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A water rail at Northumberland Park in North Tyneside
Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA
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An adder,
Vipera berus, just out of hibernation basking in the morning sunshinePhotograph: Sandra Standbridge/Alamy
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A glossy ibis,
Plegadis falcinellus, foraging in the Myakka River in Sarasota, FloridaPhotograph: Smitty Smitty/Alamy
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A honeybee collects pollen from a pear tree near Nagykanizsa, south-west Hungary
Photograph: Gyorgy Varga/EPA
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Seaweed in
clear waters in a Venice canal as a result of the stoppage of motorboat traffic during the coronavirus lockdownPhotograph: Andrea Pattaro/AFP via Getty Images
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A wild tapir calf photographed by a camera trap in the Guapiacu ecological reserve. Hopes for a recovery of
Brazil’s most endangered ecosystem have been given a boost by the first birth of a wild tapir in Rio de Janeiro’s Atlantic Forest for more than a centuryPhotograph: Maron Galliez/Guapiacu Ecological Reserve
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Caretaker Ephraim Ngiribwa tends to
baby orphaned chimpanzees at Lwiro Primate Centre in Lwiro, South Kivu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Chimpanzees in DR Congo are threatened by deforestation and poachingPhotograph: Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/EPA
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A leopard in Gir national park, also known as Sasan Gir, in Gujarat, India
Photograph: Ajit Solanki/AP
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A Thai official sprays disinfectant to curb the spread of coronavirus at an animal market in Bangkok. Some researchers think it is humanity’s destruction of biodiversity that creates the
conditions for new diseases such as Covid-19Photograph: Narong Sangnak/EPA
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Mohamed Sheikh Yakub, a patient with mental illness, sits inside a treatment room with a hyena believed to exorcise evil spirits, in the Hodan district of Mogadishu, Somalia
Photograph: Feisal Omar/Reuters
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A kakapo , one of the patients at at Auckland Zoo’s New Zealand centre for conservation medicine. By the end of summer in February, thanks to
intensive intervention, the population of 147 of the endangered parrots had produced more than 80 chicks – a recordPhotograph: Jason Hosking
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A Mexican grey wolf after it was captured near Reserve, New Mexico, during an annual survey of the endangered species. The US Fish and Wildlife Service has announced the survey results, saying there are at least 163 wolves in the wild in New Mexico and Arizona – up 25% on last year
Photograph: Zach Bryan/AP
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Purbeck Heath in Dorset, where seven landowners have joined forces to created what is being billed as the UK’s first
‘super national nature reserve’Photograph: Millie Pilkington/The Guardian
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A Cuban white-fanned anole,
Anolis homolechis, spreading its dewlap in courtship or territorially in Vinales, western CubaPhotograph: Rebecca Cole/Alamy
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A heron at Zoom Torino zoo in Cumiana, near Turin, during the country’s coronavirus lockdown
Photograph: Marco Bertorello/AFP via Getty Images
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Red-breasted mergansers against a predawn New York skyline
Photograph: Johann Schumacher/Alamy
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A male plumbeous water redstart by a lake in Dharamsala, India
Photograph: Ashwini Bhatia/AP
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Fallow deer herd relax in spring sunshine at Richmond Park, south-west London
Photograph: Malcolm Park/Alamy
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A snowshoe hare in the Wasatch Mountains, Utah, US
Photograph: Laura Romin & Larry Dalton/Alamy Stock Photo