The best of the week’s wildlife pictures from around the world, including a silver pheasant and a golden monkey
The week in wildlife – in pictures
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Forest fire season is coming. How can we stop the Amazon burning?
We found the first fire without looking, crackling and roaring on farmland beside the busy Amazon highway, the flames consuming a road sign with...
Animals Farmed: pig virus, wildlife trade in China, and the ‘poultry capital’ of Wales
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The race to save Polesia, Europe’s secret Amazon
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European meat plants posing ‘avoidable risk’ of disease, inspectors say
Consumers are being exposed to an "avoidable risk" of disease after a reduction of official controls in food inspections of pig and poultry carcasses...
Film showing mink ‘cannibalism’ prompts probable ban on fur farms in Poland
Poland's fur farms could be in their final year in operation if a bill banning production of fur clears legal hurdles next month. And...