It’s World Wildlife Day today, a chance to celebrate and raise awareness of the world’s wild animals and plants. Our image collection shows some of the stunning creatures around us that deserve our protection.
Whether it's flying fish, penguins, elephants or foxes, their habitats need to be protected from threats like climate change, overfishing or deforestation.
Southern rockhopper penguins (Eudyptes chrysocome) during courtship and nesting on Campbell Island. They are classified as vulnerable by the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature). Campbell Island, Oceania 2012
© Roberto Isotti / A.Cambone / Homo ambiens / Greenpeace
Feather tube worm photographed during seagrass habitat monitoring off Andros Island. Greece 2008
© Gavin Parsons / Greenpeace
Elephants in the Masai Mara Savanna, Kenya, Africa. 2012
© Markus Mauthe / Greenpeace
Puffins (Fratercula arctica) near Latrabjarg, North West Iceland. 2010
© Bernd Roemmelt / Greenpeace
King Penguins in St. Andrews Bay on South Georgia in the Atlantic Ocean. 2008
© Markus Mauthe / Greenpeace
A spider is seen at Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Kalimantan.
Tanjung Puting National Park, one of the natural wonders of the world in Indonesia, now threatened by palm oil expansion owned by PT ASMR concession, a subsidiary of Bumitama Gunajaya Agro (BGA) Group. 2013
© Ulet Ifansasti / Greenpeace
A monkey in the Rift Valley, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, Africa. 2012
© Markus Mauthe / Greenpeace
Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx)
The Carpathian Mountains are a range of mountains forming an arc roughly 1,500 km long across Central Europe, making them the second-longest mountain range in Europe (after the Scandinavian Mountains, 1,700 km). They provide the habitat for the largest European populations of brown bears, wolves, chamois and lynxes, as well as over one third of all European plant species. 2012
© Tomáš Hulík / Greenpeace
A critically endangered hawksbill turtle swims over the coral gardens at Kanawa Island near Flores, Indonesia. The island is located in the Komodo National Park. 2014
© Paul Hilton / Greenpeace
Double-headed Parrotfish near St. John's off the Egyptian coast. 2008
© Axel Heimken / Greenpeace
Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes), Richardson Mountains, Northwest-Territory, Canada 2009
© Bernd Roemmelt / Greenpeace
Fur seals in Fortuna Bay on South Georgia in the Atlantic Ocean. 2008
© Markus Mauthe / Greenpeace
A flying fish jumps out of the water. Greenpeace is in the Indian Ocean to peacefully tackle unsustainable fishing. 2016
© Will Rose / Greenpeace
