Frost covers the ground in Richmond park as deer graze at sunrise in south-west London

Wild ducks in Godewaersvelde, northern France

A Przewalski’s horse in Hortobágy national park, Hungary. A group of 15 horses reared there were relocated to Russia’s Orenburg reserves as part of the European endangered species programme to boost populations of this subspecies of wild horse. Once feared extinct, the Przewalski’s horse is native to the steppes of Central Asia

Japanese macaques relax in a hot spring at Hakodate tropical botanical garden, Hokkaido, Japan

A woman walks past paper birds placed by WWF activists opposite Spain’s lower house in Madrid, on 24 November, to demand greater protection of Doñana national park in Andalucia

A Macaranga tree, farmed by a colony of Philidris nagasau ants on Fiji. Ants on the Pacific islands have been observed carefully sowing and fertilising seeds of at least six types of plant as part of a relationship that reaches back 3m years

A wounded 53lb alligator snapping turtle that is recovering at a Houston wildlife centre after fire-rescue crews saved it from a rural drainage pipe

Zebras at the Maasai Mara national reserve in Kenya

Tropical fish swim along the edges of a coral reef off Great Keppel Island, Queensland, Australia

Staghorn corals killed by coral bleaching on Bourke Reef, on the Northern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. A new study has found higher water temperatures have ravaged the Great Barrier Reef, causing the worst coral bleaching ever recorded by scientists

A poached green marine turtle carcass lies on the shore of Pate island in the Lamu archipelago off the coast of Kenya, where former fishermen are being retrained as rangers to monitor the health of the reef

Monarch butterflies at the Sierra Chincua butterfly sanctuary in Angangueo, Michoacan, Central Mexico

Pasar is one of two baby slow lorises kidnapped by illegal pet traders to be sold at Jakarta animal markets. The pair are recovering at the International Animal Rescue sanctuary in Ciapus, Java

Dehorned rhino in Kuduland Reserve in South Africa

Caribou in the Western Arctic reserve in Alaska

A ‘walking’ shark which is at risk of extinction. There are nine species of harmless bamboo sharks that swim and ‘walk’ in shallow waters around northern Australia, New Guinea and parts of Indonesia

Black-winged stilt migratory birds fly over the Shahpura lake in Bhopal, India

Starling murmurations in Gretna, Scotland

A dung beetle rolls his collection across a hole during the first round of the Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek country golf club in Malelane, South Africa

Winner of the Society of International Nature and Wildlife Photographers ‘Best of Nature’ competition: seahorse in the Gulf of Naples by Marco Gargiulo