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  • A baby captive bred panda sits in a basket as it is moved from a building at the panda breeding center of Bifengxia Panda Base<br />
in Ya'an, Sichuan, China.
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  • Fourteen baby captive bred pandas sleep  on a blanket at the panda breeding center of Bifengxia Panda Base in Ya'an, Sichuan,<br />
China. Thanks to hunting and the destruction of their natural habitat, there are now only an estimated 1,600 giant pandas left in the wild.
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  • Scientist M. Sanjayan films at the Wolong Panda Reserve managed by the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Sichuan, China. For the first time in 50 years since the WWF adopted the panda as the symbol of wildlife conservation, the loss of one of the world’s most iconic species is being reversed. Their habitat is being restored, and every year from now on, more captive pandas will be “trained” to be wild and then released.<br />
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The accomplishment is extraordinary—first the Chinese have had to solve the famous problem of getting Pandas to mate. Then, they’ve had to take an animal that has lost its wild instincts, and re-train it to survive in the harsh Sichuan mountain cloud forests. It’s taken Chinese researchers over 30 years to solve these problems.<br />
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Many of us have ceased to think of the panda as a “wild” creature. It’s more of a cartoon animal that lives in zoos.  But watching Zhang Xiang, the first female panda to be released into the wild, you realize that she may be the most famous panda that no one—save a handful of scientists-- will ever see.
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  • Fourteen baby captive bred pandas sleep  on a blanket at the panda breeding center of Bifengxia Panda Base in Ya'an, Sichuan,<br />
China. Thanks to hunting and the destruction of their natural habitat, there are now only an estimated 1,600 giant pandas left in the wild.
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  • A 14 year old panda named YeYe holds her young cub at Wolong Giant Panda reserve. The mother is captive born and her baby is being trained to be released back into the wild. Thanks to hunting and the destruction of their natural habitat, there are now only an estimated 1,600 giant pandas left in the wild.
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  • Zhang Hemin, Director of the reserve along with panda handlers wait for a panda in training to emerge from her cage in Wolong Nature Reserve in Sichuan Province, China. The loss of one of the world’s most iconic species is being reversed. Their habitat is being restored, and every year from now on, more captive pandas will be “trained” to be wild and then released. The accomplishment is extraordinary—first the Chinese have had to solve the famous problem of getting Pandas to mate. Then, they’ve had to take an animal that has lost its wild instincts, and re-train it to survive in the harsh Sichuan mountain cloud forests. It’s taken Chinese researchers over 30 years to solve these problems.
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  • BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA:  The Obelisco de Buenos Aires is located in the heart of Buenos Aires. The Obelisco, one of the main icons of Buenos Aires, was built in May 1936 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the first founding of the city. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA:  The Obelisco de Buenos Aires is located in the heart of Buenos Aires. The Obelisco, one of the main icons of Buenos Aires, was built in May 1936 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the first founding of the city. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • A baby captive bred panda sits in a basket as it is moved from a building at the panda breeding center of Bifengxia Panda Base<br />
in Ya'an, Sichuan, China.
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  • En aiat, 55, center, Fatme, blue, and Saffaa hold rabbits in the village of Hamidia in Fayoume, Egypt December 7, 2005.  Wael,16, who lives in teh village is taking part in a rabbit telefood program funded by FAO.. (Photo Ami Vitale)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11:  An American Marine salutes during the unveiling of a plaque where remains of the World Trade Center were laid as a symbolic gesture for those that died in the attack on the World Trade Center one year ago at the United States Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002 . (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • BIHAR, INDIA: JULY 11: Sonamati gets water from a well in new village where she lives  with her in-laws after she completed training at a Women's Education Center, in the block of Amos which is a cluster of villages located near the city of Patna in Bihar, India July 11, 2003. Bihar is the poorest state in India and women suffer  greatly because of the poverty, lack of education and opportunities. This center is being funded by the World Bank although it was initially started by Unicef . .(Ami Vitale)
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  • Women take care of their severely malnourished children inside a stablization center run by the NGO Merlin in Wajir, in northern Kenya May 10, 2006. The number of people who are at risk in the Horn of Africa is estimated to be around 15 million of which more than 8 million have been identified as being in need of urgent emergency assistance. Though the rains have come and turned the land green, the problems facing the pastoralists still persist after 3 years of drought that resulted in severe livelihood stress, food insecurity, livestock deaths and high rates of malnutrition. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Women take care of their severely malnourished children inside a stablization center run by the NGO Merlin in Wajir, in northern Kenya May 10, 2006. The number of people who are at risk in the Horn of Africa is estimated to be around 15 million of which more than 8 million have been identified as being in need of urgent emergency assistance. Though the rains have come and turned the land green, the problems facing the pastoralists still persist after 3 years of drought that resulted in severe livelihood stress, food insecurity, livestock deaths and high rates of malnutrition. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Women take care of their severely malnourished children inside a stablization center run by the NGO Merlin in Wajir, in northern Kenya May 11, 2006. The number of people who are at risk in the Horn of Africa is estimated to be around 15 million of which more than 8 million have been identified as being in need of urgent emergency assistance. Though the rains have come and turned the land green, the problems facing the pastoralists still persist after 3 years of drought that resulted in severe livelihood stress, food insecurity, livestock deaths and high rates of malnutrition. (Ami Vitale)
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  • A vulture sits inside a cage at a center set up by Vibhu Prakash who is fighting to keep this endangered species alive January 30, 2005 in Pinjore Gardens near Chandigarh, India. The bird has been dying rapidly from eating the carcasses of cattle when the drug Diclofenic has been used  to aleviate pain. (Ami Vitale)<br />
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  • A vulture sits inside a cage at a center set up by Vibhu Prakash who is fighting to keep this endangered species alive January 30, 2005 in Pinjore Gardens near Chandigarh, India. The bird has been dying rapidly from eating the carcasses of cattle when the drug Diclofenic has been used  to aleviate pain. (Ami Vitale)<br />
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  • A vulture sits inside a cage at a center set up by Vibhu Prakash who is fighting to keep this endangered species alive January 30, 2005 in Pinjore Gardens near Chandigarh, India. The bird has been dying rapidly from eating the carcasses of cattle when the drug Diclofenic has been used  to aleviate pain. (Ami Vitale)<br />
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  • Panda costumes that are worn by caretakers hang inside the<br />
employee room at the Wolong Nature Reserve managed by the China<br />
Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. Babies are born<br />
in a quiet moss and as they grow they are moved to progressively<br />
bigger, more complex and “wilder” enclosures, eventually learning to<br />
climb and forage for themselves. From birth,a panda slated for release<br />
will never see a human, its training administered equally by its<br />
mother and its unseen keepers in panda costumes.
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  • Dene First Nation youth Brendan Felix Head, 14, left, Tristen Jade Lockhart, 14, center and Hawke Williams Ellis, 4, stand in the smoke to get relief form the carnage of millions of black flies and mosquitoes. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • BIHAR, INDIA: JULY 11: Sonamati gets water from a well in new village where she lives  with her in-laws after she completed training at a Women's Education Center, in the block of Amos which is a cluster of villages located near the city of Patna in Bihar, India July 11, 2003. Bihar is the poorest state in India and women suffer  greatly because of the poverty, lack of education and opportunities. This center is being funded by the World Bank although it was initially started by Unicef . .(Ami Vitale)
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  • A vulture sits inside a cage at a center set up by Vibhu Prakash who is fighting to keep this endangered species alive January 30, 2005 in Pinjore Gardens near Chandigarh, India. The bird has been dying rapidly from eating the carcasses of cattle when the drug Diclofenic has been used  to aleviate pain. (Ami Vitale)&#xA;<br />
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  • A vulture sits inside a cage at a center set up by Vibhu Prakash who is fighting to keep this endangered species alive January 30, 2005 in Pinjore Gardens near Chandigarh, India. The bird has been dying rapidly from eating the carcasses of cattle when the drug Diclofenic has been used  to aleviate pain. (Ami Vitale)<br />
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  • A vulture sits inside a cage at a center set up by Vibhu Prakash who is fighting to keep this endangered species alive January 30, 2005 in Pinjore Gardens near Chandigarh, India. The bird has been dying rapidly from eating the carcasses of cattle when the drug Diclofenic has been used  to aleviate pain. (Ami Vitale)<br />
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  • Afghans make wheel chairs and plastic limbs for patients at the orthopedic center set up by the International Committee for the Red Cross in Kabul, Afghanistan August 5, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Patients at the orthopedic center set up by the International Committee for the Red Cross in Kabul, Afghanistan August 5, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans make wheel chairs and plastic limbs for patients at the orthopedic center set up by the International Committee for the Red Cross in Kabul, Afghanistan August 5, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Mehrabab, 50, holds his son Hagmatullah at the orthopedic center set up by the International Committee for the Red Cross in Kabul, Afghanistan August 5, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • BIHAR, INDIA: AUGUST 13: Villagers cross a river to get to Lalita's village after  she made a visit to her village of Koprah,  60 kilometers from Sitamarhi in northern Bihar, India August 13, 2003. Lalita was visiting after an eight month training course at a MSK and 4 months of teaching karate in another district in Bihar. She has overcome great barriers in a society that regards her as the most disadvantaged since she is a female in one of  the lowest castes in India, the "Musahar "caste which means rat eaters. This tenacious young woman attended,  Mahila Shikshan Kendra, a Women's Education Center,  depsite her father's protests and learned how to read, write and defend herself in a community which frequently abuses women. Now she is teaching karate to other young women in a MSK in Amos block. Bihar is the poorest state in India and women suffer  greatly because of the poverty, lack of education and opportunities. Most of the girls who are attending the eight month course have had to overcome tremendous resistance from families and a society entrenched in the  weight of a caste system which discourages those from the lower castes to be educated, especially women. The 10 centers with 40 students in each are being funded by the World Bank although it was initially started by Unicef . .(Ami Vitale)
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  • Dr. Bhaskar Choudhury and his collegues work with elephants who have been abandoned during drives to get herds from rampaging through villages at a rescue center near the Kazaringa National Park in Assam, India January 5, 2003.(Ami Vitale)
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  • Hundreds, perhaps thousands of villagers, forest rangers, police and wildlife experts attempt to drive a herd of elephants from a village on the outskirts of Tezpur, Assam in Eastern India December 22, 2003.  India and its sacred elephants are threatened by poaching, deforestation and encroachment of the reserved land and natural forests.  As a result of the loss of land, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops. During this drive, a baby elephant, only days old was seperating from his mother and faces probable death without her. He is now at a rescue center in Kaziranga. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Aifa Andu, center, talks to neighbors and Hamada representative in the village of Asebeina near Barentu, Eritrea.    (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Patients at the orthopedic center set up by the International Committee for the Red Cross in Kabul, Afghanistan August 5, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • BIHAR, INDIA: AUGUST 14: Lalita'gathers water at a pump in her village of Koprah,  60 kilometers from Sitamarhi in northern Bihar, India August 14, 2003. She was visiting after an eight month training course at a MSK and 4 months of teaching karate in another district in Bihar. She has overcome great barriers in a society that regards her as the most disadvantaged since she is a female in one of  the lowest castes in India, the "Musahar "caste which means rat eaters. This tenacious young woman attended,  Mahila Shikshan Kendra, a Women's Education Center,  depsite her father's protests and learned how to read, write and defend herself in a community which frequently abuses women. Now she is teaching karate to other young women in a MSK in Amos block. Bihar is the poorest state in India and women suffer  greatly because of the poverty, lack of education and opportunities. Most of the girls who are attending the eight month course have had to overcome tremendous resistance from families and a society entrenched in the  weight of a caste system which discourages those from the lower castes to be educated, especially women. The 10 centers with 40 students in each are being funded by the World Bank although it was initially started by Unicef . .(Ami Vitale)
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  • Dr. Bhaskar Choudhury and his collegues work with elephants who have been abandoned during drives to get herds from rampaging through villages at a rescue center near the Kazaringa National Park in Assam, India January 5, 2003.(Ami Vitale)
    Elephants058.jpg
  • Hundreds, perhaps thousands of villagers, forest rangers, police and wildlife experts attempt to drive a herd of elephants from a village on the outskirts of Tezpur, Assam in Eastern India December 22, 2003.  India and its sacred elephants are threatened by poaching, deforestation and encroachment of the reserved land and natural forests.  As a result of the loss of land, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops. During this drive, a baby elephant, only days old was seperating from his mother and faces probable death without her. He is now at a rescue center in Kaziranga. (Ami Vitale)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11: An Afghan girl with polio and a man who lost his leg  learn to walk with at an ICRC hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002. While Americans are remembering the attack on the World Trade Center  one year ago today, most Afghans are trying to forget the decades old war which killed more than a million people here in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • Hundreds, perhaps thousands of villagers, forest rangers, police and wildlife experts attempt to drive a herd of elephants from a village on the outskirts of Tezpur, Assam in Eastern India December 22, 2003.  India and its sacred elephants are threatened by poaching, deforestation and encroachment of the reserved land and natural forests.  As a result of the loss of land, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops. During this drive, a baby elephant, only days old was seperating from his mother and faces probable death without her. He is now at a rescue center in Kaziranga. (Ami Vitale)
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  • A Muslim Kashmiri woman sits inside a shop with her children where traditional Islamic veils are made in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian held Kashmir. The shadowy group, Lashkar-e-Jabbar, also known as Allah's Army sent a letter to a local newspaper saying that Muslim Kashmiri women must adhere to the dress code or face acid attacks beginning on April 1, 2002. The leader of the group also wrote, "if our members see any boy or girl or any illegal couple doing acts of immortality they will be killed there and then".The same group claimed responisiblity for two acid attacks on women in Srinagar last year. Kashmir has been the center of the ongoing dispute between India and Pakistan since the region was partioned when the British left in 1947.
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  • An Angolan soldier known as "Bernardo" stands in the center of a town in the interior region where fighting between the rebels and government forces left the edifices in ruins. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates..(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Children at an orphanage wait to eat at a feeding center in Huambo in the interior region of Angola.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates.  .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Palestinians taunt Israeli soldiers holed up in the beseiged  Netzarim, a tiny Jewish enclave in the center of Palestinian-controlled Gaza settlement in Gaza on Yom Kippur, Sunday, October 8, 2000.Tensions are high as both sides blame one another for the recent fighting and break down in the peace talks. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • An Angolan soldier known as "Bernardo" stands in the center of a town in the interior region where fighting between the rebels and government forces left the edifices in ruins. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates..(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Children at an orphanage wait to eat at a feeding center in Huambo in the interior region of Angola.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates.  .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Children at an orphanage wait to eat at a feeding center in Huambo in the interior region of Angola.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11:  American Marines walk back into the American Embassy after they listened to a speech in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002 where remains of the World Trade Center were laid as a symbolic gesture for those that died in the attack one year ago.While Americans are remembering the attack, most Afghans are trying to forget the decades old war which killed more than a million people here in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11: An Afghan boy with polio is fitted for a leg brace that he will learn to walk with at an ICRC hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002. While Americans are remembering the attack on the World Trade Center  one year ago today, most Afghans are trying to forget the decades old war which killed more than a million people here in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11:  American Marines listen to a speech at the United States Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002 where remains of the World Trade Center were laid as a symbolic gesture for those that died in the attack one year ago. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11: An Afghan girl and man who lost their legs to explosive devices  learn to walk with at an ICRC hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002. While Americans are remembering the attack on the World Trade Center  one year ago today, most Afghans are trying to forget the decades old war which killed more than a million people here in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11: An Afghan girl learns to walk with an  artificial leg at an ICRC hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002. While Americans are remembering the attack on the World Trade Center  one year ago today, most Afghans are trying to forget the decades old war which killed more than a million people here in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11: An Afghan girl holds a leg brace she will learn to walk with at an ICRC hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002. While Americans are remembering the attack on the World Trade Center  one year ago today, most Afghans are trying to forget the decades old war which killed more than a million people here in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11:  An American Marine salutes during a ceremony at the United States Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002 where remains of the World Trade Center were laid as a symbolic gesture for those that died in the attack one year ago. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11:  American Marines listen to a speech at the United States Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002 where remains of the World Trade Center were laid as a symbolic gesture for those that died in the attack one year ago. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11:  American Marines listen to a speech at the United States Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002 where remains of the World Trade Center were laid as a symbolic gesture for those that died in the attack one year ago. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11:  American Marines listen to a speech at the United States Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002 where remains of the World Trade Center were laid as a symbolic gesture for those that died in the attack one year ago. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • A Malawian baby is weighed at a nutritional center for mothers and their children in Mwanza District which is about 100 kilometers west of Blantyre, Malawi, July 2, 2002.   Fabiano was one of many severly malnourished children who came to the hospital suffering from the ongoing food shortage in the region. The World Food Program estimates that 3.2 million people in Malawi alone will be affected before March 2003.   photo by Ami Vitale
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  • 2927309: JODPHUR, INDIA, FEB. 10, 2004: Indian Border Security Force constables perform their morning duties at a training center in Jodphur, India February 10,2004.  The constables train camels who are able to survive the harsh conditions in the desert region of Rajasthan and along the border with Pakistan. India and Pakistan have fought three wars that date back to the partition of the British Indian Empire  in 1947 but are now warming up to eachother and will have peace talks this month. (Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • 2927309: JODPHUR, INDIA, FEB. 10, 2004: Indian Border Security Force constables perform their morning duties at a training center in Jodphur, India February 10,2004.  The constables train camels who are able to survive the harsh conditions in the desert region of Rajasthan and along the border with Pakistan. India and Pakistan have fought three wars that date back to the partition of the British Indian Empire  in 1947 but are now warming up to eachother and will have peace talks this month. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Children at an orphanage wait to eat at a feeding center in Huambo in the interior region of Angola.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates.  .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11: An Afghan girl recently returned from Pakistan runs through a destroyed neighborhood her family is finding refuge in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002. While Americans are remembering the attack on the World Trade Center  one year ago today, most Afghans are trying to forget the decades old war which killed more than a million people here in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • Women from the Dene' Band  collect blueberries in their village of Lutsel Ke' (aka Snowdrift) July 20, 2011 in the Northwest Territories of Canada. This huge reach of untrammeled country, this abundant wildlife, is partially the result of the creation of the Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary. Located equidistant from Hudson Bay and Great Slave Lake, the region now encompassed by the sanctuary was never permanently settled. Aboriginal peoples--Dene from the West and Inuit from the East--travelled it, hunting and searching for wood and fish, and white trappers sledded and canoed across it, building the occasional cabin. In 1927 the area was closed to both sport and subsistence hunting to protect dwindling numbers of muskox. The closure had far-reaching effects on all the region's wildlife: muskox recovered handsomely, and the Beverly caribou herd, which migrates across the sanctuary and is hunted far to the south, now numbers almost 300,000 animals; most importantly, a large enough block of country was set aside so that human-shy species such as grizzlies might have enough room to insure their long-term survival--measured neither in decades nor a century, but over five hundred to a thousand years. In addition, mineral exploration was kept out of the sanctuary, and, because of the region's great distance from air traffic centers, a small number of canoeists and anglers have come to run its rivers. There are few places left on the planet as untouched as this.
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  • Great Slave lake is shown from the village of Lutsel K'e (aka Snowdrift) July 23, 2011 in the Northwest Territories of Canada. This huge reach of untrammeled country, this abundant wildlife, is partially the result of the creation of the Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary. Located equidistant from Hudson Bay and Great Slave Lake, the region now encompassed by the sanctuary was never permanently settled. Aboriginal peoples--Dene from the West and Inuit from the East--travelled it, hunting and searching for wood and fish, and white trappers sledded and canoed across it, building the occasional cabin. In 1927 the area was closed to both sport and subsistence hunting to protect dwindling numbers of muskox. The closure had far-reaching effects on all the region's wildlife: muskox recovered handsomely, and the Beverly caribou herd, which migrates across the sanctuary and is hunted far to the south, now numbers almost 300,000 animals; most importantly, a large enough block of country was set aside so that human-shy species such as grizzlies might have enough room to insure their long-term survival--measured neither in decades nor a century, but over five hundred to a thousand years. In addition, mineral exploration was kept out of the sanctuary, and, because of the region's great distance from air traffic centers, a small number of canoeists and anglers have come to run its rivers. There are few places left on the planet as untouched as this.
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  • Women from the Dene' Band  collect blueberries in their village of Lutsel Ke' (aka Snowdrift) July 20, 2011 in the Northwest Territories of Canada. This huge reach of untrammeled country, this abundant wildlife, is partially the result of the creation of the Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary. Located equidistant from Hudson Bay and Great Slave Lake, the region now encompassed by the sanctuary was never permanently settled. Aboriginal peoples--Dene from the West and Inuit from the East--travelled it, hunting and searching for wood and fish, and white trappers sledded and canoed across it, building the occasional cabin. In 1927 the area was closed to both sport and subsistence hunting to protect dwindling numbers of muskox. The closure had far-reaching effects on all the region's wildlife: muskox recovered handsomely, and the Beverly caribou herd, which migrates across the sanctuary and is hunted far to the south, now numbers almost 300,000 animals; most importantly, a large enough block of country was set aside so that human-shy species such as grizzlies might have enough room to insure their long-term survival--measured neither in decades nor a century, but over five hundred to a thousand years. In addition, mineral exploration was kept out of the sanctuary, and, because of the region's great distance from air traffic centers, a small number of canoeists and anglers have come to run its rivers. There are few places left on the planet as untouched as this.
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