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An elk wades through a river in the Shishou Elk national natural reserve in Jingzhou, central Hubei province, China
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
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A mountain blue bird takes flight in the US. It is the state bird of Idaho and Nevada, and its breeding habitat is open country across western North America
Photograph: Julie Picardi /Barcroft Media/Getty Images
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A bear climbs a tree at Bear Wood, a new enclosure at Bristol zoo’s Wild Place project. The animal is one of four European brown bears living together with five grey wolves in British woodland for the first time
Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA
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A western yellow wagtail rests near Van in Turkey. The Van Lake basin is visited by migratory birds coming to the region with the warming of the weather. More than 230 species of birds can be observed in the basin
Photograph: Ali Ihsan Ozturk/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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A mountain hare sits on a hillside after a rain shower in the Scottish Highlands. The Scottish parliament voted on Wednesday to give the species special protection under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, which will make it an offence to intentionally or recklessly kill or injure a mountain hare without a licence
Photograph: Karen Miller/Alamy
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A fire burns in the Cerrado of Brazil, one of the world’s oldest and most diverse tropical ecosystems and one of the most endangered on the planet. According to a WWF report, the UK will be ‘complicit’ in increasing the risk of future pandemics if post-Brexit trade deals do not protect nature and support sustainable farming
Photograph: David Bebber/WWF/PA
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Hood Island giant tortoises after being released by park rangers on Espanola in the Galapagos archipelago. Diego, a centenarian giant tortoise considered a super male by saving his species from extinction in the Ecuadorian Galapagos archipelago, was returned to his native Espanola after breeding in captivity for several decades
Photograph: Parque Nacional Galapagos/AFP/Getty Images
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An Egyptian vulture is seen more than two months after 108 species of birds of prey were returned to their natural habitat after being treated over the past year by an animal welfare and rehabilitation centre in Van, Turkey. Vultures play a vital role within human ecosystems and conservationist are working to halt the decline in vulture populations
Photograph: Ali Ihsan Ozturk/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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An Eurasian grey wolf moves past a vulture-watching site in the Madzharovo valley, Bulgaria. Coronavirus lockdown measures across Europe and the world have allowed some animals to recolonise – or at least revisit – former habitats that are now urbanised
Photograph: Staffan Widstrand/Rewilding Europe/AFP/Getty Images
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An adult long-tailed tit flies from the privet hedge at the front of Guardian sports photographer Tom Jenkins’ house back to its nest during the Covid-19 lockdown in north London
Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian
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Henry, a newborn Rothschild’s giraffe, moves around his enclosure at the Tierpark Berlin zoo. The 11-day-old male was born on 5 June and is already 2 metres tall. Rothschild’s giraffes are a critically endangered subspecies, with only about 2,000 remaining in the wild
Photograph: Omer Messinger/EPA
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A Cantabrian brown bear ambles through the Somiedo natural park in Asturias, northern Spain. The park, which spans almost 40,000 hectares (98,842 acres), was declared a world biosphere reserve by Unesco in 2000
Photograph: JL Cereijido/EPA
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A pale tile feeds its young in Carabobo, Venezuela
Photograph: Juan Carlos Hernandez/Zuma Wire/Alamy
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A bird sits on the back of a southern white rhino inside Nairobi national park in Kenya
Photograph: Baz Ratner/Reuters
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A green bridge crosses the B50 near Longkamp in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The state in the west of the country has 15 such bridges, two landscape tunnels and nine underpasses for wildlife in order to network habitats
Photograph: Thomas Frey/dpa
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Flamingos are seen at Eber Lake between the Bolvadin, Cay and Sultandagi districts of Afyonkarahisar in Turkey
Photograph: Ozge Elif Kizil/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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A fox licks its chops on Russky Island off the coast of Primorsky Krai, Russia. The island is part of the city of Vladivostok
Photograph: Yuri Smityuk/TASS
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A blonde colour common seal rests on the shoreline of the Isle of Bute, Scotland. The Scottish government and fish farmers have come under pressure from ecologists and animal welfare campaigners to stop using gunfire to scare the seals from breaking into salmon pens
Photograph: Rebecca Cole/Alamy
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A face mask floats in the water off the coast of the Beylikduzu district of Istanbul, Turkey. Members of a local diving club have been removing nets, boots, nylon bags, medical waste, cables and bottles during dives as part of Environment Week.
Photograph: Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
