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  • A Pygmy net hunter captures a blue duiker in a net near a hunting camp deep in the Ituri Forest. A duiker is a small antelope and main source of protein for Pygmies in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Mbuti drape nets between trees and flush game toward them.
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  • A bachelor band of wild horses stick together to face into the wind picking up scents. Older studs join younger ones forming a family when none have mares or are accepted into another group.
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  • A bachelor band of horses group together for protection and company while grazing in the high desert of Steens Mountain in Oregon. Males in a herd form a family when they are young or old but have no mares.
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  • A young stud lifts his lip catching a whiff of a mare in heat. The Flehmen response is a biological reaction to smell where an animal curls back the upper lip and senses pheromones.
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  • A cloud of dust rises as two helicopters guide 870 mustangs across the desert into a trap. They were rounded up from the Winnemucca Rangeland Area after the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) determined that the number of wild horses there could not be supported on public land. Drought and wild fires created a dire situation for the horses, but advocates of mustangs believe horse herds are systematically being eliminated from western lands.<br />
Although there were as many as two million mustangs at the turn of the century, their numbers are much smaller and reduced regularly by these BLM gathers.
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  • Protected wild horses come to a water hole drinking in order of dominance in the herd. Ears perked forward, the curious mustang shows no fear.
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  • A band of wild horses roam the wide open spaces on Bureau of Land Management rangeland near Pilot Butte in western Wyoming.
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  • Wild horses follow the leader to a water hole to drink in order of hierarchy in the herd.
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  • Hamar tribe in a small village next to Omorate where the first bridge across the Omo River is being built. This town is experimenting with wind power supplied by one of the NGO’s.
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  • Canoe fishermen untangle fish from the nets while working in the waters off of Dakar.
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  • Wildebeests cross road in front of jeep.
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  • Crew members unload a catch of sockeye salmon from the hatch of their fishing boat. Economists estimate the commercial seafood industry contributes $5.8 billion and 78,500 jobs to the Alaskan economy.
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  • A small breed of wild horses, brought over from Tahiti, graze on Easter Island.
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  • A small breed of wild horses, brought over from Tahiti, graze on Easter Island.
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  • A herd of donkeys transport water in the Una Ura Oasis.
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  • A small breed of wild horses, brought over from Tahiti, graze on Easter Island.
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  • A small breed of wild horses, brought over from Tahiti, trek across Easter Island.
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  • A small breed of wild horses, brought over from Tahiti, trek across Easter Island.
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  • A fisherman unloads his catch of sockeye salmon.
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  • El Molo fishermen on the shore of Lake Turkana.
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  • The Biltmore Estate is one of Frederick Law Olmsted’s finest landscapes and includes a six-acre lagoon that reflects the majestic house that is located near Asheville, North Carolina. In the late 1800s, George W. Vanderbilt sought the advice of Olmsted, the country’s preeminent landscape designer, to help him with an appropriate design to complement the French Renaissance-style château he was building in the Blue Ridge Mountains.<br />
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Olmsted sited the house and created a lagoon, woodlands, gardens and the resulting Biltmore Estate that is considered a masterpiece and presently is enjoyed by nearly one million visitors each year.<br />
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Here, frail and nearing 70 nears old, he wrote to a friend, “I have raised my calling from the rank of a trade . . . (to) an Art, an Art of design.”
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  • A cluster of golden apple snails.
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  • Selicho fishing village on the shore of Lake Turkana.
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  • Under a threatening storm, a herd of horses crosses a stream following the lead mare. In a wild horse herd, she leads them to food and water while the stallions follow behind to guard. A herd is similar to a neighborhood and made up of bands that are like families. These horses have dark dorsal stripes and primitive markings. They are genetic descendants of the Gila herd that came with Spanish Conquistadors to North America in the 1600s.
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  • Horses awaits riders to saddle up outside the stalls near Monticello, Utah. The Indian Creek ranch is worked as an example of how land can be used and not abused and support ranchers with cattle. A ranch hand with a white hat, hits with his dog in the early morning before work begins.
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  • Wild horse hooves kick up dirt as the herd  gallops through the dry Nevada desert. A camera was set on a remote as panicked mustangs ran into a trap during a Bureau of Land Management roundup.
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  • A horse awaits a rider to saddle up outside the stalls near Monticello, Utah. The Indian Creek ranch is owned by the Nature Conservancy and is worked as an example of how land can be used and not abused and support ranchers with cattle.
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  • Brown bears fishing for salmon in Kuril Lake. 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 - and that also protects the brown bears.
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  • Wild horses thunder across parched desert wilderness on public lands in Nevada. Dust kicks up as their hooves pound the scorched, barren rangelands. Mustangs are a mystic symbol of freedom, courage and the rugged, untamed American West.
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  • Chilean cowboys in traditional Andalusian sombreros watch as huasos wearing colorful ponchos line up their horses under a flag in the ring. They are competing in a rodeo in ranch country north of Santiago by pinning a steer and trying to beat the clock.
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  • Wild horses are in a corral at Palomino Valley, a Bureau of Land Management holding facility.  After wild horses are rounded up, they are trucked and processed here then cared for until adopted or moved to other secured properties paid for by the federal government.
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  • Brown bears fish for salmon in one of the best spots where the Ozernaya River flows into Kurilskoe Lake.  An abundant food supply attracts the bears, also known as grizzlies, to the protected watersheds of Kamchatka’s Kurilskoe Lake Preserve, the gem of the Russian preserve system.
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  • Cowboys joke over morning coffee before breakfast at a cabin in Beef Basin, Utah near the Dugout Ranch. The Indian Creek ranch ranch hands camp and move cattle onto higher ground for better access to water and food. Land whipped into dust by a dry winter offers little forage for cattle on some the Bureau of Land Management grazing allotment.
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  • Hanging cages hold reef fish to be transported to China and Hong Kong.    <br />
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These cages are located just off the coast of Bimi, Indonesia. Initially reef fish only came from the South China Sea, but transport developed and fish now come from all over S.E. Asia. The fish are often used for celebratory meals in Hong Kong, but in Guangzhou the fish are so cheap and the apartments are so small that many people eat out. And the stereotype is that there is lots of food left on the table.  Often a fish is popular because of its color more than its taste.
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  • Hanging cages hold reef fish to be transported to China and Hong Kong. The nets capture a variety of fish and marine life extracted from the ocean.
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  • A customer at a live reef fish restaurant in Guangzhou where a variety of large fish swim in tank behind her.<br />
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China consumes 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. <br />
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Chinese prefer fresh, live fish to processed fish in a factory.
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  • Fish carcasses dry in the sun on a boat dock.<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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  • 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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  • Senevisa fish processing plant in Dakar processes cuttlefish brought in from artisanal fishermen. The local market consumes only three percent of the production of this plant.<br />
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Artesianal fishermen sell products like octopus, squid and cuttlefish. The prime fish and cuttlefish leave this plant in Styrofoam fresh packs at 5pm in Dakar and are at the Paris Orly airport at 6am.<br />
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Fish follows the money – If the Japanese pay the most for cuttlefish then it is shipped there overnight.  Senevisa is the largest trawler/fish exporter working out of Senegal.
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  • Vigo has the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world. Workers process sharks that are stacked onto pallets after processing. 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.<br />
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Fish is sent all over Spain and abroad to countries like Portugal, Italy, France and other more distant markets including Asia.
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  • Vigo has the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world. Sharks are stacked onto pallets after processing. 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.<br />
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Fish is sent all over Spain and abroad to countries like Portugal, Italy, France and other more distant markets including Asia.
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  • On a fish factory trawler, ocean-fairing workers process the catch while onboard. The captain of this trawler is Francisco who worked in Newfoundland before cod was all fished out.  His factory trawler flies a Senegalese flag and can hold 140 tons of fish/Octopus which usually fills the boat in about 21 days at sea.
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  • On a fish factory trawler, ocean-fairing workers process the catch while onboard. The captain of this trawler is Francisco who worked in Newfoundland before cod was all fished out. His factory trawler flies a Senegalese flag and can hold 140 tons of fish/Octopus which usually fills the boat in about 21 days at sea.
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  • On a fish factory trawler, ocean-fairing workers process the catch while onboard. The captain of this trawler is Francisco who worked in Newfoundland before cod was all fished out. His factory trawler flies a Senegalese flag and can hold 140 tons of fish/Octopus which usually fills the boat in about 21 days at sea.
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  • On a fish factory trawler, fishermen take a break in the galley while processing the crew's catch.<br />
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Foreign trawlers and an expanding fishmeal industry are increasingly threatening the livelihood of Senegalese fishermen, forcing many to migrate to Europe.
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  • Cliff swallows fly in formation near the mud nests the flock of birds built hanging on to a rock wall in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • Children collect small fish near Baseco Beach at the north tip of the Baseco slum area in Manila, Luzon, Phillipines. This beach is covered with trash from the Pasig river and other sources. Trash is visible on all edges of Manila bay but it is particularly bad here.<br />
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The Pasig River  runs through metro Manila and empties into Manila Bay at Baseco. The river carries 63,700 tons of plastic waste annually into Manila Bay. Sixty percent of all waste in Manila Bay is plastic.
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  • A long line fishermen works on the boat in Olafsvik.<br />
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Lower greenhouse gas emissions are one of the benefit of long-lining. Also, the seabed is not damaged as it is when trawling. <br />
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Longlines, however, can unintentionally catch vulnerable species and high seas fisheries have been particularly associated with catching endangered seabirds, sharks and sea turtles.
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  • Children catch tiny fish in a stream that comes from Manila Bay, goes through a fish hatchery, and comes out a slightly cleaner before it flows back into the bay. This is one of the few places I could take underwater photographs because the hatchery filters the water. A lingering memory from this trip will be that all our garbage goes SOMEWHERE and in the Philippines it goes to the most marginalized areas to sort, de-label and pile up creating a hazard.
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  • A farm outside of Harappa.
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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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  • Salted fish are packed onto a truck to go to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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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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  • A young girl is part of a typical fishing family enjoying a meal of mussels and other seafood.<br />
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Spain continues to be the European country that consumes the most fish, with 92% of Spanishs consuming fish and aquaculture products every month.
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  • Workers transport laundry baskets full of jellyfish at a fishery. They fish on cloudy days when they can see the masses of jelly from their boats.  A cultural difference; the Chinese like to eat jellyfish because of the texture.
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  • A typical fishing family enjoys a meal of Spanish paella with rice mussels and other seafood. One of the world's busiest seafood ports, Vigo, auctions half a million tons of fish daily contributing to pressures on marine life with fish stocks in decline.
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  • This is an over the top spa, massage parlor, and hotel in the Suzhou Creek area of Shanghai. Guys walk from the men’s locker room through an aquarium tunnel filled with endangered species to the bath area. From there they can turn left and play ping pong or watch a movie with their family in their bathrobes, or they can turn right and meet their mistresses in a discreet room.
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  • El Molo fishermen with their catch on the shore of Lake Turkana.
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  • Under the shelter of a tent, camel contest entrants eat lunch.
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  • El Molo fishermen with their catch on the shore of Lake Turkana.
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  • Riverfront Canine Club members pause along the Dequindre Cut.
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  • A volunteer cares for and feeds feral cats.
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  • Wild horses kick up dust as they gallop through the dry Nevada desert. Horses survive on little living on barren public lands in the American West.
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  • Curious foals are drawn to a water hole making a reflective, pastoral scene as the herd grazes in early spring in South Dakota.
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  • The first bridge over the Omo River in this area is at Omorate. This man arranges building materials used in temporary supports for the bridge.
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  • Hamar head to market day on a dirt road to Kaifur.
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  • A volunteer cares for and feeds feral cats.
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  • A volunteer cares for and feeds feral cats.
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  • A volunteer takes feral cats to the vet.
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  • A volunteer cares for and feeds feral cats.
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  • Sunrise brings early competitors to the camel beauty contest.
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  • Hired trainers with their camels at the competition.
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  • Cars that will be prizes for winning camels line the parking area.
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  • A boat driver's daughter helps fishermen at a salmon fishing camp.
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  • Cowboys and cowgirls drink morning coffee before breakfast at a cabin in Beef Basin, Utah. The Indian Creek ranch hands camp and move cattle onto higher ground for better access to water and food.
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  • Early morning light hits steam from hot coffee as cowboys wake up for breakfast at a cabin in Beef Basin, Utah near the Dugout Ranch. Hired ranch hands camp and move cattle onto higher ground for better access to water and food.
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  • Camels are washed in preparation for the camel beauty contest.
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  • A camel is gently touched by its handler.
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  • Cattle branding at a ranch in North Dakota.
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  • Camel's feet spread apart to keep them from sinking into the sand.
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  • Black bear at Margaret Creek feeding on salmon.
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  • A curious camel.
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  • Camels are washed in preparation for the camel beauty contest.
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  • Camels are washed in preparation for the camel beauty contest.
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  • A worker catches salmon at a fish camp.
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  • Family and friends clean crabs to prepare for dinner at their float house on Piggy Cove in Southeast Alaska.
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  • Preparation for a Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • On a fish factory trawler, a fisherman watches tv for entertainment while taking a break in the galley.
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  • Fish drying in an El Molo village on Lake Turkana.
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  • Pelicans in flight above Siboli National Park on Lake Turkana.
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  • Fish caught in Lake Turkana.
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  • Camels converge on Abu Dhabi for an annual beauty contest.
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  • Racing camels are exercised in the morning to stay in shape.
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  • Hired trainers with their camels at the competition.
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  • Hired trainers with their camels at the competition.
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  • Feral cats lounge at a rescue center run by the community.
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  • Two cowboys on horseback drive in cows to a cattle auction facility in Nebraska.
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  • Sunrise brings early competitors to the camel beauty contest.
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  • A family parades their camels for all their neighbors to admire.
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  • A gold mining village near Cinquante.
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