We love to show you Mother Nature as it is: simply beautiful. This is a selection of photos that we’ve gathered especially to please your tastes and to inform you about this week’s pick of images from the natural world.

From a brown hare on arable farmland near Roxburgh village in the Scottish Borders to a wandering garter-snake basks outside its winter den in Jefferson County, Colorado, US, all these photos will amaze you.

Check them out for more information and start to see our world through photos!

A brown hare on arable farmland near Roxburgh village in the Scottish Borders.
Photograph: Chris Strickland/Alamy

Two common frogs mating next to a pile of spawn, a sure sign that spring is under way, in Hailsham, East Sussex, UK.
Photograph: Ed Brown/Alamy

An eastern quoll takes its first steps into the wild during a translocation in Jervis Bay in northern New South Wales. A species of quoll devastated by foxes has been returned to the wild in mainland Australia for the first time in almost 50 years.
Photograph: Morgan Cardiff/AFP/Getty Images

Gentoo penguin colony on Cuverville Island in Errera channel, Antarctic Peninsula.
Photograph: Daniel Beltrá/Greenpeace

A still from Albatross, a film by Chris Jordan shot on Midway Atoll in the North Pacific Ocean that shines a light on the crisis facing the birds caused by plastic waste
Photograph: Chris Jordan

A shortlisted image for the Bird Photographer of the Year Award – an Alexandrine parakeet standing on a swallow nests, Chambal River, India.
Photograph: Georgina Steytler/BPOTY

A Mesosa curculionoides beetle on a tree. Nearly a fifth of 700 beetle species surveyed in Europe face extinction because the old, decaying trees they depend on have been cleared from forests, scientists have warned.
Photograph: Benoit Dodelin/IUCN/AFP/Getty Images

A yellow-eyed penguin recovers after a foot operation at the Dunedin Wildlife Hospital, based at Otago Polytechnic on the South Island of New Zealand. Numbers of the threatened penguin species continue to decline despite the work of conservation groups.
Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian

Three dolphins swim in the Bosphorus on a foggy evening in Karaköy district of Istanbul, Turkey.
Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Corpses of poisoned vultures are piled up in the Mbashene communal area in Mozambique. Conservationists say at least 87 critically endangered vultures have died after consuming poison planted in the carcass of a poached elephant.
Photograph: Andre Botha/AP

Rescued slow lorises at a wildlife centre in Bogor, Indonesia. From cutting-edge DNA barcoding to smartphone apps that can identify illegal wildlife sales, conservationists are turning to hi-tech tools in their battle against Indonesia’s animal traffickers.
Photograph: International Animal Rescue Indonesia/AFP/Getty Images

African wild dogs. Half the plant and animals in the world’s most nature-rich areas are at risk of dying out if greenhouse gas emissions rise unchecked, wildlife experts have warned
Photograph: Martin Harvey/WWF/PA

A booted racket-tail hummingbird at the cloud forest of San Antonio, in the rural area of Cali in Colombia.
Photograph: Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images

An iguana in Miami, Florida, where conservationists and volunteers are trying to eliminate the invasive reptiles by killing them, to prevent them from eating native plants and wildlife
Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

A wandering gartersnake basks outside its winter den in Jefferson County, Colorado, US.
Photograph: Andrew DuBois/Alamy