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Wildlife rangers hold a sedated 9 metre-long python, estimated to weigh about 100kg, they caught near a village in Kampar, Indonesia, and later released back into the neighbouring jungle of Palalawan
Photograph: WAHYUDI/AFP/Getty Images
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A dragonfly on a leaf at a garden in Kathmandu, Nepal
Photograph: Sunil Sharma/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock
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Rhino horns are set alight by the Assam forest department at Bokakhat stadium near Kaziranga National Park, India. The Assam government burned the world’s largest stockpile of rhino horns, comprising 2,479 pieces, in an anti-poaching drive
Photograph: Biju Boro/AFP/Getty Images
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A flamingo searches for food in the wetland of Nea Kios, Greece
Photograph: Evangelos Bougiotis/EPA
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Mysticellus franki, a new species of narrow-mouthed frog, discovered in a puddle by ‘India’s frogman’ Sathyabhama Das Biju. India is becoming a frog paradise with dozens of new species discovered in recent years
Photograph: Dr S D Biju
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Turtles near the shore of the Devegecidi Dam Lake, which is in danger of drought due to climate change, in Diyarbakir, Turkey. While migratory birds try to find food in the muddy ground on the lake, endemic plants and animals are in struggle in their natural habitats
Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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A deer crosses a clearing in the Rambouillet forest 60km south-west of Paris, France
Photograph: Christophe Archambault/AFP/Getty Images
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A one-horned rhinoceros crosses a road inside Kaziranga national park, India, on World Rhino Day. Kaziranga is home to nearly 2,500 one-horned rhinos and is the world’s largest habitat for the rare animal
Photograph: Anupam Nath/AP
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A great white shark in Australia. More than 10% of Australia’s shark species are at risk of extinction, a government report has found. The National Environmental Science Program marine biodiversity hub published the first complete assessment of extinction risk for all Australian sharks, rays and ghost sharks (chimaeras). It found Australia is home to more than a quarter of the world’s cartilaginous fish species, with 182 sharks, 132 rays and 14 chimaeras calling Australian waterways home and that 12%, or 39 species, are facing extinction
Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock
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Tamworth pigs roam the rewilding part of the estate at Wild Ken Hill in Norfolk, UK. The team on the 4,000-acre project are deploying farming techniques to restore healthy soils in arable fields so they will lock up carbon and provide natural nutrients for crops instead of synthetic fertilisers
Photograph: Emily Beament/PA
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A changeable hawk-eagle, one of several seized earlier this year from the Aceh governor’s residence, looks on from its enclosure before being released into the wild in Takengon, Aceh province, Indonesia
Photograph: Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP/Getty Images
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A European garden spider in its web in the sunshine in Dunsden, UK
Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/Rex/Shutterstock
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A boy stands next to a dog whose leg was amputated by a vet after it was hit by shrapnel during a bombardment in Idlib, Syria
Photograph: Aaref Watad/AFP/Getty Images
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A baby Siamang (Symphalangus syndactylus) is taken care of by an animal nurse at Bali Wildlife Rescue Center in Tabanan, Bali, Indonesia. The two-month-old Siamang, an endangered and protected primate, will be transported to a rehabilitation site in West Sumatra in order to be returned to the wild later. The ape was handed in from illegal ownership to the Indonesian Conservation and Natural Resource Agency
Photograph: Johanes Christo/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock
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A cattle heron sits on the back of a cow taken out for grazing amid reed field near Lake Van in Kosk, Turkey
Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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A green sea turtle hatchling cautiously surfaces for air, to a sky full of hungry birds, Heron Island, Australia. The photograph won Young Ocean Photographer of the Year
Photograph: Hannah Le Leu
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Diving gannets hit the water off the Isle of Noss, Shetland, UK. Second place: Ocean Photographer of Year
Photograph: Henley Spiers
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Panda cubs born this year rest at a breeding room of Shenshuping giant panda base in Wolong National Nature Reserve in China. Scientists have said this week that too comfortable a home can be bad for panda mating
Photograph: China Daily/Reuters
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A ground squirrel keeps watch from its perch on a brush pile near a barn along a country road near Elkton in rural western Oregon, US
Photograph: Robin Loznak/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock
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A Siamese crocodile swims in Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary of Cambodia’s eastern plains. Eight hatchlings from one of the world’s rarest crocodile species have been found, raising hopes for its continuing survival in the wild
Photograph: AP
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