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A baby green turtle (Chelonia mydas) swims into the sea after being released on the beach at Lalombi in Indonesia. Six of the seven species of sea turtles including the green turtle, live in Indonesian waters. The main threats to them are from hunting, fishing, egg trading and damage to nesting habitat
Photograph: Basri Marzuki/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock
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A yellow wagtail on a birch tree, Ivanovo, Russia
Photograph: Vladimir Smirnov/Tass
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A harpy eagle on a nest in the southern Amazon, Brazil. They are among the world’s largest and most powerful birds, but those living in deforested areas of their last stronghold in the Amazon struggle to feed their young as their habitat is destroyed
Photograph: Everton Miranda/AFP/Getty
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The larva of a heath fritillary butterfly, one of the UK’s rarest butterflies, has been discovered at the Woodland Trust’s Victory Wood in east Kent, where restoration work has helped wildlife return, say conservationists
Photograph: Rebecca Levey/PA
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Egrets play in trees in Sihong county, China
Photograph: Sipa US/Alamy Live News
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Venus, a German pincer, cools off in a fountain during the scorching heatwave in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Photograph: Jennifer Gauthier/Reuters
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A giant jellyfish in Peter the Great Gulf in the Sea of Japan
Photograph: Yuri Smityuk/Tass
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A man holds a pangolin at Save Vietnam’s Wildlife rescue centre in Cuc Phuong national park, Vietnam. Pangolins are the world’s most trafficked mammal and are thought to make up 20% of all illegal wildlife trade
Photograph: Thanh Hue/Reuters
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Joshua trees dry up and die as the drought worsens in Meadview, Arizona, US. Large portions of the west of the US are now classified as being in exceptional drought, the most extreme drought category
Photograph: David McNew/Getty
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A baby gorilla is cradled by its mother, Mayombe, in the Bateke Plateau, south-east Gabon. The baby was born in the wild from two parents who grew up in captivity in Europe
Photograph: The Aspinall Foundation/AFP/Getty
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A spider captures a dragonfly on its net in Gurpinar, Turkey
Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty
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Cows and herdsmen climb the narrow path from Adelboden to Engstligenalp, Switzerland. About 500 cows, cattle and calves cover the 600 metres of altitude during the alpine procession to their summer pasture
Photograph: Alessandro Della Valle/EPA
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A red velvet mite walks on a plant leaf on the outskirts of Pushkar, India
Photograph: Himanshu Sharma/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock
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An Arabian red fox in a desert in Kuwait
Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock
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A baby boar snake is seen between the combs of a coffee harvester on a farm in Jeriquara, Brazil. The snake was returned to nature before the equipment went into operation
Photograph: Igor do Vale/Rex/Shutterstock
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A giant muntjac walks in Virachey national park in Cambodia in this camera trap photo. The critically endangered giant barking deer seen for the first time has given a boost to the country’s wildlife preservation efforts
Photograph: Cambodia’s Ministry of Environment/AFP/Getty
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A vast herd of wildebeest on annual migration in the Masai Mara. Kenya is beginning its first national census of wildlife. It will cover 58 national parks and reserves, private and community conservancies and include a count of terrestrial and marine mammals, key birds such as ostriches and kori bustards, and endangered primates. The results are due in August
Photograph: AfriPics.com/Alamy
