Forest elephants walk underneath a lamp post in the Lope National Park in Gabon. Gabon is home to more than half of the world's remaining 45,000 forest elephants. Their numbers have been decimated ove...

'Solar Mama' Kingaline (44) with a solar lamp in Ambakivao, a village set among mangroves in the western coastal region of Madagascar. Dubbed the 'Solar Mamas', these women were the first in their v...

'Solar Mama' Yollande Randrianambinina cooks fish by the light of a solar lamp. ̢۬ Dubbed the 'Solar Mamas', these women were the first in their village to join a program established by the World Wi...

'Solar Mama' Yollande Randrianambinina repairs a fishing net using the light from a solar lamp while her grand-daughter studies beside her. Dubbed the 'Solar Mamas', these women were the first in th...

The grand-daughter of 'Solar Mama' Yollande Randrianambinina sttudies in front of a solar lamp. Dubbed the 'Solar Mamas', these women were the first in their village to join a program established by...

'Solar Mama' Kingaline (44) with a solar lamp in Ambakivao, a village set among mangroves in the western coastal region of Madagascar. Dubbed the 'Solar Mamas', these women were the first in their v...

'Solar Mama' Yollande Randrianambinina reads in front of a solar lamp. ̢۬Dubbed the 'Solar Mamas', these women were the first in their village to join a program established by the World Wildlife Fu...

Cape cormorant chicks lie under a warming lamp at SANCCOB (Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds). The birds were among almost 2,000 abandoned by their parents on Robben Is...

Cape cormorant chicks lie under a warming lamp at SANCCOB (Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds). The birds were among almost 2,000 abandoned by their parents on Robben Is...

A woman's home illuminated by a lamp made using a plastic soft drinks bottle filled with water and a few drops of bleach and fitted with a metal reflector. A hole is made in the tin roof and the bottl...

A man fits a lamp made from a plastic soft drinks bottle filled with water and a few drops of bleach and fitted with a metal reflector. It is fitted through a hole cut in a tin roof. The sun's rays di...

A man fits a lamp made from a plastic soft drinks bottle filled with water and a few drops of bleach and fitted with a metal reflector. It is fitted through a hole cut in a tin roof. The sun's rays di...

In Kayounga district, 60 kilometres from Kampala, a boy looks at a lamp fuelled by gas produced in a fermentation tank in the yard of the family house. The fermentation product, the result of a biogas...

Kyeyune Rashidah stands beside a display of shoes, illuminated by a solar lamp, that she sells from her home in Kirugaluga to suppliment her nurse's income.

Tailor and dressmaker Robinah Kyayise works in her in workshop in Kirugaluga using the light from a solar lamp she has bought to replace a kerosine one she used previously.