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An Indian one-horned rhino wades through flood water in Pobitora wildlife sanctuary in the Morigaon district of Assam, India. One person was reportedly killed and more than 200,000 people have been affected by floods caused by heavy rains
Photograph: EPA
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One of three baby West African crocodiles hatching at Aquatis, the largest freshwater aquarium in Europe, in Lausanne, Switzerland. The three female crocodiles are destined to be sent to Agadir in Morocco as part of a programme to reintroduce the species
Photograph: Laurent Gillieron/EPA
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One of 200 European pond turtles being released at Sainte-Croix animal park in Rhodes, north-east France
Photograph: Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP/Getty Images
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Wildlife at the Narriearra station, a 153,415-hectare (379,000-acre) property in the far north-west of New South Wales, Australia. The land has been bought by the state and will be turned into a national park to help protect threatened species
Photograph: Joshua J Smith/NSW National Parks and Wildlife/AFP/Getty Images
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A roe deer after being released back into its natural habitat after treatment and rehabilitation at Ormanya wildlife park in Kocaeli, Turkey
Photograph: Tahir Turan Eroglu/Anadolu Agency/Getty
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One of five red macaws that were freed at Ibera national park, Argentina, as part of a project to restore native species. The red macaw has been extinct in Corrientes province for 100 years
Photograph: Rewilding Argentina/AFP/Getty
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A wild golden jackal resting beside a house in Tehatta in the Indian state of West Bengal
Photograph: Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto/PA
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A bee and a bee-eating beetle (Trichodes apiarius) draw nectar from the flowers of a bush in a garden outside Moscow
Photograph: Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty
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Mexican grey wolf cubs, an endangered native species, in their enclosure at the Desert Museum in Saltillo, Mexico
Photograph: Daniel Becerril/Reuters
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A white-throated sparrow. Researchers in Canada have found that birds in British Columbia devised a new song that has spread across the country in a way they said was unprecedented
Photograph: Scott M Ramsey/AFP/Getty
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The pupa of Amicta moneiba, a recently discovered species of moth indigenous to La Gomera and El Hierro islands, which pulled apart from the rest of the Canary Islands 2.5m years ago
Photograph: Yeray Monasterio/Zerynthia/EPA
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Two hermit ibis at a wildlife park in Bad Mergentheim, Germany
Photograph: Ronald Wittek/EPA
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A frog sits on a water lily in a channel of the Danube delta near Sfantu Gheorghe in Romania. The delta is on Unesco’s World Heritage list and is home to more than 300 species of bird and 45 freshwater fish species
Photograph: Daniel Mihailescu/AFP/Getty
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A female and male sparrow during mating season season in Ankara, Turkey
Photograph: Adem Altan/AFP/Getty
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Vultures in Bhorni village, Himachal Pradesh state, India
Photograph: Sanjay Baid/EPA
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Thousands of small starfish washed ashore during low tide on Garden City Beach, South Carolina, US
Photograph: Jason Lee/AP
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The carcass of one of the many elephants which have died mysteriously in the Okavango delta in Botswana
Photograph: National Park Rescue/AFP/Getty Images
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A conservation agency official examines a dead tiger found at a farm in Trumon, South Aceh, Indonesia. Two Sumatran tigers have been found dead of suspected poisoning in less than a week
Photograph: Khafadi Syawal/AFP/Getty
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Fishermen extract a sea turtle from their nets in Joal, Senegal, where people are being made aware of the importance of saving endangered species, which regulate the ecosystem and help maintain fish abundance
Photograph: Seyllou/AFP/Getty
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A hoopoe in Kathmandu, Nepal
Photograph: Narayan Maharjan/NurPhoto/PA
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A new pond created by the Freshwater Habitats Trust on farmland near Oxford. The pond now supports great crested newts. Digging ponds in the countryside can deliver ‘unprecedented’ gains for nature, experts say
Photograph: Freshwater Habitats Trust/PA
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A long exposure shows movement from the wind in a cornflower field at Tithby, Nottinghamshire, as rain, wind and weather warnings brought an end to the June heatwave
Photograph: Neil Squires/PA
