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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From 2002, the elephant population in Chad’s Zakouma National Park plummeted due to severe poaching, with just 450 elephants remaining in 2011.
Faced with a crisis, the park was transformed. Following a change of management, bringing greater incentives and support for conservation, not a single elephant has been poached in nearly three years, and the elephants are breeding again.
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- Canon EOS-1D X
- 24–70mm f2.8 lens
- 1/640 sec at f8
- Zakouma National Park, Chad
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