National Geographic UK - 10.2019

EMBARK | THE BIG IDEA DIANA MARQUES, NGM STAFF; RYAN WILLIAMS. SOURCE: SCOTT LOSS, TOM WILL, AND PETER MARRA, ANNUAL REVIEW OF E ...

LARGEST BEE FILMED IN WILD PHOTOGRAPH BY CLAY BOLT Behold the rare Megachile pluto, Wallace’s giant bee. Seen here at roughly li ...

FIN WHALE Mature population Humpback whale 84,000 Fin whale 100,000 Sei whale 50,000 Blue whale 5,000-15,000 North Atlantic righ ...

Range of Amsterdam albatross ROUND ISLAND DAY GECKO AMSTERDAM ALBATROSS PINK PIGEON NORTHERN BALD IBIS AFRICA ASIA MAURITIUS IND ...

EMBARK PHOTOS (1-5): GENA STEFFENS; LEXEY SWALL, GRAIN; QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT; ANGELO GIANNOUTSOS; OROKIET/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO SOM ...

PHOTO: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EMBARK ONE OF THE WORLD’S most endangered marine animals is a pint- size porpoise known as the vaquit ...

ILLUMINATING THE MYSTERIES—AND WONDERS—ALL AROUND US EVERY DAY NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORE UNTANGLING WHALES WHEN NORTH ATLANTIC ...

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PHOTOS: REBECCA CAIRNS-WICKS (TOP LEFT); SELECTPHOTO/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO; CHRIS JOHNS (RIGHT) EXPLORE | PLANT EXTINCTION WEAKENING ...

BIODIVERSITY Staving Off Loss, a Plant at a Time On the edge of a rusty-red cliff at Waimea Canyon, on the Hawaiian island of Ka ...

EXPLORE | THROUGH THE LENS Lessons From the Last of His Kind 34 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ...

I BEGAN MY CAREER covering conflicts. Starting at 26, I found myself in places such as Kosovo, Angola, Gaza, Afghanistan, and Ka ...

EXPLORE | THROUGH THE LENS NGM MAPS leaned his heavy head into Wachira’s. I took a photo of two old friends together for the las ...

62 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC OCTOBER 2019 Vanishing Species ......P. 4 0 Sea Turtle Survivors ...P. 6 2 Giraffes at Risk ...........P. ...

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Javan green magpie Cissa thalassina (CR) Nubian ibex Capra nubiana (VU) March’s palm pit viper Bothriechis marchi (EN) W ...

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BACHMAN’S WARBLER Vermivora bachmanii (CR, possibly EX) One of the United States’ smallest native warblers, it may already be ex ...

in the past decade, two mammal species have gone extinct: a bat known as the Christmas Island pipistrelle and a rat, the Bramble ...