Joel Sartore Joel Sartore

National Geographic Photographer and Speaker

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Photo: Scientists examine 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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Scientists examine frogs at the captive breeding facility known as Balsa de los Sapos, or Amphibian Ark, at Quito’s Catholic University, Ecuador.

Photo: Joel Sartore at work in his home in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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Joel Sartore at work in his home in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Photo: A boy at his sixteenth birthday party in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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A boy at his sixteenth birthday party in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Photo: A senior man enjoys a fish dinner at his home in Nebraska.

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A senior man enjoys a fish dinner at his home in Nebraska.

Photo: A family outing in a pasture near Valparaiso, Nebraska.

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A family outing in a pasture near Valparaiso, Nebraska.

Photo: A family outing in a pasture near Valparaiso, Nebraska.

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A family outing in a pasture near Valparaiso, Nebraska.

A critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus) is photographed getting measured by a fish crew with the Missouri Dept. of Conservation. This crew is surveying fish populations in the Missouri River near Atchinson, Kansas.

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A critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus) is photographed getting measured by a fish crew with the Missouri Dept. of Conservation. This crew is surveying fish populations in the Missouri River near Atchinson, Kansas.

The staff of Conservation Fisheries in Knoxville, Tennessee, studies, tags and fin clips two examples of the rarest fish in the United States, the Conasauga logperch (Percina jenkinsi). These fish are part of "The Desparate Dozen", a list of critically imperilled fish here in the southeast. (IUCN: Vulnerable; US: Endangered)

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The staff of Conservation Fisheries in Knoxville, Tennessee, studies, tags and fin clips two examples of the rarest fish in the United States, the Conasauga logperch (Percina jenkinsi). These fish are part of “The Desparate Dozen”, a list of critically imperilled fish here in the southeast. (IUCN: Vulnerable; US: Endangered)

A tricolor shiner (Cyprinella trichroistia) in the Conasauga River, Tennessee.

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A tricolor shiner (Cyprinella trichroistia) in the Conasauga River, Tennessee.

Photo: Three pairs of legs stick out of the water in Lake McConaughy, as a thunderstorm creeps forward in the distance.

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Three pairs of legs stick out of the water in Lake McConaughy, as a thunderstorm creeps forward in the distance.

Photo: A woman holds her baby while her husband checks their herd of cattle.

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A woman holds her baby while her husband checks their herd of cattle.

Joel Sartore films an American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) (IUCN: Vulnerable, federally endangered) at the Omaha Zoo in Nebraska.

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Joel Sartore films an American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) (IUCN: Vulnerable, federally endangered) at the Omaha Zoo in Nebraska.

Joel Sartore films an American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) (IUCN: Vulnerable, federally endangered) at the Omaha Zoo in Nebraska.

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Joel Sartore films an American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) (IUCN: Vulnerable, federally endangered) at the Omaha Zoo in Nebraska.

Joel Sartore films an American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) (IUCN: Vulnerable, federally endangered) at the Omaha Zoo in Nebraska.

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Joel Sartore films an American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) (IUCN: Vulnerable, federally endangered) at the Omaha Zoo in Nebraska.

Photo: Photographer Christian Ziegler on assignment at Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

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Photographer Christian Ziegler on assignment at Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

Photo: Photographer Christian Ziegler on assignment at Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

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Photographer Christian Ziegler on assignment at Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

Photo: Photographer Christian Ziegler on assignment at Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

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Photographer Christian Ziegler on assignment at Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

Photo: Photographer Christian Ziegler on assignment at Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

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Photographer Christian Ziegler on assignment at Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

Photo: Photographer Christian Ziegler on assignment at Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

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Photographer Christian Ziegler on assignment at Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

Photo: Young adults bathe in the pool below a waterfall on Bioko Island.

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Young adults bathe in the pool below a waterfall on Bioko Island.

Photo: Young adults bathe in the pool below a waterfall on Bioko Island.

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Young adults bathe in the pool below a waterfall on Bioko Island.

A nest of critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered baby leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) hatch along the beach on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

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A nest of critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered baby leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) hatch along the beach on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

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