THE STORY IN PICTURES: The world’s second-biggest fishing vessel, Dutch-owned trawler FV Margiris, dumped more than 100,000 dead fish into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of France on Thursday. Yet it is quite literally a drop in the ocean when compared to the scale of death, suffering and devastation inflicted by the world’s fishing industries. Marine conservation activists from Sea Shepherd were there to capture the shocking images.

PICTURES: World Animal Day was actually on October 4th, but events celebrating the day across many countries go on until November. We’re marking the occasion by bringing you a selection of award-winning photographs from the last 12 months.

We curate a small collection of iconic photographs of animals, each one with an important lesson for all of us. From the first dog in orbit to the monkey who with a little help from PETA sued a human photographer and won.