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 | PHOTOGRAPH BY KILIII YÜYAN
| | One image can tell so much about traditional culture and modern life. Pickup trucks, baby strollers—and the hurry (shown above) to get to a Greenland community’s biggest annual event: The dogsled races.
Nat Geo Explorer and photographer Kiliii Yüyan says the races reflect the important relationship that Inughuit, or northern Greenlandic Inuit, have with dog teams. Yüyan’s own background inspires him to portray, for example, “how the thousands of wildly varied Native cultures around the world manage to be so good at land stewardship, while this modern globalized culture has basically dropped the ball.”
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY AJI STYAWAN | | | As basic as water: Due to the rising tides, villagers from Timbulsloko in Central Java, Indonesia, are adding mud to raise their houses—and cemeteries, pictured above. “I’ll be taking a shower and think what the villagers have to do to get water—this year, their freshwater is going salty,” says photographer Aji Styawan. “But life must go on. And my job is telling their stories.” Read more about people living with rising waters. | | | |
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 | PHOTOGRAPH BY PATRICK WACK
| | Defying Beijing: Thousands of miles from home, young ethnic Uyghurs stand before a flag in Istanbul. “One day, we will raise this flag in our homeland,” a speaker tells them. “Are you ready?” “Yes!” responds the young crowd in unison. In Istanbul and elsewhere, exiles keep their culture alive despite China’s campaign to erase their culture at home, Nat Geo reports. (Above, Uyghur girls gather at a youth empowerment program in Istanbul, photographed by Nat Geo Explorer Patrick Wack.)
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| Stick with the herd: For the first eight years of their lives, elephants rarely stray 10 meters from their mothers. So what happens when a mother dies from poaching or drought? A study earlier this year says that orphaned elephants who form deep bonds with other young elephants have lower stress than those that didn’t. They fare even better when they stay with family members. (Above, Nat Geo Explorer Amy Vitale photographed bonded orphaned calves in Kenya’s Reteti Elephant Sanctuary.)
Related: Another trick for caring for orphaned elephants? Goats.
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 | PHOTOGRAPH BY JOEL SARTORE, NAT GEO PHOTO ARK
| | Turkeys, pheasants, and quails. They’re hunted for sport and our consumption—but game birds are surprisingly beautiful. And more than 25 percent are at risk of extinction. Nat Geo Explorer Joel Sartore has photographed nearly 14,000 species for his Photo Ark, including 12 stunning game birds featured in our tribute to their beauty. “We won’t save what we’ve never even met,” says Sartore. (Less than 2,500 of the stunning Bornean peacock-pheasants, above, are believed to remain.)
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| This newsletter has been curated and edited by David Beard, Jen Tse, Heather Kim, and Sydney Combs. Amanda Williams-Bryant, Alec Egamov, Rita Spinks, and Jeremy Brandt-Vorel also contributed this week. Have an idea? We’d love to hear from you at david.beard@natgeo.com. Thanks for reading! | | | |
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