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A capybara in Porto Jofre, Pantanal, Mato Grosso state, Brazil. The Amazon basin has, until recently, absorbed large amounts of humankind’s ballooning carbon emissions, helping stave off the nightmare of unchecked climate change. But studies indicate the rainforest is hurtling toward a tipping point, at which it will dry up and turn to savannah, its 390bn trees dying off en masse.
Photograph: Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty
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One-horned rhinoceroses graze in the Pobitora wildlife sanctuary on the outskirts of Gauhati, India.
Photograph: Anupam Nath/AP
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A young Cape fur seal sits on the rocks in Elands Bay, South Africa. Officials are investigating an alarming spike in seal deaths along the coast.
Photograph: Mike Hutchings/Reuters
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A new species of rare tadpole-carrying frog has been discovered in northern New South Wales, Australia. The male assa wollumbin frog carries its tadpoles in pouches until they emerge two to three months later.
Photograph: Environment NSW
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A macaque crosses a pedestrian overpass in Hong Kong, China. According the agriculture, fisheries and conservation department, the total population of wild monkeys in Hong Kong is about 1,800, distributed across 30 social troops.
Photograph: Jerome Favre/EPA
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One of Hong Kong’s macaques bites on a windshield wiper in a car park.
Photograph: Jerome Favre/EPA
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Red-billed gulls attend to their chick in a gull colony near Dunedin, New Zealand.
Photograph: Sanka Vidanagama/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock
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A sea lion sunbathes in Sandfly Bay near Dunedin, New Zealand. Sandfly Bay is one of the most populous sites in Otago Peninsula, with yellow-eyed penguins, sea lions, fur seals and other wildlife.
Photograph: Sanka Vidanagama/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock
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A panda plays in its enclosure after snowfall in Xian in China’s northern Shaanxi province.
Photograph: AFP/Getty
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A Javan slow loris after being released into the wild at Mount Halimun Salak National Park, West Java, Indonesia.
Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock
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The Indonesia nature conservation agency also returned a black gibbon to the wild in Jantho forest, Aceh province.
Photograph: Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP/Getty
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A turtle enters the water after being released at Putumayo river in the Amazon jungle of Puerto Asis, Colombia.
Photograph: Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty
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A Morelet’s crocodile waits in ambush in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico.
Photograph: Artur Widak/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock
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Migrating great white pelicans gather at a water reservoir in Mishmar Hasharon, Israel.
Photograph: Amir Cohen/Reuters
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Irregular monsoon seasons and droughts cause algal bloom on the Damodar River, Green Barrier, West Bengal, India. Algal blooms prevent light from penetrating the surface and thus oxygen absorption by the organisms beneath, with a grave impact on human health and habitats in the area. See this shortlisted photograph amongst others in the the CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year Award 2021.
Photograph: Sandipani Chattopadhyay
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Asiatic lions in the night safari exhibition at the Singapore zoo. A fifth lion at Singapore zoohas tested positive for Covid-19, the Animal and Veterinary Service has said.
Photograph: Mandai Wildlife Group/AFP/Getty Images
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An Andean fox named Run Run at a local zoo following his capture in Lima, Peru. The eight month-old fox was sold as a dog to a family at an illegal pet market in Lima and kept the inhabitants of a populous district in suspense for a week after it escaped from the house .
Photograph: Andina/AFP/Getty
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A flounder from the River Thames. According to the the first ever State of the Thames report, the river is a rich and varied home for wildlife including seahorses and sharks. Six decades ago, parts of the river were declared biologically dead.
Photograph: ZSL/PA
