A boy swats at a swarm of desert locusts filling the air near the village of Sissia. The most serious plague of desert locusts in 25 years is spreading across east Africa Photo Read More » Share Twitter
A Humane Society International crisis response specialist, Kelly Donithan, carries a baby koala she has just rescued. On an island famed as Australia’s ‘Galápagos’ for its unique and abundant wildlife, rescuers are racing to save rare animals in a bushfire-ravaged landscape Photo Read More » Share Twitter
Orphaned kangaroo and wallaby joeys lay in a cart at the Australia zoo wildlife hospital in Beerwah Photo Read More » Share Twitter
Greater flamingos with a chick. Staff at the Hampshire zoo have been counting more than 3,500 animals for an annual stocktake Photo Read More » Share Twitter
Puppeteers from Vision Mechanic rehearsing with Scotland’s largest puppet, a ten-metre tall sea goddess called Storm, in the grounds of the Museum of Flight, East Lothian Photo Read More » Share Twitter
A wildlife rescue volunteer shows the burnt paw of a brushtail possum Photo Read More » Share Twitter
A koala receives treatment from a vet. There are grave fears for the future of the koala population on Kangaroo Island after a catastrophic bushfire last Friday, with more than half the island’s 50,000 koalas believed to have died Photo Read More » Share Twitter
Protesters outside the Oxford Farming Conference, being held at the university Photo Read More » Share Twitter
The aftermath of a US airstrike near Baghdad international airport in which the top Iranian commander Qassem Suleimani was killed Photo Read More » Share Twitter