Joel Sartore Joel Sartore

National Geographic Photographer and Speaker

Keyword: African

Photo: A hatchling leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) crawls along the beach toward the ocean on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

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A hatchling leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) crawls along the beach toward the ocean on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea. (IUCN: Critically Endangered, US: Endangered)

Photo: An endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), aka a black-footed penguin or jackass penguin, at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City.

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An endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), aka a black-footed penguin or jackass penguin, at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City.

Photo: An endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), aka a black-footed penguin or jackass penguin, at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City.

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An endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), aka a black-footed penguin or jackass penguin, at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City.

Photo: An endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), aka a black-footed penguin or jackass penguin, at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City.

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An endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), aka a black-footed penguin or jackass penguin, at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City.

Photo: An endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), aka a black-footed penguin or jackass penguin, at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City.

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An endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), aka a black-footed penguin or jackass penguin, at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City.

Photo: An endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), aka a black-footed penguin or jackass penguin, at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City.

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An endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), aka a black-footed penguin or jackass penguin, at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City.

Photo: An endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), aka a black-footed penguin or jackass penguin, at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City.

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An endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), aka a black-footed penguin or jackass penguin, at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City.

Photo: An endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), aka a black-footed penguin or jackass penguin, at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City.

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An endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), aka a black-footed penguin or jackass penguin, at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City.

Photo: An endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), aka a black-footed penguin or jackass penguin, at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City.

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An endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), aka a black-footed penguin or jackass penguin, at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City.

Photo: An endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), aka a black-footed penguin or jackass penguin, at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City.

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An endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), aka a black-footed penguin or jackass penguin, at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City.

Photo: An endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), aka a black-footed penguin or jackass penguin, at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City.

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An endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), aka a black-footed penguin or jackass penguin, at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City.

Photo: An endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), aka a black-footed penguin or jackass penguin, at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City.

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An endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), aka a black-footed penguin or jackass penguin, at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City.

Photo: An endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), aka a black-footed penguin or jackass penguin, at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City.

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An endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), aka a black-footed penguin or jackass penguin, at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City.

Photo: A boy holds up a tiny carpenter fish in the village of Kyehoro on Lake Albert in Uganda.

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A boy holds up a tiny carpenter fish in the village of Kyehoro on Lake Albert in Uganda. Though huge, the lake is severely over-fished. Nile perch are now too small and too few to sustain the human population, so locals have taken to using mosquito nets stitched together to get their food. With mesh that small, no fish can escape. “Any aquatic organism that falls in the net is killed,” says a local guide. Residents of the area get 80% of their food and fish from the lake, which means serious trouble when the fish run out.

Photo: A young girl plays near a sand sculpture of a shark on the beach in Salvador, Brazil.

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A young girl plays near a sand sculpture of a shark on the beach in Salvador, Brazil.

Photo: Boys play soccer on a dirt road near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Boys play soccer on a dirt road near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Photo: A young soccer player with his friends in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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A young soccer player with his friends in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Photo: Bush meat shoppers pay to have the fur singed off a drill monkey in Malabo on Bioko island, Equatorial Guinea.

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Bush meat shoppers pay to have the fur singed off a drill monkey in Malabo on Bioko island, Equatorial Guinea.

An orphaned mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) in the market at Malabo on Bioko island, Equatorial Guinea.

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An orphaned mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) in the market at Malabo on Bioko island, Equatorial Guinea.

Photo: Dr. Gail Hearn walks through the jungle of Bioko island, Equatorial Guinea.

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Dr. Gail Hearn walks through the jungle of Bioko island, Equatorial Guinea.

A gecko (Hemidactylus fasciatus) from Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

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A Bioko leaf-tailed gecko (Hemidactylus biokoensis) from Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

Photo: A fireball lily (Scadoxus cinnabarinus) from Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

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A fireball lily (Scadoxus cinnabarinus) from Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

Photo: A flower (Rothmannia sp.) from Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

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A flower (Rothmannia sp.) from Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

A arboreal huntsman spider (Olios correvoni) from Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

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A arboreal huntsman spider (Olios correvoni) from Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

A nest of critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered baby leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) hatch along the beach on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

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A nest of critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered baby leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) hatch along the beach on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

Men butcher and cook bushmeat, including a 12-foot-long python (Python sebae), in the market in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, Africa.

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Men butcher and cook bushmeat, including a 12-foot-long python (Python sebae), in the market in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, Africa.

Photo: An African pancake tortoise (Malacochersus tornieri) at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo.

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An African pancake tortoise (Malacochersus tornieri) at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo.

Photo: An African pancake tortoise (Malacochersus tornieri) at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo.

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An African pancake tortoise (Malacochersus tornieri) at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo.

An endangered African penguin, also known as jackass or black-footed, (Spheniscus demersus) at the Bramble Park Zoo.

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An endangered African penguin, also known as jackass or black-footed, (Spheniscus demersus) at the Bramble Park Zoo.

An endangered African penguin, also known as jackass or black-footed, (Spheniscus demersus) at the Bramble Park Zoo.

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An endangered African penguin, also known as jackass or black-footed, (Spheniscus demersus) at the Bramble Park Zoo.

Photo: Male African lions (Panthera leo) at the Rolling Hills Wildlife Adventure.

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Male African lions (Panthera leo) at the Rolling Hills Wildlife Adventure.

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