People take photos during the Loy Krathong festival which is held as a symbolic apology to the goddess of the river in Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 19, 2021. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)

Two Afghan children stand amid piles of garbage next to their home, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 18, 2022. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)

A mountain jerboa, which is taken under protection after his mother dies, is seen at Yuzuncu Yil University Wild Animal Protection and Rehabilitation Center in Van, Turkiye on June 24, 2022. (Photo by Mesut Varol/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

A fire-eater performs on the street of China Town during the celebration of Chinese New Year in Manila, Philippines on January 22, 2023. This year is the year of the Rabbit in the Chinese lunar calendar. (Photo by Dante Diosina Jr/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Revellers react in a water fight during Songkran Festival celebrations, in Hong Kong, China on April 9, 2023. (Photo by Lam Yik/Reuters)

Nose to Nose; Human/Nature winner. “Doug Gimesy was documenting work at the Joey and Bat Sanctuary near Melbourne when he met a wombat (Vombatus ursinus) whose mother had been killed by a car. Gimesy watched as a young veterinary student bottle-fed the orphaned joey, then touched her nose to the joey’s in a tender moment of interspecies bonding”. (Photo by Doug Gimesy/BigPicture)

Residents of Mathare slum fill bags with coal in hard conditions in the capital of Kenya, Nairobi on November 06, 2023. The coal that workers produce with primitive methods by working overtime in unlicensed workshops is used for heating, cooking and other daily needs. (Photo by Gerald Anderson/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Women work on a colourful display of paper flowers ready to be showcased during the traditional Tet Nguyen Dan festival in Thanh Tien, Vietnam early February 2024. Tet celebrates the arrival of Spring according to the Vietnamese calendar, often celebrated in the early weeks of February, and is this year being held on February 10. (Photo by Nguyen Sanh Quoc Huy/Solent News)