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A hare sits on a harvested field next to straw bales near Herrnleis, some 50km north of Vienna, Austria
Photograph: Christian Bruna/EPA
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In India, an adult male pygmy hog is under lockdown because of the first outbreak of African Swine Fever in the country. The pygmy hog is the world’s smallest and rarest wild pig, and there is neither a vaccine nor a cure for the virus
Photograph: Parag Deka/Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust/AP
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A female beaver with her kits, pictured at the River Otter, Devon. The family are among England’s first wild beavers for 400 years
Photograph: Devon Wildlife Trust/Reuters
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A juvenile tricoloured heron stares at visitors to Lake Eola Park in downtown Orlando, Florida. Tricoloured herons are a common wading bird seen through Florida’s lakes and waterways
Photograph: Joe Burbank/AP
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Taken by WWF, a screenshot of a Facebook page selling wildlife is seen in Myanmar. Facebook has removed hundreds of posts associated with the sale of illegal wildlife in Southeast Asia in recent weeks. However, campaigners warn of a surge online, as demand for wildlife products appears unaffected by the spread of zoonotic diseases such as coronavirus
Photograph: WWF/Reuters
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An elephant is seen at the Pinnawala elephant orphanage in Pinnawala, Sri Lanka, about 90 km from the capital Colombo
Photograph: Ishara S Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images
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A white-bellied sea eagle feeding her newly hatched young, via the live 24-hour EagleCAM feed in Sydney’s Olympic Park, Australia. At peak viewing, more than 15,000 people are logged in to the stream
Photograph: BirdLife Australia Sydney Olympic Park Sea EagleCAM project
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A gorilla holding her baby in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Two new baby gorillas have been spotted in a national park where a beloved primate named Rafiki was killed in June. A Ugandan wildlife official said the additions are part of a baby boom in the forested protected area popular with tourists
Photograph: Uganda Wildlife Authority/AP
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An Australian pelican tries to find space on a street light pole on Botany Bay, Sydney
Photograph: Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images
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In Gabon, the Wildlife Capture Unit carry Ghost, a giant pangolin. Ecologists will take live samples from the animal to gain insights into the reproductive behaviour, life expectancy and other patterns of the world’s most-trafficked mammal
Photograph: David Lehmann/ANPN
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Wild boars on dry wetland in Entre Rios Province, Argentina. Punished by a brutal drought, the Parana River Delta, one of the largest and most biodiverse in the world, has been burning since the beginning of this year
Photograph: Marcelo Manera/AFP/Getty Images
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A dik-dik, one of the smallest members of the antelope family, is seen in the Turkish embassy gardens, in Mogadishu, Somalia
Photograph: Lokman Ilhan/Getty Images
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A hummingbird feeds on the nectar from a mimosa tree in Massachusetts, US
Photograph: Joseph Prezioso/Zuma Wire/Rex/Shutterstock
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One of four kestrels rescued by the Qinghai Wildlife Rescue Center, after being released to the wild in Xining, northwest China’s Qinghai Province
Photograph: Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock
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Australian cartoonist First Dog on the Moon investigates the plight of the orange bellied parrot. The Tasmanian government is trying to keep this species alive, but is chopping down the habitats of the swift parrot
Photograph: First Dog on the Moon/The Guardian
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Newly hatched loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) released by activists, find their way toward the sea at sunset, at the Orange House turtle reserve, El Mansouri, Lebanon
Photograph: Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP/Getty Images
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A tiger looking straight into a remote camera installed in a forest in western Thailand. An estimated 3,900 wild tigers live in forests worldwide while about 160 of the big cats are believed to live in Thailand’s jungles
Photograph: Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation/EPA
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A crow eats a crab apple, Ivanovo, Russia
Photograph: Vladimir Smirnov/TASS/Getty Images
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Cats stretch out across bags of dried seafood in a shop in the Sheung Wan district of Hong Kong, ready to celebrate international cat day, 8 August
Photograph: Isaac Lawrence/AFP/Getty Images
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Galapagos Islands residents hold a demonstration outside the court where the crew of the Chinese-flagged ship confiscated by the Ecuadorean navy is attending a hearing. The vessel had been carrying some 300 tons of fish, including several endangered species such as the hammerhead shark
Photograph: Juan Cevallos/AFP/Getty Images
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On Svalbard archipelago, Norway, little auk (Alle alle) gather on their hillside rocky habitat during a summer heat wave that set a new record. Global warming is having a dramatic impact on Svalbard, creating disruptions to the entire local ecosystem
Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images
