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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Deadly Medicine
This is a tragic story about a growing fashion for consuming rhino horn that now threatens the extinction of rhinos.
Their horns, mere keratin, the substance of fingernails, is now more valuable than gold on the Asian black market.
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