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A frogfish, disguised as its rocky seafloor perch, lays in wait for a potential meal. The fish can change texture and even color to blend with its surroundings. It can also lure potential prey with a fleshy “fishing rod,” complete with a wormlike lure.

The bigeye catalufa grows to 11 inches long and inhabits deep, rocky reefs off Cocos Island.

“As conservationists we will use every media and medium to be able to speak out for these animals.” Dereck and Beverly Joubert speaking at the National Geographic Society Headquarters in 2016.

Donaciano Chávez Márquez is an ejidatario (person who lives on an ejido) in the heart of Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve. Donanciano once eked out a living by keeping a few cows. Now, with economic incentives offered by Grupo Ecológico Serra Gorda—the five-member alliance that includes Sierra Gorda Ecotours—he manages his land to conserve the forest and provide carbon storage, keeping neighbors’ soil-degrading cattle from the area with simple barbed wire fences.

Conservationist and photographer Roberto Pedraza walks through the cloud forest in Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve in the state of Querétaro, one of Mexico’s ecotourism hot spots adjusting to pandemic-caused loss of income.

As magma squeezed through the subsurface during Ambrym's 2018 eruption, it caused the landscape above to fracture and crack. This was especially evident in Pamal village, eight miles from the crater's rim.

Hammerheads are among the rich marine biodiversity of the Galapagos.