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A red pierrot checking if a kalanchoe leaf might be a suitable place to lay her eggs featured in Mumbai photographer Rizwan Mithawala’s lockdown pictures of the butterflies in his window box
Photograph: Rizwan Mithawala
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Another photographer studying the wildlife in his garden under lockdown was the Guardian’s sports photographer, Tom Jenkins, who snapped these long-tailed tit chicks
Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian
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Green shoots can be seen in the burnt-out forests on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, after the bushfires of 2019-20
Photograph: Quentin Chester/The Guardian
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Photographer Hugh Kinsella Cunningham was able to see first hand conservation efforts to protect chimpanzees at Lwiro Primate Centre in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Photograph: Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/EPA
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African penguins made of concrete in the De Hoop nature reserve, South Africa. It is hoped the models will attract penguins to nest at the site
Photograph: Adam Welz
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A pair of mating Denise’s pygmy seahorses are the stars of Richard Smith’s book on the elusive creatures
Photograph: Richard Smith
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Corals are put into tanks at the Australian Institute of Marine Science as part of research into how ‘supercorals’ could help save the Great Barrier Reef
Photograph: Jonas Gratzer
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Photographer Alessio Mamo took this picture of a brown bear in the Spormaggiore animal park in Trentino, Italy, while on assignment for the story of ‘escape specialist’ Papillon the bear
Photograph: Alessio Mamo/The Guardian
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Georgina Smith captured the ‘Team Lioness’ rangers working with the local community in Kenya’s Amboseli national park during the Covid-19 pandemic
Photograph: Georgina Smith
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New Forest commoner Ann Sevier with two commoner-owned horses on the heathland
Photograph: Peter Flude/The Guardian
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Rewilding efforts at Derek Gow’s farm in Devon include the reintroduction of wildcats
Photograph: Jonny Weeks/The Guardian
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The Wallowa Mountains rise behind the Zumwalt prairie in north-east Oregon, where cattle are being grazed in a way that preserves biodiversity
Photograph: Leon Werdinger
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One of our readers’ photos from the aftermath of the 2019-2020 bushfires, showing an echidna on Kangaroo Island, South Australia
Photograph: Evan Quartermain/Guardian Community
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While pangolins became a prime suspect in the spread of Covid-19 in 2020, conservationists continued to work to protect one of the world’s most trafficked animals. This giant pangolin, nicknamed Ghost, was captured in Gabon, and fitted with a GPS tracker as part of the EU’s Ecofac6 programme
Photograph: David Lehmann/ANPN
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This image of a jaguar is projected on to a section of the US-Mexican border wall as part of a series of pictures by Mexican photographer Alejandro Prieto highlighting the wildlife threatened by the wall
Photograph: Alejandro Prieto
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The Sluch River, a main tributary of the Pripyat, which snakes through Europe’s secret Amazon
Photograph: Vincent Mundy/The Guardian
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A hedgehog finds its way around Kirtlington village in Oxfordshire, where residents have provided stairs and gateways between gardens to create a hedgehog highway
Photograph: Stephen Powles
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Beekeeper Dennis Arp is seen with a colony of honeybees outside Rye, Arizona, for our report on bees and the almond industry
Photograph: Caitlin O’Hara/The Guardian
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A female chacma baboon visits a home in Cape Town, South Africa, in one of a series of images sent in by readers of wildlife spotted in urban areas
Photograph: Karien van der Westhuizen/Guardian Community
