National Geographic UK - 10.2019

Elizabeth Kolbert’s most recent book, The Sixth Extinction, won the Pulitzer Prize. Photographer Joel Sartore has been called a ...

Gray woolly monkey Lagothrix cana (EN) This young, malnour- ished woolly monkey from Brazil was raised as a pet. When she was ca ...

THREAT: DISEASE Since the 1980s, a fungal disease called chytridiomycosis, likely spread through direct contact and by infected ...

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THREAT: INVASIVE SPECIES Kagu, Rhynochetos jubatus (EN) Like many island species, the nearly flightless kagu, native to the Fren ...

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THREAT: FRAGMENTATION Mhorr gazelle, Nanger dama mhorr (CR) This subspecies of the dama gazelle was once widespread across the w ...

3. 5. 56 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC THREAT: HABITAT LOSS Butterflies can fly long distances and feed on many types of flowers, but cate ...

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THREAT: POACHING Asian elephant, Elephas maximus (EN) Early in the 20th century, perhaps 100,000 elephants roamed across Asia. S ...

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VANISHING 61 3. 2. THREAT: DEFORESTATION For tree-dwelling lemurs, there’s no life without the forest—or Madagas- car, their onl ...

Green sea turtles congregate near a dock in the Bahamas. They were so numerous during Columbus’s day that “it seemed the ships w ...

US BY CRAIG WELCH PHOTOGRAPHS BY THOMAS P. PESCHAK VANISHING: A SPECIAL ISSUE SEA TURTLES HAVE ROAMED THE OCEANS FOR 100 MILLION ...

Blood seeps from a dying leatherback harpooned by an indigenous hunter near Indonesia’s Kei Islands. Leatherbacks are the larges ...

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A flatback sea turtle kicks up sand while digging a nest on Crab Island, off Australia’s northeast coast. Indig- enous rangers w ...