Scarlet Banksia, Australia, 1999
Photograph by Frans Lanting
"A scarlet banksia blooms like fireworks in Australia's southwest. Not all biodiversity hot spots are tropical. This region's poor soils support 2,830 endemic plants—species that grow nowhere else on Earth."
—From "The Variety of Life," February 1999, National Geographic magazine
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Bhutan Bath Time, Paro, Bhutan, 1991
Photograph by James L. Stanfield
Three-year-old Tshering Dudup sits out bath time.
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