A swan stands on a beach of Japan’s Lake Yamanakako on Thursday, October 31, 2024. In the background is Mount Fuji, which still remained snowless – the latest the iconic mountain had been without a snowcap since records began 130 years ago. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)





A sheep grazes on Samphire Hoe, west of Dover, on the south coast of England on January 2, 2025. (Photo by Henry Nicholls/AFP Photo)





Cattle next to a burned tree following fires in the Amazon town of Labrea, Amazonas state, Brazil, on September 6, 2024. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





Gooses are seen among blooming flowers in Kuyucuk village of Arpacay district, where spring is late due to its high altitude and harsh climate, in Kars, Turkiye on June 26, 2024. The flowers blooming in the village, which welcomes its visitors with their beauty in every season, cover the entire region. (Photo by Ismail Kaplan/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Craig the elephant’s long tusks have made him a celebrity in the area around Mount Kilimanjaro in the Amboseli National Park, Kenya in September 2024. Each tusk is estimated to weigh more than 50kg, qualifying him as a “super tusker”. (Photo by Mark Fernley/Animal News Agency)





Wild elks play in the Tiaozi Mud Wetland of Dongtai City, Yancheng City, East China's Jiangsu Province, in Yancheng, China, on August 24, 2024. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A shepherd dog stands next to it's flock on the bed of the dried up Studen Kladenets (Cold Well) reservoir dam, near Kardzhali, southern Bulgaria, on August 28, 2024. The dam is the 3rd largest in Bulgaria with its 27.8 km². Both southern and eastern Europe are faced with “persistent and recurrent drought conditions”, according to the latest situation report by the European Union. The EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service has warned that it is "increasingly likely" 2024 will be the Earth's hottest year on record. (Photo by Nikolay Doychinov/AFP Photo)





A horse rolls in the grass in Khishig-Undur, in Mongolia's Bulgan province on July 5, 2024. (Photo by Hector Retamal/AFP Photo)





Scottish “Blackies” Blackface sheep graze on the moorland as the sun rises over the Scottish Borders on Lauder Moor, South Scotland on January 15, 2024. (Photo by Phil Wilkinson/The Times)





A young Elephant calf follows it's mother across a dirt road at the Ngutuni Wildlife Conservancy on the outskirts of Voi town in Taita Taventa County on October 29, 2024. Loved by tourists, elephants are loathed by most local farmers, who form the backbone of the nation's economy Elephant conservation has been a roaring success: numbers in Tsavo rose from around 6,000 in the mid-1990s to almost 15,000 elephants in 2021, according to the Kenyan Wildlife Service (KWS) But the human population also expanded, encroaching on grazing and migration routes for the herds. (Photo by Tony Karumba/AFP Photo)





Ron Smith's Labrador dogs, Blue, left, and Daisy search for a ball in the snow after a series of storms in the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles, Monday, January 27, 2025. (Photo by Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo)





Yilki horses graze in the highlands of the Tien Shan mountains on October 01, 2024, which cover a large part of Kyrgyzstan and are listed as a Unesco world natural heritage site. The highlands in the Tien Shan mountains and the wild horses, often referred to as the “lords of the Tien Shan”, are integral to Kyrgyz culture. As a majority of the Kyrgyz people have embraced a nomadic lifestyle, horses have played a vital role throughout history. (Photo by Muhammed Enes Yildirim/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Horses are seen at Rano Raraku archaeological monument at Rapa Nui national park managed by the Mau Henua native community at Easter Island, Chile on October 1, 2024. (Photo by Ivan Alvarado/Reuters)





A rooster is seen with the Zigana Mountain Pass, an important road route connecting the Eastern Black Sea region to Eastern Anatolia at an altitude of 2,050 meters, and the surrounding high areas after effective snowfall has occurred intermittently on October 23, 2024 in Trabzon, Turkiye. (Photo by Hakan Burak Altunoz/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Frogs sit on the shore of the Presa de la Boca as Tropical Storm Alberto hits Santiago, Mexico on June 20, 2024. (Photo by Daniel Becerril/Reuters)