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A Bryde’s whale and seagulls feast on anchovies in the Gulf of Thailand. The species has been spotted more frequently after the absence of tourists during the pandemic, which raises hopes of the marine ecosystem being restored after years of damage
Photograph: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA
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An anteater is released in the Amazon forest after receiving veterinary treatment in Rondonia state, Brazil. Creatures of the Amazon, one of the earth’s most biodiverse habitats, face an ever-growing threat as loggers and farms advance further into the territory
Photograph: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters
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Montana, US. A bull bison wallows in dirt at the National Bison Range, which is a refuge that was established in 1908 to provide a sanctuary for the animals
Photograph: Kent Meireis/Zuma/Rex/Shutterstock
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A young female koala named Ash sits on a Eucalyptus branch at the Australian Reptile Park in Sydney. A New South Wales parliamentary inquiry released in June 2020 found that koalas will become extinct in the state before 2050 without urgent intervention
Photograph: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images
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Biologists of the regional environmental entity CVC release two Central American agoutis during national biodiversity day in Colombia
Photograph: Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images
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A wounded crested porcupine at the veterinary clinic of the ministry of the environment, waiting to be treated and released, in San Salvador
Photograph: Marvin Recinos/AFP/Getty Images
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An injured adult male jaguar walks along the riverbank at the Encontros das Aguas park, in the Porto Jofre region of the Pantanal in Brazil. The Pantanal is suffering its worst wildfires in more than 47 years
Photograph: Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images
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A European hornet eats a rotten pear near Rennes, western France
Photograph: Damien Meyer/AFP/Getty Images
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Zoran Micic, a worker from the Pula aquarium, inspects a dead Pinna nobilis in the Adriatic Sea near Pula, Croatia. The Pinna nobilis is the Mediterranean’s largest clam but is on the verge of extinction
Photograph: Antonio Bronic/Reuters
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A golden frog at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Gamboa, a rainforest near Panama City. Cocooned from the outside world, 200 critically endangered golden frogs are living a sheltered existence in Panama, protected from a devastating fungus that threatens to wipe out a third of the country’s amphibian species
Photograph: Bienvenido Velasco/EPA
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Dead birds found by biologists from New Mexico State University in the US. Thousands of migrating birds have inexplicably diedin south-western US, in what ornithologists have described as a national tragedy that is likely to be related to the climate crisis
Photograph: Allison Salas/New Mexico State University
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Waders fly over Lake Kalgachinskoye at Vodlozersky national park in northern Russia. The park is listed as one of Unesco’s World Network of Biosphere Reserves
Photograph: Ilya Timin/Tass
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A peacock butterfly closes its wings on a sunny day in Hengistbury Head, Dorset.
Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/Rex/Shutterstock
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Ash from nearby wildfires clings to the threads of a spider web in a blackberry thicket in western Oregon, US. Ash has been raining down in the area for the last due to the fires
Photograph: Robin Loznak/Zuma/Rex/Shutterstock
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Shandong province, China: On 17 September, bird migration entered its peak period, with tens of thousands of curlew and gulls returning to the national marine park in Qingdao city. The construction of the park in recent years has help protect migratory bird habitats
Photograph: Sipa Asia/Rex/Shutterstock
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A termite mound near burned vegetation at the Transpantaneira park road in Mato Grosso state, Brazil. According to the devastating UN report Global Biodiversity Outlook 5, the world has failed to meet a single target to stem the destruction of wildlife and life-sustaining ecosystems in the last decade
Photograph: Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images
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