Jeff Campagna

PHOTOGRAPHER: GULSHAN KHAN

In South Africa, the hunting of captive-bred lions has sparked a global outcry. But ending the practice is also fraught.

PHOTOGRAPHER: ANGEL FITOR

A photographer illuminates the myriad wondrous organisms that flourish in a mere droplet of seawater.

COMMUNICATION ARTS / PHOTOGRAPHY ANNUAL 64 (SERIES)

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PHOTOGRAPHER: NEIL EVER OSBORNE

On Hudson Bay’s frigid shores, scientists track polar bears to better understand the impacts of climate change on their survival.

PHOTOGRAPHER: CHRIS LINDER

Residents of a small Icelandic island–home to the world’s largest colony of Atlantic puffins–band together to rescue wayward chicks.

PHOTOGRAPHER: NEIL EVER OSBORNE

Long victimized by poaching and deforestation, Africa’s mountain gorillas are in the midst of a surprising rebound that is sparking new hopes for the beloved primate.

COMMUNICATION ARTS / PHOTOGRAPHY ANNUAL 62 (SERIES)

PHOTOGRAPHER: JOANNA LENTINI

Photo series on amphibian migration in New York’s Hudson River estuary watershed.

PHOTOGRAPHER: ANNIE MARIE MUSSELMAN

This photo essay is a long-term project documenting the wolves of Wolf Haven International, a wolf sanctuary in Tenino, Washington, that rescues and provides a lifetime home for displaced and captive-born animals. 

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PHOTOGRAPHER: JASPER DOEST

This photo essay on the white storks of Europe examines how their environment, diet and migration patterns are being disrupted negatively by the presence of large landfills. 

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PHOTOGRAPHER: NEIL EVER OSBORNE

Photographer Neil Ever Osborne documents the residents and the indigenous counselors of the K'tzim-a-deen Grizzly Sanctuary in British Columbia.

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PHOTOGRAPHER: MORGAN HEIM

Nearly a century after the last wolf was eradicated in California, a lone female arrived and established a pack. Not everyone is cheering.

Smithsonian explores the Great Bear Rainforest in search of one of the rarest bears on earth, the white Kermode bear, or spirit bear. The piece explores the science behind the bears' genetic mutation, as well as the animals' connection with their habitat and the indigenous people of the area. 

PHOTOGRAPHER: MICHAEL AW

Welcome to diver Gary Cobb’s magical world of nudibranchs on the Sunshine Coast of Australia.

PHOTOGRAPHER: Melissa Groo

As giraffe populations plunge in the wild, scientists are scrambling to learn more about one of Africa’s most endearing and least-understood creatures.

PHOTOGRAPHER: MORGAN HEIM

On Norway’s remote Svalbard archipelago, a group of intrepid scientists are keeping close tabs on the health of the world’s smallest reindeer as a warming Arctic changes the animal’s environment.

PHOTOGRAPHER: GRETCHEN KAY STUART

A mountain range in the Pacific Northwest is the last bastion for the Cascade red fox.

PHOTOGRAPHER: ANNIE MARIE MUSSELMAN

Photo essay on Old Friends Equine, the Thoroughbred retirement home located in central Kentucky.

PHOTOGRAPHER: MELISSA GROO

For several weeks each spring, hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes alight along the Platte River in Nebraska in one of earth’s greatest migrations.

PHOTOGRAPHER: DOUG GIMESY

Once seen as a menace, the gray-headed flying fox brings new life after Australia’s wildfires.

PHOTOGRAPHER: ANNIE MARIE MUSSELMAN

At a wild animal rescue center in Costa Rica, staff members provide orphaned and injured sloths everything they need to return to the wild, from round-the-clock care to plush toys and bottle-feeding.

PHOTOGRAPHER: SHANE GROSS

In the Caribbean, the dive tourism industry is providing a ray of hope to a shark species once speeding toward extinction.

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PHOTOGRAPHER: BEN LOWY

Rollicking tale of how fishermen, chefs and divers in Florida are learning to deal with the presence of the invasive lionfish; they’re learning to eat it.

COMMUNICATION ARTS / PHOTOGRAPHY ANNUAL 59 (OPENER)

PHOTOGRAPHER: BRUNO D’AMICIS

An endangered Mediterranean seal known for its reclusive nature is being glimpsed again.

PHOTOGRAPHER: DANIEL DORSA

A growing number of researchers conducting experiments in the new field of canine cognition are hot on the trail of a surprisingly profound question: What makes dogs such good companions?

PHOTOGRAPHER: JAVIER AZNAR

Renewed sightings in Costa Rica and Ecuador of a long-feared-extinct marsupial frog, so named because it raises its young in a pouch on its back, have biologists singing–and also racing to protect its remaining habitat.

PHOTOGRAPHER: CLAY BOLT

As numbers of key pollinators decline, conservationists are eyeing new federal protections for one vulnerable species, the Morrison bumblebee.