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With a growing network of marine protected areas, a new generation of South Africans like nine-year-old Laila Ntlantlu will hopefully see a return of the country’s iconic reef fishes to healthy numbers.
A leopard walks down a dry streambed in the lowland of Bhutan.
Friesland, the Netherlands
Barcelona skyline with Sagrada Família
Sagrada Família seen lit up against the last light of Christmas Day 2016.
Leader of a local group of treasure hunters in Tanzania.
A male barn owl lands on a beam carrying a freshly caught vole in its beak. His rapidly growing chicks need lots of food. At the peak, he may bring as much as sixteen prey items into the nest in a single night. Thiérache, France.
A Cape fur seal swims over a kelp bed at Duiker Island off Hout Bay, South Africa.
Bluebells carpet the forest floor. Thiérache, France.
Hottentot seabream swim by fronds of split-fan kelp in Table Mountain National Park Marine Protected Area, False Bay, South Africa.
A female smooth newt sinks back to the bottom of a pond after coming up for air. The Netherlands.
Thiérache, France
A Bhutanese girl plays peek-a-boo over the counter of her country’s only cheese and wine shop in Bumthang
A misty morning view over the Amani Nature Reserve in the East Usambara Mountains of Tanzania. Villages intersperse the protected areas of the reserve.
The barn swallow has adapted to nesting in the artificial caves we put up around the world in the shape of bridges, farmsteads and other constructions, making it the most widespread and abundant of all swallows. This bird returns year after year to breed in the same old cowshed. Thiérache, France.
An inquisitive Cape fur seal enters a forest of sea bamboo at Duiker Island off Hout Bay, South Africa.
A backlit blackberry leaf reveals colorful traces left by a small leaf-mining Stigmella caterpillar. The size of the mine shows how the caterpillar grew larger and larger as it ate itself a way through the leaf. The black dots are its excrements. Thiérache, France.
Black kites dot the sky as the sun sets over Bombay, India.
An wintertime aerial view of the traditional hedgerow landscape of the Oise river valley in the Thiérache, France.
Thiérache, France
Aerial view over the wild coastline of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa.
A Hottentot seabream seeks shelter amid kelp fronds. Hottentot seabream are among dozens of species found only on the Southern African coastline and nowhere else in the world.
False clown anemonefish in carpet sea anemone. Ternate, Indonesia.
This Filoboletus fungus is thought to glow in the dark to attract insects that help it disperse its spores. Mycologist Luis Morgado studies it in the light of a red torch, allowing his eyes to remain adjusted to the dark. Crocker Range, Borneo.
African bush elephants at night in the Chyulus, Kenya.
A wintertime aerial view of the traditional hedgerow landscape of the Oise river valley in the Thiérache, France.
A woman sleeps with a view of the Mediterranean Sea in the town of Xàbia, Spain.
Burning candles is one of the rituals performed by Tanzanian treasure hunters to appease ghosts that are believed to guard over German treasures.
Clasping a songbird, a female Montagu's harrier prepares to land at her nest to feed her chicks. Groningen, the Netherlands.
Porcelain crab in carpet sea anemone
Ternate, Indonesia
Khoisan rock paintings thought to depict a group of shaman performing a ritual to summon rain in which they capture an elephant. Cederberg, South Africa.
