Joel Sartore Joel Sartore

National Geographic Photographer and Speaker

Keyword: Pantanal

Photo: A horses hooves sink into soil during the dry season at Barra Mansa Ranch near Rio Negro in Brazil's Pantanal region.

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A horses hooves sink into soil during the dry season at Barra Mansa Ranch near Rio Negro in Brazil’s Pantanal region.

Photo: All's wet during the 'full' season in the Brazilian Pantanal, an array of seasonally flooded lowlands which makes for ideal habitat for a rich array of biodiversity.

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All’s wet during the ‘full’ season in the Brazilian Pantanal, an array of seasonally flooded lowlands which makes for ideal habitat for a rich array of biodiversity.

Photo: Aerial of a big gold mine in Brazil's Pantanal.

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Aerial of a big gold mine in Brazil’s Pantanal. Orange tailing ponds ring the mine, which uses mercury to extract the gold.

Photo: A small boat next to an iron ore barge just south of Colombia.

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A small boat next to an iron ore barge just south of Colombia.

Photo: Aerial of a big gold mine in Brazil's Pantanal.

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Aerial of a big gold mine in Brazil’s Pantanal. Orange tailing ponds ring the mine, which uses mercury to extract the gold.

Photo: All's wet during the 'full' season in the Brazilian Pantanal, an array of seasonally flooded lowlands which makes for ideal habitat for a rich array of biodiversity.

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All’s wet during the ‘full’ season in the Brazilian Pantanal, an array of seasonally flooded lowlands which makes for ideal habitat for a rich array of biodiversity.

Photo: A group of men take a swim in a flooded pasture in Brazil.

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A group of men take a swim in a flooded pasture in Brazil. This area now contains fish and stingrays, but will become dry by the summer.

Photo: A biologist uses radio telemetry to track animals at the SESC reserved in Brazil's Pantanal.

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A biologist uses radio telemetry to track animals at the SESC reserved in Brazil’s Pantanal.

Photo: A driver looks out over a ranch in the Brazilian Pantanal.

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A driver looks out over a ranch in the Brazilian Pantanal.

Photo: A driver looks out over a ranch in the Brazilian Pantanal.

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A driver looks out over a ranch in the Brazilian Pantanal.

Photo: A driver looks out over a ranch in the Brazilian Pantanal.

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A driver looks out over a ranch in the Brazilian Pantanal.

Photo: A driver looks out over a ranch in the Brazilian Pantanal.

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A driver looks out over a ranch in the Brazilian Pantanal.

Photo: A driver looks out over a ranch in the Brazilian Pantanal.

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A driver looks out over a ranch in the Brazilian Pantanal.

Photo: Deep mud has taken hold of this truck in Brazil's Pantanal region.

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Deep mud has taken hold of this truck in Brazil’s Pantanal region.

Photo: Old meets new on the balcony of the historic main house at Rio Negro Fazenda Ranch in Brazil.

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Old meets new on the balcony of the historic main house at Rio Negro Fazenda Ranch in Brazil.

Photo: Old meets new on the balcony of the historic main house at Rio Negro Fazenda Ranch in Brazil.

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Old meets new on the balcony of the historic main house at Rio Negro Fazenda Ranch in Brazil.

Photo: Old meets new on the balcony of the historic main house at Rio Negro Fazenda Ranch in Brazil.

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Old meets new on the balcony of the historic main house at Rio Negro Fazenda Ranch in Brazil.

Photo: Two men try to shield their faces as clouds of dust billow up from a dirt road.

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Two men try to shield their faces as clouds of dust billow up from a dirt road. This road, now dry, was flooded a few months earlier.

Photo: Two women wash clothes in the marsh while their children watch from a boat.

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Two women wash clothes in the marsh while their children watch from a boat. Pantanal, Brazil.

Photo: Three men try to shield their faces as clouds of dust billow up from a dirt road.

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Three men try to shield their faces as clouds of dust billow up from a dirt road. This road, now dry, was flooded a few months earlier.

Photo: Three men try to shield their faces as clouds of dust billow up from a dirt road.

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Three men try to shield their faces as clouds of dust billow up from a dirt road. This road, now dry, was flooded a few months earlier.

Photo: Pantaneiros (cowboys) walk their horses through the marsh in the Pantanal, Brazil.

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Pantaneiros (cowboys) walk their horses through the marsh in the Pantanal, Brazil.

Photo: A horse's hooves dig into the mud in Brazil's Pantanal region.

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A horse’s hooves dig into the mud in Brazil’s Pantanal region.

Photo: Human and equine feet dig into the mud in Brazil's Pantanal region.

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Human and equine feet dig into the mud in Brazil’s Pantanal region.

Photo: Pantanieros (cowboys) on a ranch in Brazil's Pantanal region.

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Pantanieros (cowboys) on a ranch in Brazil’s Pantanal region.

Photo: A man curses the deep mud that has taken hold of his truck in Brazil's Pantanal region.

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A man curses the deep mud that has taken hold of his truck in Brazil’s Pantanal region.

Photo: A migrant worker plows fields in Brazil's Pantanal.

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A migrant worker plows fields in Brazil’s Pantanal. He will work from sunup to sundown seven days a week for three months straight.

Photo: Joel Sartore on assignment in Brazil's Pantanal region.

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Joel Sartore on assignment in Brazil’s Pantanal region.

Photo: Colonial spiders hunt from the trees for large insects in the Brazilian Pantanal.

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Colonial spiders hunt from the trees for large insects in the Brazilian Pantanal.

A neotropical stick grasshopper aka horsehead grasshopper (Pseudoproscopia sp.) in the tall grass of the Rio Negro Fazenda Ranch. There are few cattle on this ranch, so the grass remains high and the grass-related insects are abundant. Pantanal, Brazil.

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A neotropical stick grasshopper aka horsehead grasshopper (Pseudoproscopia sp.) in the tall grass of the Rio Negro Fazenda Ranch. There are few cattle on this ranch, so the grass remains high and the grass-related insects are abundant. Pantanal, Brazil.

A neotropical stick grasshopper aka horsehead grasshopper (Pseudoproscopia sp.) in the tall grass of the Rio Negro Fazenda Ranch. There are few cattle on this ranch, so the grass remains high and the grass-related insects are abundant. Pantanal, Brazil.

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A neotropical stick grasshopper aka horsehead grasshopper (Pseudoproscopia sp.) in the tall grass of the Rio Negro Fazenda Ranch. There are few cattle on this ranch, so the grass remains high and the grass-related insects are abundant. Pantanal, Brazil.

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