Joel Sartore on saving endangered species – and ourselves

On January 5, 2020 CBS news published this story about extinction.

” We must have intact rainforests to produce dependable amounts of rain to grow our crops. We need healthy seas to generate much of the food we eat and the oxygen we breathe. And we need pollinating insects as well to bring us fruits and vegetables.”

 

A leafcutter bee (Megachile parallela).
“Kit Kat”, a San Joaquin kit fox, Vulpes macrotis mutica, at the Big Bear Alpine Zoo in Big Bear Lake, CA. This species is federally listed as endangered.
Baby aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) named Tonks, 16 days old, at the Denver Zoo.
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