A member of The Leatherback Project for the conservation of leatherback turtles holds one in a cup of sand, to be released on a beach near Armila, Panama, Saturday, May 20, 2023.  A new law in Panama will allow any citizen to be the voice of sea turtles and defend them legally. (Photo by Arnulfo Franco/AP Photo)





An injured stray cat walks on the shoulder of Iranian cleric Sayed Mahdi Tabatabaei after treatment at a veterinary clinic in Tehran, Iran, Friday, May 19, 2023. It's rare these days for a turbaned cleric in Iran to attract a large following of adoring young fans on Instagram, but Tabatabaei has done it by rescuing street dogs in defiance of a local taboo. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





Fisherman Marco Aurelio Canuto Viana processes a pirarucu fish at a lake at Medio Jurua region, Amazonia State, Brazil, Monday, September 5, 2022. A Brazilian non-profit has created a new model for land ownership that welcomes both local people and scientists to collaborate in preserving the Amazon, which includes lakes, some with good potential for raising the prized pirarucu fish. (Photo by Jorge Saenz/AP Photo)





High school students release doves during a commemoration to mark the 100th anniversary of the late Rainier III, in Monaco Wednesday, May 31, 2023. The Principality of Monaco is celebrating the centenary of the birth of Prince Rainier III, whose reign was marked by a strong urban development of the Principality. (Photo by Eric Galliard/Pool via AP Photo)





Lydia Byron reacts while holding a tarantula during London Zoo's Friendly Spider Programme , a course that aims to cure attendees of arachnophobia in London, Britain on May 27, 2023. (Photo by Anna Gordon/Reuters)





A couple covers themselves using a dog transporter during heavy rain in Madrid, Spain on May 28, 2023. (Photo by Nacho Doce/Reuters)





Pope Francis pets a dog after the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on May 31, 2023. (Photo by Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters)





Local resident Tetiana holds her pets, Tsatsa and Chunya, as she stands inside her house that was flooded after the Kakhovka dam blew up overnight, in Kherson, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 6, 2023. Ukraine on Tuesday accused Russian forces of blowing up a major dam and hydroelectric power station in a part of southern Ukraine that Russia controls, risking environmental disaster. (Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)





Hares run on a field in the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, in the early morning hours on Tuesday, May 30, 2023. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





A local woman holds her dog at the site of a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in central Kharkiv, Ukraine on June 5, 2023. (Photo by Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Reuters)





People board an evacuation train at a railway station in Kherson, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 6, 2023. Ukraine on Tuesday accused Russian forces of blowing up a major dam and hydroelectric power station in a part of southern Ukraine that Russia controls, risking environmental disaster. (Photo by Nina Lyashonok/AP Photo)





A dog walks by as KFOR soldiers guard municipal building after yesterday's clashes between ethnic Serbs and troops from the NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping force, in the town of Zvecan, northern Kosovo, Tuesday, May 30, 2023. Troops from the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo have used metal fences and barbed wire to beef up positions in a northern town following clashes with ethnic Serbs that left 30 soldiers wounded. (Photo by Marjan Vucetic/AP Photo)





A dog sits while its owner admires Circle of Reynaud Levieux, part of an auction at Christie’s of the Robin and Rupert Hambro collection in London, UK on June 2, 2023. (Photo by Guy Bell/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Brown bear cubs eat out of garbage bins at a residential area near the forest in Sarikamis district of Kars, Turkiye on May 30, 2023. (Photo by Huseyin Demirci/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





People take part in World Dog Show 2023 Madrid with their dogs at IFEMA in Madrid, Spain on May 27, 2023. (Photo by Oscar Gonzalez/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





A Kyrgyz artist performs during the cultural program “Salburun” during President of the European Council Charles Michel and Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov (both not seen) visit in Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan, 03 June 2023. The Kyrgyz Salburun is a traditional way of hunting with falcons and using archery. (Photo by Igor Kovalenko/EPA/EFE)





Handout picture released by the Colombian Army showing members of the Colombian Army checking on a rescued harpy eagle, in danger of extinction, in the municipality of Florencia, Caqueta Department, Colombia, on May 26, 2023. The wounded harpy eagle was first spotted on May 24 in Monoguette, Solita Municipality. According to veterinarians who treated it, it had what appeared to be a firearm wound in a wing. (Photo by Colombian Army/AFP Photo)





Larry O’Reilly pictured with his dogs, “Dotsy” a French Bulldog and “Tiny” a Jack Russell Terrier on Bride Street in Dublin on May 21, 2023. (Photo by Tom Honan/The Irish Times)





General view as Pigs make their way around the course during a Pig Racing Activity at Pennywell Farm on May 31, 2023 in Buckfastleigh, United Kingdom. (Photo by Harry Trump/Getty Images)





A woman with a dog looks at her apartment building heavily damaged during a massive Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine on May 30, 2023. (Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)