Brent Stirton
South Africa
Brent is a Senior Correspondent for Getty Images. He does most of his work for National Geographic Magazine, focusing on the intersection of humans and the environment.
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Police officers guard one of four confiscated shipping containers of elephant tusks in Lomé, the capital of Togo.
DNA evidence linked some of this ivory to a massacre in 2013, when an anti-government armed group from the Central African Republic, called Séléka, shot 26 elephants at the famous Dzanga Bai viewing site in Dzanga-Ndoki National Park.
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- Canon EOS-1D X
- 24–70mm f2.8 lens
- 1/125 sec at f14
- Lome, Togo
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