The sun shines behind a tree on a foggy day in Gadebusch, Germany

A black-crowned night-heron catches a fish from lake Wantan in New Taipei city, Taiwan

A group of baboons cross a river in Marakele national park, South Africa

Porcelain fungus near Salgótarján, Hungary

A golden pheasant at Hangzhou safari park, Zhejiang China. According to local media, the pheasant is gaining attention because its golden feathers resemble Donald Trump’s hairstyle

A fieldfare in a tree ladened with red berries, Burley-in-Wharfedale, West Yorkshire, UK

A pangolin is released back into the jungle as part of a conservation program in Cuc Phuong national park, Ninh Binh, Vietnam

A sea lion that severely injured its neck after it was tangled in fishing lines is released back into the wild in Espiritu Santo, Mexico

Caged Sumatran orangutans at a rehabilitation centre in Kuta Mbelin, North Sumatra, Indonesia

Poachers harvest turtle eggs at El Morro Ayuta beach, in San Pedro Huamelula, Mexico. Dozens of school children turned out for a turtle release, but only hours before they watched hatchlings scramble into the sea, men had been scooping up eggs laid earlier in the morning

A confiscated rhino horn in Hanoi, Vietnam, where authorities destroyed more than two tonnes of ivory and rhino horns on 12 November

Prince William visits a traditional medicine shop in Hanoi, Vietnam before attending an international wildlife summit

Ducks, geese and wildfowl gather as a volunteer distributes wheat feed at Martin Mere wetland centre in Merseyside, UK

Scottish red deer graze in Glen Etive, Scotland

A cirl bunting in Devon, England. The endangered British farmland bird has bounced back from the brink of extinction

A polar bear and cub – taken from an exhibiton of pictures from the Poles by Sue Flood

Gold colored male valley carpenter bee, also called the ‘teddy bear’ bee, in California

An image from Petar Sabol Sharpeye’s series of insects in blue

Animals right activists stage a protest outside the Nobel House in London, UK on 16 November to demand a full ban on the ivory trade