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  • Waves splash over a canoe while fishing in the waters off of Mbour.
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  • A crocodile splashing through water.
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  • A Rapanui man fishes for rudderfish in high waves on Easter Island's south coast.
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  • A Rapanui man fishes for rudderfish in high waves on Easter Island's south coast.
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  • Fishermen brave the waters in small, colorful, pirogues or handmade wooden boats that are traditional in Senegal.
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  • A black bear (Ursus americanus) shakes water from his head while feeding on salmon in Anan Creek and hour from Wrangell.  Bears fatten up during the heavy run of fish that spawn in the summer.
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  • A water fight at China Folk Culture Villages.
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  • A Rapanui man fishes for rudderfish in high waves on Easter Island's south coast.
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  • A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) surfaces and dives into Stephens Passage. Studies how the humpback from Southeast Alaska travels mostly to Hawaii to breed and returns to the cold Alaskan waters.
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  • A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) surfaces and dives into Stephens Passage. Studies how the humpback from Southeast Alaska travels mostly to Hawaii to breed and returns in the summer to the cold Alaskan waters.
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  • Drivers of four-wheeling, off-road vehicles compete while sliding through a slippery race course of muck at a weekend mud bogging contest on Prince of Wales Island. Competitors try to beat the clock as they drive through a water-logged muddy course.
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  • Water flows off the tail of a diving humpback whale  (Megaptera novaeangliae). Studies show the humpback from Southeast Alaska travels mostly to Hawaii to breed and returns to the cold Alaskan waters.
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  • Water fight at China Folk Culture Villages.
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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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  • Canoe fishermen stands watching for fish in his small pirogue as they motor through the waters off of Dakar.
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  • A sea of orange boats float on the placid waters of the Rogue River. Rafters join some 100,000 other day trippers who paddle, float, or kayak the river each year. <br />
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Nightfall brings tranquility; only a few lucky winners of BLN's annual lottery can continue into the Wild and Scenic portion s it rushes toward the Pacific Ocean near Gold Beach, Oregon.
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  • Drivers compete on a mud bog course with all-terrain vehicles.
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  • A salmon making its way upstream to spawn.
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  • A salmon fighting its way upstream to spawn.
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  • A waterfall cascading down a moss-covered rock face.
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  • Moss-covered rock surrounding a cascading stream.
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  • After coal is extracted at a mountaintop removal mine site, a land reclamation project begins by spraying hydroseed on steep rocky slopes where little can grow. Mines are legally required to restore the land to its “approximate original contour.”<br />
Roughly 1.2 million acres, including 500 mountains, have been flattened by mountaintop removal coal mining in the central Appalachian region, and only a fraction of that land has been reclaimed for so-called beneficial economic uses, according to research by environmental groups.
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  • Brandywine Falls in Cuyahoga Valley National Park is cloaked in brilliant autumn colors of oak and maple trees. The stone of the 65-foot waterfall is composed of Berea Sandstone at the top and Bedford and Cleveland shales and soft rock below from mud found on the sea floor that covered the region 400 million years ago.
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  • Pearl diver is hosed off after cleaning oyster bed in mucky water.
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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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  • 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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  • Braving wild waters of the Rogue River and tasting triumph over the rapids, rafters join some 100,000 other day trippers who paddle, float, or kayak the river each year. Nightfall brings tranquility; only a few lucky winners of BLM’s annual lottery can continue into the Wild and Scenic portion s it rushes toward the Pacific Ocean near Gold Beach, Oregon.
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  • Black bear shakes water off head and feeds on salmon in Anan Creek.
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  • Cave jumpers play in high surf from Hurricane Issac.
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  • A salmon making its way upstream to spawn.
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  • A brown bear, also known as a grizzly, feasts on sockeye salmon, which is a fundamental drama in Kamchatka’s still largely intact ecosystem. <br />
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Salmon—pink, chum, sockeye, coho, chinook, and masu—flood the waters that typically solitary brown bears crowd together to feed at Kuril Lake. Bears need to eat about 40 fish a day to put on weight to make it through the winter.<br />
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Brown bears in Kamchatka can be 7 to 9 feet in length and weigh 700-800 pounds. Species: U. arctic Genus:Ursus<br />
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Kamchatka has the highest density of brown bears in the world, with almost 15,000 on the Russian peninsula.
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  • Surfer off the north jetty outside Eureka. The Simpson Pulp Mill in the backrou nd, which is in the process of shutting down. Successful lawsuits by the Surfri der Group has hurt the company.
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  • Ocean spray on a fishing boar off of the Vetmannaeyjar Islands, an archipelago of 15 islands and 30 rock stacks off the South Coast of Iceland.
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  • A kayaker fights the currents while playing in the Rogue River. The Bureau of Land Management limits numbers of people accessing the waters so outdoor enthusiasts can fully experience the national wild and scenic river.<br />
The wild section averages nearly 14,000 floaters spring through fall while the recreational commercial vendors on other portions of the Rogue average over 100,000 people.
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  • Water fight at China Folk Culture Villages.
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  • A man crosses a log bridge above a waterfall on the Yagtali River.
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  • Water splashes over a waterfall the Loch, a ravine in Central Park's woods. Landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted mobilized workers to move boulders and earth to create natural looking spaces for city dwellers to be able to connect with nature.
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  • Water splashes over a small waterfall in the north side of a Central Park woodlands known as The Loch which is a ravine offering a natural and untouched-looking setting. Frederick Law Olmsted who designed Central Park, created features such as this to provide respite from the stresses of urban life.
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  • Gold mining in northeastern Congo.
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  • A brown bear catches a salmon fish in Kuril Lake. Bears need to eat about 40 fish a day to put on weight to make it through the winter.
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  • A brown bear fishing for salmon in Kuril Lake. Bears need to eat about 40 fish a day to put on weight to make it through the winter.<br />
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Brown bears in Kamchatka can be 7 to 9 feet in length and weigh 700-800 pounds. Species: U. arctic Genus:Ursus<br />
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Kamchatka has the highest density of grizzly bears in the world, with almost 15,000 on the Russian peninsula.
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  • Icy water flies as a brown bear catches a salmon fish in Kuril Lake. Kamchatka has the highest density of brown bears in the world, with almost 15,000 on the Russian peninsula.
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  • Brown water drizzles from the faucet on a depleted cattle water tank on a farm in Texas.
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  • Turkana camel herders swim in Lake Turkana outside Elyse Springs.
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