Charity Mwangome carries a stack of hay from her farmland where colonies of African honeybees are being used as a deterrent against elephants, as they can raid farms during planting seasons.

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Members of the Rhino Repro team check the vital statistics of five-year-old Mia after she was tranquillised during an “ovary pick-up procedure” at a sanctuary near Pretoria, South Africa. The procedure collects eggs from the female rhino for IVF. Rhino Repro aims to improve the reproductive rate of critically endangered wildlife species.

Photograph: Kim Ludbrook/EPA

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A young elephant calf follows its mother across a dirt road at the Ngutuni Wildlife Conservancy in southern Kenya. Elephant conservation in the region has been a success: numbers in nearby Tsavo National Park have risen from about 6,000 in the mid-1990s to almost 15,000 elephants.

Photograph: Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images

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A Javan slow loris being looked after at the Mount Kendeng national park resort management area in Sukabumi, Java, #Indonesia. Ten of the primates have been translocated there as part of a project to safeguard this critically endangered species

Photograph: internationalanimalrescue.org/Yayasan Inisiasi Alam Rehabilitasi Indonesia

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What is lost when species go extinct? Review coming soon to inquisitivebiologist.com

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In the last 125 years, bobcats have recovered significantly from extremely low numbers, with several million individuals found throughout North America today.

Bobcats help reduce the spread of diseases from animals to humans partly because they and other large mammals are poor disease vectors. Bobcats also prey on the small rodents that easily transmit pathogens.

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Bobcats are back, and they’re helping protect people from zoonotic disease

A bobcat, with its characteristic reddish fur and black markings, trots across a snow-covered field in central Oregon, in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, hunting birds at the Warm Springs National Fish Hatchery.

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The successful translocation of 21 critically endangered rhinos from three reserves to Loisaba conservancy, where rhinos had not been seen for 50 years owing to poaching. This is the moment a rhino was resuscitated after it stopped breathing and then quickly released.

Photograph: Ami Vitale

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