Sunday/ the National Geographic Photo Ark

There was a beautiful ‘60 Minutes‘ segment on TV tonight, about wildlife photographer Joel Sartore’s quest to photograph all the creatures in zoos, for the National Geographic Photo Ark project (natgeophotoark.org).

The project’s goal is to increase awareness of Earth’s biodiversity and the efforts by zoos to save threatened species. He has visited 40 countries and has completed intimate portraits of more than 8,485 species so far.

Photographer Joel Sartore (sitting) and CBS correspondent Bill Whitaker (standing) with Trixie, perhaps the world’s sweetest orangutan. Her home is the Avilon Zoo outside Manila in the Philippines.

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