A jaguar that was struck by a car in June is pictured after being released at the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve in Chetumal, Mexico
Photograph: IFAW/Reuters
A wild bald eagle calls out from its perch on a large Douglas fir tree along the Umpqua River near Elkton in rural south-western Oregon, US
Photograph: Robin Loznak/Zuma Press/PA Images
Baby brown bears, separated from their mother and unable to live in nature, have become the mascots of a rehabilitation centre in Karacabey, Bursa, Turkey, where they were taken under protection
Photograph: Sergen Sezgin/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
A hare pauses alongside an ancient hedgerow in East Yorkshire. Brown Hares are the fastest land mammals in the UK, reaching speeds of 45 mph. Unlike rabbits, they live exclusively above ground
Photograph: Les Gibbon/Hull News & Pictures
Cranes fly above a lake during the migration season on a foggy morning at the Hula Nature Reserve in northern Israel
Photograph: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters
Pair of mating Denise’s pygmy seahorses during their courtship. The female on the left is passing eggs to the empty brood pouch of the male on the left who will later give birth
Photograph: Richard Smith
A protester sits in a lone tree, with cut down trees in the background, in a demonstration against the extension of the A49 dual carriageway in a forest near Stadtallendorf, Germany
Photograph: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters
Lungwort lichen from a fallen oak is being translocated to dozens of other trees in the Lake District as part of efforts by the National Trust to save one of England’s rarest lichens. The lungwort lichen (Lobaria pumonaria) is a survivor of the ancient wildwood that grew in Britain after the last ice age. It has become increasingly rare since the 18th century as a result of air pollution. In the Lake District it exists in only a handful of sites, including on a veteran oak tree in Borrowdale that formed what is thought to be the single largest community of the species in England
Photograph: Stuart Walker/National Trust/PA
HS2 construction work turns trees into wood chip in Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire. The contentious high-speed rail project has put at risk 108 ancient woodlands, 33 sites of special scientific interest and 693 wildlife sites
Photograph: Maureen McLean/REX/Shutterstock
A male giraffe with a rare genetic trait called leucism, which causes a loss of skin pigmentation, is seen from a helicopter at a conservation reserve in Kenya. The only known white giraffe in the world was fitted with a GPS tracking device by the Ishaqbini Community Conservancy group to help protect it from poachers as it grazes in the arid savannah near the Somalia border
Photograph: Ishaqbini Community Conservancy/AP
An international research team led by UK scientists has revealed the return of critically endangered Antarctic blue whales to the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, 50 years after whaling all but wiped them out
Photograph: SAMS
A baby sea turtle is seen stuck in plastic on a beach in Florida. There are nearly 1,800 cases of turtles and marine mammals that have swallowed or become entangled in plastic objects off the US coast since 2009, according to a report by the American NGO Oceana
Photograph: Gumbo Limbo Nature Center Inc/AFP/Getty Images
A tiny northern saw-whet owl, named Rockefeller, who was found in the Christmas tree transported from Oneonta, New York state, to the Rockefeller Center in New York City, 170 miles away
Photograph: Ravensbeard Wildlife Center/AFP/Getty Images
Window Of Autumn by Hasan Baglar, the public choice at the European Environment Agency’s Rediscover Nature photo competition
Photograph: Hasan Baglar/Rediscover Nature /EEA
A common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) with a small fish in its beak perches on a bamboo stick in water at a lake in Myanmar
Photograph: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
A sea otter off the coast of California is seen trying to eat a horn shark – though it appears it did not manage to complete its meal
Photograph: Don Henderson/Be Sea Otter Savvy
The endangered antipodean albatross, which is often caught in fishing nets, won most first-choice votes out of the more than 55,000 votes cast during the 2020 New Zealand’s bird of the year competition. But under the competition’s preferential system the kākāpō came through
Photograph: By Wildestanimal/Getty Images
First Dog on … snakes!
Illustration: First Dog on the Moon/The Guardian
