Kangaroos, including one carrying a joey in its pouch, stand by the side of a road on Mount Macedon, outside of Melbourne, Australia
Photograph: Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters
A baby Brazilian opossum at the Parque Estoril zoo in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, Brazil. According to local press, the zoo houses 23 orphan cubs of wild animals rescued in the south region of São Paulo, victims of illegal wildlife trading or problems caused by urban growth.
Photograph: Rahel Patrasso/Corbis
Meadow Pipit with food for young, Filey, Yorkshire, UK
Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo
Sandra, a Sumatra orangutan with her son at Mount Leuser national park in Bukit Lawang, Indonesia. Clearing rain forests for oil palm plantations has destroyed critical habitat for endangered species such as rhinos, elephants, tigers and Orangutan, which have all been pushed to the verge of extinction
Photograph: Sijori Images / Barcroft India/Barcroft Media
Andean cock-of-the-rock, the national bird of Peru, living in ‘secondary’ Peruvian Amazon rainforest, which is regenerating after human disturbance. Secondary forest accounts for 53% of the world’s forests and is of extreme scientific importance for conserving biodiversity
Photograph: Will Nicholls/Rex Shutterstock
A weasel in the British Wildlife Centre near Lingfield in Surrey, UK
Photograph: Philip Pound/Alamy
A wood sandpiper on Bintan island, Indonesia
Photograph: Yuli Seperi/Corbis
A baby mountain gorilla clings to the back of its mother, on Mount Bisoke volcano in Volcanoes national park, northern Rwanda. Rwanda has named 24 baby mountain gorillas in an annual naming ceremony that reflects the African country’s efforts to protect the endangered animals, which attract large numbers of foreign tourists to the volcano-studded forests where they live
Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP
