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Special Section
Inside Photography
A special section dedicated to the world of the "green photographer."
Technology
A roundup of sustainable photo gear.
Resources
Photography organizations that will help you become a conservationist.
Ideas
In California, building a green photo studio can be good business.
Travel
Trips for photographers as dedicated to preserving the environment as they are to creating images of it.
See It Now
Art Wolfe's new television show combines how-to photo tips with serious environmentalism.
Books
Ed Burtynsky's images of humanity's impact speak for themselves.
People
Tom Brokaw, Tipper Gore, Senator Barbara Boxer, Jane Goodall, and others tell about the photos that inspired their eco-consciousness.
State of the Art
The Landscape: A master class with two very different photographers.
Jim Richardson
A renowned National Geographic photographer describes how he captured the beauty of America's last tall-grass prairie.
J. Henry Fair
An up-and-coming landscape photographer highlights a piece of nature making its last stand.
Special portfolio
Assignment: Earth
A new school of "conservation photography" is helping to reshape the way we think about nature. Here, 12 dedicated disciples of this movement, all members of the International League of Conservation Photographers, show us what is really at stake in the modern environmental battle.
How Photography Can Help Save the Planet
There has long been a "conservationist impulse" in photography. In this essay, photographer James Balog explains why many photographers now feel the need to go beyond simply taking pictures of nature and are becoming activists in its defense.
Igor Shpilenok
Russia's lost Valley of the Geysers, before it was lost.
Michael K. Nichols
A paradise of elephants in peril.
Brian Skerry
Why the waters of the Bahamas are filled with sharks, for now.
Robert Glenn Ketchum
Working to stop a catastrophic copper and gold mine in Alaska.
Chris Rainier
The fragility of indigenous cultures.
Karl Ammann
An unflinching study of the brutal African bushmeat trade.
Beverly Joubert
Protecting the greatest of all cats.
Xi Zhinong
Photos of endangered monkeys spark government intervention.
Tui de Roy
A multi-continent documentation of every species of albatross.
Gary Braasch
Decades of glacier images capture the effects of global warming.
Cristina Mittermeier
Save the Kayapo, save the Amazon.
Patricio Robles Gil
An oasis of nature on the borderline between Texas and Mexico.
The world according to the International League of Conservation Photographers
Departments
Inside American Photo
Doing our part with recycled paper, and asking readers to do theirs with a new logo and a photo contest to find images of places worth saving.
Editor's Note
Nature photography has evolved into conservation photography, thus returning to an old ideal of humanitarianism.
Blog Notes
What you're missing if you haven't checked out the blog by our editors.
Previous Issue: Jul/Aug 2007
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