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A white-throated kingfisher in a field in Lahore, Pakistan. The most familiar kingfisher species can be observed perched on branches or walls while on the lookout for grubs, insects and even fish in streams or garden ponds.
Photograph: Rahat Dar/EPA
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A water vole and a little grebe on Cromford canal. The Canal and River Trust, which manages 2,000 miles of waterways in England and Wales, is to trial changes to how it mows the grass along towpaths to boost wildlife.
Photograph: Jack Perks/Canal and River Trust/PA
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A colony of white herons in treetops share space with three red herons at the Guaviare river in Colombia. The Guaviare department, the door of the Colombian Amazon, is becoming a tourist destination for sighting hundreds of birds or pink river dolphins.
Photograph: Juancho Torres/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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A dhole (Asiatic wild dog) in Khao Yai National Park, 80 miles (130km) north of Bangkok.
Photograph: Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images
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A male toad attempts to dislodge another from a female toad as they mate near Newcastleton village in the Liddesdale hills, Scotland.
Photograph: Chris Strickland/Alamy
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Deer in a corral before anthrax vaccination carried out by the regional state veterinary service in the village of Lovozero, in Murmansk region, Russia.
Photograph: Lev Fedoseyev/TASS/Getty Images
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A dusky dolphin jumps out of water in Kaikoura bay in Kaikoura peninsula, South Island, New Zealand. Kaikoura is recognised as one of the best places in the world to regularly encounter wild dolphins in their natural environment.
Photograph: Sanka Vidanagama/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock
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False killer whales, a tropical species rarely seen off Orange County, spotted off Newport and Laguna beaches in Southern California.
Photograph: Mark Girardeau/Newport Coastal Adventure/AP
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An Amazon pink river dolphin in Damas del Nare lake in Guaviare, Colombia. River dolphins are among the worlds most endangered cetaceans.
Photograph: Juancho Torres/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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Saudi volunteers guide stranded dolphins by hand to move them from shallow sandy beaches into deeper waters, in Khor al-Thuqba in the Umluj region on the Red Sea. More than 40 dolphins beached in north-west Saudi Arabia due to heavy winds and stormy weather have been rescued but seven others died.
Photograph: SPA/AFP/Getty Images
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A farmer carrying firewood on her head passes through a barricade of hanged containers of the concoction used to repel elephants in Syaluwindi Village in Dete, Hwange, Zimbabwe. The a combination of herbs, chilli, ginger and eggs left to ferment for weeks was invented by Ugandan farmers keen to stop rampaging elephants trampling their crops.
Photograph: Tafadzwa Ufumeli/Getty Images
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Forest elephants at night in Gabon. The last ‘Red list’ assessment of two separate African species exposes critically endangered status of forest elephants, down 86% in 31 years.
Photograph: Lee White
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This image from footage taken with a camera trap in December 2020 shows a young female Amur leopard with three cubs in the Land of the Leopard National Park in the far-eastern Primorye region of Russia on the border with China.
Photograph: The Land of the Leopard National/AFP/Getty Images
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A blue tit in Victoria Park, Bath.
Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA
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An echidna is attended to in the Byron Bay Mobile wildlife hospital having been found injured beside a road after heavy rain in Byron Bay, Australia. Extreme weather has caused extensive flooding across New South Wales. Reports are now emerging of ground-dwelling animals such as echidnas and wombats being trapped underground or being hit by cars when moving to higher ground.
Photograph: James D Morgan/Getty Images
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Grey reef sharks and Sicklefin Lemon sharks captured by a baited remote underwater video system in French Polynesia. A research paper released this week shows the absence of apex predators can exacerbate extreme climate damage in Shark Bay, Western Australia.
Photograph: GLOBAL FINPRINT/AFP/Getty Images
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The wall of a building is covered with a swarm of desert locusts that were blown to Kuwait City by strong winds.
Photograph: Yasser Al-Zayyat/AFP/Getty Images
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A worker uses a leaf blower in an attempt to stop a fire spreading in Similipal national park, Odisha, India. Blazes threaten wildlife such as tigers, elephants and orchids.
Photograph: Karan Khosla/The Guardian
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A hoopoe perches on a tree in the woods near Lebanon’s northern coastal city of Byblos.
Photograph: Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images
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A Eurasian beaver male swimming in a pond in a large woodland enclosure soon after release. A pair of Eurasian beavers have been released in South Downs by the National Trust this week.
Photograph: Nick Upton/National Trust Images
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Cockatoos rest in a tree as rain continues to fall in Windsor, Sydney, Australia. Evacuation warnings are in place for parts of western Sydney as floodwaters continue to rise.
Photograph: David Gray/Getty Images
