✅ Joel Sartore on saving endangered species – and ourselves

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✍  By National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore:  So, why should you care that so many of Earth's species are going to run out of time, and relatively soon? Because what happens to them … will eventually happen to us. My Photo Ark project has made me intimately familiar with the nearly departed. In creating a photographic record of animals before they disappear, I've had a front-row seat to nearly 10,000 mammals, birds, amphibians, fish, reptiles and invertebrates, including the world's most vulnerable. Most you've never heard of. There's the tarsier and the torpedo barb, the bonneted bat and the bearded pig, the wildcat and the woolly monkey. Notice how many are looking us in the eye, as if they're counting on us to save them. Some actually look worried. We should be, too. Though we forget it sometimes, we humans are animals ourselves. Yep, we're 100 percent primate, just like them, and we depend on the natural world in which we evolved. We must have intact rainforests to produce d ...
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