The week in wildlife – in pictures

A hare sits on a harvested field next to straw bales near Herrnleis, some 50km north of Vienna, Austria

Photograph: Christian Bruna/EPA
In India, an adult male pygmy hog is under lockdown because of the first outbreak of African Swine Fever in the country. The pygmy hog is the world’s smallest and rarest wild pig, and there is neither a vaccine nor a cure for the virus

Photograph: Parag Deka/Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust/AP
A female beaver with her kits, pictured at the River Otter, Devon. The family are among England’s first wild beavers for 400 years

Photograph: Devon Wildlife Trust/Reuters
A juvenile tricoloured heron stares at visitors to Lake Eola Park in downtown Orlando, Florida. Tricoloured herons are a common wading bird seen through Florida’s lakes and waterways

Photograph: Joe Burbank/AP
Taken by WWF, a screenshot of a Facebook page selling wildlife is seen in Myanmar. Facebook has removed hundreds of posts associated with the sale of illegal wildlife in Southeast Asia in recent weeks. However, campaigners warn of a surge online, as demand for wildlife products appears unaffected by the spread of zoonotic diseases such as coronavirus

Photograph: WWF/Reuters
An elephant is seen at the Pinnawala elephant orphanage in Pinnawala, Sri Lanka, about 90 km from the capital Colombo

Photograph: Ishara S Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images
A white-bellied sea eagle feeding her newly hatched young, via the live 24-hour EagleCAM feed in Sydney’s Olympic Park, Australia. At peak viewing, more than 15,000 people are logged in to the stream

Photograph: BirdLife Australia Sydney Olympic Park Sea EagleCAM project
A gorilla holding her baby in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Two new baby gorillas have been spotted in a national park where a beloved primate named Rafiki was killed in June. A Ugandan wildlife official said the additions are part of a baby boom in the forested protected area popular with tourists

Photograph: Uganda Wildlife Authority/AP
An Australian pelican tries to find space on a street light pole on Botany Bay, Sydney

Photograph: Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images
In Gabon, the Wildlife Capture Unit carry Ghost, a giant pangolin. Ecologists will take live samples from the animal to gain insights into the reproductive behaviour, life expectancy and other patterns of the world’s most-trafficked mammal

Photograph: David Lehmann/ANPN
Wild boars on dry wetland in Entre Rios Province, Argentina. Punished by a brutal drought, the Parana River Delta, one of the largest and most biodiverse in the world, has been burning since the beginning of this year

Photograph: Marcelo Manera/AFP/Getty Images
A dik-dik, one of the smallest members of the antelope family, is seen in the Turkish embassy gardens, in Mogadishu, Somalia

Photograph: Lokman Ilhan/Getty Images
A hummingbird feeds on the nectar from a mimosa tree in Massachusetts, US

Photograph: Joseph Prezioso/Zuma Wire/Rex/Shutterstock
One of four kestrels rescued by the Qinghai Wildlife Rescue Center, after being released to the wild in Xining, northwest China’s Qinghai Province

Photograph: Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock
Australian cartoonist First Dog on the Moon investigates the plight of the orange bellied parrot. The Tasmanian government is trying to keep this species alive, but is chopping down the habitats of the swift parrot

Photograph: First Dog on the Moon/The Guardian
Newly hatched loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) released by activists, find their way toward the sea at sunset, at the Orange House turtle reserve, El Mansouri, Lebanon

Photograph: Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP/Getty Images
A tiger looking straight into a remote camera installed in a forest in western Thailand. An estimated 3,900 wild tigers live in forests worldwide while about 160 of the big cats are believed to live in Thailand’s jungles

Photograph: Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation/EPA
A crow eats a crab apple, Ivanovo, Russia

Photograph: Vladimir Smirnov/TASS/Getty Images
Cats stretch out across bags of dried seafood in a shop in the Sheung Wan district of Hong Kong, ready to celebrate international cat day, 8 August

Photograph: Isaac Lawrence/AFP/Getty Images
Galapagos Islands residents hold a demonstration outside the court where the crew of the Chinese-flagged ship confiscated by the Ecuadorean navy is attending a hearing. The vessel had been carrying some 300 tons of fish, including several endangered species such as the hammerhead shark

Photograph: Juan Cevallos/AFP/Getty Images
On Svalbard archipelago, Norway, little auk (Alle alle) gather on their hillside rocky habitat during a summer heat wave that set a new record. Global warming is having a dramatic impact on Svalbard, creating disruptions to the entire local ecosystem

Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

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The week in wildlife – in pictures

A hare sits on a harvested field next to straw bales near Herrnleis, some 50km north of Vienna, Austria

In India, an adult male pygmy hog is under lockdown because of the first outbreak of African Swine Fever in the country. The pygmy hog is the world’s smallest and rarest wild pig, and there is neither a vaccine nor a cure for the virus

A female beaver with her kits, pictured at the River Otter, Devon. The family are among England’s first wild beavers for 400 years

A juvenile tricoloured heron stares at visitors to Lake Eola Park in downtown Orlando, Florida. Tricoloured herons are a common wading bird seen through Florida’s lakes and waterways

An elephant is seen at the Pinnawala elephant orphanage in Pinnawala, Sri Lanka, about 90 km from the capital Colombo

A white-bellied sea eagle feeding her newly hatched young, via the live 24-hour EagleCAM feed in Sydney’s Olympic Park, Australia. At peak viewing, more than 15,000 people are logged in to the stream

An Australian pelican tries to find space on a street light pole on Botany Bay, Sydney

In Gabon, the Wildlife Capture Unit carry Ghost, a giant pangolin. Ecologists will take live samples from the animal to gain insights into the reproductive behaviour, life expectancy and other patterns of the world’s most-trafficked mammal

Wild boars on dry wetland in Entre Rios Province, Argentina. Punished by a brutal drought, the Parana River Delta, one of the largest and most biodiverse in the world, has been burning since the beginning of this year

A dik-dik, one of the smallest members of the antelope family, is seen in the Turkish embassy gardens, in Mogadishu, Somalia

A hummingbird feeds on the nectar from a mimosa tree in Massachusetts, US

One of four kestrels rescued by the Qinghai Wildlife Rescue Center, after being released to the wild in Xining, northwest China’s Qinghai Province

Australian cartoonist First Dog on the Moon investigates the plight of the orange bellied parrot. The Tasmanian government is trying to keep this species alive, but is chopping down the habitats of the swift parrot

Newly hatched loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) released by activists, find their way toward the sea at sunset, at the Orange House turtle reserve, El Mansouri, Lebanon

A tiger looking straight into a remote camera installed in a forest in western Thailand. An estimated 3,900 wild tigers live in forests worldwide while about 160 of the big cats are believed to live in Thailand’s jungles

A crow eats a crab apple, Ivanovo, Russia

Cats stretch out across bags of dried seafood in a shop in the Sheung Wan district of Hong Kong, ready to celebrate international cat day, 8 August

Galapagos Islands residents hold a demonstration outside the court where the crew of the Chinese-flagged ship confiscated by the Ecuadorean navy is attending a hearing. The vessel had been carrying some 300 tons of fish, including several endangered species such as the hammerhead shark

On Svalbard archipelago, Norway, little auk (Alle alle) gather on their hillside rocky habitat during a summer heat wave that set a new record. Global warming is having a dramatic impact on Svalbard, creating disruptions to the entire local ecosystem