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A butterfly pauses on 14-year-old Viola Heigl's hand on her family's farm in Kallmünz, Bavaria. Her parents have run the farm organically for decades. Grassland butterfly numbers in Europe have dropped by a third in the last 30 years.
Hubert Heigl inspects a field planted with a cover crop on his organic pig farm. Cover crops, which aren't meant to be harvested, help improve the soil's fertility.
Evi Heigl feeds the pigs. The organic farm has 90 female pigs and about 500 piglets.
Schäffer examines thistledown from an untended strip next to a street. "A few years ago, you wouldn't have seen these dry flowers next to a street," Schäffer says. "People here in the region have changed their perception of esthetic and understand that these flowers are important for insects."
Norbert Schäffer, chairman of the Bavarian Association for the Protection of Birds, and his assistant Paul Kasko visit a roadside area in Bavaria that's been left to grow wild. These untended flowering strips are an important habitat for insects and birds.
A research assistant offers his hand to a group of female mosquitos during a fresh blood feeding at the Kenya Medical Research Institute, where scientists are studying insecticide-resistant mosquitos.
Across Kenya, Malawi, and Ghana, babies under two are receiving the world’s first-ever malaria vaccine for free in the hopes of stopping the deadly disease.
Two girls cut grass in a watery field in Kakamega County, Kenya. Malaria is spread by female Anopheles mosquitos, which breed in stagnant water and proliferate during the rainy season.
Women wait at Iguhu District Hospital in western Kenya so that their babies can receive the malaria vaccine. In Africa, about 285,000 children died before their fifth birthdays in 2016.