#wolfgang kaehler

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Piglets in a bamboo basket, Thailand By: Wolfgang Kaehler From: Natural History Magazine 1989

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National Geographic learned that 42 wild elephants are being rounded up to be sent abroad, to unidentified buyers who bought them in a Namibian government auction.

PHOTOGRAPH BY WOLFGANG KAEHLER/LIGHTROCKET/GETTY IMAGES

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Emperor penguins on Antarctica's Snow Hill Island, at the Weddell Sea.

Photographed by Wolfgang Kaehler

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Sumatran water buffalo plow By: Wolfgang Kaehler From: Natural History Magazine 1989

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Close-up of wildebeest, also called gnus or wildbai in the grasslands of the Masai Mara in Kenya.

(Wolfgang Kaehler / LightRocket via Getty Images)

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The Bolshoi Ballet’s production of Les Sylphides, 1982. Photographed by Wolfgang Kaehler.

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The island where penguins rule

Penguins live in many various ecosystems throughout the Southern Hemisphere, including a large penguin population on Australia’s lush, green Macquarie Island. Only 20 miles long, this narrow slice of land lies isolated more than 900 miles south of Australia.

The penguin population was hunted to near extinction in the early 20th century, when penguins were prized for their blubber. But conservation measures enacted in the 1960s and, more recently, UNESCO World Heritage inscription in 1997 have helped to protect this island’s unique ecosystem and its vulnerable inhabitants.

Image: Wolfgang Kaehler/Corbis