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Wildlife

Stories, galleries, and images exploring wildlife.

Visual Stories

A Baird's tapir in the cloud forest — the forest's most devoted gardener

Conservation

The Baird's Tapir: The Guardian of the Cloud Forest

High in the Talamanca Mountains of Costa Rica, one of the planet's most ancient creatures walks softly through the mist. The Baird's tapir — shy, solitary, and endangered — is the cloud forest's most devoted gardener.

Andean Cock-of-the-Rock perched in the Colombian rainforest

Wildlife

Colombia Wild

Colombia is a country of colors, aromas, flavors, friendly people, and above all, lots of wildlife. A birding and photography expedition through the cloud forests, páramos, and rainforests of the Colombian Andes.

Red-eyed Tree Frog in the rain — the forest at night is alive in ways you don't expect

Wildlife

The Fear and the Wonder

The forest at night is not a place most people choose to go. It is dark, disorienting, and full of things that make sounds you cannot identify. But if you stay long enough, and quiet enough, the fear gives way to wonder.

Fiery-throated Hummingbird, iridescent feathers catching the light

Wildlife

Hummingbirds of Costa Rica

To photograph something that moves at 80 wingbeats per second, you have to become completely still. A story about speed, stillness, and what you see when you stop moving.

Light Cathedral — sunbeams cutting through the deep blue

Oceans

Into the Deep

A journey from fear to wonder. What happens when you stop holding your breath and let the ocean show you what it has been hiding all along.

Mount Kilimanjaro rising above the clouds at sunrise

Adventure

Kilimanjaro, The Top of Africa

A seven-day trek to the roof of Africa. Through five climate zones, from rainforest to arctic ice, photographing the mountain, the people, and the landscape that changes everything about how you see the world.

A Crested Owl lands on a branch in the darkness of the Costa Rican rainforest

Wildlife

Owls of Costa Rica

A years-long quest to find and photograph all 14 species of owls in Costa Rica. From the common Barn Owl in church towers to the near-impossible highland species that live above the clouds.

Resplendent Quetzal feeding a chick at the nest in the cloud forest

Wildlife

Resplendent Quetzal and the Forest

If ever there existed an ultimate symbol of the beauty embodied by birds, the Resplendent Quetzal would certainly qualify. A photographic journey through the cloud forests of Costa Rica in search of the bird that inspired gods.

Sunset over the rocky Guanacaste coast — where sea turtles nest under the cover of darkness

Conservation

Lights Out: The Crucial Role of Dark Beaches in Sea Turtle Survival

A visual story about the nesting habits and life cycle of sea turtles, the impact of light pollution on their survival, and the conservationists fighting to keep the beaches dark.

The pod moving together through darkness — memory in motion

Wildlife

What the Orcas Taught Me About Being Alive

Minus fifteen degrees. Sick with fever. Swimming with wild orcas in Norway's darkest waters. Sometimes the moments that break you are the ones that make you feel most alive.