Joel Sartore Joel Sartore

National Geographic Photographer and Speaker

Keyword: imperiled

Photo: A three-year-old female koala is trapped in a tree in a the front yard of a house in Petrie, Queensland.

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A three-year-old female koala is trapped in a tree in a the front yard of a house in Petrie, Queensland.

Photo: The Sunshine Coast Koala Rescue team pulls a female koala with conjunctivitis out of a tree in Kilcoy, Australia.

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The Sunshine Coast Koala Rescue team pulls a female koala with conjunctivitis out of a tree in Kilcoy, Australia. She’ll be treated and released to a safe area once she’s healed.

Photo: Anika Lehmann brushes her teeth as Talisa, a baby koala, looks on. Lehmann and her husband Henk are part of a network of people who foster orphaned young koalas in Queensland.

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Anika Lehmann brushes her teeth as Talisa, a baby koala, looks on. Lehmann and her husband Henk are part of a network of people who foster orphaned young koalas in Queensland.

Photo: Megan Aitken of the Moreton Bay Koala Rescue Team uses a blanket to secure a young male koala who had been hit by a car.

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Megan Aitken of the Moreton Bay Koala Rescue Team uses a blanket to secure a young male koala who had been hit by a car. Hundreds of koalas are killed on roads each year. Aitken says that without protection, koalas will be extinct in the area within five years.

Photo: Sam and her partner Craig Coupland hand raise four orphaned koala babies in Ormiston, Australia.

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Sam and her partner Craig Coupland hand raise four orphaned koala babies in Ormiston, Australia. The couple has been working with orphans for five years. Young koalas take more work and care than human babies, but Longman says the animals are part of the family.

Photo: Dave Wistrom tries on a koala suit in his home Morayfield, Queensland.

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Dave Wistrom tries on a koala suit in his home Morayfield, Queensland. Wistrom is a volunteer with the Moreton Bay Koala Rescue group and wears the suit at educational and fundraising events.

Photo: Mangled terribly after being attacked by a dog, Bruzer the koala slowly makes a comeback at the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital.

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Mangled terribly after being attacked by a dog, Bruzer the koala slowly makes a comeback at the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital.

Photo: A male koala awaits a checkup and relocation to another locale.

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A male koala awaits a checkup and relocation to another locale. His current residence in Joyner, Australia, is a busy neighborhood, increasing the likelihood that he’ll be hit by a car.

Photo: Four hours of surgery wasn't enough to save this female koala, whose abdomen was crushed by dogs.

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Four hours of surgery wasn’t enough to save this female koala, whose abdomen was crushed by dogs. Robyn Stenner, a surgeon at the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital, says that the injury is common, “But it always breaks your heart.”

A vulnerable (IUCN) ashy darter (Etheostoma cinereum), a very rare fish species with a shrinking range in TN and VA, at Conservation Fisheries, a native stream fish breeding center. This fish should be listed as endangered but hasn't been due to lack of lack of funding and little survey work to determine just how imperiled it is.

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A vulnerable (IUCN) ashy darter (Etheostoma cinereum), a very rare fish species with a shrinking range in TN and VA, at Conservation Fisheries, a native stream fish breeding center. This fish should be listed as endangered but hasn’t been due to lack of lack of funding and little survey work to determine just how imperiled it is.

A vulnerable (IUCN) ashy darter (Etheostoma cinereum), a very rare fish species with a shrinking range in TN and VA, at Conservation Fisheries, a native stream fish breeding center. This fish should be listed as endangered but hasn't been due to lack of lack of funding and little survey work to determine just how imperiled it is.

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A vulnerable (IUCN) ashy darter (Etheostoma cinereum), a very rare fish species with a shrinking range in TN and VA, at Conservation Fisheries, a native stream fish breeding center. This fish should be listed as endangered but hasn’t been due to lack of lack of funding and little survey work to determine just how imperiled it is.

A pair of vulnerable (IUCN) ashy darters (Etheostoma cinereum), a very rare fish species with a shrinking range in TN and VA, at Conservation Fisheries, a native stream fish breeding center. This fish should be listed as endangered but hasn't been due to lack of lack of funding and little survey work to determine just how imperiled it is.

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A pair of vulnerable (IUCN) ashy darters (Etheostoma cinereum), a very rare fish species with a shrinking range in TN and VA, at Conservation Fisheries, a native stream fish breeding center. This fish should be listed as endangered but hasn’t been due to lack of lack of funding and little survey work to determine just how imperiled it is.

Vulnerable (IUCN) ashy darter (Etheostoma cinereum), a very rare fish species with a shrinking range in TN and VA, at Conservation Fisheries, a native stream fish breeding center. This fish should be listed as endangered but hasn't been due to lack of lack of funding and little survey work to determine just how imperiled it is.

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Vulnerable (IUCN) ashy darter (Etheostoma cinereum), a very rare fish species with a shrinking range in TN and VA, at Conservation Fisheries, a native stream fish breeding center. This fish should be listed as endangered but hasn’t been due to lack of lack of funding and little survey work to determine just how imperiled it is.

A pair of vulnerable (IUCN) ashy darters (Etheostoma cinereum), a very rare fish species with a shrinking range in TN and VA, at Conservation Fisheries, a native stream fish breeding center. This fish should be listed as endangered but hasn't been due to lack of lack of funding and little survey work to determine just how imperiled it is.

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A pair of vulnerable (IUCN) ashy darters (Etheostoma cinereum), a very rare fish species with a shrinking range in TN and VA, at Conservation Fisheries, a native stream fish breeding center. This fish should be listed as endangered but hasn’t been due to lack of lack of funding and little survey work to determine just how imperiled it is.

A pair of vulnerable (IUCN) ashy darters (Etheostoma cinereum), a very rare fish species with a shrinking range in TN and VA, at Conservation Fisheries, a native stream fish breeding center. This fish should be listed as endangered but hasn't been due to lack of lack of funding and little survey work to determine just how imperiled it is.

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A pair of vulnerable (IUCN) ashy darters (Etheostoma cinereum), a very rare fish species with a shrinking range in TN and VA, at Conservation Fisheries, a native stream fish breeding center. This fish should be listed as endangered but hasn’t been due to lack of lack of funding and little survey work to determine just how imperiled it is.

A vulnerable (IUCN) ashy darter (Etheostoma cinereum), a very rare fish species with a shrinking range in TN and VA,, at Conservation Fisheries, a native stream fish breeding center. This fish should be listed as endangered but hasn't been due to lack of lack of funding and little survey work to determine just how imperiled it is.

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A vulnerable (IUCN) ashy darter (Etheostoma cinereum), a very rare fish species with a shrinking range in TN and VA,, at Conservation Fisheries, a native stream fish breeding center. This fish should be listed as endangered but hasn’t been due to lack of lack of funding and little survey work to determine just how imperiled it is.

Photo: A yellow prairie violet (Viola praemorsa), an extremely rare and imperiled plant in Canada, at the Cowichan Garry Oak Preserve, an extremely rare type of forest in Canada.

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A yellow prairie violet (Viola praemorsa), an extremely rare and imperiled plant in Canada, at the Cowichan Garry Oak Preserve, an extremely rare type of forest in Canada. This preserve is the largest left and is only thirty acres in size.

Photo: A yellow prairie violet (Viola praemorsa), an extremely rare and imperiled plant in Canada, at the Cowichan Garry Oak Preserve, an extremely rare type of forest in Canada.

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A yellow prairie violet (Viola praemorsa), an extremely rare and imperiled plant in Canada, at the Cowichan Garry Oak Preserve, an extremely rare type of forest in Canada. This preserve is the largest left and is only thirty acres in size.

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