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  • A camel festival outside of Harappa.
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  • Mustangs gallop in a tight pack as hired contractors herd large numbers of horses into a trap chasing them with helicopters. Nearly panicked, they are tricked to follow a tame “Judas” horse let loose in the confusion. The trained horse runs along the jute fence and into a corral expecting food and the wild horses that follow are captured.<br />
The Jackson Mountain Herd consists of mostly brown and dun colored horses. Most were dehydrated and hungry from drought conditions on Bureau of Land Management public lands in Nevada.
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  • Senegalese fishermen empty their nets of a large haul of fish they caught on their colorful boats.
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  • A helicopter circles back to drive a herd of wild horses across the desert toward a trap in a roundup by the Bureau of Land Management in Nevada. Dust rises as the panicked horses flee the buzzing noise above them. Drought and wild land fire create stressful conditions with little water and food available for the herd.
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  • Bureau of Land Management contractors drive wild horses galloping toward a trap using helicopters. Wyoming rangelands have "checkerboard" ownership of adjoining public and private land complicating management of wild horse herds. Ranchers won a lawsuit to have them rounded up and removed.
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  • Horses flee from helicopters in a Bureau of Land Management mustang roundup. Bands stay together to protect the younger wild horses as the herd gallops full speed trying to run to safety.
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  • Separated from the herd, wild horses run to safety as Bureau of Land Management contractors bear down driving mustangs toward a trap using a helicopter for the roundup.
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  • Fish carcasses dry in the sun on the coast of Pulau Misa, an island nation in the northern Pacific Ocean, located some 700 km east of the Philippines, perched on the Kyushu-Palau Ridge. The westernmost cluster of the Caroline Islands consists of 20 large islands and 566 smaller islands and is one of the world's youngest and least populated nations.
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  • A rumble of thunder and flashes of lightening illuminated a spectacular scene that “National Geographic calls the annual migration of sandhill cranes one of North America’s greatest wildlife phenomena,” according to the Crane Trust.<br />
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Every spring 80% of Lesser Sand Hill Cranes and some Greater Sand Hill Cranes fly to the Platte River in greater concentrations than anywhere in the world. Fossil beds in parts of NE contain the remains of prehistoric cranes from 10 million years ago. Sand Hill Cranes feel safe from predators in about 2 inches of Ogallala water.  Grassland birds of the great plains migrate from Siberia and Canada to the southern US and Northern Mexico. Their main migratory path is north-south constrained by the Rocky Mountains in the same way as the aquifer was when the mountains were formed.<br />
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Sand Hill Cranes land on Crane Trust property feeding on adjacent farmland's waste corn. Ironically, it is because modern agriculture took away the constrained rivers they need to survive. Annually 560,000 come through on migration in the shape of an hourglass fanning out in the north and the south, but hitting a choke point  in the middle around Kearney NE on the Platte River.<br />
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The Crane Trust counted 413,000 Sandhill Cranes on this evening-more than they’ve ever counted before, so this image is what it must have looked like millions of years ago. Conservation groups tirelessly work to keep 20 miles of the Platte River a perfect habitat for the 560,000 cranes that fly through. <br />
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Sandhill Cranes are millions of years old and evolved during the Pleistocene. One of the biggest migration corridors in the world hinges on a core of volunteers and the money they raise to dredge the rivers back to the place they were millions of years ago. So this photo addresses cranes habitat.
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  • A band of wild horses follow single file to water as they roam the wide open spaces near Pilot Butte a unique formation that stands out in the high desert on public lands in western Wyoming.
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  • Golden light of early morning illuminates fog lifting around horses in a pasture at Wild Horse Sanctuary in Northern California.
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  • A herd of colorful mustangs including Paints and Palominos graze through sagebrush as evening approaches. After stopping at the waterhole, they headed toward salt licks and to roll taking dust baths in Oregon's high desert.
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  • A rancher moves cattle with the help of a herding border collie.
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  • Flocks of Sandhill cranes arrive at dusk to roost in the shallows of the Platte River.<br />
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Every year 400,000 to 600,000 sandhill cranes—80 percent of all the cranes on the planet—congregate along an 80-mile stretch of the central Platte River in Nebraska, to fatten up on waste grain in the empty cornfields in preparation for the journey to their Arctic and subarctic nesting grounds. <br />
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Sandhill cranes among the world’s oldest living birds and one of the planet’s most successful life-forms, having outlasted millions of species (99 percent of species that ever existed are now extinct).
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  • Sandhill cranes fly in to roost in the shallows of the Platte River. <br />
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Every year 400,000 to 600,000 sandhill cranes—80 percent of all the cranes on the planet—congregate along an 80-mile stretch of the central Platte River in Nebraska, to fatten up on waste grain in the empty cornfields in preparation for the journey to their Arctic and subarctic nesting grounds. <br />
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Sandhill cranes among the world’s oldest living birds and one of the planet’s most successful life-forms, having outlasted millions of species (99 percent of species that ever existed are now extinct).
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  • Sandhill cranes fly in to roost in the shallows of the Platte River.<br />
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Every year 400,000 to 600,000 sandhill cranes—80 percent of all the cranes on the planet—congregate along an 80-mile stretch of the central Platte River in Nebraska, to fatten up on waste grain in the empty cornfields in preparation for the journey to their Arctic and subarctic nesting grounds. <br />
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Sandhill cranes among the world’s oldest living birds and one of the planet’s most successful life-forms, having outlasted millions of species (99 percent of species that ever existed are now extinct).
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  • Sandhill cranes fly in to roost in the shallows of the Platte River. <br />
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Every year 400,000 to 600,000 sandhill cranes—80 percent of all the cranes on the planet—congregate along an 80-mile stretch of the central Platte River in Nebraska, to fatten up on waste grain in the empty cornfields in preparation for the journey to their Arctic and subarctic nesting grounds. <br />
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Sandhill cranes among the world’s oldest living birds and one of the planet’s most successful life-forms, having outlasted millions of species (99 percent of species that ever existed are now extinct).
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  • Morning breaks with warm rays of sun over cool blue light of dawn as Sand Hill Cranes fly in to sit in two inches of precious Ogallala water on the Platte River. <br />
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Grassland birds of the Great Plains migrate from Siberia and Canada to the southern United States and Northern Mexico. Their main migratory path is north-south and then in reverse as they fly in to breed in the High Plains aquifer. The birds path is constrained by the Rocky Mountains much in the same as the ancient aquifer. <br />
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Birds depend on these protected waterways creating an hourglass shape in their migration making a wide path following to the narrow choke point at Kearney on the Platte River. Nearly a half million migrating Sand Hill Cranes fly in to Crane Trust property and adjacent farmland.
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  • Sandhill cranes arrive to roost in the shallows of the Platte River. They perform a courtship dance that begins with a low bow, although a male may dance to express aggression or territoriality.
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  • Every year 400,000 to 600,000 sandhill cranes arrive in flocks to roost in the shallows of the Platte River, and during the day they are out foraging in the cornfields and doing their courtship dances.
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  • Every year 400,000 to 600,000 sandhill cranes arrive in flocks to roost in the shallows of the Platte River, and during the day they are out foraging in the cornfields and doing their dances.
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  • Sandhill cranes arrive to roost in the shallows of the Platte River.<br />
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Every year from mid/late February to mid April, one million Sandhill Cranes migrate on the Platte River Valley in order to rest and eat before resuming their northward migration.
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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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  • Tens of thousand of flamingos feed on algae in a crater lake formed on Central Island, in Lake Turkana.
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  • Tens of thousand of flamingos feed on algae in a crater lake formed on Central Island, in Lake Turkana.
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  • Tens of thousand of flamingos feed on algae in a crater lake formed on Central Island, in Lake Turkana.
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  • Tens of thousand of flamingos feed on algae in a crater lake formed on Central Island, in Lake Turkana.
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  • Tens of thousand of flamingos feed on algae in a crater lake formed on Central Island, in Lake Turkana.
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  • Fish inspectors wade in shallow water are in pursuit of salmon poachers.
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  • A flock of flamingos soar above Lake Turkana.
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  • A flock of flamingos soar above Lake Turkana.
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  • A flock of flamingos on Lake Turkana outside Elyse Springs.
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  • Men walk on the drought covered land of Kenya's Lake Turkana region.
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  • The Nyangatom agricultural village of Lokulan .
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  • Salted fish are packed onto a truck to go to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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  • The Nyangatom agricultural village of Lokulan.
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  • Sand Hill Cranes are the grassland birds of the great plains that migrate from Siberia to northern Mexico. But their main migratory path converges over the high plains Ogallala aquifer. Sand Hill Cranes roost here because the Crane Trust has re-engineered this part of the river back to the Pleistocene. This is one of the few places left where they can all co-mingle. The migration fans out across the north and then hits this area near Kearney Nebraska on the Platte River and then the migration fans out again to the south when they leave.
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  • A diver swims with fish in the clear waters off of Palau Misa.<br />
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Pulau is an island nation in the northern Pacific Ocean, located some 700 km east of the Philippines, perched on the Kyushu-Palau Ridge. The westernmost cluster of the Caroline Islands consists of 20 large islands and 566 smaller islands and is one of the world's youngest and least populated nations.<br />
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Almost 90% of the world’s marine fish stocks are now fully exploited, overexploited or depleted.
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  • Photographer Randy Olson stands in a slippery sea of jellyfish to make images of workers at a fishery in China..
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  • Fishing off of the Vetmannaeyjar Islands, an archipelago of 15 islands and 30 rock stacks off the South Coast of Iceland.
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  • Central Island is part of Sibiloi National Park on Lake Turkana. We did a rough count and think there were just under 100,000 in this crater in the middle of Lake Turkana, Kenya called Flamingo Lake.
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  • A woman cooks a pot of octopi over an open fire for the Octopus Festival in Spain.
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  • Sweeper fish and diver in the pristine waters off of Banta Island which are rich with aquatic life. Divers come to explore a region where two oceans meet--the Indian and the Pacific.
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  • A haul of salmon.
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  • Salmon on deck of fishing boat.
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  • A herd of sheep on the Wyoming range watch as guard dogs and herders on horseback arrive in the morning.
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  • A haul of fish in port at Kayar.
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  • A pot of octopus cooks for the Octopus Festival.
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  • A flock of cormorants on Lake Turkana.
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  • Salted fish are packed onto a truck to go to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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  • Fishermen on the shore of Lake Turkana.
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  • Fishermen on the shore of Lake Turkana.
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  • Fish hang to dry on the shore of Lake Turkana.
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  • A woman hangs fish to dry on the shore of Lake Turkana.
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  • A close up of blue crabs caught in a crab pot from the Hudson River.
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  • Buffalo flies cover a herd of cattle.
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  • A woman tends to a pen of goats in Komote, an El Molo village in Kenya's Lake Turkana region.
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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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  • Sweeper fish and diver in the pristine waters off of Banta Island which are rich with aquatic life. Divers come to explore a region where two oceans meet--the Indian and the Pacific.
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  • Buffalo flies cover a herd of cattle in a pen.
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  • Trash pickers looking for plastics begin their daily rounds at the dump. One plastic worker walks from her tent and begins her morning by finding a discarded piece of red material to add to her outfit. A dog watches her and birds fly over this city of garbage which is the Kalyan Dumping Ground in Thane district outside Mumbai. Most all the trash pickers were gathering plastic, a precious find for recycling.
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  • A girl with a herd of goats to be killed during a Nyicheriesee ceremony, a pairing off ceremony in Ileret.
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  • Goats drink at the bank of Lake Turkana.
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  • In Kalyan, on the outskirts of Mumbai, trash pickers looking for plastics begin their daily rounds at the dump. Almost all of these trash pickers were going after plastic.
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  • A herd of cattle in a pen.
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  • A herd of camels in the Kalacha Dida Oasis.
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  • A foal stands out in the herd as mustangs head down a dusty trail to a waterhole. Wild horse herds have a distinct social order and as with other animals that live in large groups, establishment of a stable hierarchical system reduces aggression. A lead or “alpha” mare guides the herd to food and water while stallions follow behind protecting their bands from predators and threats.
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  • A herd of mustangs move across the grasslands as a summer storm builds over the high plains. It is believed that over two million wild horses roamed the largely unfenced American West in the 1900s.
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  • Kurilskoe Lake Preserve is a world heritage site and had serious poaching. But now, two or three wardens are always out on enforcement and they pack out for a month at a time. The official salary for wardens is $200 a month, but the WWF came in and supplemented salaries and bought them the equipment they need to do the job. WWF decided one of the gems of the reserve system that exists in all of Russia should be poaching free.
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  • Panicked wild horses flee from a helicopter in a roundup. The Bureau of Land Management hires contractors annually to reduce herd numbers throughout the West.
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  • Bureau of Land Management contractors use a helicopter to push wild horses toward a trap during a roundup. Wyoming has "checkerboard" ownership of public land abutting private ownership. Ranchers won a lawsuit to have mustangs removed because they cross unfenced lines while grazing and searching for water.
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  • Cattle in a pen at a feedlot adjacent to a grain elevator in Ingalls, Nebraska.<br />
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The main purpose of feedlots is to help animals reach a certain weight as efficiently as possible. Through providing a steady, high energy diet and managing the cattle, they attempt to minimize health problems and stress. A criticism of feedlots is that they are overcrowded which creates more challenges for healthy animals.
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  • Cattle in a pen at a feedlot near Garden City, Kansas. <br />
The main purpose of feedlots is to help animals reach a certain weight as efficiently as possible. Through providing a steady, high energy diet and managing the cattle, they attempt to minimize health problems and stress. A criticism of feedlots is that they are overcrowded which creates more challenges for healthy animals.
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  • Dust settles as wild horses come to a halt, trapped after running from a helicopter during a Bureau of Land Management roundup. Drought and wild land fire created stressful conditions for the rugged, wily and skinny equine who barely survived eating twigs and dried up grasses.
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  • Cattle are coaxed into pens at a feedlot in Kansas.<br />
The main purpose of feedlots is to help animals reach a certain weight as efficiently as possible. Through providing a steady, high energy diet and managing the cattle, they attempt to minimize health problems and stress. A criticism of feedlots is that they are overcrowded which creates more challenges for healthy animals.
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  • The Ozernaya River is full of spawning pink salmon— the most abundant—coming in from the left side of the frame, and sockeye—the most valuable—just below them.<br />
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The Kamchatka Shelf in Russia is the last safe place for salmon and the only place on Earth with seven species of oncorhynchus (derived from Greek words meaning hook nose). These photographs illustrate a story about fish that were left alone for millions of years but are now threatened.  <br />
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Along the entire Pacific Rim, salmon production is down to 3 or 4 percent of historic production. Salmon transform from silver missiles in the ocean to brightly colored creatures as they make their way back up their ancestral rivers, and during spawning adult males develop a hooked nose. They stop eating, so it doesn’t matter that their mouths no longer work for food.  The photo in the Ozernaya River, above, shows
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  • The Kamchatka shelf is the only place where all seven species of Oncorhynchus Salmon can be found. Spawning salmon dominate traffic in the Ozernaya River. <br />
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The salmon migration is one of the last great migrations that shapes the food supply and activities of many species, including humans. Salmon bring marine-derived nutrients from the Kamchatka shelf in the Sea of Okhotsk into the eight major river systems that run off the middle range of mountains that divide Kamchatka in half.
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  • Spawning salmon in the Ozernaya River.<br />
The Kamchatka Shelf in Russia is the last safe place for salmon and the only place on Earth with seven species of oncorhynchus (derived from Greek words meaning hook nose). These photographs illustrate a story about fish that were left alone for millions of years but are now threatened.  Along the entire Pacific Rim, salmon production is down to 3 or 4 percent of historic production. Salmon transform from silver missiles in the ocean to brightly colored creatures as they make their way back up their ancestral rivers, and during spawning adult males develop a hooked nose. They stop eating, so it doesn’t matter that their mouths no longer work for food.  The photo in the Ozernaya River, above, shows pink salmon— the most abundant—coming in from the left side of the frame, and sockeye—the most valuable—just below them.
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  • Spawning salmon runs fill the Ozernaya River, considered the crown jewel of Kamchatka  and runs directly into the Bering Sea.
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  • Spawning salmon in the Ozernaya River. Along the entire Pacific Rim, salmon production is down to 3 or 4 percent of historic production. Salmon transform from silver missiles in the ocean to brightly colored creatures as they make their way back up their ancestral rivers, and during spawning adult males develop a hooked nose.
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  • A rumble of thunder, crack of lightning, and winds blow dark clouds across the prairie alerting a mustang herd that a summer storm approaches. When the sky opened with torrents of rain, the nervous young wild horses bolted to outrun the storm.
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  • Dinka tribesmen and their cattle hide in acacia forests to escape attack by government forces. The Government of Sudan (GOS) dropped bombs nearby, wiping out an entire village and all of the livestock. Animals are a target because they are the last resource in times of famine.
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  • Palomino Valley houses wild horses captured on public lands that are processed and prepared for adoption. A Bureau of Land Management facility in Nevada, mustangs trucked there are fed hay, vaccinated, given a freeze-mark brand and placed in corrals where they wait to be adopted or moved to another facility making room for more captured horses. There is little to no shelter from the sun in the barren facility.
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  • Crew members refer to this maneuver as the  "fish walk" when they slide across a boat's deck to push pink salmon into the ice storage area. The fishermen were seining in the waters in Southeast Alaska.<br />
Alaska’s fisheries are some of the richest in the world, with fishermen harvesting hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of salmon, crab, herring, halibut, pollock, and groundfish every year. However, overfishing, exploitation, and poor fisheries management in the ‘40s and ‘50s took a heavy toll on the industry. The state adopted drastic measures that saved the fishing industry from collapse. Tough times again hit the fishermen in the 1970s as the number of boats grew and increasingly efficient gear depleted catch levels to record lows.<br />
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Permit systems and reserves helped the commercial industry recover in the late ‘70s—a trend that has continued to the present because of cooperation between scientists and fishermen.
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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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  • .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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  • An odd juxtaposition of pelicans and cattle on a ranch in Nebraska. <br />
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The migrating populations of white pelicans are found in spring and fall. More are residents in the summer and in the winter some can be spotted occasionally. <br />
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They are some of the world's largest birds and rely on fish from rivers, lakes and wetlands.
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  • Pelicans on a cattle ranch in Nebraska. The migrating populations of white pelicans are found in spring and fall. More are residents in the summer and in the winter some can be spotted occasionally. <br />
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They are some of the world's largest birds and rely on fish from rivers, lakes and wetlands.
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  • Women process fish on shore at Karountine, northwest of Ziguinchor. <br />
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People in the beach community in Saint Louis, Senegal refused to leave although they are pressured to move by authorities.
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  • Foals hover in a corner of the pen, separated from mares and stallions following the round up by the Bureau of Land Management. Mothers nearby call out trying to find their young ones that are frightened and huddle together for safety.
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  • A once wild horse now works the Wyoming range with a sheepherder. The sure footed, adopted equine is won the trust of ranchers and cowboys when he saved the life of a rider lost in a blizzard by finding his way home.
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  • As an evening storm lights up the sky, about 413,000 sandhill cranes arrive to roost in the shallows of the Platte River.
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  • The Huangsha Live Seafood Wholesale Market is popular among the Chinese who the largest quantity of seafood in the world and consequently, imports the most. China's seafood consumption accounts for 45% of the global volume, meaning 65 million tons out of 144 million tons.
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  • Fish carcasses at Vigo, the largest biomass fish in shipping port in the world.<br />
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 Sharks are sprayed with water as they are being processed for food. Sharks are down to 10% of historical populations and a large reason for that is an appetite for shark fin soup in China and other parts of Asia.
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  • A fishing brigade on the Bolshaya River.<br />
Russian boats are so loaded with fish that they barely clear the surface of the water. These fishermen are fighting against time while the tide is out. When the ocean tide is high and coming in to the Bolshaya, it pushes their nets closed.
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  • Vigo has the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world handling about 675,000 metric tons of fish a year. Lower stocks of commercial species such as Atlantic cod and hake have caused a steady decline over the past five years for Spain’s fleets, which receive the EU’s heaviest subsidies.<br />
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Spaniards consume a hundred pounds (45 kilograms) of seafood a year per person, nearly double the European average and exceeded only by Lithuanians and Portuguese.<br />
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Swordfish are wrapped in plastic on pallets.
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  • Atlantic bumpers are a crucial food source in Senegal and elsewhere in Africa, where 200 million people depend largely on seafood for their animal protein. Worldwide, fish sustain one billion people, many of them poor. As pressure on stocks increases, the challenge for developing countries—whose share of fish production is projected to increase to 81 percent by 2015—is to balance the need for revenue with the need for food.
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  • Senegalese fishermen haul in nets loaded with fish. With competition intensifying to supply mostly European markets, fishing grounds off West Africa are going the way of Europe’s: toward depletion. These Senegalese, who had hoped to catch desirable export species such as shrimp or sole, will throw away the fish in their nets—wasting valuable protein for Africa.
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  • Atlantic bumpers are a crucial food source in Africa. A tide of protein comes ashore on Senegal’s coast where the Sahara meets the sea. <br />
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Fishermen often catch so many of these Atlantic bumpers that some days they take only half their boats out to fish. Such grass roots conservation is heartening. But even at the local level, global demand for fish continues to rise: 60 per cent of the world’s population lives within 40 miles of the sea.
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  • Fish are laid out to dry in a fisherman’s village right at the edge of the ocean in St. Louis, Senegal.  Atlantic bumpers are a crucial food source in Africa.<br />
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Also known as Atlantic Carangid, Bumper, Goggle-eye, Little Bumper, Pacific Bumper, Plato, Rooter, Spanish Mackerel, Trevally, Yellowtail, Yellowtail Bumper.<br />
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Found singly, over soft bottoms, of the continental shelf, or in schools, near the surface of estuaries and coastal lagoons.<br />
They feed on cephalopods, detritus, small fish, and zooplankton.
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