Best Wildlife Photos of the Week

Flowers on a roadside. Wildlife charity Plantlife has warned that ‘nitrogen guzzling’ plants including brambles, nettles, cow parsley and creeping buttercup are increasingly taking over road verges, squeezing out wildflowers important for bees. These flowers thrive in nitrogen-rich soils caused in part by pollution from road traffic.
Photograph: Joss Barratt/Plantlife/PA

A zebra walks through an animal passage under the railway in Kenya’s Tsavo national park. Researchers say a third of the world’s nature reserves are being degraded by human activity, with highways being paved, oil drilled and entire cities sprouting up inside many of the world’s nature preserves.
Photograph: Sun Ruibo/Alamy

A lone pink flamingo walks along Haulover Beach in Florida, US. Biologists say that it is unusual for the birds to fly solo and are keeping an eye on the bird in case it becomes distressed.
Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

A bee-fly feeds on a dandelion flower in a forest on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus.
Photograph: Sergei Grits/AP

GDT Nature photographer of the year 2018, overall winner and first place in the birds category: Maximilian Hornisch (Germany) – Golden eagle, the Alps.
Photograph: Maximilian Hornisch/GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2018