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The silhouette of a deer is seen during rutting season in Richmond Park, London, UK.
Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
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Swans being carried in a boat after they were caught at the inner-city lake Alster in Hamburg, Germany. They were being moved to their winter quarters in Eppendorf. Alster has 120 swans, but the lake in Eppendorf has underwater pumps to prevent the water from freezing over.
Photograph: Fabian Bimmer/Reuters
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A wild elephant known locally as Boonchuay approaches traffic on a road in Pala-U, Thailand. Humans have encroached on elephant habitat and villagers now face daily raids as the animals break into their homes in search of food.
Photograph: Jack Taylor/The Guardian
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A giant tortoise walks on the island of Santa Cruz, in the Galapagos archipelago, Ecuador. Ecuador seeks a green way out of its national debt through an exchange for conservation commitments, which the government hopes to promote with a new nature reserve in a crucial corridor of the Galapagos. The plan to expand the Galapagos marine reserve from 133,000 sq km to 193,000 sq km, announced by president Guillermo Lasso at the Cop26 climate summit, currently lacks structure, but the Andean country aspires to secure $1.1bn.
Photograph: Daniela Brik/EPA
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House sparrows enjoying a bird bath in Stockport, UK. The house sparrow population in Europe has dropped by 247 million. Other previously common birds have also suffered huge declines, according to a new study.
Photograph: Denis Thorpe/The Guardian
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A white fox is seen at the OleneGesh reindeer farm in the ski resort village of Sheregesh in south-west Siberia, Russia.
Photograph: Kirill Kukhmar/TASS
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A snake is seen near Hamam Lake, part of a floodplain nature reserve forest that consists mainly of beech and oak trees, during autumn season in Kirklareli, Turkey.
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A Sumatran elephant calf that lost half of its trunk is treated at a conservation centre in Saree, Aceh Besar region, Indonesia. The baby elephant had half of her trunk almost completely severed by a trap thought to have been set by poachers who target the endangered species. The trunk had to be amputated to save the elephant’s life.
Photograph: Munandar/AP
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A squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus) rides on a dog at a Nukak indigenous people’s campsite in El Retorno, near San Jose de Guaviare, Colombia. The Nukak are one of the last contacted nomadic indigenous communities in the Colombian Amazon.
Photograph: Raul Arboleda/AFP/Getty Images
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A volunteer at the Cheetah Conservation Fund plays with cheetahs in their cage in Hargeisa, Somaliland. Every year, an estimated 300 cheetah cubs are trafficked through Somaliland to wealthy buyers in the Middle East seeking exotic pets. Snatched from their mothers, shipped out of Africa to war-torn Yemen and onward to the Gulf, a cub that survives the ordeal can fetch up to $15,000 on the black market. It is a busy trade, one less familiar than the criminal markets for elephant ivory or rhino horn, but no less devastating for Africa’s most endangered big cat.
Photograph: Eduardo Soteras/AFP/Getty Images
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A baby cheetah is weighed while others wait inside a mosquito net at the Cheetah Conservation Fund.
Photograph: Eduardo Soteras/AFP/Getty Images
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A seal pup on the Farne Islands waves a flipper during the annual census at one of England’s largest grey seal colonies. The islands, off the Northumberland coast, are an important haven for thousands of seabirds and hundreds of adult seals, and are looked after by the National Trust.
Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA
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Wildlife officers put out food as bait to lure wild boars, which are later captured and put down under a change of policy on controlling the animals in urban areas in Hong Kong, China.
Photograph: Tyrone Siu/Reuters
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Potira, a female jaguar, has an eye infection examined as she lies on an operating table after being tranquillised at the Mata Ciliar Association Conservation Center in Jundiai, Brazil. Mata Ciliar works with jaguars and other cats rescued from areas that have suffered habitat loss from deforestation and fires in the Amazon rainforest, Cerrado savanna and Pantanal wetlands. They have developed a groundbreaking insemination programme, inseminating in 2019 an eight-year-old jaguar called Bianca who gave birth to the first cub ever born by artificial insemination.
Photograph: Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images
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Cows are left stranded near a barn shortly before their rescue from widespread flooding of Abbotsford, in British Columbia, Canada.
Photograph: Jennifer Gauthier/Reuters
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A dog stands on a mountain on La Palma, in the Canary Islands, Spain, that overlooks columns of black lava produced by the Cumbre Vieja volcanic eruption. According to data from the Copernicus satellite, the lava has already covered 1,042 hectares of the island since the eruption began on 19 September, affecting or destroying 2,623 buildings and requiring 7,000 people to leave their homes at some point.
Photograph: Europa Press News/Europa Press/Getty Images
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The annual red crab migration is in full swing on Christmas Island, Australia. These crabs are pictured at the entrance to an office block, hiding from the heat of the day before they continue their march to the shore.
Photograph: Parks Australia
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The red crabs make use of a specially-designed bridge on Christmas Island.
Photograph: Parks Australia/Reuters
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People feeding seagulls from a boat on Yamuna River on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, India.
Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
