The tiger is the symbol of India. Despite efforts to maintain their numbers, human demand for their habitat and a small army of poachers continually puts pressure on the numbers. I photographed this tiger in Bandhavgarh National Park, created in 1968. Before that time it had been a private hunting reserve for the royal Rewa family.

Fiordland on New Zealand's South Island is the nation’s largest national park, one of the biggest in the world. There are only three roads in the park and a scattering of trails, including the classic and Milford, Routeburn and Kepler. When people think of New Zealand, they picture Milford Sound, a deep fiord ten miles long with mountains rising three thousand feet on either side.

Togo is a narrow country sandwiched between the West African nations of Ghana and Benin. It was afflicted by the slave trade. The population fled inland. Today, some of their descendents sell fish beside the shore of a vast lake while making their homes on an island where their forebears hide from slavers.

The Pantanal is a large wetland lying mostly in Brazil. Because of the great diversity of wildlife and its unspoiled nature, it has been designated a UNESCO world heritage site. Like the Okavanga in Botswana, Area floods and dries out each year. Drought times concentrates the wildlife in areas with water making it a wonderful shooting opportunity.

Identifiable by a pronounced marking passing over the eyes, the Black-browed Albatross (Diomedea melanophris) is one of the most beautiful of the albatrosses. They nest on islands in the South Atlantic, but the largest populations live in the Falklands. Steeple Jason is one of the most remote islands, situated in the extreme northwest. It remains an unspoiled haven for wildlife due to its location, rugged topography, and private ownership.

The Tuareg are nomads of the southern Sahara. For centuries their camel caravans have transported salt and other essentials across the desert for 500 miles from Taoudenni to Timbuktu and other fabled cities. Most of the salt will be transferred onto “pinasses” (small open boats) for the voyage to the coastal town of Bamako.

Although the Aborigines knew the Bungle Bungle Ranges well for thousands of years, the descendants of the colonists didn’t discover them until 1980. The area is now designated Purnululu National Park and is penetrated by a few trails, but most of the area remains off-limits to the “newcomers,” reserved for those who know the area to be sacred.

Snow monkeys, also known as Japanese macaques, frequent the Nagono Hot Springs in the mountains of Japan. They gather in family groups and soak for hours at a time in the winter. This little guy, a baby of the year, was fascinated by his reflection in my lens. As he reached out to touch the glass, his human qualities were obvious: the large luminous eyes, fingernails, and the obvious curiosity.