Episode 1
Premiered Tuesday, July 18
Episode 1
Join National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore as he travels 10,000 miles from his home in Nebraska to Madagascar. He’s here to photograph creatures found nowhere else on the planet, and add them to his Photo Ark.
Joel’s main goal is to photograph a lemur, the rare and acrobatic Decken’s sifaka. He journeys three days – one-way – just to get to the world’s only captive individuals. It’s that or enter its home in the wild, a stone forest blanketed with razor-sharp rocks. The sifaka have adapted amazing leaping abilities, safely and easily clearing 20 feet in a single jump.
You don’t have to travel 10,000 miles to find rare animals. Joel hops down to the Florida Keys, where sea level rise is real. Joel is on a mission to photograph the endangered Lower Keys marsh rabbit. Time’s running out before sea water destroys its home, where much of it is less than three feet above sea level.
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Boca Chica Naval Air StationKey West, Florida
Lemur IslandMadagascar
Lemuria LandNosy Be, Madagascar
Lincoln Children ZooLincoln, Nebraska
Lowry Park ZooTampa, Florida
Madagascar
St. Augustine Alligator FarmSt. Augustine, Florida
Tsimbazaza ZooAntananarivo, Madagascar
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and to take action.
Joel Sartore
National Geographic Photographer
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