The Wilderness Society
Activists from "The Wilderness Society" protest in lingerie outside a city store in Sydney on May 24, 2011. The Wilderness Society protest was held to draw attention to their claim that logging is being carried out in the Australian state of Victoria's Central Highland forests for the production of paper, despite alternative plantation sources being available.
Environmental activists dressed as clowns, holding chainsaws made from Styrofoam and plastic stand on top of the Monumento às Bandeiras or Flag Monument during a protest against proposed changes to Brazil’s Forest Code, which protects deforestation of the Amazon, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday May 22, 2011. Brazilian farmers, meanwhile, have been demanding the country's Congress ease environmental laws in the Amazon region. They support a bill that would let them clear half the land on their properties in environmentally sensitive areas. Current law allows farmers to clear just 20 percent of their land in the Amazon zone.
Indonesian police patrol a beach near the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) conference in Nusa Dua, on Bali island, on May 24, 2011. NAM, made up of 118 developing countries, is holding a ministerial conference and commemorative meeting from May 23-27 on the Indonesia resort island of Bali.
A Royal Household handout photo made available on 24 May 2011 shows Thai Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn (C) and his Royal Consort Princess Srirasmi (L) accompany their son Prince Dipangkorn Rasmijoti (R) on a first day to school in Bangkok, Thailand, 23 May 2011
Filipino residents collect firewoods at a coastal barangay in Manila, Philippines 24 May 2011. Tropical storm Songda (local name 'Chedeng') is being monitored by weather officials off the coast of the eastern Philippines, as it is estimated at 490 kilometres east of Borongan, Eastern Samar province with maximum sustained winds of 105 kph near the center and gustiness of up to 135 kph.
Workers display some of the stuffed hawksbill turtles before its turn over to the Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau at the Customs area Tuesday, May 24, 2011 in Manila, Philippines. Authorities confiscated 161 stuffed hawksbill and green turtles, black corals and other protected marine species all concealed in two container vans.
Passengers cross the Bassac river by ferry to Takhmao town in Kandal province May 24, 2011. Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen is scheduled to inaugurate the construction of two Chinese-funded bridges across Tonle Sap Lake and Bassac River, according to local media. China is Cambodia's biggest source of foreign direct investments
Vegetable vendors carry baskets on their backs during a general strike called by dissidents who broke away from Nepal's ruling Maoist party, in Kathmandu May 24, 2011. The Maoist dissidents have threatened to declare an indefinite strike if the country's new constitution is not ready by May 28, according to local media reports.
Expedition 27 Flight Engineer Cady Coleman waves hello and talks on a satellite phone to her family shortly after she and Commander Dmitry Kondratyev and Flight Engineer Paolo Nespoli landed in a remote area southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Tuesday, May 24, 2011. NASA Astronaut Coleman, Russian Cosmonaut Kondratyev and Italian Astronaut Nespoli are returning from more than five months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 26 and 27 crews.
Thai police officers inspect the site of a bomb blast, planted by suspected separatist muslim militants in Thailand's restive southern province of Narathiwat on May 24, 2011. Thai police said two officers were killed and another was wounded when a powerful bomb exploded beneath their truck in Thailand's violence-prone south.
Afghan local passengers sit out side of their rooms, to breath fresh air, at a local restaurant in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, May 22, 2011
