Tui De Roy / Marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) starved to death due to El Nino effect, Puerto Ayora / Academy Bay, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos

Roy Mangersnes / Marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) feeding in deep water to find algae, off the coast of Fernandina island on Galapagos. April 2016. Much of the algae on coast and at shallower depths have been k...

Roy Mangersnes / Marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) feeding in deep water to find algae, off the coast of Fernandina island on Galapagos. April 2016. Much of the algae on coast and at shallower depths have been k...

Roy Mangersnes / Marine iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) basking on rock next to skeleton of one which starved to death. Unusually warm El Nino waters have killed a lot of the algae which is the food for these iguana...

Roy Mangersnes / Coastal scene on Fernandina Island, with small group of Marine iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus). Galapagos. April 2016. Normally there would be a much larger group but El Nino weather has killed off...

Roy Mangersnes / Dead Marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) on the coastal rocks on Santiago Island, Galapagagos, April 2016. It probably died of starvation as much of the algae in the region have died off due to un...

Staffan Widstrand / Dead Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) starved to death, Zeipelodden, Svalbard, Norway, September.

Jenny E. Ross / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) sub adult watching man at garbage dump, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. October 2003. The polar bears are unable to hunt for several months due to absence of ice in the regio...

Jenny E. Ross / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) foraging at garbage dump, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. October 2003. The polar bears are unable to hunt for several months due to absence of ice in the region, which is ne...

Jenny E. Ross / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) foraging at garbage dump, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. October 2003. The polar bears are unable to hunt for several months due to absence of ice in the region, which is ne...

Jenny E. Ross / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) foraging at garbage dump, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada October 2003. The polar bears are unable to hunt for several months due to absence of ice in the region, which is nee...

Jenny E. Ross / Very thin adult male Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) walking along the shore of Hudson Bay in early November. There was no sea ice in the bay since July, so bears were unable to hunt for seals. Western H...

Jenny E. Ross / Very thin adult male Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) walking along the shore of Hudson Bay in early November. There was no sea ice in the bay since July, so bears were unable to hunt for seals. Western H...

Jenny E. Ross / An extremely skinny adult male polar bear (Ursus maritimus), with several scars on his head, lies on the bare frozen ground near the edge of Hudson Bay. There was no sea ice in the bay since July, so...

Tony Heald / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) helping itself to hay whilst a man repairs a trailer laden with hay for distribution to starving animals during drought. Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe, Septe...

Tony Heald / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) feeding on hay from a broken trailer laden with hay for distribution to starving animals during drought. Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe, September 2019.

Tony Heald / African elephants (Loxodonta africana) feeding on hay from a broken trailer laden with hay for distribution to starving animals during drought. Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe, September 2019.

Tony Heald / Zebra (Equus quagga burchelli) feeding on hay provided by camp operators to prevent starvation during a severe drought. Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe. September 2019.

Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals / Burned forest and road sign in Mallacoota, Australia. This area was devastated by the bushfire a month before this image was taken, leaving much of the native wildlife suffering from traumatic injurie...

Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals / Burned forest and koala road sign in Mallacoota, Australia. This area was devastated by the bushfire a month before this image was taken, leaving much of the native wildlife suffering from traumatic i...

Tui De Roy / Flightless cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi) pair at nest. Galapagos marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) carcasses surrounding nest. El Nino resulted in starvation of iguanas. Cape Douglas, Fernan...

Tui De Roy / Flightless cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi) on nest with another drying wings in background. Galapagos marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) carcasses, a result of starvation caused by El Nino, sur...

Tui De Roy / Flightless cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi), pair fending off dying Galapagos marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus). El Nino resulted in starvation of iguanas. Cape Douglas, Fernandina Island, Gala...

Tui De Roy / Marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) dead due to starvation caused by El Nino effect, Punta Espinosa, Fernandina Island, Galapagos

Tui De Roy / Marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus), starved to death due to the El Nino effect, Cape Douglas, Fernandina Island, Galapagos

Ashley Cooper / King penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) guano. This faeces is yellow during starvation caused by moulting. South Georgia Island, February.

Ashley Cooper / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) starved to death as a consequence of climate change. Svalbard, Norway, July 2013

Ashley Cooper / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) starved to death as a consequence of climate change. Svalbard, Norway, July 2013

Ashley Cooper / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) starved to death as a consequence of climate change. Svalbard, Norway, July 2013

Ashley Cooper / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) starved to death as a consequence of climate change. Svalbard, Norway, July 2013

Philippe Clement / Dead Great tit (Parus major) chicks in nestbox starved to death after parents abandoned nest, UK, May

Georgette Douwma / Acoel flatworms (Waminoa sp) on polyps of Bubble coral (Plerogyra sinuosa) Indonesia. This flatworm can cover the whole surface of some corals, leaving them no way to catch plankton and their symbioti...

Georgette Douwma / Acoel flatworms (Waminoa sp) on polyps of Bubble coral (Plerogyra sinuosa) Indonesia. This flatworm can cover the whole surface of some corals, leaving them no way to catch plankton and their symbioti...

Roy Mangersnes / Marine Iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) swimming up from deep water where it swam down to find algae of the coast, Fernandina Island, Galapagos. April 2016.

Roy Mangersnes / Skeleton of Marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) that probably died from starvation. Unusually warm El Nino waters have killed a lot of the algae which is the food for these iguanas. Fernandina isl...

Roy Mangersnes / Marine iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) basking on rock next to skeleton of one which starved to death. Unusually warm El Nino waters have killed a lot of the algae which is the food for these iguana...

Roy Mangersnes / Dead Marine Iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) with some alive in the background, Fernandina island, Galapagos. April 2016. The iguanas are probably dying of starvation as unusually warm El Nino water...

Roy Mangersnes / Marine iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) basking on rock next to skeleton of one which starved to death. Unusually warm El Nino waters have killed a lot of the algae which is the food for these iguana...

Roy Mangersnes / Marine Iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) trying to feed on a thin layer of green algae on the coastal rocks on Santiago Island, Galapagagos. These rocks are normally covered with a thicker layer of gre...

Roy Mangersnes / Very underweight Marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) on the coastal rocks on Santiago Island, Galapagagos, April 2016. Much of the algae which these iguanas eat have died off due to unusually warm...

Roy Mangersnes / Dead Marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) on the coastal rocks on Santiago Island, Galapagagos, April 2016. It probably died of starvation as much of the algae in the region have died off due to un...

Steven Kazlowski / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) deceased male found along a barrier island in autumn, Beaufort Sea, off the 1002 area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, North Slope, Alaska. The bear was thin and pr...

Juergen Freund / A dead green turtle (Chelonia mydas) washed ashore. With the loss of seagrass beds due to floods and cyclone damage, turtles are starving all along the coast of North Queensland. Townsville, Queenslan...

Lisa Hoffner / Emaciated cattle (Bos indicus) wandering alone in Samburu National park seeking food and water where there is none. Kenya, August 2009.

Eric Dragesco / Skull of elderly Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia) shown in the hand, that died of starvation, showing worn canine teeth, Gobi National Park, Mongolia

Steven Kazlowski / Dead Polar bear cub (Ursus maritimus) found on the coast of Svalbard, Norway, alongside another cub, both deaths likely to be due to starvation. Summer, Svalbard, Norway

Steven Kazlowski / Dead Polar bear cub (Ursus maritimus) starvation is likely cause of death, summer, Svalbard, Norway

Steven Kazlowski / Dead spring Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) cub, probably died due to starvation, found on the coast of Svalbard, Norway, Summer