National Geographic USA - 10.2019
In Ostional, Costa Rica, olive ridleys nest so close together that they tend to crush and destroy one another’s eggs, so authori ...
during the First Continental Congress. Within a century, though, Caribbean turtle populations had crashed, sending turtle hunter ...
Costa Rica began trying to prohibit egg har- vests in the 1970s, but enforcement was lax. Researchers eventually recommended an ...
Leatherback hatchlings encounter plastic bottles and other debris as they crawl across Trinidad’s Matura Beach to reach the ocea ...
SURVIVING, DESPITE US 85 ...
After harpooners land a leatherback in Indonesia’s Kei Islands, villagers gather on the beach to watch the butchering process. W ...
SURVIVING, DESPITE US 87 ...
A conch fisherman draws the attention of green sea turtles at Little Farmer’s Cay in the Bahamas. Once prized for their meat, th ...
risen, female green turtles born on Raine have come to outnumber males 116 to one. “Seeing those results scared the crap out of ...
BY JOSHUA FOER PHOTOGRAPHS BY AMI VITALE VANISHING: A SPECIAL ISSUE G I R A F F E S THE MYSTERIOUS GIANTS FACE INCREASING THREAT ...
DAVID CHANCELLOR A Texas taxidermy shop displays a fresh giraffe trophy. Cardboard strips and pins hold the skin in place while ...
An orphaned giraffe nuzzles a caregiver at Sarara Camp in north- ern Kenya. Samburu cattle herders found the abandoned calf and ...
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ALL THE LARGE AFRICAN MAMMALS that wildlife veterinarian Pete Morkel has had to capture over his career—lions, forest elephants, ...
Morkel has loaded his dart gun with a dose of etorphine, an opioid about 6,000 times more powerful than morphine. Once it penetr ...
Conservationist Ivan Carter grabs a darted Nubian giraffe as the sedative kicks in. The giraffe and 17 others were moved from th ...
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30 years, making them one of the world’s most critically endangered large mammals. The giraffes of Niger are scarcer still, and ...
NORTHERN GIRAFFE RETICULATED GIRAFFE MASAI GIRAFFE SOUTHERN GIRAFFE 3,000 15,780 Increasing Decreasing Critically endangered End ...
area was host to ancestors of these giraffes as well. The translocation is not without critics. “If giraffes are in danger in th ...
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