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  • Wildebeests and wattled starlings begin their migration on the Serengeti in Tanzania.
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  • A Masaai woman dries her clothes in the sun. Water and other survival necessities are rare in this area around Endulen, Tanzania.
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  • Masaai men celebrate the end of the weeks-long orpul ritual.
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  • Workers install new grass, that will only survive with a watering system, along the infinity pool at Sasakwa Lodge in the Grumeti Reserve.
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  • Baboons play on a safari vehicle in the Serengeti wilderness.
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  • Artisanal fishermen off the coast of Tanga paddles his catch to sell to a seafood exporter in Tanzania.
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  • Artisanal fishermen off the coast of Tanga, Tanzania drop their traps to sell their catch to a Spanish company, “Sea Products.” Sea Products moves octopus, squid, and cuttlefish to Europe, mostly Italy and Greece. Yet, the east coast of Africa can't feed their own countries with fish. <br />
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“If you buy fish in a store, do you know where it comes from?” asks a recent UN report on the alarming 100 percent rise in fishing piracy over the past decade. “It might be stolen from the poor. It could even have cost lives.”
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  • Herders make fences out of thorn acacias to discourage predators.
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  • Hyenas on the Serengeti, twilight view.
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  • Privately funded anti-poaching forces confront a suspect.
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  • Wildebeest migration in Serengeti National Park.
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  • Giraffe running across park road in front of truck.
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  • Two baboons on a jeep, roadway in the park.
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  • Tourists photographing from minibuses in the Serengeti.
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  • Photographer Randy Olson in the rearview mirror of a safari vehicle next to two female lions.
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  • Staff at Endulen Hospital, the only Masai hospital in the area.
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  • Maasai draw water from the same muddy pool their cattle use.
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  • Masaai women trudge over the plains to watch orpul ritual festivities.
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  • Masai milk ceremony. First step in warrior becoming a man.
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  • Masai milk ceremony. First step in warrior becoming a man.
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  • Masai milk ceremony. First step in warrior becoming a man.
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  • Masai milk ceremony. First step in warrior becoming a man.
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  • Wildebeests cross road in front of jeep.
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  • Aerial of active volcano near Empakaii crater.
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  • Some of 1400 workers hired to improve the northeast corner of park.
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  • Anti-poaching forces confront old woman possessing bits of bush meat.
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  • Some of 1400 workers hired to improve the northeast corner of park.
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  • Endulen market with Masai tribespeople.
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  • Young Masai at Esare market
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  • Tourists view zebras from vehicles.
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  • Masai tribesman with cow in the crater area.
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  • Some of the 300,000 tourists who visit the Serengeti each year.
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  • Endulen Hospital, the only Masai hospital in the area.
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  • Masaai are paid by tourists to pose for photographs.
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  • Masaai men celebrate the end of the weeks-long orpul ritual.
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  • Tourists pour into Ngorongoro Crater to stalk African wildlife.
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  • Masai mix with tourists in a bar in Endulen.
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  • A Massai tribeswoman carrying firewood.
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  • A boy resting in church.
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  • A pair of male lions.
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  • Tourists photograph lions from a jeep while on safari.
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  • Wildebeests grazing in the savannah.
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  • Men working on a car.
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  • School children.
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  • Masai built cattle dip used to rid cattle of tick borne illnesses.
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  • Lake Embakaai mirrors clouds hanging above the Crater Highlands.
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  • Wildebeests and wattled starlings begin their migration.
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  • Artisanal fishermen off the coast of Tanga.<br />
The village-based artisanal fisherfolk use traditional technology and small-sized boats. Their knowledge of marine ecology and fishing techniques is based on generations of experience.
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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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  • Workers lift a frozen coelacanth fish that is being transported to a museum. Coelacanths are the fossil fish that bridge the gap between fish and the mammals that left the sea to walk on land.  Their fins become legs.<br />
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70 million years old, scientists previously considered the fish long extinct. In 1938, however, a fishing trawler brought up a live specimen. Since then more than 100 living coelacanths, remarkably unchanged since the Cretaceous period, have been caught off the coast of South Africa.<br />
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The coelacanth is classified as vulnerable by the World Conservation Union (also known as the IUCN), an international organization that maintains a global list of vulnerable and endangered species called the Red List. A vulnerable classification means that the species faces a high risk of extinction in the near future.
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  • Truckloads of rotting fish carcasses are sold to local markets in Africa after meatier parts of the fish are processed for European markets.
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  • In villages between Lake Victoria and the Serengeti Ecosystem, truckloads of rotting fish carcasses are driven to the local markets and sold. <br />
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The filets were cut off in the processing plants in Musoma and shipped to Europe overnight, and Africans get only the bones. <br />
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This is a cotton production region and these people have just sold their crops.  They have money to buy good food, but don’t have the option to buy their own fish from their own lakes.
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  • A Hartlaub's bustard.
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  • Elders have a meeting in a field next to the school they built.
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  • A Maasai tribesman walking on a muddy road.
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  • A Masaai family drying clothes in the sun.
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  • Maasai tribespeople attending church.
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  • A lioness in the savannah.
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  • A vulture scavenging in the savannah.
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  • A pair of hyenas.
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  • A hyena carries an animal carcass.
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  • A Maasai tribesman herding goats.
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  • A Maasai tribesman walking in the savannah.
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  • A Maasai family herding goats.
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  • A Masai child waves to tourists.
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  • A pair of male lions.
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  • A girraffe eating from treetops.
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  • An elephant and wildebeests walking through the savannah.
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  • An elephant walking through the savannah.
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  • A pair of male lions.
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  • A group of zebras with foal.
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  • A vulture perching on a tree branch.
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  • A mother lion with cub.
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  • Tourists on safari.
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  • Tourists on safari among grazing wildebeests.
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  • Tourists on safari.
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  • A hyena peering from its hole in the ground.
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  • A hyena peering from its hole in the ground.
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  • A cheetah lying down beneath tree on savannah.
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  • A cheetah sitting beneath tree on savannah.
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  • A male lion, sitting on savannah scratching mane.
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  • A male lion lying in grass in the savannah.
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  • Artesianal fishermen off the coast of Tanga.
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  • Artisanal fishermen off the coast of Tanga.
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  • Watering system goes in at Grumeti Reserves.
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  • Downtown Robanda with locals.
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  • Village life around the Serengeti National Park area.
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  • Hyena cubs and other animals are becoming used to tourists.
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  • Conference room in a luxury resort in Grumeti Reserve.
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  • Workers hurry to finish a luxury resort in Grumeti Reserve.
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  • Workers hurry to finish a luxury resort in Grumeti Reserve.
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  • Workers prepare the grounds at Grumeti Reserves.
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  • Masai tribesman near Serengeti National Park with cell phone.
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  • Quarrying slate for luxury homes and hotels in Grumeti Reserves.
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  • Locals arrested for growing marijuana by anti-poaching police.
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  • Nyungunyama Fish Ponds operated by Lazoro Tobango family.
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  • Masai tribal people cooking meat.
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  • Cultivation of field on borders of Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
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  • Students of the public school in Endulen.
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  • Children in a classroom.  Boy in foreground has spinal TB.
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