22 April 2010: A polar bear dance, a doomed thresher shark, and a crowd of giant tortoises gathered at dawn in the Galapagos are just a few of the stunning images that have been selected as the top 40 nature photographs of all time.
The images, chosen by the world's top professional conservation photographers, will be auctioned to raise money for charity to coincide with the 40th annual Earth Day today
Twilight of the Giants, Botswana 1989. African bush elephants at a watering hole in Chobe national park, Botswana
Seeing Double. In this image by Paul Nicklen, a polar bear swims in icy water off the northern tip of Baffin Island, a tactic the bears often use to surprise prey
Stone Canyon. Pulitzer prize-winning photojournalist and landscape photographer Jack Dykinga made this photograph as part of a campaign to create national monuments in both the Paria Canyon and Escalante Canyon drainages. He had tried on six separate occasions to capture this scene following seasonal rains, dissatisfied each time with the quality of the reflections. His final effort paid off after he hiked in at 3:30am in order to arrive in time for dawn and calm water
Tortoises at Dawn, Galapagos Islands, 1984. Giant tortoises, geochelone elephantopus, in a pond at Alcedo volcano
Polar Dance. For centuries, the bears have gathered along the western shores of Hudson Bay in late October and early November waiting for the water to freeze. Here, two adults appear to dance
Split Rock and Cloud, Eastern Sierra, California, 1976. The photographer Galen Rowell (1940–2002) was a master of incorporating fleeting natural light in his compositions. He saw this splendidly illuminated cirrus cloud while climbing in the Buttermilk region of California's eastern Sierra Nevada one evening
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