Frost-covered autumn leaves in the early morning sun in Swillington, West Yorkshire, UK.
Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA

A bohemian waxwing eats a rowan berry in the Ivanovo region of Russia.
Photograph: Vladimir Smirnov/TASS

Grey seals on the rocks at Ravenscar, North Yorkshire coast, UK.
Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo

Golden snub-nosed monkeys in Shennongjia, Hubei province, China. Once widely distributed throughout China they have retreated to high mountains because of changes in the environment. Shennongjia is an important habitat for the monkeys, and numbers in the reserve have risen from about 500 in the mid-80s to more than 1,300 now.
Photograph: Wang HE/Getty Images

Logged trees in Białowieża Forest in Poland. The European court of justice has ordered Poland to halt logging in the Unesco protected forest or face fines of €100,000 a day.
Photograph: Artur Reszko/EPA

A beech tree in Alderley Edge woods in Cheshire, England. UK.
Photograph: Roy Conchie/Alamy

A brown bear with cub forages for food in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Photograph: Marco Secchi/Getty Images

A young giant panda struggles to climb down a tree at the Panda research base in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China.
Photograph: Stephen Shaver/UPI/Barcroft Images

Bees fly among a lavender bushes in Cape Town, South Africa. Bee colonies are still recovering from an American foulbrood disease outbreak in 2015 which killed off 40% of all bees in the Western Cape.
Photograph: Nic Bothma/EPA