Best Wildlife Photos of the Week

Wild horses in Kosciuszko national park, New South Wales, Australia. The NSW Australian state government has decided to legally protect rather than kill thousands of wild Snowy Mountains Brumbies, although some scientists argue the feral horses are doing severe environmental damage to the country’s alpine region.
Photograph: Courtesy of NSW Government

Bear mother and cub playing in the winter forest, Alaska. The Trump administration is moving to reverse Obama-era rules barring hunters on some public lands in Alaska from baiting bears with bacon and doughnuts and using spotlights to shoot mother bears and their cubs hibernating in dens.
Photograph: Volodymyr Burdiak/Alamy Stock Photo

Reed parrot bill in Qingdao, east China’s Shandong Province.
Photograph: Pacific Press / Barcroft Images