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  • Dogs swim and retrieve balls in a designated area in Prospect Park's Dog Beach. Brooklyn, NY locals use the dog-friendly acres of green space for special off-leash hours at the Long Meadow, Nethermead, Peninsula Meadow and, during those hours, even a place to swim.
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  • Warm, well-dressed dogs and tourist families wait for a race to begin on frozen Lake Saint Moritz. The Engadine valley hosts winter competitions such as skijoring where a skier is pulled by horses or dogs and a cross country or Nordic skiing marathon race.
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  • Two Pyrenees guard dogs herd sheep on the Wyoming range at sunrise.
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  • A man and his dogs drive by in a pickup truck to check out strangers in Coffman Cove. The community is located in Prince of Wales, Hyder County in Alaska with a 2020 population of 168. It is the 110th largest city in Alaska and the 17,162nd largest city in the United States.
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  • A pet lover with her dogs and friends.
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  • A pet lover with her dogs and friends.
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  • Two men with dogs sitting in mud along a road as a storm approaches.
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  • Shark-hunting dogs help control the local shark population on Palmyra.
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  • A warm glow comes from a meeting house at twilight in the American Samoan villa ge of Sa'ielele.  Even the local dogs show up at the social center to nip at th eir fleas.
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  • Eugene Miller takes his hunting dogs to a fox pen where he lets them run all ni ght, Thomasville, Missouri, Ozark Mountains area.
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  • A man walking his dogs stops to talk to one on Gapstow Bridge which crosses The Pond in Manhattan's Central Park.
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  • A woman lives in the Wanke Qingqing development with cats and dogs.
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  • Beijing at the time of this photo had a "one dog policy." The dog on the treadmill is a Siberian Husky and Beijing police are starting another crackdown on large dog ownership. These folks are starting to train their pet on their friend’s treadmill because if they take it outside for a walk, they risk having it beaten to death in front of them by a Beijing policeman. Owners of big dogs (over 35cm) that live within the sixth ring in Beijing have an illegal pet. Many have purchased treadmills after the crackdown began when pets were pulled out of the hands of their crying owners. A group protested in front of the zoo because there was suspicion that some of the dogs were being fed to the tigers. The activists claim dog owners tried to take policemen to dinner to bribe them, but it did not work. They say the policemen sold some of the nice animals and sent the rest to the zoo.
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  • Beloved icons, St. Bernard dogs were once indispensable for their abilities to save people buried by avalanches. Although replaced by modern equipment, traditions die hard and the dogs are maintained as a tourist attraction.  200 years ago St Bernard dogs saved 45 of Napoleon’s soldiers buried in an avalanche—the dog was bayoneted to death when one soldier thought he was being attacked by a bear.  St. Bernards are cared for by a foundation in Martigny, France.
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  • A dog relaxes in a motorcycle's sidecar.<br />
Kamchatka has remote village life where during the summer, locals race around in ancient former Soviet motorbikes with sidecars. It is normal to see the family dog tagging along.
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  • A dog and trash on the banks of the Buriganga River.
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  • A dog, boats, and trash on the banks of the Buriganga River.
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  • A dog, boats, and trash on the banks of the Buriganga River.
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  • Nuns walk through a cobblestone passage inside Santa Catalina Convent. They are  followed by a dog that greets them while wandering freely the convent.
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  • A hunter, carries a rifle bushmeat followed by his dogs. He provides monkey meat to the town and surrounding community. Estimates are that between 30 and 85% of daily protein intake of Africans comes from bushmeat. <br />
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Population growth and the commercialization of the trade in bushmeat creates hunting pressure upon wild animal populations. Wildlife numbers are rapidly declining, and there are concerns that animal diseases may be transmitted to humans.
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  • Suwannee Cafe is a hub of activity day and night in the small community on the Gulf of Mexico.
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  • An adopted former wild horse now works the Wyoming range with a sheepherder and dogs.<br />
Dot, white mustang, was trained by prison inmates and then bought by rancher owners at a public auction. The docile horse earned his keep one week later when he saved the life of a shepherd who was lost in a blinding snow storm. The rider dropped the reins trusting the horse to find his way back home in spite of the blizzard.
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  • Residents of a remote village  in Kamchatka rush to meet the supply helicopter. Original inhabitants Khailino are indigenous. Dogs run wild in the street and locals on board a motorcycle race to try to get a woman on board to be taken where she can get medical attention. <br />
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In Northern Kamchatka, indigenous Koryak people and Russians came for “Northern money” when the Soviet Union wanted to tame the area. Income paid was eight times more than a similar job in Moscow, so some people figured out how to get all the necessary permits to work. When default happened, no one in the remote outposts received salaries.  People made a living from salmon caviar and created fishing brigades with distribution systems. Living in a very small community of 700 residents, and the temperatures drop to –40° in the winter, everyone works hard to merely survive and are kind to each other.
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  • A dog rides in the saddle on the back of a horse at the Extreme Mustang Makeover. The wild horse had bonded with the canine as a companion. Riders waited their turn to enter the ring.
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  • A couple at at a table visit with a friend and his dog.
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  • A native dancer, a tourist and a dog at Ahu Tahia in modern day Easter Island.<br />
Situated near the town of Hanga Roa, the ahu sits near a canoe ramp and was restored by an archaeologist in 1974. <br />
It is perched alone on a ceremonial platform.<br />
Tahai is thought to be among the earliest ahu structures on the island dating back to 690 AD.
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  • A man and his dog ride to check on the farm.
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  • A dog lying on his back.
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  • Cross country skier glides along side his dog as snow falls on frozen Mendenhall Lake surrounded by trees at the base of the glacier in Alaska's Southeast.
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  • Judy Bonds was an environmental activist that fought mountaintop removal mining in West Virginia. Daughter of a coal miner, Bonds was awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her efforts to end contamination to drinking water and destruction of rivers and forests. Outside her home she cuddles her dog as a white-tailed deer grazes nearby.
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  • A U.S. Customs Service agent plays with a search dog near trucks crossing at the Mexican border.<br />
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The Canine Enfocement Program is used to combat terrorism, interdict narcotics, and other contraband while helping to facilitate and process legitimate trade and travel.
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  • A dog inspects a fisherman's catch on the shore of Lake Turkana.
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  • An illegal large pet dog exercises on a treadmill at a pet spa.
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  • A man and dog on the deck of their float house.
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  • A man on the porch gives a treat to his dog who performs a trick while a child and her grandmother sit in chairs on the lawn.
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  • A dog runs full tilt along the coast, free and unleashed on an Oregon Beach. Storm clouds clear over Three Arch Rocks in Oceanside.
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  • An illegal large pet dog exercises on a treadmill at a pet spa.
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  • People watching a video of their dog on a computer.
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  • Japanese tourists view the Matterhorn and pose for photos with the iconic St. Bernard dogs in the Alps. Around two million tourists visit annually to Switzerland's most popular destination nearby Zermatt.
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  • A family sets up racks to dry salmon and prepares it for smoking at a Native Alaskan Tlingit fish camp at Dog Point near Sitka.
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  • The commercial Fishing Brigade outside of Sobolevo, Russia, fish the Vorovskaya River, ironically, the same river from which they offload supplies for the pipeline that will eventually destroy their salmon runs.  But at the end of the first big push, their nets are so full of salmon that they can’t immediately load them onto the trucks.  So while fish are in the holding pen, the truck driver has time to play with his dog. <br />
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Commercial fishing is allowed 40 to 60 percent of the fish run every year in Kamchatka.  Poaching can take nearly as much, so on a good year only 20 percent of they fish escape to breed again.
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  • A Native Alaskan family crosses a stream while hiking with their dog through the woods. They are headed back to their fish camp on Lisianski Peninsula on the west coast of Baranof Island.
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  • .A dog watches over as Russian fishermen pull in the nets from a fishing brigade on the Bolshaya River. Strict work hours at the mouth of the river allow some of the salmon can pass through to Kanchatka’s indigenous camps further upstream. <br />
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The fish have gone into a dormant state because they have been in the net so long. This was the first great push of salmon—the storm had just passed, the tide was out and the water had cleared enough that all salmon make a mad dash upriver.
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  • Dot, a former wild horse, patiently waits under a guard dog's watchful eye as a sheepherder checks on the animals in his care.<br />
After the mustang was trained by prison inmates, the horse was sold at auction. He earned respect the first week on the ranch in the Wyoming range when he found his way back to the corral in a blizzard saving the life of his mount.
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  • A former wild horse, adopted and trained, now works the Wyoming range with a sheepherder and his dog. Owners find that mustangs are sure-footed on a trail and spook less than domesticated horses.
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  • A widow looks forward to the ritual of checking her mailbox daily. Her faithful canine companion Leica waits patiently along the snowy road in the Alps.
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  • A dog watches as a transgender prostitute walks through the neighborhood to her apartment in north Quito.
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  • A black lab named Cooper with a turtle in his mouth.
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  • Suri women building a hut in a village outside of Tulgit.
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  • Building a new hut in Tulgit for the village representative.
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  • China's only full-time pet photographer kisses a Chow Chow.
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  • Refugee Pygmy children and sleeping puppies surround a charred campfire.
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  • Mother Superior's dogs greets her in the morning in the courtyard of Convento de Carmen Alto. The cloistered convent is located in the historic, Colonial district of Quito.
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  • Koryak residents of Khailino, Kamchatka, Russia, rush to get their mother to the poacher's helicopter so she can get medical treatment in Petropavlovsk. The poaching situation in these areas allows some individuals to pay for helicopter time and on return trips the helicopter is often empty. If you know poachers it's possible, in this case, to get medical care.
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  • The religious community of Georgian Dukhobors relocated near Tambov.
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  • Riverfront Canine Club members pause along the Dequindre Cut.
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  • Swede, a float house owner, bows farewell to guests as they leave for the evening near Prince of Wales Island.
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  • Children play on swings in the town park above the marina in Thorne Bay on Prince of Wales Island.
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  • A boy closes the gate when the family returns from a walk. Homesteaders have a rustic home and a rich life in Edna Bay on Kosciusko Island off of the northwestern side of Prince of Wales Island. Edna Bay started as a logging camp in the 1940s.
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  • Cradling his puppy, “Meatball,” a youth hangs out on the dock of the float house. The family built their home off the coast of Prince of Wales Island which is only accessible by float plane or by boat. The houses are characteristic of Southeast Alaska, tied down with ropes and floating on the water in an isolated bay.<br />
Life in remote Alaska offers adventures and an atypical lifestyle rich in experiences.
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  • Border collies received affection on a ranch they help manage.
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  • A rancher moves cattle with the help of a herding border collie.
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  • Border collies are trained to help manage sheep.
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  • Border collies received affection on a ranch they help manage.
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  • Border collies on a ranch they help manage.
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  • Matriarch of a western family has a ride along canine companion.
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  • In Kalyan, on the outskirts of Mumbai, trash pickers looking for plastics begin their daily rounds at the dump.
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  • The Mbuti ferry the portable details of their lives from camp to camp. The semi-nomadic tribe hunts and gathers in the Ituri Forest to survive.
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  • This is the Ust Bolsheretsk area at the height of fishing season along the Bolshaya river.  These fishing brigades use tractors to tow one end of the net and then bring it around full circle in the river to cinch in the fish. The net is then dumped into small boats that have nets laid in them that the crane uses to pick them up and dump them into trucks that go to the processing plants in Ust Bolsheretsk.  This brigade is working in this area that is south of Oktyabrski.
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  • Chained-up hounds, anxious to be part of the fun, watch their owner wave at a passing truck.
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  • Walking in Lummus Park along Ocean Drive in South Beach.
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  • Girlfriends cuddle puppies that bring them joy in a family's barn in the Ladin village of LaVal in the Dolomites.
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  • Contractors prepare to load trucks with wild horses they capture following a round up.
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  • Piles of trash line the streets in the Philippines.
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  • Piles of trash line the streets in the Philippines.
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  • Piles of trash line the streets in the Philippines.
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  • Piles of trash line the streets in the Philippines.
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  • Piles of trash line the streets in the Philippines.
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  • Piles of trash line the streets in the Philippines.
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  • Piles of trash line the streets in the Philippines.
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  • Piles of trash line the streets in the Philippines.
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  • A horse cart on a road passing an abandoned granary and church.
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  • St. Bernards are a tourist attraction at a foundation for their care.
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  • A coyote stares from leafy cover.
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  • Duck hunter Mike Lawn sits and waits for his prey to come by.
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  • Young puppies learn to associate the horn with food as Rhoda Hopkins uses condi tioning to train the future fox hunters for the Old Chatham Hunt Club.
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  • Procession of the Old Chatham Hunt Club to the village square for the blessing of the hounds.
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  • A horse trainer chooses a wild horse to ride on the ranch where she and her mother adopted 50 unwanted mustangs.
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  • A horse rescuer carries hay to feed her the animals at her sanctuary.
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  • A woman, who leads a zero waste lifestyle, recycles up plastic trash.
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  • A woman, who leads a zero waste lifestyle, recycles up plastic trash.
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  • A family wades in Manila Bay which is polluted by household waste, plastics, and other trash.
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  • Piles of trash line the streets in the Philippines.
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  • Native Americans set up teepees for the annual powwow that is held during Frontier Days in White River, South Dakota.
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  • El Molo locals on Lake Turkana.
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  • El Molo locals moor a boat on Lake Turkana.
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  • El Molo fishermen at the water's edge in Komote in Kenya's Lake Turkana region.
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  • An El Molo fishing family returns to their village from the shore of Lake Turkana.
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  • A pet poodle gets a bath at a pet spa.
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  • A pet poodle gets a bath at a pet spa.
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