This week: a swimming adder, feeding polar bears and stranded whales
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A honey bee at Vyacheslav Kolesnikov’s bee farm in the Turquoise Katun special economic zone in Russia
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| Photograph: Kirill Kukhmar/TASS/Getty Images |
A swallow feeds young birds in Harbin, China
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| Photograph: Costfoto/Barcroft Media |
Flower meadows at Hever Castle in Kent, UK
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| Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA |
Crested terns fly over Jiushan island nature reserve in east China’s
Zhejiang province. This week Chinese and US researchers and volunteers
banded birds at the reserve to learn about the migration pattern of the
world’s most endangered tern species
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| Photograph: Yin Xiaosheng/Xinhua/Barcroft Media |
A pair of venomous snakes, probably Indian rat snakes, play in a garden in Mahottari district, Nepal
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| Photograph: Narendra Shrestha/EPA |
A bear at Bear Wood near Bristol, UK, part of the Wild Place project, in
which for the first time in more than 1,000 years native bears and
wolves are coming snout to muzzle with each other in a slice of British
woodland
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| Photograph: Andre Pattenden/Bristol Zoo |
Dozens of hand-reared curlews have been released on to reserves in
Gloucestershire as part of a trial to conserve the species in lowland
England. It is hoped that the birds will join endangered wild
populations and return to the Severn Vale in future years, boosting the
numbers of breeding pairs in the area. The curlew, recently called the
‘panda of UK conservation’ by ministers, could be lost forever in parts
of the UK in as little as 15 years, forcing experts at the wetland
charity WWT to intervene
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| Photograph: Samuel Walker/WWT |
A wild elephant appearing in the human inhabited area of Negeri Antara,
Aceh, Indonesia, in a picture released this week. Across Aceh province,
new plantations and a housing construction boom are threatening the
natural environment, pitting humans against the already critically
endangered wild elephants. Only 500 elephants remain in the wild in Aceh
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| Photograph: Hotli Simanjuntak/EPA |
An Indonesian nature conservation agency (BKSDA) officer displays 16
heads of helmeted hornbills caught illegally from animal traders in
Banda Aceh this week
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| Photograph: Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP/Getty Images |
Polar bears on Wrangel Island, Russia
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| Photograph: Yuri Smityuk/TASS/Getty Images |
One of the polar bear cubs eats a whale
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| Photograph: Yuri Smityuk/TASS/Getty Images |
Dwarf scorpionfish and nudibranch mollusc eggs in the Mediterranean in
2006, taken from onboard the Rainbow Warrior. The marine biologist,
conservationist and specialist underwater photographer
Roger Grace who died at his New Zealand home in June spent his life surveying the ocean
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| Photograph: Roger Grace/Greenpeace |
A blue shark completely entangled in a driftnet in the north Pacific. According to a
paper
published on Wednesday in the journal Nature, the larger shark species
accounted for more than half of all identified sharks caught globally as
fisheries targets or bycatch. The findings indicate large sharks face a
future with limited refuge from industrial longline fishing
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| Photograph: Roger Grace/Greenpeace |
This photo taken on 9 July shows an Asian black bear in the Thabarwa
animal shelter in Mawbe, on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar
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| Photograph: Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images |
Stranded whales on the Longufjorur beach in the Snaefellsnes peninsula area in north-western Iceland on 18 July
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| Photograph: David Schwarzhans/AFP/Getty Images |
A frog in the drought-hit Landes pond in Lussat, central France
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| Photograph: Georges Gobet/AFP/Getty Images |
A bumblebee covered with pollen sits in a hibiscus flower in a garden in Bornheim, Frankfurt, Germany
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| Photograph: Frank Rumpenhorst/dpa |
A rare sighting of an adder swimming in Norfolk’s Hickling Broad national nature reserve. It is perhaps trying to keep cool
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| Photograph: Lynne Warner/Norfolk Wildlife Trust |
An Atlantic puffin (
Fratercula arctica) carries a strip of green plastic rubbish collected for nesting material in its burrow on Skomer, west Wales
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| Photograph: Graham Prentice/Alamy Stock Photo |
One of two young Malaysian bears goes outside for the first time at the Burgers’ Zoo in Arnhem, the Netherlands
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| Photograph: Piroschka van de Wouw/AFP/Getty Images |
A leg of a ‘diablito’ frog (
Oophaga sylvatica) is photographed in a laboratory in a zoo in Cali, Colombia
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| Photograph: Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images |
Stork eat fish in a pond in Villars-les-Dombes, France
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| Photograph: Philippe Desmazes/AFP/Getty Images |
Source: theguardian.com
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