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Photo: A television crew films a federally endangered wild caught silver rice rat (Oryzomys palustris natator) on a US Navy property near Key West, Florida.

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A television crew films a federally endangered wild caught silver rice rat (Oryzomys palustris natator) on a US Navy property near Key West, Florida. This was on Saddlebunch Key.

Photo: Locals carry bucket loads of tiny carpenter fish from Lake Albert.

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Locals carry bucket loads of tiny carpenter fish from Lake Albert.

Photo: A tame Galapagos sea lion (Zalophus wollebaeki) beg for fish scraps at a fish market in the town of Puerto Ayora, on Santa Cruz Island.

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A tame Galapagos sea lion (Zalophus wollebaeki) beg for fish scraps at a fish market in the town of Puerto Ayora, on Santa Cruz Island.

Photo: A tame Galapagos sea lion (Zalophus wollebaeki) beg for fish scraps at a fish market in the town of Puerto Ayora, on Santa Cruz Island.

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A tame Galapagos sea lion (Zalophus wollebaeki) beg for fish scraps at a fish market in the town of Puerto Ayora, on Santa Cruz Island.

Photo: A teenage boy swims in his business suit along the coast of Fernandina Island in Galapagos National Park.

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A teenage boy swims in his business suit along the coast of Fernandina Island in Galapagos National Park.

Photo: A teenage boy swims in his business suit along the coast of Fernandina Island in Galapagos National Park.

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A teenage boy swims in his business suit along the coast of Fernandina Island in Galapagos National Park.

Photo: A teenage boy swims in his business suit along the coast of Fernandina Island in Galapagos National Park.

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A teenage boy swims in his business suit along the coast of Fernandina Island in Galapagos National Park.

Photo: A teenage boy swims in his business suit along the coast of Fernandina Island in Galapagos National Park.

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A teenage boy swims in his business suit along the coast of Fernandina Island in Galapagos National Park.

Photo: A teenage boy swims in his business suit along the coast of Fernandina Island in Galapagos National Park.

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A teenage boy swims in his business suit along the coast of Fernandina Island in Galapagos National Park.

Miss Sandy Hill, a federally endangered Mississippi sandhill crane (Grus canadensis pulla), at the Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species. Only 110 of this sandhill crane subspecies exists in the wild. Only another 45 birds are in captivity.

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Miss Sandy Hill, a federally endangered Mississippi sandhill crane (Grus canadensis pulla), at the Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species. Only 110 of this sandhill crane subspecies exists in the wild. Only another 45 birds are in captivity.

Photo: Ranch hands pack bales of hay for winter in Modac County, California.

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Ranch hands pack bales of hay for winter in Modac County, California.

Photo: Before a highway is widened here, botanists are dispatched to instruct workers on how to safeguard the threatened western prairie fringed orchid.

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Before a highway is widened here, botanists are dispatched to instruct workers on how to safeguard the threatened western prairie fringed orchid. On rare occasions roads have been diverted to save imperiled vegetation, whose advocates complain that the ESA grants far less protection to plants than to animals.

Photo: Aymara woman with her llama herd on the desolate landscape of the high Chilean Atacama desert.

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Aymara woman with her llama herd on the desolate landscape of the high Chilean Atacama desert.

Photo: A mother and son atop Holmes Lake Dam in Lincoln, Nebraska, with a huge thunderstorm in the background.

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A mother and son atop Holmes Lake Dam in Lincoln, Nebraska, with a huge thunderstorm in the background.

Photo: A mother and son atop Holmes Lake Dam in Lincoln, Nebraska, with a huge thunderstorm in the background.

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A mother and son atop Holmes Lake Dam in Lincoln, Nebraska, with a huge thunderstorm in the background.

Photo: A mother and son atop Holmes Lake Dam in Lincoln, Nebraska, with a huge thunderstorm in the background.

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A mother and son atop Holmes Lake Dam in Lincoln, Nebraska, with a huge thunderstorm in the background.

Photo: A mother and son atop Holmes Lake Dam in Lincoln, Nebraska, with a huge thunderstorm in the background.

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A mother and son atop Holmes Lake Dam in Lincoln, Nebraska, with a huge thunderstorm in the background.

Photo: A mother and son atop Holmes Lake Dam in Lincoln, Nebraska, with a huge thunderstorm in the background.

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A mother and son atop Holmes Lake Dam in Lincoln, Nebraska, with a huge thunderstorm in the background.

Photo: A researcher surveys a ravine that was clogged by a road-widening/gravel mining project near Limon, Ecuador.

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A researcher surveys a ravine that was clogged by a road-widening/gravel mining project near Limon, Ecuador. The area was once prime amphibian habitat.

Photo: A six year-old boy at water park in Kansas City, Kansas.

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A six year-old boy at water park in Kansas City, Kansas.

Photo: A six year-old boy at water park in Kansas City, Kansas.

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A six year-old boy at water park in Kansas City, Kansas.

Photo: Maidenhair fern (Adiantum sp.) near Crosslake, Minnesota.

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Maidenhair fern (Adiantum sp.) near Crosslake, Minnesota.

Photo: A twelve year-old girl walks along the shores of Mar Caribe peninsula, Cancun, Mexico.

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A twelve year-old girl walks along the shores of Mar Caribe peninsula, Cancun, Mexico. Taken near ME Melia Hotel where Hurricane Wilma came through in 2005 and removed much of the beach.

Photo: A twelve year-old girl on the shores of Mar Caribe peninsula, Cancun, Mexico.

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A twelve year-old girl on the shores of Mar Caribe peninsula, Cancun, Mexico. Taken near ME Melia Hotel where Hurricane Wilma came through in 2005 and removed much of the beach.

Photo: A twelve year-old girl on the shores of Mar Caribe peninsula, Cancun, Mexico.

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A twelve year-old girl on the shores of Mar Caribe peninsula, Cancun, Mexico. Taken near ME Melia Hotel where Hurricane Wilma came through in 2005 and removed much of the beach.

Photo: A twelve year-old girl on the shores of Mar Caribe peninsula, Cancun, Mexico.

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A twelve year-old girl on the shores of Mar Caribe peninsula, Cancun, Mexico. Taken near ME Melia Hotel where Hurricane Wilma came through in 2005 and removed much of the beach.

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