Qingdao, China: A bird rests amidst an algae bloom clogging up a beach. China has mobilised thousands of workers to clean up the algae bloom threatening Olympic sailing events in the eastern city of QingdaoPhotograph: Ng Han Guan/APSingapore: A pangolin, called Hook, resting on a tree stump in the Singapore zoo. Its survival comes under increasing threat from illegal poachingPhotograph: How Hwee Young/EPAVirginia Highlands, USA: A small herd of wild horses pictured a few miles north of historic Virginia City. Faced with too many wild horses on the range and in holding facilities, federal officials are considering drastic policy changes that include euthanising the animalsPhotograph: Marilyn Newton/AP
Sichuan province, China: A stray dog from an area hit by the May 12 earthquake receives medical treatment at a shelter for homeless dogs and cats in Shuangliu county. More than 100 homeless dogs and cats from earthquake-hit areas are housed in the shelterPhotograph: ReutersAltai, Russia: Dappled deer leap in an enclosure at a deer farm in the Altai region's Soloneshensky district. The farm raises some 600 deer and 600 Siberian stags, whose antlers are harvested and used for the production of medicine Photograph: Andrei Kasprishin/ReutersDanube Delta, Romania: A pelican colony rests on lake Razim near the village of SarichioiPhotograph: Vadim Ghirda/APGuwahati , India: A golden langur – one of the world's most endangered species, found only in a few pockets in western Assam and adjoining Bhutan – and a Hanuman monkey in playful mood at the zoological parkPhotograph: EPAPhuket, Thailand: Villagers and marine officials try to rescue some of the false killer whales stranded on a beach near the popular Thai resortPhotograph: AFPCornwall, UK: A Cornish Chough flying over its nesting site close to Lizard Point. A pair of these rare birds have become the first to breed in this area for 50 years, producing two chicksPhotograph: Barry Batchelor/PALondon, UK: A swarm of bees invades a tree between centre court and court 2 on day seven of the Wimbledon tennis championshipsPhotograph: Ian Walton/GettyAhmedabad, India: Dogs sit on a bench in a flooded residential apartment complex in the western Indian city. Annual monsoon rains are expected to be 98% of the average between 1941 and 1990Photograph: Amit Dave /ReutersFuzhou, China: A giant panda, evacuated from Sichuan's Wolong nature reserve, some 30km (19 miles) from the epicentre of the May 12 magnitude-8.0 earthquake, cools off in a bathtub at her new homePhotograph: AFPMeghalaya, India: Elephants with their owners who are illegally forcing them to log timbers near Assam-Meghalaya border. This region contains the largest single elephant population in IndiaPhotograph: EPAMaine, USA: A sweat bee collects pollen from a purple coneflower in Raymond park in Lewiston. Their attraction to sweat makes them a nuisancePhotograph: Russ Dillingham/APGuwahati, India: Crows attack a sambar deer. In spite of the efforts of authorities, the crows repeatedly wound the deers at the Assam state zooPhotograph: EPANorth Horr, Kenya: Camels drink water from a well in the village of Yaa-SharbanaPhotograph: Simon Maina/AFP
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