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Cockatoos under the custody of Indonesian nature conservation agency officials, during a press conference in Surabaya. Police arrested two suspected animal smugglers and seized various animals including birds of prey, fifteen cockatoo parrots and eight langurs
Photograph: Juni Kriswanto/AFP/Getty Images
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Migrating cranes reflected in the waters of the Hula Lake conservation area, north of the Sea of Galilee, in northern Israel. More than half a billion birds of about 400 different species pass through the Jordan Valley to Africa and go back to Europe during the year
Photograph: Oded Balilty/AP
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An Andean condor carried inside a box, to be released into the wild by Bolivian vets, on the outskirts of Choquekhota, Bolivia. Two endangered condors were released after recovering from a fall in February, as part of a project under the auspices of a state conservation program for the Andean condor
Photograph: Juan Karita/AP
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A fishing cat with its catch captured by a camera trap at Lake Chilika, Odisha, India. Asia’s fishing cats are facing shrinking habitats but conservation efforts in West Bengal are helping the species swim against the tide
Photograph: Courtesy of The Fishing Cat Project
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A white-eye bird at a garden near Xuanwu Lake in Nanjing, the capital of east China’s Jiangsu province
Photograph: Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock
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The male superb lyrebird uses vocal trickery to fool females into believing there’s a threat nearby, giving them an opportunity to mate
Photograph: Alex Maisey
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People try to save short-finned pilot whales beached in Bangkalan, Madura island. Dozens of pilot whales died after a mass stranding on the coast of Indonesia’s main island of Java that sparked a major rescue operation
Photograph: Juni Kriswanto/AFP/Getty Images
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Dead monarch butterflies litter the ground at El Rosario sanctuary, in Michoacan state, Mexico. The number of monarch butterflies that reached their winter resting grounds in central Mexico decreased by about 26% this year, as four times as many trees as usual were lost to illegal logging, drought and other causes
Photograph: Toya Sarno Jordan/Reuters
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Diana Foss, a Texas Parks and Wildlife biologist, attempts to find surviving Mexican free-tailed bats in a pile of dead bats at Waugh Drive in Buffalo Bayou Park, which was affected by the winter storm. Foss said they were able to find about 20 surviving bats. Scientists and conservationists are now investigating solutions to the climate crisis to help bats cope with heatwaves
Photograph: Steve Gonzales/AP
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Bees try to escape a poisoned beehive at an apiary in Santa Fe de Antioquia, Colombia. Hundreds of hives have disappeared in recent years in Colombia and official investigations point at Fipronil, a pesticide prohibited in Europe and restricted in China
Photograph: Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP/Getty Images
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A Formosan pangolin at Taipei zoo – the only place in the world where pangolin have ever being breed in captivity
Photograph: Sam Yeh/AFP/Getty Images
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An Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) flies at the Purace national natural park in Purace, Colombia. The condor is sacred for indigenous communities in Colombia, considered the ‘messenger of the sun’. It is also one of the largest birds in the world and is in danger of extinction. National Natural Parks of Colombia, together with several NGOs, carried out a national census of condors, with the help of dozens of observers throughout the country, to determine how many birds there are and take data on their condition
Photograph: Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images
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Desert locusts fly past a dik-dik antelope near the town of Nanyuki, Kenya
Photograph: Baz Ratner/Reuters
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Joan Scully, a volunteer at Wildlife Rehabilitation Ireland, sorts through knitted nests for injured birds donated by members of the public, at Garlow Cross outside Navan in County Meath. Since Ireland’s first coronavirus lockdown, the Tara Na Ri pub has been closed to regulars, but now it hosts a menagerie of new clientele as the nation’s first wildlife hospital
Photograph: Paul Faith/AFP/Getty Images
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A mynah bird sips nectar from seasonal flowers in Amsoi reserve forest in Nagaon district, Assam, India
Photograph: Pranabjyoti Deka/EPA
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A planned fire set by forest officials to burn the dry tree leaves in Amsoi reserve forest in Nagaon district, Assam, India. A global study released this week shows fires diminish forest density and tree size, making woods likely to capture less carbon
Photograph: Pranabjyoti Deka/EPA
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Dead fish on shells after an offshore oil spill drenched much of Israel’s Mediterranean shoreline with tar, at a beach in Ashdod, southern Israel
Photograph: Amir Cohen/Reuters
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Canadian geese and tundra swans fly past frost-covered trees at the Blackwater national wildlife refuge in Cambridge, Maryland
Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
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An American Bison (buffalo) rubs its head against a signpost in the Neal Smith national wildlife refuge near Prairie City, about 45 minutes from downtown Des Moines. The refuge has the largest herd of wild bison and the only herd of wild elk in Iowa. Both animals were once native to Iowa and common in the state, but were hunted to extinction in 19th century. Controlled herds were reintroduced in the mid-20th century. The herds are carefully managed to maintain genetic diversity
Photograph: Jack Kurtz/ZUMA Wire/REX/Shutterstock
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Grey seals and sea calves lying on a beach near Calais, northern France. According to a study by the Eco-Seals project in the Hauts-de-France region in 2018, about 1,100 seals live in the region. In the Bay of Somme, the number of seals increased by 14.4% between 1990 and 2017 and by 20% for grey seals
Photograph: Denis Charlet/AFP/Getty Images
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