The week in wildlife – in pictures
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Little Egret wades through shallow water at the South Downs National Park, UK. A campaign to raise GBP100m has been launched to renature an area six times the size of the City of Westminster at the national park
Photograph: John Lauper/South Downs National Park Authoirty/PA
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A young, baboon male grooms a six-month-old, premature baby in Zimbabwe
Photograph: Karen Paolillo/REX/Shutterstock
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A turtle basks in the sun at Huntley Meadows, a nature park in Alexandria, US
Photograph: Carol Guzy/ZUMA Wire/REX/Shutterstock
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Trees burn in a forest on the slopes of the Troodos mountain chain, as a giant fire rages in Cyprus
Photograph: Georgios Lefkou Papapetrou/AFP/Getty Images
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A coot chick with its mother in a nest made of plastic litter debris on the River Thames in London, UK
Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA
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Spider (Lycosa suzukii) seen in its web near a stream in Sangju, South Korea
Photograph: Seung-il Ryu/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock
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A butterfly collects nectar from a flower in a field in Singapore
Photograph: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images
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A yawning hippo bull in Chiredzi, Zimbabwe
Photograph: Karen Paolillo/REX/Shutterstock
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Bears play at a sanctuary in Pristina, Kosovo
Photograph: Florion Goga/Reuters
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A seahorse. The Wildlife Trusts have announced 12 new projects that store carbon and revive habitats, including restoring a kelp forest off the coast of Sussex
Photograph: Julie Hatcher/Wildlife Trust/PA
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A baya weaver (Ploceus philippinus) builds its nest on the outskirts of Ajmer, India
Photograph: Himanshu Sharma/AFP/Getty Images
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Lavender fields in full bloom in Brihuega, Spain. Brihuega, known as ‘El Jardin de la Alcarria’, was the Spanish pioneer in lavender cultivation 30 years ago
Photograph: Europa Press News/Europa Press/Getty Images
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An aerial view of sargassum accumulated in the tourist area of the Fundadores park beach in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. Sargassum is a type of microalgae
Photograph: Eyepix/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock
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Cows cool down in the Volga River near the Aleksandrovsky Graben natural landmark. Russia has been experiencing a heatwave in recent weeks
Photograph: Dmitry Rogulin/TASS
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A group of black-headed ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus) tend to their newly-hatched chicks on the outskirts of Ajmer, Rajasthan, India
Photograph: Himanshu Sharma/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock
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A crane hoists a whale after finding it stranded on a shoal in Taizhou, China. Nine melon-headed whales stranded in coastal waters were rescued
Photograph: VCG/Getty Images
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Tibetan antelopes are released at a wildlife rescue centre of the Sonam Dargye Protection Station in Hoh Xil, China
Photograph: Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock
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An ant and aphids on a plant in the village of Yuzhnaya Ozereyevka, Russia
Photograph: Valery Sharifulin/TASS
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A drone photo shows ‘sea snot’ in the Sea of Marmara, Turkey. The The thick layer of organic matter was threatening marine life and the fishing industry
Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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Dead mussels in British Columbia, Canada. Experts say a ‘heat dome’ probably killed 1bn marine animals
Photograph: Christopher Harley
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