A participant in the 5th Lady on Bicycle annual festival opens her bag in the back basket of her tricycle in the Sokolniki park in Moscow on August 6, 2017. The festival's aim is to capture the city's fashionable women on vintage style bicycles. (Photo by Mladen Antonov/AFP Photo)

A model wears a creation by “Como un pez en el agua” (Like a fish in the water) for the Spring/Summer 2017-2018 fashion show as part of 080 Barcelona fashion week in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, June 29, 2017. (Photo by Manu Fernandez/AP Photo)

France's Orlann Ombissa-Dzangue and Czech Republic's Marcela Pirkova compete during a women's 60m heat at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Torun on March 7, 2021. (Photo by Sergei Gapon/AFP Photo/Profimedia)

Star Wars actors on the Cantina set at Star Wars Celebration: The Ultimate Fan Experience held at the Anaheim Convention Center on Thursday, April 16, 2015, in Anaheim, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP Photo)

U.S. President Donald Trump gestures during his visit to a section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Otay Mesa, California, U.S. September 18, 2019. Trump threatened to do “dastardly things” to Iran in response to the drone attacks on the world’s largest oil plant in Saudi Arabia. The US President indicated he is wary of involving America in another war in the Middle East – but he did not rule out a military attack. (Photo by Tom Brenner/Reuters)

Palestinian bedouin shepherds pull their lambs into the water to wash them, in Gaza City, on April 29, 2016. Every year before the beginning of the summer, shepherds wash their herds in the sea. (Photo by Mohammed Abed/AFP Photo)

The National Geographic Photo Ark is a travelling exhibition of photographer Joel Sartore’s quest to create a photo archive of biodiversity around the world. So far, Sartore has captured studio portraits of more than 6,000 species – a number that he hopes to double. On 1 July, the ark will open at Melbourne zoo – the first time it has been exhibited in the southern hemisphere. More than 50 portraits will be on display, including many of Australian endangered animals being protected by programs at the zoo itself. These captions have been edited from text supplied by Melbourne zoo. Here: Barking owl. (Photo by Joel Sartore/National Geographic Photo Ark/The Guardian)