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Cyclist, foodie, band member, vintage furniture lover and product designer. Doing at the nexus of simplicity and sustainability to craft meaningful ideas that endure. I sometimes make random things with friends.

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  • Photo by @amivitale | People are the key to saving Africa's great animals. In this photo, Kamara, a Kenyan rhino keeper, walks in the rain with orphaned black rhinos he hand-raised at Lewa Wildlife Conservancy (@lewa_wildlife) in Kenya. Indigenous communities are on the front lines of the fight against poaching and landscape destruction, making them the best protectors of the endangered wildlife around them. Together we can work to save them - please visit and support the communities that protect them. Follow @amivitale @lewa_wildlife @nrt_kenya & @nature_org to learn about the incredible work being done to protect and preserve these ancient creatures @kenyawildlifeservice @thephotosociety @natgeo @nature_africa #WorthMoreAlive #protectrhinos #DontLetThemDisappear #rhinos #saverhinos #stoppoaching #kenya #northernkenya #magicalkenya #africa #everydayafrica #worldrhinoday #photojournalism #amivitale
  • This rice farmer pauses during the ancient Malagasy tradition called magnosy, where the fields are prepared for planting by using zebu (cattle) to soften the muddy earth so the young rice shoots will take hold deeper in the soil. Stay tuned as I share images that I made in 2010 for the @prix_pictet Commission, in cooperation with the UK based NGO Azafady, showing issues around land, forests, and poverty in Madagascar. @seedmadagascar Photo by @edkashi #edkashi #Madagascar #PrixPictet #fromthearchives #tbt #travel #onassignment #environment #sustainability #azafady #sustainability #zebu #cattle
  • Photo by @TimLaman | A Leopard Cat, the smallest of Borneo’s five cat species, triggers my camera trap and takes a self portrait deep in the mountains of Gunung Palung National Park. My ongoing @NatGeo project is an attempt to document the lesser known and rarely seen nocturnal mammals of this park, one of the very best remaining examples of healthy lowland rainforest in Borneo. The images is in black & white because I made it with an infra-red sensitive camera and infra-red flashes (which are invisible to us and other mammals), so as to minimize disturbance to wildlife. Follow @TimLaman to see more animals that passed my camera trap. #cat #leopardcat, #GunungPalungNationalPark, #Kalimantan, #rainforest, #Borneo, #IndonesiaBiodiversity.
  • Photo by @joelsartore | Measuring up to three feet in length and weighing nearly 200 pounds, the Yangtze giant softshell turtle is the world’s largest freshwater turtle. With only four known to exist in the world, it is also incredibly rare. This male, thought to be over 100-years-old, calls the Suzhou Zoo in China home, along with one other female. This species must breed soon or it will go extinct. Past attempts to breed the pair at the Suzhou Zoo have proved difficult, with three unsuccessful artificial insemination attempts. However, researchers were recently delighted to find two of these turtles swimming freely in Vietnam. @turtlesurvival is coordinating efforts with WCS Vietnam, the Asian Turtle Program and others to hopefully capture and breed the pair. For behind the scenes video from this shoot visit the link in @Joelsartore’s bio. #Yangtzegiantsoftshell #Criticallyendangeredspecies
  • Photograhed this week by George Steinmetz @geosteinmetz | I didn’t go crazy with Photoshop! This is what the #greenhouses actually looked like when I flew my drone over Koppert Cress in The Netherlands, who grow micro-greens for gourmet chefs throughout Europe and the Middle East. They use magenta frequency LEDs to extend their growing season and assure product uniformity. Plants don’t absorb green light, so magenta LEDs are more power efficient. To see more of where your food is coming from, follow @FeedThePlanet
  • Photo by Aaron Huey @argonautphoto | Kenneth Maryboy (in blanket), a Navajo activist, leads members of Hopi, Zuni, Ute, and other tribes in a sunrise prayer with a corn flour offering before the last day of the group’s prayer run. Indigenous groups have been assembling and doing prayer gatherings, prayer runs, and cultural exchanges bridging old divides and uniting tribes across the country in a common goal. @protectbearsears, the nonprofit whose board Maryboy serves on, was established by the Dine’ (Navajo), but it became the nucleus of the broader intertribal coalition set up to protect Bears Ears. Follow @argonautphotos for more images of these Inter-Tribal gatherings.
  • Photo by David Chancellor @chancellordavid in the Omo River Valley, Ethiopia - to see more work and projects follow me @chancellordavid @thephotosociety @natgeo #ethiopia #omo #tribes @everydayextinction
  • Photo by @renan_ozturk | The magic about Nepal isn’t always about the Himalayas, the glory of the highest peaks on earth. Often it’s in the quite hillside moments in between. #nepaliloveyou Join me @renan_ozturk for more images from Nepal.
  • Photo by @chamiltonjames words by @chrisfagan_uac | Jorge is chief of the Chitonahua tribe, one of several indigenous tribes in Peru considered in initial contact with the outside world. His eye was shot out by a logger when Jorge and his dad tried to raid a logging camp for machetes and other items in the mid 1990’s. They escaped, but soon after were hunted down by the loggers aided by guides from another indigenous tribe. Approximately 15 Chitonahua were captured and forced to leave the forest interior and relocate to a village on the Yurua River where they live today. Despite being contacted over 20 years ago, the Chitonahua still struggle to assimilate into modern society. This includes earning money to purchase salt, medicine, clothing and other items they now depend on. However, compared to many other tribes in initial contact in Peru, the Chitonahua are doing relatively well. They have an impressive garden of vegetables, fruit trees and medicinal plants and recently won a government sponsored competition among local villages for raising domesticated animals. Perhaps most importantly, the children attend school nearby and speak fluent Spanish. Shot for the Peru part of our October issue on the Amazon’s isolated tribes. Check out the link in @chrisfagan_uac profile for more information on tribes in initial contact like the Chitonahua.
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