A woman with her dog walks past a police officer car in the area closed-off for hiking due to African swine fever, at Collserola Park, in Cerdanyola del Valles, on the outskirts of Barcelona, Spain, on December 1, 2025. (Photo by Nacho Doce/Reuters)





Female sun bear Kyra is prepared by vets to have a cyst removed from her womb in a vital effort to solve fertility issues at Hertfordshire Zoo in Broxbourne, UK on Wednesday, December 3, 2025. (Photo by Gareth Fuller/PA Wire)





Horse-drawn carts and carriages in the capital for the London Christmas Drive on December 7, 2025. (Photo by Jill Mead/The Guardian)





A young seal has its sleep ruined by falling off a step on the beach early December 2025. The seal, which is less than a week old, raised one of its paws to scratch its face, causing it to go off balance and fall down a step. (Photo by Simon Jenkins/Solent News & Photo Agency)





A Humboldt penguin is releasead after the vaccination against avian influenza at the Paris Vincennes Zoological Park in Paris, on December 2, 2025. (Photo by Stephane De Sakutin/AFP via Getty Images)





This handout photo released by the State Secretariat for Animal Protection in Amazonas (SEPET) shows a jaguar (Panthera onca) at the moment of its release in a rural area of Novo Airao, Amazonas State, Brazil, on November 10, 2025. The jaguar had been rescued by military personnel while swimming in the Negro River in October after being shot in the head by illegal hunters. It underwent surgery to remove the bullets and, after making a full recovery, was reintroduced into the wild. (Photo by Joedi Porto/State Secretariat for Animal Protection in the Amazonas/AFP Photo)





A man offers prayers along a road, as pigeons fly past on a smoggy morning in New Delhi on December 3, 2025. (Photo by Manan Vatsyayana/AFP Photo)





Israeli troops demolish the house of Palestinian prisoner Abdul Karim Sanoubar in the West Bank city of Nablus, 02 December 2025. According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, Israeli forces demolished the apartment of imprisoned Palestinian Abdul Karim Sanoubar in the West Bank village of Zawata, west of Nablus, following a raid at dawn. Sanoubar was detained by Israeli forces on 20 February 2025. (Photo by Alaa Badarneh/EPA)





A racoon jumps over a fence in almost deserted Central Park in Manhattan on April 16, 2020 in New York City. Gone are the softball games, horse-drawn carriages and hordes of tourists. In their place, pronounced birdsong, solitary walks and renewed appreciation for Central Park's beauty during New York's coronavirus lockdown. The 843-acre (341-hectare) park – arguably the world's most famous urban green space – normally bustles with human activity as winter turns to spring, but this year due to Covid-19 it's the wildlife that is coming out to play. (Photo by Johannes Eisele/AFP Photo)





A Mohana hunter holds a branch with a living bird tethered to the end, which he uses as a decoy to trap wild birds in the first decade of December 2025. The caught birds are either sold at the market or used as food for the family. The Mohana people once thrived on Lake Manchar in Pakistan’s Sindh province, but pollution and drought have caused the fragile ecosystem to collapse, along with their way of life. (Photo by Guillaume Petermann)





Angie Nelson get help decorating the Christmas tree from her young reindeer Lars in Corby, UK on December 7, 2025. Nelson bottle-fed Lars every two hours — even on her wedding day — and the calf still loves curling up by the fire with his adoptive mother. (Photo by Tom Maddick/South West News Service)





Visitors take pictures of giant panda Lei Lei eating bamboo at Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo, Japan, 28 November 2025. Japan could be left without any giant pandas for the first time in decades after the upcoming return to China of its last two specimens, Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei, amid bilateral tensions. Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s recent comments about Taiwan cast doubt on the future of Beijing’s so-called ‘panda diplomacy’ with its neighbor, which has built a lucrative business around these popular animals. (Photo by Franck Robichon/EPA)





A diver dressed in a Santa Claus costume swims with a penguin at Sunshine Aquarium during preparations for the upcoming Christmas special event in Tokyo on December 1, 2025. (Photo by Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP Photo)





A drone view of apartment buildings damaged by Russian military strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the frontline town of Kostiantynivka in Donetsk region, Ukraine on December 1, 2025. (Photo by Oleg Petrasiuk/Press Service of the 24th King Danylo Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces/Handout via Reuters)





A brown bear cub sits in the sun at Libearty, the largest brown bear sanctuary in Europe, on November 25, 2025 in Zarnesti, Romania. Romania's Carpathian mountains hosts Europe's biggest brown bear population outside Russia, with up to 13,000 animals living in the densely forested region. Bears have inhabited this area for millions of years and recent strict protection laws have contributed to their population growing. Climate change and diminishing habitat forces bears to forage for food closer to towns and village and along with the rise in sustainable bear tourism, bear encounters with humans have become more frequent sometimes with catastrophic consequences. In the past 20 years there have been over 20 bear-related deaths and over 270 reported injuries. In July this year an Italian tourist was mauled to death having taken selfies with the bears moments earlier.(Photo by Andrei Pungovschi/Getty Images)





Veterinary assistant Karla Tablante stands near a white female Timbavati lion cub, one of two born on November 26 at the Maracay Delicias Zoo, where officials announced a contest inviting local residents to propose names for both cubs, in Maracay, Venezuela on December 1, 2025. (Photo by Juan Carlos Hernandez/Reuters)





A recently born white lion is pictured at Las Delicias Zoo in Maracay, Aragua state, Venezuela on December 1, 2025. The Zoo recently announced the birth of two white lion cubs from Timbavati (Panthera leo melanochaita), a subspecies considered endangered and whose global population barely exceeds a hundred specimens. (Photo by Jacinto Oliveros/AFP via Getty Images)





A diver dressed as Santa Claus swims inside a fish tank at the Tropicarium aquarium in Budapest, Hungary, on December 4, 2025. (Photo by Bernadett Szabo/Reuters)