Ecosystem
Photography

A Bengal tiger navigates tidal channels at dawn

Aerial view of the Sundarbans river network

Mangrove prop roots that buffer storm surges

Aftermath of Cyclone Yaas, May 2021

Local fishermen whose livelihoods depend on the forest

Community mangrove replanting project near Khulna

American alligator in the sawgrass prairie

The 'River of Grass' stretching toward the Gulf

Toxic algae bloom fueled by agricultural runoff, 2018

Roseate spoonbill — indicator species of Everglades health

Burmese pythons have devastated small mammal populations

CERP restoration crew replanting native marsh grass

Jaguar crossing the Cuiabá River — the Pantanal holds the world's densest jaguar population

The catastrophic 2020 fires burned 30% of the Pantanal in one season

Aerial view during flood season — the Pantanal's annual pulse

Giant river otters — a species making slow recovery

The advancing agricultural frontier on the Pantanal edge

Hyacinth macaw — 90% of global population lives in the Pantanal

The Cái Răng floating market — a way of life threatened by subsidence

Coastal erosion in Cà Mau — 500m lost per year in worst-affected areas

One of 11 upstream dams trapping sediment that once fed the delta

Salt-bleached rice paddies in Bến Tre province, 2020 drought

Irrawaddy dolphins in the Mekong — fewer than 100 remain

Women-led mangrove replanting project, Cà Mau Province

A Ma'dan mudhif — a traditional reed guest house built on floating islands

The drained marshes in the 1990s — turned to salt flat and desert by Saddam's regime

The marshes flooding back after embankment breaches in 2003

Sunset over the Central Marshes — a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Oil infrastructure encroaching on the southern marsh boundary

The marshes are a critical flyway for millions of migratory birds

Researchers pushing through waist-deep peat swamp during the 2017 expedition

The virtually untouched Congo peatland from above

Bonobos — found only in the Congo Basin — face rising habitat pressure

New logging roads are opening previously inaccessible peatland

The Congo River — second largest in the world by flow volume

Forest elephants are critical seed dispersers in the peatland ecosystem