A young girl pulls on her braids during the Red Head Days festival in Tilburg, Netherlands, Saturday, August 30, 2025. (Photo by Virginia Mayo/AP Photo)
A doll dressed in Ukraine's national dress lies on the floor amid broken glass inside a kindergarten destroyed by a missile strike, in Kyiv on July 10, 2024, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. Russia struck cities across Ukraine on July 8, 2024, with a missile barrage that killed 33 people and ripped open a children's hospital in Kyiv. (Photo by Anatolii Stepanov/AFP Photo)
An Israeli soldier gives instruction to a platoon in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon, December 5, 2024. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)
Global wildlife populations will decline by 67% by 2020 unless urgent action is taken to reduce human impact on species and ecosystems, warns the biennial Living Planet Index report from WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) and ZSL (Zoological Society of London). From elephants to eels, here are some of the wildlife populations most affected by human activity. Here: The maned wolf is among the large mammals in the Brazilian Cerrado that are threatened by the increasing conversion of grasslands into farmland for grazing and growing crops. (Photo by Ben Cranke/Nature Picture Library/Alamy Stock Photo)
David Goffin of Belgium meets a koala during a promotional event for the Australian Open tennis tournament at Melbourne Park on January 17, 2018. (Photo by Fiona Hamilton/Reuters/Tennis Australia)
A Southwest Airlines jet takes off from Reagan National Airport with a thunderhead to the east on June 20, 2017 in Alexandria, VA. (Photo by Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post)