A koala and its joey climb a tree in bushland in Brisbane, Australia Photograph: David Gray/AFP/Getty Images A leopard meanders across the Yala National Park, Sri Lanka Photograph: Ishara S Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images An Atlantic puffin with its catch in the Shiant Isles, Scotland, which lie between Harris and the west coast. The islands are home to an estimated 63,000 pairs of puffins, making them the second largest puffin colony in the UK after St Kilda Photograph: RSPB/PA Thousands of starlings take off from their roosts at dawn, on the Somerset Levels near Glastonbury, UK Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters The Royal Commission