Green leaves sprout from eucalyptus lignotubers on a burnt tree trunk. 30-34 years

Green leaves sprout from eucalyptus lignotubers on a burnt tree trunk. 30-34 yearsGreen leaves sprout from eucalyptus lignotubers on a burnt tree trunk. Kinglake National Park, Victoria, Australia

Diplomystus Dentatus

Barbwire Vine a robust thorny climber that may reach the forest canopy Parkville

A medical technician in a barren clinic dispenses HIV AIDS medication

As the tide recedes along a wide beach the sunset afterglow is reflected in the wet sand

Mullock humps from underground opal mines line the desert horizon

A toddler looks out to sea and the horizon from a hilltop on the coast Great Ocean Road

they are often filled with flamboyant splashes of colour

Huge waves send foam roiling onto the beach to break against a rock

Serengetti National Park

Port Melbourne

Ducks in flight over a vast mud flat in a coastal wetland

Note how they surround the small calf to protect it from predators