Cover Image

The photo ark vanishing the world's most vulnerable animals

Joel Sartore's quest to photograph all the animal species under human care celebrates its 15th year with this glorious and heartwrenching collection of photographs. The animals featured in these pages are either destined for extinction or already extinct in the wild but still alive today, thank...

Full description

Main Author: Sartore, Joel (Author)
Other Authors: Kolbert, Elizabeth (writer of foreword.)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2019]
Subjects:
Endangered species > Pictorial works.
Wildlife photography.
Photography of animals.
Illustrated works.
Summary: Joel Sartore's quest to photograph all the animal species under human care celebrates its 15th year with this glorious and heartwrenching collection of photographs. The animals featured in these pages are either destined for extinction or already extinct in the wild but still alive today, thanks to dedication of a heroic group committed to their continued survival. From the majestic Sumatran rhinoceros to the tiny Salt Creek tiger beetle, Sartore's photographs bring us eye to eye with the kaleidoscopic diversity of shapes, colors, personalities, and attitudes of the animal world. In these vivid pages, Sartore singles out the species most likely to disappear in the next decades, as well as some that have already been lost. Alongside these indelible images are the words of scientists and conservationists who are working to protect and restore populations of endangered species. With Sartore's distinctive portrait photography, he invites us to look closer--and to care more. --Publisher
Item Description: Includes index.
Physical Description: 397 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
ISBN: 9781426220593
1426220596
Author Notes: JOEL SARTORE is a photographer, author, and 30-year contributor to National Geographic magazine, named 2018 National Geographic Explorer of the Year. Through his National Geographic Photo Ark project, he plans to photograph every species of animal under human care, an estimated 12,000. (As of Nov 2018, he has photographed nearly 9,000.) A three-part PBS/Nova special, "Rare," featured his project in 2017. His "Fundamentals of Photography" is the best-selling offering of all The Great Courses, and he is a frequent guest on CBS Sunday Morning.

ELIZABETH KOLBERT (foreword) is a staff writer for The New Yorker . Her most recent book, The Sixth Extinction , received the Pulitzer Price for general nonfiction in 2015. She is also the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe- Man, Nature, and Climate Change. A two-time National Magazine Award winner, Kolbert is a visiting fellow at the Center for Environmental Studies at Williams College.

Similar Items