about 3,000 ethiopians women waiting the receive care from gtz ngo at the local hospital . wounds due to boiling water for tea . lots of kids get burned by open flames fires into the camp as they play around without parents control

Ethiopia day care pre-school run by good shepherd sisters for needy children, addis ababa

Thailand hiv+ patients in an aids hospice at a buddhist temple in lopburi

Kenya,dadaab refugees camp, somalian border gtz hospital ,the camps were set up around the town of dadaab beginning in 1991 when civil wars erupted on a grand scale in somalia (16 rival factions were involved). The wars, along with a prolonged drought, forced more than 900,000 somalis to flee to neighboring countries. Approximately 400,000 of them, many of whom were in a serious state of exhaustion and starvation, took refuge in kenya. Since then, a majority have returned to their country. However, some 131,000 somalis remain in kenya, and 110,000 are in dadaab, along with some sudanese, ugandans, and about 3,000 ethiopians women waiting the receive care from gtz ngo at the local hospital

India - health st. Josephs hospice for cancer patients kottayam, kerala

Kenya,dadaab refugees camp, somalian border gtz hospital ,the camps were set up around the town of dadaab beginning in 1991 when civil wars erupted on a grand scale in somalia (16 rival factions were involved). The wars, along with a prolonged drought, forced more than 900,000 somalis to flee to neighboring countries. Approximately 400,000 of them, many of whom were in a serious state of exhaustion and starvation, took refuge in kenya. Since then, a majority have returned to their country. However, some 131,000 somalis remain in kenya, and 110,000 are in dadaab, along with some sudanese, ugandans, and about 3,000 ethiopians women waiting the receive care from gtz ngo at the local hospital .malnourrish child