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A turtle in the Aegean Sea off the island of Crete. The island is one of the most important places for Caretta caretta to breed. Hundreds of loggerhead turtles lay their eggs on the island every year.
Photograph: Sergei Bobylev/TASS
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A drone photo shows a flock of sheep on their way back to the warmer places in the Catak district of Turkey’s southeastern province Van. Flocks of sheep are brought down from highlands to stockyards before winter season.
Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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A wild boar roams in Rome, Italy. Rubbish bins have been a magnet for the families of boars who emerge from the extensive parks surrounding the city to scavenge for food.
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
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A forest of ashen trees appear as if in a winter scene in the wake of flames as the Windy Fire continues to spread south of California Hot Springs. The wildfire has burned through numerous groves of giant sequoia trees and is now threatening small communities scattered throughout the southern Sierra foothills in Sequoia National Forest.
Photograph: David McNew/Getty Images
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A rainbow agama lizard poised to catch an insect at Ngulia Safari Lodge in Tsavo West National Park, Kenya.
Photograph: Jackson Njehia/Reuters
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A long-tailed sylph hummingbird near Manizales, Colombia. Colombia is a haven for at least 160 species of hummingbirds.
Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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A herd of vicunas about to be captured and sheared in the Puyo Puyo community at Apolobamba Protected Area in Pelichucu, Bolivia. Bolivia’s environment ministry promotes the management and sustainable use of vicunas in the country.
Photograph: Gaston Brito/Getty Images
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A Eurasian lynx is caught on a camera trap in the Carpathian Mountains, Romania, as part of a Nottingham Trent University and Fauna & Flora International study investigating how the presence of livestock and livestock guarding dogs affects habitat use by wildlife.
Photograph: Photo courtesy of Nottingham Trent University / Fauna & Flora Internationa
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A vet takes care of a black stork, one of the rare migratory bird species in Turkey, found in Diyarbakir with its feathers cut off, at Dicle Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre in Diyarbakir.
Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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Two spot-billed pelicans interact on the banks of an artificial lake in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Photograph: Ishara S Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images
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A hungry polar bear looks for prey along the shore, near Pyramiden, Svalbard.
Photograph: Olivier Morin/AFP/Getty Images
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Wolves captured on a camera trap in a nature reserve in Siberia where Russia’s President Vladimir Putin spent his vacation.
Photograph: Russia President Press Office/President Press Office/TASS
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A crane fly sits on a flower at the Malvern Autumn Show, at the Three Counties Showground near Malvern in Worcestershire, UK.
Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA
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An ivory billed woodpecker. The US Fish and Wildlife Service is to declare the ivory-billed woodpecker and 22 more species of birds, fish and other species extinct as they have not been spotted in the wild.
Photograph: Tomasz Cofta/BirdLife Internatio/PA
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Western lowland gorilla Imbi and her baby gorilla are seen at the zoo in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The baby gorilla was born on 3 September and is the fifth of the species to be born in the zoo, the only one in South America to succeed in breeding the species.
Photograph: Douglas Magno/AFP/Getty Images
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A brahminy kite flies away after taking a fish caught by fishermen at a beach in Rameshwaram, India.
Photograph: Arun Sankar/AFP/Getty Images
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Vets carry out a medical and biological assessment of a palm turtle (Rhinoclemmys melanosterna) in the Conservation Park, in Medellin, Colombia. More than 100 turtles are having medical and biological evaluations by experts from the conservation park to determine if they are suitable for release after being rescued from illegal traffic or born in captivity.
Photograph: Luis Eduardo Noriega A/EPA
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A wild elephant is seen in floodwater as it tries to cross the Mundali barrage in Mahanadi river in India.
Photograph: NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock
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Orangutans in Indonesia are under threat from the ongoing depletion of the rainforest due to palm oil plantations, logging, mining and hunting. This photograph shows a team of rescue workers preparing Brenda, a female orangutan who is estimated to be three months old as she still has no teeth, for surgery. The photo won first place in the People and Nature category of the Nature Conservancy photo contest.
Photograph: Alain Schroeder/TNC Photo Contest 2021
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A monomorium kiliani ant feeding on a drop of honey on the leaf of a Swiss cheese plant.
Photograph: Peter Virag
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