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Image link archive

Most of the images on these websites are entirely free to use but certain conditions may apply (such as online-only, or non-profit only use). We therefore recommend that you check or contact the websites to confirm how their images can be used.


Agricultural/Crops/Food/Plants

Agricultual Research Service Image Gallery
Biowatch South Africa
Canola Council of Canada
CGIAR Photo Album
Cotton South Africa (click on Site Map link on left hand side, then click on Photo Library)
DFID Plant Sciences Research Programme (selection of images distributed around the site)
Ecoport.org
FAO WOCAT Images Database
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Photo Bank (permission needed to use images)
Plant images at Invasive.org
Monsanto images
Plants of Hawaii
USDA Image Library
USDA plants image library
World Food Programme Image Library

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Animals/Wildlife

African Wildlife Pictures
Electronic Zoo
Image Bank
Imagine Animals
NOAA Animals
Tim Knight's Wildlife Gallery
US Fish & Wildlife Image Library

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Birds

Avian Web
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Bird photos

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Climate Change

Vital Graphics Climate Change Image Collections

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Countries

Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent
Africa/HIV
Bangladesh photos
European Union ECHO; humanitarian images
The Pyramids of Egypt
Thisbeautifulword.com - India
Thisbeautifulword.com - Nepal
Thisbeautifulword.com - South Africa
Thisbeautifulword.com - Thailand
Thisbeautifulword.com - Zimbabwe

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Disease/Health/Medical

AIDS Research History
BIODIDAC (Biology Images Database)
Botanical Society of America Online Image
CDC Image Library
Hardin MD: Medical Pictures / Disease Pictures
Health on the Net Foundation
Johns Hopkins Image Library (PhotoShare)
LTSN Bioscience ImageBank
Medical Images & Illustrations Listing
National Eye Institute's Photograph and Image Catalog
PAHO Image Library
SEARO (South East Asian WHO)
Scott Camazine's Medical Images Galleries
World Lung Foundation Image Library (for TB images)
TDR/WHO image library
WHO Mediacentre

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Deserts

Kalahari Desert images- credit Mark Reed

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Energy

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
ManagEnergy (Directorate-General for Energy and Transport)
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

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Environment

Greenpeace images
National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Photo Gallery
Plants of Hawaii
School of Earth and Environment

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Forests

Amazon Tropical Rainforest Photos And Information
FAO Forestry Images

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General image sites

CalPhotos
Catalog of U.S. Government Science and Technology Web Site Resources
DHD Multimedia Gallery
EurekAlert!
Freefoto.com
FreeImages.co.uk
free-photographs.net
IMAGE Series Volume 2
Michael's Photo Gallery
Morguefile.com
Organization of American States
Roslin Institute, Edinburgh
SERIMEDIS scientific image server
Smithsonian Institution
Stock.XCHNG
US Defense Dept News Photos
UNESCO photo bank
UN photo gallery

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Genomics/DNA

genome.gov press photos
Human Genome project information image gallery

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Image Search engines

Fagan Finder
Google Image Search
Picsearch

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Maps

Demis Web Map Server

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Nanotechnology

Accelrys Nanotechnology Gallery
Nanomedicine Art Gallery (permission needed to use images)
NASA Nanotech Gallery

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Natural disasters

National Geophysical Data Center Image Gallery
Tsunami image gallery links page
USGS Sri Lanka tsunami pictures

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Oceans and Reefs

ICRIN Coral Reef Photobank
Marine Photo Bank
NOAA Photo Library Home Page
ReefBase.org

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Insects and parasites

Insect images
Parasite Image Library
University of São Paulo's Department of Parasitology

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People

WFP galleries
USAID in Africa

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Public Domain photos and links

Copyright-Free Photo Gimp Archive: Public Domain Photos and Images
pdimages.com - Free Public Domain Images
PD Photo - Public Domain Photos
Pixel Perfect Digital 3.0 - Free Image Archive
Public Domain Images Links page
US Government Public Domain Images
Wikipedia: Public domain image resources
UNESCO Communication and Information photobank

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Space & satellites

Astronautix.com; China space program
Canadian Space Agency
European Space Agency (ESA) gallery
Earth Science World ImageBank
Geological Society gallery
HubbleSite
NASA GRIN- Great images in Nasa
NASA Image eXchange (NIX)
NASA's Johnson Space Centre
NASA Multimedia
NASA Planetary Photojournal
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) image galleries

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