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Orgo-Life the new way to the future Advertising by AdpathwayGoing loopy … a pair of flamingos in Río Lagartos, Mexico, form a mirror image as they twist their heads backwards and upside down
Photograph: Zeren Gu/Solent News & Photo Agency

Goats in Essaouira, Morocco climb an argan tree in search of its fruit, which has been described as “sweet-smelling but unpleasantly flavoured”
Photograph: Mosa’ab Elshamy/AP

The strongshank redemption … a wallaby in Wattrelos (near Lille), northern France, was captured on camera after escaping from its Belgian enclosure. It ran free for several days before French firefighters managed to catch it. Another fugitive wallaby that escaped along with it has yet to be found
Photograph: SDIS 59/AFP/Getty Images

Three rescued bharals, a type of wild sheep, at a wildlife rescue centre in Qilian Mountain national park, China
Photograph: Xinhua/Shutterstock

Volunteer divers in Dorset, UK, are reporting a surge in the number of seahorses. After efforts to make conditions better for the elusive creatures in Studland Bay, sightings are greatly increasing. Over the last two decades, conservationists have worked hard to make conditions better for the seagrass – and thus the seahorses – including introducing almost 100 “eco moorings” that do not harm the habitat
Photograph: Neil Garrick-Maidment/The Seahorse Trust

A humpback whale breaches in Guanabara Bay, near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The whales are following their migratory route toward the Abrolhos archipelago, where they gather to mate
Photograph: Andre Coelho/EPA

A hawksbill sea turtle swims among bioluminescence, defined as the biological light emission of marine life, in the Red Sea. The photo was taken using a “fisheye” lens – not the ordinary kind, but special imaging technology that allows underwater photographers to record bioluminescence from the perspective of the fish
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

A gosling searches for food near the Main River in Frankfurt, Germany
Photograph: Matías Basualdo/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

An ant on a flower at the Parc Floral in eastern Paris, France
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

An anhinga opens wide for dinner in Lake Eola park, Orlando, Florida, US. The water bird is a darter that dives and spears fish with its sharp beak
Photograph: Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

A pair of Britain’s rarest breeding birds have successfully reared chicks at a secret location protected by conservationists and the farmer whose land they nested on. The Montagu’s harrier has not successfully bred in the UK since 2019, but this year a pair of the migratory birds of prey have managed to raise four healthy youngsters to fledging. Their nest is fenced off for protection
Photograph: RSPB/PA

One of the world’s rarest sharks has been filmed off the Welsh coast, offering a fleeting glimpse into the life of a species teetering on the brink of extinction. Dramatic footage shows a critically endangered angel shark swimming through the waters of Cardigan Bay – the first time it has been recorded on film in the area since 2021
Photograph: Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife Centre

A spotted lanternfly, an invasive insect from China that is spreading across the north-eastern United States, watches a tennis match in Washington DC, US. The fly is no danger to humans, but it can devastate crops and trees
Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

A meadow brown butterfly rests on a bramble leaf in Dunsden, Oxfordshire, UK. Some spotters have seen an increase in butterflies this year
Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/Shutterstock

A bull moose near Tupper Lake, upstate New York, has decided to spend its summer holiday on an Adirondack mountain trail. State wildlife officials have been forced to keep hikers away as they keep watch and wonder why the majestic animal is not moving on
Photograph: AP

A vervet monkey carries its baby at the Bandia wildlife reserve near Dakar, Senegal
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Buffaloes wade in the retreating water of the drought-stricken Chibayish marshes in Iraq, on the Euphrates. Iraq’s 46 million people face rising temperatures, chronic water shortages and year-on-year droughts, in a country hard hit by the effects of climate change
Photograph: Asaad Niazi/AFP/Getty Images

Steller sea lions swim during a tsunami approaching the shore of Antsiferov Island, a small, uninhabited island in the northern Kuril chain that runs between Russia and Japan
Photograph: Nikita Sinchinov/AP

A hamerkop bird hitches a ride on a hippo before being shaken off by the grumpy beast in Kenya’s Masai Mara. The bird, named after its hammer-shaped head, climbed on board as the hippo plodded through a pond full of green water hyacinth
Photograph: Ann Aveyard/Animal News Agency
