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Environment

Week in wildlife

Week in wildlife: A macaw couple at the zoo in theGerman city of Muenster
A couple of macaw parrots enjoy themselves in their enclosure at a zoo in the western German city of Muenster. Macaws are native to Mexico, central America, South America, and formerly the Caribbean Photograph: Torsten Silz/AFP/Getty Images
Week in wildlife: Hare on the run
A hare wisely retreats as a combined harvester approaches in a barley field in Germany Photograph: Roland Weihrauch/EPA
Week in wildlife: Sambers take shelter of trees at the Guwahati Zoological Park in Guwahati
Samber deer take shelter near trees as temperatures soar at the Guwahati Zoological Park in Guwahati city, northeast India Photograph: Stringer/EPA
Week in wildlife: Orphaned wallabies at Emerald Monbulk Wildlife Shelter, Melbourne Australia
Two orphaned wallabies Mia and Parker play at Emerald Monbulk Wildlife Shelter in Melbourne Photograph: Craig Borrow/Newspix/Rex Features
Week in wildlife: A Peacock butterfly (Inachis io) auf Nahrungssuche
A peacock butterfly, found in temperate Europe and Asia, sits on a flower near Berlin Photograph: Michael Urban/AFP/Getty Images
Week in Wildlife: Forest rangers confiscate woods after a raid , in Aceh province
Forest rangers confiscate woods after a raid at an illegal logging site in Indonesia. The equivalent of 300 football pitches of trees in Indonesia are destroyed every hour due to illegal logging, mining and slash-and-burn land clearing for highly profitable palm oil plantations Photograph: Heri Juanda/AP
Week in Wildlife: Welsh Clearwing moth
A very rare Welsh clearwing moth seen at Radnorshire Wildlife Trust’s Gilfach Farm nature reserve Photograph: The Wildlife Trusts
Week in wildlife: Osprey chicks in Northumberland
An osprey chick in the Kielder Forest in Northumberland. The first osprey chicks to be born in Northumberland for at least 200 years are fighting fit and getting ready for take-off. Last week a team of experts from the Forestry Commission paid an early morning visit to the remote nest in 62,000-hectare Kielder Water and Forest Park to ring the youngsters and note their vital statistics Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA
Week in wildlife: Features from Jeffreys Bay
Starfish in a rock pool in Jeffreys Bay, South Africa Photograph: Nic Bothma/EPA
Week in Wildlife: Sonar jamming moth
A bertholdia trigona tiger moth which jams the sonar of hungry bats with bursts of its own ultrasound. Researchers have discovered that radar beams could be used to protect bats from flying into wind turbines Photograph: William Conner/PA
Week in wildlife: A Malaysan pangolin, also known as a scaly anteater, climbing a tree
A Malaysan pangolin (manis javanica), also known as a scaly anteater, climbing a tree in Malaysia. China's insatiable demand for pangolins is threatening the survival of the vital pest eaters in south-east Asia and governments must do more to protect them, experts and activists warned this week Photograph: Bjorn Olesen/AFP/Getty Images
Week in wildlife: A bumble-bee and a wasp, seen on a flower in a garden
A bumble bee and a wasp, on a flower in Euskirchen, western Germany. Pesticides called neonicotinoids are widely implicated in the deaths of honeybees across the world Photograph: Hermann J. Knippertz/AP
Week in Wildlife:  A white rhinoceros grazes  At Ramat Gan Zoo
A white rhinoceros grazes at the safari park in Ramat Gan, Israel. As few as 18,000 of this threatened species could remain because they are hunted for their horns which are believed to have medicinal value in some countries Photograph: David Silverman/Getty Images
Week in wildlife: Two white herons fight
Two white herons fight during the first cricket Test match between West Indies and Bangladesh at the Arnos Vale Ground in Kingstown Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images
Week in wildlife: Four wild hogs in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge
Four wild hogs swim in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge near the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The refuge boasts 140,000 acres made up of coastal dunes, saltwater estuaries, marshes, freshwater areas, scrub, pine flatwoods and hardwood hammocks that provide habitat for more than 1,500 species of plants and animals Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Week in Wildlife: A Humpback whale jumps out of the waters off Juanchaco, Colombia
A humpback whale jumps out of the waters off Juanchaco on Colombia's Pacific coast. Every year between June and November, Humpback whales undertake seasonal migration from the Antarctic Peninsula to the equatorial coast of Colombia to breed, feed and rest. To find out about whalewatching in the UK, click here Photograph: Christian Escobar Mora/AP
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