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Is this site using some automated translation service? I get crazy odd names for the species when I visit from a Swedish IP address. Examples:

> Graycrowned Crane

> Grå krontrana (Swedish name)

> Grå krönad kran (NG namn)

Or

> White-backed vulture

> Vitryggig gam (Swedish name)

> Vitryggad gös & Vitryggade gärningen (NG names)

This is horrible! Everywhere the English is mixed with bad translations to Swedish! Who thought this was a good idea?
Undoubtedly it was a species at risk!
One of the most infuriating aspects is that some of these are completely preventable with no real costs.

There are a number of animals are hunted for their supposed "medical properties" in TCM.

Truly great endeavor.

If you have the chance to see this as an exhibit in a museum, 100% do so. Getting up close to the level of detail you’ll see in giant prints is special.

Joel Sartore, the photographer, shares the photos to his Instagram account and is worth a follow as well. Sometimes even runs promos for prints.

Lastly, their merch is also worth a pickup - it’s high quality art, I have the printed photo book - and helps support the project of documenting all these creatures.

It would be great if these were released under some kind of open licensing. Requiring a backlink/credit would do wonders for promoting the project as these would likely get used across all kinds of professional and amateur media.

Then again, these pics obviously took an extraordinary amount of skill/travel/equipment so it's perfectly understandable that they aren't freely licensed.