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 ...

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 ...

Joel Sartore is a gifted wildlife photographer ... Since then, he has created a stunning photographic record of the extinction crisis, dubbed the Photo Ark, images from which he shares daily, ...

To reflect the project’s life-preserving mission, Sartore named it Photo Ark. By the time you read this, Sartore expects to have portraits of nearly 10,000 animals in the Ark. He plans to keep ...

The naked mole rat qualified. From that modest beginning came Photo Ark, a joint project of Sartore and National Geographic. Within a 25-year span, Sartore aims to document as many of the species ...

Image by Joel Sartore/ Photo Ark. The remarkable nose of the star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata). Seeing a star-nosed mole in person is special. Discovering new insights into the biology of this ...

named the recently discovered species Bothynus sartorei after Joel Sartore, a renowned National Geographic photographer and founder of the Photo Ark. The tribute recognizes Sartore's dedication to ...