Joel Sartore is trying to capture photos of as many species as he can before they disappear. That’s the mission of the ...

For a story on the wildlife of Africa’s Albertine Rift, Joel Sartore photographed Egyptian fruit bats roosting inside a Ugandan cave. When he left the cave at the end of the day and removed his ...

Joel Sartore is a photographer, speaker, author, teacher, conservationist, National Geographic Fellow and a regular contributor to National Geographic Magazine. Joel started the Photo Ark in his ...

Q: Will the Photo Ark ever be complete? Joel: Yes, we are halfway done after 11 years with 6,500 species. Because we’ll now have to travel farther and wider to get the remaining species ...

World-renowned photographer Joel Sartore is on a mission to photograph the world’s most rare and vulnerable species. If you want to start your own photo ark, or simply take your everyday ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. A naked mole rat. That was photographer Joel Sartore’s first model in 2006 when he began making studio portraits of ...

The plight of pangolins came to global attention through wildlife photographers. Photograph by Joel Sartore / National Geographic Fundamental to saving an endangered species is raising awareness ...

This story ran in the April 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. And to think it all started with a naked mole rat. The year was 2006, and National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore ...

This article is adapted from Joel Sartore’s new book, Vanishing, published by National Geographic Books. Joel Sartore has been photographing animals for his Photo Ark project for 13 years.

Photograph by Joel Sartore Fennec foxes spend most of the day keeping cool in their burrows, emerging at night to hunt. Photograph by Joel Sartore There might be no single reason for an animal’s ...

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They help the environment, but they also help our souls. In 2018 we’ll explore the wonder of birds, and why we can’t live without them. An American flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) comes into ...