The week in wildlife

Puffin colony on the Farne Islands. England's biggest puffin colony is bouncing back after numbers of breeding pairs tumbled in the last major survey, the National Trust said today Photograph: Barry Pells/National Trust/PA Photograph: Barry Pells/National Trust/guardian.co.uk A bee searches for nectar in a pink coneflower at Miss Nellie's Pretty Place in Cameron Park in Waco, Texas Photograph: Jerry Larson/AP Photograph: Jerry Larson/guardian.co.uk An elephant eats at sunset in Addo Elephant Game Reserve near Port Elizabeth in South Africa Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Jewel Samad/guardian.co.uk Ronnie Graham helps ring and record two osprey chicks hatched in the last few months at the Tweed Valley Osprey Centre, near Peebles in Scotland Photograph: David Cheskin/PA Photograph: David Cheskin/guardian.co.uk The mouth and gill-openings of a clearnose guitarfish (Rhinobatos armatus), stingray, in an aquarium of Tropicarium, a Budapest zoo Photograph: Gyula Czimbal/EPA Photograph: Gyula Czimbal/guardian.co.uk A butterfly pauses on a flower at a field in the West Bank, near Nablus Photograph: Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Jaafar Ashtiyeh/guardian.co.uk A Hydromedusa jellyfish caught 2,500m deep in the Atlantic Ocean. Scientists have just returned from a voyage with samples of rare animals and more than 10 possible new species in a trip which they say has revolutionised their thinking about deep-sea life there Photograph: David Shale/PA Photograph: David Shale/guardian.co.uk 'Lion-bone wine' is latest threat to survival of Africa's big cats. This lion was photographed at the Aquila private game reserve in Touws River, South Africa Photograph: Mohamed Messara/EPA Photograph: Mohamed Messara/guardian.co.uk A vinca flower floats in brown, oily sludge in a canal behind a home just off Lake Pontchartrain near Slidell, Louisiana Photograph: Chuck Cook/AP Photograph: Chuck Cook/guardian.co.uk A dead crab sits among oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on a beach in Grand Terre Island, Louisiana. Photograph: Lee Celano/Reuters Photograph: Lee Celano/guardian.co.uk A brown bear in the Bucegi Mountains, south of the city of Brasov, Romania. Romania has Europe's biggest population of brown bears, with some 6,000 animals Photograph: Stefan Korshak/EPA Photograph: Stefan Korshak/guardian.co.uk A nine-month old harpy eagle eyes a BBC film crew Photograph: Tim Martin/Abu Dhabi Wildlife Films/BBC Photograph: Tim Martin/Abu Dhabi Wildlife Films/guardian.co.uk A field covered with inland waters and algae near Lepseny, 88 kms southwest of Budapest, Hungary Photograph: Sandor H. Szabo/EPA Photograph: Sandor H. Szabo/guardian.co.uk Head gardener Averil Milligan inspecting the flower of a rare plant called the Goat Horn Tree as it blooms for the first time after 90 years in Rowallane Gardens, a National Trust property in Saintfield, County Down. The Goat Horn Tree was brought home from Sichuan in western China by plant collector Ernest H Wilson in 1908. For the next nine decades it grew in a shaded glade of what is now a National Trust property without ever producing its famed white flower Photograph: Peter Muhly/PA Photograph: Peter Muhly/guardian.co.uk Baboons are seen as a menace while they forage for food in an urban environments. While many are busy chasing the primates away from their homes and businesses, Baboon Matters, a non-governmental organization attempts to educate and protect baboons to ensure their long-term future on the Cape peninsula Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images Photograph: Paula Bronstein/guardian.co.uk Receding forest cover in West Kalimantan province on Borneo island. MEPs this week signed laws to prevent the import of illegally logged timber Photograph: Romeo Gacad/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Romeo Gacad/guardian.co.uk A leopard at a zoo in Qingdao city, eastern China's Shandong province. Hot weather continues to scorch many parts of China, with capital Beijing recording the highest temperature in the first ten days of July in 50 years. Temperatures of 35C have been recorded Photograph: Wu Hong/EPA Photograph: Wu Hong/guardian.co.uk A fledgling northern spotted owl grasps a mouse near Butte Falls, Oregon Photograph: Jamie Lusch/AP Photograph: Jamie Lusch/guardian.co.uk