Coral reefs in Laughing Bird Caye and San Pedro in Belize showing an increase in coral growth from restoration.

Photo: Fragments of Hope/Lisa Carne

Wild elephants, including a tusker (centre), rummage through rubbish dumped in the village of Digampathana in north-central Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has banned the dumping of garbage at open fields and near wildlife reserves, but the practice continues.

Photo: Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP/Getty Images

A fox stands in grass in the ghost town of Pripyat, Ukraine, not far from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Pripyat, which had a population of about 40,000 and housed the plant workers and their families, was evacuated and has been abandoned ever since

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The common ostrich ( Struthio camelus) in Cape Point, South Africa

Photo: Dan Callister/Alamy Stock Photo

A burning forest seen during Operation Green Wave, a mission conducted by agents of the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, to combat illegal logging in Apui in the state of Amazonas, Brazil

Photo: Bruno Kelly/Reuters

A low-angle view of cranes in the village of Khichan in Rajasthan, India, after the photographer Yashpal Rathore buried his camera in the ground underneath scattered grain to capture the birds feeding. Thousands of migrating cranes land in Khichan, flying from the east

Photo: Yashpal Rathore/NaturePL/Solent

Bottlenose dolphins breaching in the waters of the Moray Firth, near Chanonry Point, in the Scottish Highlands

Photo: David Jefferson/Alamy