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A brown bear cub by the Khailyulya River in northeast Kamchatka, Russia.
Photograph: Yuri Smityuk/TASS
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A deer jumps onto a business property as the Dixie fire approaches downtown Greenville, California. The Dixie fire, which started only a few miles from 2018’s deadly Camp fire, has churned through nearly 150,000 acres and continues to burn towards rural communities.
Photograph: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images
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A northern pool frog is released into ancient pingos at Norfolk Wildlife Trust’s Thompson Common, as they are reintroduced into the wild after becoming extinct in England at the end of the 20th century.
Photograph: Jacob King/PA
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An adult Cuban crocodile (crocodylus rhombifer) is seen at the breeding centre of Cienaga de Zapata, Cuba. Cuban crocodiles are one of the most endangered species of crocodile and are found only in Cuba.
Photograph: Adalberto Roque/AFP/Getty Images
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Tom Gibbs (left) and Donovan Wright, the UK’s first-ever Bison Rangers at the West Blean Woods near Canterbury. The British wildlife charities Kent Wildlife Trust and Wildwood Trust and have started work in one of the largest areas of ancient woodland in the country ahead of bison arriving into the area in 2022. The Bison Ranger role is part of the conservation project Wilder Blean. The initiative aims to restore the ecosystem of the area’s ancient woodlands by introducing a variety of animals including four bison, longhorn cattle, iron-age pigs and six Exmoor ponies into West Blean Woods.
Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA
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Fin-to-fin synchronised swimming, thought likely to be part of courtship, has been seen in groups of basking sharks for the first time in the Hebrides, Scotland. Video cameras were temporarily attached to the sharks and gave scientists an unprecedented view of their hitherto secret underwater world.
Photograph: University of Exeter and NatureScot
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Two small kestrel chicks that were found nesting in an A320 aircraft at the Bro Tathan West aerodrome in the Vale of Glamorgan.
Photograph: RSPCA Cymru/PA
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A lagoon that has turned pink due to a chemical used to help shrimp preservation in fishing factories nearby Trelew, Argentina. The colouration is due to a preservative called sodium sulfite that has polluted the Chubut river and surrounding water sources in the region, according to activists.
Photograph: Daniel Feldman/AFP/Getty Images
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A reward has been offered by a Greek environmental group intent on finding those who killed Kostis the monk seal off the island of Alonissos. Monks seals are considered among the world’s most threatened species.
Photograph: P.Dendrinos/MOm
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A marabou stork bird (leptoptilos crumenifer) lands on top of a tree in Nairobi, Kenya.
Photograph: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images
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A turtle swims amongst the algae that has infested the lake at Sefton Park, in Liverpool, UK.
Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA
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An eider female sits on a nest in between rocks on the Bjarneyjar island, Breidafjordur Bay, Iceland. The down is used to make some of the world’s best duvets and quilts. The handpicked down sells for thousands of euros a kilogram, catering for those seeking exclusive products.
Photograph: Jeremie Richard/AFP/Getty Images
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The Great Barrier Reef off the coast of the Whitsunday Islands, Australia. This week, at a World Heritage Committee meeting chaired by China, delegates voted not to downgrade the reef to ‘in danger’, after a concerted lobbying effort by Canberra.
Photograph: Sarah Lai/AFP/Getty Images
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A red deer stag (cervus elaphus) shows off his impressive, almost fully grown antlers, as he munches on grass in the vast woodland at a nature reserve near Dulmen, Germany.
Photograph: Imageplotter/Alamy Live News
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A young, just released saker falcon in Bulgaria. Conservationists have found new and innovative ways to halt the decline of this endangered species.
Photograph: Yana Andonova/Green Balkans
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A painted lady butterfly (vanessa cardui) on the black knight buddleia (scrophulariaceae) flowers in Berkshire, UK.
Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/REX/Shutterstock
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A monkey carries an infant on her back as she searches for food in the forest of Drang, northwest of Srinagar, India.
Photograph: Dar Yasin/AP
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Tigers (panthera tigris) at Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve, India. 29 July is global tiger day and this year marks uneven progress towards the goal to double wild tigers by 2022. Falling numbers in mainland Southeast Asia prompt concern, but rises in India, Nepal and Russia demonstrate conservation success.
Photograph: WWF
