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Photo: A helmeted hornbill head that's been carved intricately.

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A helmeted hornbill head that’s been carved intricately. Carving of the bird’s bills for ivory has led to a massive decline in this species. This was dropped off by an anonymous donor more than a dozen years ago at the Houston Zoo.

Photo: A helmeted hornbill head that's been carved intricately.

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A helmeted hornbill head that’s been carved intricately. Carving of the bird’s bills for ivory has led to a massive decline in this species. This was dropped off by an anonymous donor more than a dozen years ago at the Houston Zoo.

Photo: A helmeted hornbill head that's been carved intricately.

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A helmeted hornbill head that’s been carved intricately. Carving of the bird’s bills for ivory has led to a massive decline in this species. This was dropped off by an anonymous donor more than a dozen years ago at the Houston Zoo.

Photo: A helmeted hornbill head that's been carved intricately.

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A helmeted hornbill head that’s been carved intricately. Carving of the bird’s bills for ivory has led to a massive decline in this species. This was dropped off by an anonymous donor more than a dozen years ago at the Houston Zoo.

Photo: Herders graze their stock illegally in Queen Elizabeth National Park.

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Herders graze their stock illegally in Queen Elizabeth National Park.

Photo: On the west side of the original Gorongosa park a brush fire is set by poachers to move game.

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On the west side of the original Gorongosa park a brush fire is set by poachers to move game.

Photo: A thick layer of fog and smoke covers the ground in Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, Africa.

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A thick layer of fog and smoke covers the ground in Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, Africa. The smoke is from fires set by poachers.

Photo: Smoke at dawn inside the main park of Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, Africa.

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Smoke at dawn inside the main park of Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, Africa.

Photo: Human set fires in the main park and the buffer zone of Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, Africa.

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Human set fires in the main park and the buffer zone of Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, Africa.

Photo: Aerials of smoke, fog and slash and burn agriculture, both by the mountain and in the main park of Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, Africa.

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Aerials of smoke, fog and slash and burn agriculture, both by the mountain and in the main park of Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, Africa.

Photo: Clearcuts and forest along the top of the Mt. Gorongosa range in Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, Africa.

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Clearcuts and forest along the top of the Mt. Gorongosa range in Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, Africa.

Photo: A park guard watches helplessly as cattle graze illegally inside Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda.

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A park guard watches helplessly as cattle graze illegally inside Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda. With no room for grazing animals left outside the park’s boundaries, livestock are moved into the park, often with disastrous results for the lions who prey on the herds.

Photo: An elephant, poached not far from the ranger station well inside Queen Elizabeth National Park.

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An elephant, poached not far from the ranger station well inside Queen Elizabeth National Park. The ivory from this animal represents a fortune to local villagers…as more people move in, the pressure to poach will only increase.

Photo: Criss-crossed by the shadows of containment bars in the back of a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle, a ten-year-old boy is driven back to his hometown of Matamoros after being caught sneaking into Brownsville, Texas.

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Criss-crossed by the shadows of containment bars in the back of a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle, a ten-year-old boy is driven back to his hometown of Matamoros after being caught sneaking into Brownsville, Texas.

Photo: Illegal immigrants don dry clothes after swimming across the Rio Grande river near a bridge in Brownsville, Texas.

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Illegal immigrants don dry clothes after swimming across the Rio Grande river near a bridge in Brownsville, Texas.

Photo: Illegal immigrants await deportation back to Mexico at a detention center at Brownsville, Texas.

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Illegal immigrants await deportation back to Mexico at a detention center at Brownsville, Texas.

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.

A man displays his butchered and cooked bush meat, including a marsh cane rat (Thryonomys swinderianus), tree pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) and brush-tailed porcupine (Atherurus africanus), in a market in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.

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A man displays his butchered and cooked bush meat, including a marsh cane rat (Thryonomys swinderianus), tree pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) and brush-tailed porcupine (Atherurus africanus), in a market in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.

A man butchers and cooks bush meat, a 12-foot python (Python sebae), in a market in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.

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A man butchers and cooks bush meat, a 12-foot python (Python sebae), in a market in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.

A man butchers and cooks bush meat, a 12-foot python (Python sebae), in a market in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.

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A man butchers and cooks bush meat, a 12-foot python (Python sebae), in a market in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.

Men butcher and cook bushmeat, including a marsh cane rat (Thryonomys swinderianus), two tree pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) and two brush-tailed porcupine (Atherurus africanus) and a blue duiker (Philantomba monticola), in a market in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.

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Men butcher and cook bushmeat, including a marsh cane rat (Thryonomys swinderianus), two tree pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) and two brush-tailed porcupine (Atherurus africanus) and a blue duiker (Philantomba monticola), in a market in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.

Men butcher and cook bushmeat, including a marsh cane rat (Thryonomys swinderianus), two tree pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) and two brush-tailed porcupine (Atherurus africanus) and a blue duiker (Philantomba monticola melanorheus), in a market in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.

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Men butcher and cook bushmeat, including a marsh cane rat (Thryonomys swinderianus), two tree pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) and two brush-tailed porcupine (Atherurus africanus) and a blue duiker (Philantomba monticola melanorheus), in a market in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.

A blue duiker (Cephalophus monticola melanorheus) cooked for the bushmeat trade in the market in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, Africa. A torch is used to singe off the animal's hair.

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A blue duiker (Cephalophus monticola melanorheus) cooked for the bushmeat trade in the market in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, Africa. A torch is used to singe off the animal’s hair.

Men butcher and cook bushmeat, including a marsh cane rat (Thryonomys swinderianus), two tree pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) and two brush-tailed porcupine (Atherurus africanus), in a market in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.

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Men butcher and cook bushmeat, including a marsh cane rat (Thryonomys swinderianus), two tree pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) and two brush-tailed porcupine (Atherurus africanus), in a market in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.

Men butcher and cook bushmeat, including a marsh cane rat (Thryonomys swinderianus), two tree pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) and two brush-tailed porcupine (Atherurus africanus), in a market in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.

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Men butcher and cook bushmeat, including a marsh cane rat (Thryonomys swinderianus), two tree pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) and two brush-tailed porcupine (Atherurus africanus), in a market in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.

Butchered and cooked bushmeat, including a marsh cane rat (Thryonomys swinderianus), two tree pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) and two brush-tailed porcupine (Atherurus africanus), in a market in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.

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Butchered and cooked bushmeat, including a marsh cane rat (Thryonomys swinderianus), two tree pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) and two brush-tailed porcupine (Atherurus africanus), in a market in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.

Photo: A blue duiker (Cephalophus monticola melanorheus) cooked for the bushmeat trade in the market in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, Africa.

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A blue duiker (Cephalophus monticola melanorheus) cooked for the bushmeat trade in the market in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, Africa. A torch is used to singe off the animal’s hair.

Butchered and cooked animals, two brush-tailed porcupine (Atherurus africanus) and two endangered tree pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis), displayed for sale in the market in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, Africa.

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Butchered and cooked animals, two brush-tailed porcupine (Atherurus africanus) and two endangered tree pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis), displayed for sale in the market in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, Africa.

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