1316. A Nenets woman leads her decorated reindeer through the streets of Yar Sale during the annual spring festival.
　　
　　(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Nenets: Surviving on the Siberian Tundra," March 1998, National Geographic magazine)

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　1315. "Safe among trees in South Africa‘s Ndumo Game Reserve, a giraffe can eat 140 pounds (63 kilograms) of leaves and twigs daily. Linking this area with protected lands in Swaziland and Mozambique means more range for big browsers. ‘Theses initiatives are good news,‘ says Conservation International‘s John Hanks. ‘And Africa desperately needs good news.‘"
　　—Text from "Without Borders: Uniting Africa‘s Wildlife Reserves," September 2001, National Geographic magazine
　　
　　(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in "Without Borders: Uniting Africa‘s Wildlife Reserves," September 2001, National Geographic magazine)
　　

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1314. The Anhinga Trail stretches through Everglades National Park. The park covers the entire southeastern portion of the Everglades marshlands in southern Florida.
　　(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "South to the Keys," January/February 1999 National Geographic Traveler magazine)
　　

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　1313. Fed by the 100-plus inches (254 centimeters) of rain per year that fall in Olympic National Park, evergreen trees rise above the fog that fills this Olympic Mountain‘s valley.
　　(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Olympic Peninsula," May 1984, National Geographic magazine)
　　

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1312. "After being sedated and measured and having his blood sampled [by researcher Alan Kemp], the male [southern ground hornbill] finds his way back to his lifelong mate [at right in photo]."
　　—From "The Shrinking World of Hornbills," July 1999, National Geographic magazine
　　

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1311. "Two women model Firestone‘s entrée into the world of fashion: undergarments made with Controlastic, an elastic yarn made of rubber ("Our Most Versatile Vegetable Product," said National Geographic in a February 1940 story). The tire company debuted the rubber product, no longer used in today‘s stretch fabrics, at the 1939-1940 World‘s Fair with a promise that it would fulfull ‘that very much formfitting desire that is paramount today in so much of women‘s wear.‘"
　　—From Flashback, January 2003, National Geographic magazine
　　

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　1310. This promontory‘s sandstone formations provide habitat for communities of algae, bacteria, and fungi. These communities have colonized about 80 percent of the rock formation.
　　
　　Similarities between surface conditions on Antarctica and Mars lead some scientists to study these organisms as potential analogues of Martian life.
　　
　　(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Timeless Valleys of the Antarctic Desert," October 1998, National Geographic magazine)

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1309. Forming a majestic gateway to the Pacific, these rock formations line the Olympic Peninsula‘s western coast.
　　(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Olympic Peninsula," May 1984, National Geographic magazine)
　　
　　

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1308. "Perched on a mountain in the northern part of Kárpathos, an island between Crete and Rhodes, ;Oacute;limbos is still one of the most isolated villages in Greece."
　　—From "Eternal Easter in a Greek Village," December 1983, National Geographic magazine
　　

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1307. Conservationist J. Michael Fay flies over Gabon. Fay undertook a walking expedition through 13 connected forests from Congo to Gabon, surveying some of the least explored wilderness in the world.
　　(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Megatransect," October 2000, National Geographic magazine)
　　

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