Picturing the wildlife photos of the week. From flowers that thrive in nitrogen-rich soils caused in part by pollution from road traffic to a pair of egrets that build their nest in Panbazar area on the banks of the Brahmaputra river in Guwahati, India, all these photos will leave you breathless.
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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
The reclusive African forest elephant among the tall grass of the savannah of the Lope national park in Gabon, west Africa which is under threat from illegal poachers. The government has requested the help of the British army to help train the park rangers in anti-poaching techniques.
Photograph: Richard Pohle/Pool
Ullswater lake in the Lake District, Cumbria, England.
Photograph: Benjamin Graham/Barcroft Images
Beams of light filter down as a blue whale swims by, on its annual migration off the coast of Timor Leste.
Photograph: Paul Hilton/Conservation International
Endangered Francois’ langurs monkeys at the Mayang river national nature reserve in Yanhe Tujia, Guizhou, China.
Photograph: Yang Wenbin/Xinhua/Barcroft Images
Sea otters at the Elkhorn Slough reserve in Moss Landing on the California coast.
Photograph: Eric Risberg/AP
A kite catches a fish from a pond at the Zoological Park in New Delhi, India.
Photograph: Prakash Singh/AFP/Getty Images
A lesser mole-rat near Albertirsa, Hungary. The critically endangered rodent lives in several isolated populations in the Carpathian Basin.
Photograph: Sandor Ujvari/EPA
A gull stands on the rostrum of a feeding humpback whale hoping to snatch a sand eel in the Stellwagen Bank national marine sanctuary near Gloucester, Massachusetts, US.
Photograph: Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images
Seagulls flying on the island of Sir Bu Nayer off the coast of Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Photograph: Karim Sahib/AFP/Getty Images
A pair of egrets build their nest in Panbazar area on the banks of the Brahmaputra river in Guwahati, India.
Photograph: STR/EPA