Joel Sartore Joel Sartore

National Geographic Photographer and Speaker

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A US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) employee searches for the Columbia spotted frog (Rana luteiventris) near Austin, Nevada.

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A US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) employee searches for the Columbia spotted frog (Rana luteiventris) near Austin, Nevada.

Photo: A scientist shows the deep freeze in his lab, which contains the DNA of all the frogs in their collection, a kind of frozen ark.

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A scientist shows the deep freeze in his lab, which contains the DNA of all the frogs in their collection, a kind of frozen ark.

Photo: A scientist shows the deep freeze in his lab, which contains the DNA of all the frogs in their collection, a kind of frozen ark.

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A scientist shows the deep freeze in his lab, which contains the DNA of all the frogs in their collection, a kind of frozen ark.

Photo: A scientist examines and feeds captive frogs at the captive breeding facility known as Balsa de los Sapos, or Amphibian Ark, at Quito's Catholic University, Ecuador.

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A scientist examines and feeds captive frogs at the captive breeding facility known as Balsa de los Sapos, or Amphibian Ark, at Quito’s Catholic University, Ecuador.

Photo: A biologist working for the National Parks Service holds an introduced (non-native) trout at the Sixty Lake Basin of King's Canyon National Park, Nevada.

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A biologist working for the National Parks Service holds an introduced (non-native) trout at the Sixty Lake Basin of King’s Canyon National Park, Nevada.

Photo: A biologist working for the National Parks Service holds an introduced (non-native) trout at the Sixty Lake Basin of King's Canyon National Park, Nevada.

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A biologist working for the National Parks Service holds an introduced (non-native) trout at the Sixty Lake Basin of King’s Canyon National Park, Nevada.

Photo: A biologist working for the National Parks Service collects introduced (non-native) trout at the Sixty Lake Basin of King's Canyon National Park, Nevada.

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A biologist working for the National Parks Service collects introduced (non-native) trout at the Sixty Lake Basin of King’s Canyon National Park, Nevada.

Photo: A biologist working for the National Parks Service collects introduced (non-native) trout at the Sixty Lake Basin of King's Canyon National Park, Nevada.

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A biologist working for the National Parks Service collects introduced (non-native) trout at the Sixty Lake Basin of King’s Canyon National Park, Nevada.

A biologist scales rocks in Kings Canyon National Park's Sixty Lake Basin, California.

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A biologist scales rocks in Kings Canyon National Park’s Sixty Lake Basin, California.

A biologist scales rocks in King's Canyon National Park's Sixty Lake Basin, Nevada.

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A biologist scales rocks in King’s Canyon National Park’s Sixty Lake Basin, Nevada.

A researcher holds a male harlequin frog (Atelopus sp.) collected for captive breeding near Limon, Ecuador.

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A researcher holds a male harlequin frog (Atelopus sp.) collected for captive breeding near Limon, Ecuador.

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 woman holds a giant earthworm in the cloud forest reserve of Reserva Las Gralarias, near Mindo, Ecuador.

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A woman holds a giant earthworm in the cloud forest reserve of Reserva Las Gralarias, near Mindo, Ecuador.

Photo: A woman holds a giant earthworm in the cloud forest reserve of Reserva Las Gralarias, near Mindo, Ecuador.

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A woman holds a giant earthworm in the cloud forest reserve of Reserva Las Gralarias, near Mindo, Ecuador.

Photo: Joel Sartore holds a giant earthworm in the cloud forest reserve of Reserva Las Gralarias, near Mindo, Ecuador.

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Joel Sartore holds a giant earthworm in the cloud forest reserve of Reserva Las Gralarias, near Mindo, Ecuador.

Photo: A woman holds a giant earthworm in the cloud forest reserve of Reserva Las Gralarias, near Mindo, Ecuador.

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A woman holds a giant earthworm in the cloud forest reserve of Reserva Las Gralarias, near Mindo, Ecuador.

Joel Sartore with a long-snouted robber frog (Pristimantis appendiculatus) in the cloud forest reserve near Mindo, Ecuador.

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Joel Sartore with a long-snouted robber frog (Pristimantis appendiculatus) in the cloud forest reserve near Mindo, Ecuador.

Photo: A woman takes a picture in the cloud forest reserve of Reserva Las Gralarias, near Mindo, Ecuador.

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A woman takes a picture in the cloud forest reserve of Reserva Las Gralarias, near Mindo, Ecuador.

Photo: A woman takes a picture in the cloud forest reserve of Reserva Las Gralarias, near Mindo, Ecuador.

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A woman takes a picture in the cloud forest reserve of Reserva Las Gralarias, near Mindo, Ecuador.

Photo: Joel Sartore in the cloud forest reserve near Mindo, Ecuador.

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Joel Sartore in the cloud forest reserve near Mindo, Ecuador.

Photo: Recently killed introduced trout in the Sixty Lake Basin of King's Canyon National Park, Nevada.

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Recently killed introduced trout in the Sixty Lake Basin of King’s Canyon National Park, Nevada.

Photo: A team searches for amphibians in a cloud forest reserve near Mindo, Ecuador.

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A team searches for amphibians in a cloud forest reserve near Mindo, Ecuador.

Photo: A biologist searches for amphibians in a cloud forest reserve near Mindo, Ecuador.

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A biologist searches for amphibians in a cloud forest reserve near Mindo, Ecuador.

Photo: A biologist searches for amphibians in a cloud forest reserve near Mindo, Ecuador.

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A biologist searches for amphibians in a cloud forest reserve near Mindo, Ecuador.

A biologist looks at a long-snouted cutin frog (Pristimantis appendiculatus) in the cloud forest reserve near Mindo, Ecuador.

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A biologist looks at a long-snouted cutin frog (Pristimantis appendiculatus) in the cloud forest reserve near Mindo, Ecuador.

Photo: Searching for frogs along the cloud forest reserve near Mindo, Ecuador.

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Searching for frogs along the cloud forest reserve near Mindo, Ecuador.

Photo: A cowboy at the C-Diamond Ranch near Fort Pierre, South Dakota.

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A cowboy at the C-Diamond Ranch near Fort Pierre, South Dakota.

Photo: A cowboy at the C-Diamond Ranch near Fort Pierre, South Dakota.

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A cowboy at the C-Diamond Ranch near Fort Pierre, South Dakota.

Photo: A cowboy at the C-Diamond Ranch near Fort Pierre, South Dakota.

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A cowboy at the C-Diamond Ranch near Fort Pierre, South Dakota.

Photo: Author David Quammen at Nine Mile Prairie near Lincoln, Nebraska.

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Author David Quammen at Nine Mile Prairie near Lincoln, Nebraska.

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