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Year in photos: nature & conservation pictures

Rhett Butler, mongabay.com
December 28, 2009





The following 50 photos were taken during the course of my reporting and research in 2009. I have only included nature and wildlife subjects from Laos, Thailand, Costa Rica, Brazil, Indonesia, California, and Madagascar, although I also took pictures of other subjects and spent time in other countries.

Last year's photos can be found here.

These are low quality, low resolutions shots but all of these images are available in high resolution. See mongabay.zenfolio.com for high resolution versions of these and other pictures.

All photos were taken by Rhett A. Butler.


Male Panther chameleon in Ankarana, Madagascar



Indri lemur (Indri indri) near Andasibe. Madagascar



Gladiator tree frog (Hyla rosenbergi), Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica



Male Orangutan in Gunung Leuser National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia



Rainforest canopy of the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica



Female Coquerel's Sifaka (Propithecus coquereli) with baby in Madagascar



Giant Dipterocarp tree in Gunung Leuser National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia



Female orangutan in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia



Territorial chase between a pair of Verreaux's Sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) in southern Madagascar



Red grasshawk dragonfly in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia



White Spotted Reed Frog (Heterixalus alboguttatus) in Ranomafana, Madagascar



Brown Pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis) in flight over crashing surf, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica



Parson's chameleon (Calumma parsonii) in Madagascar



Verreaux's Sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) in Southern Madagascar



Dancing Verreaux's sifaka lemur in southern Madagascar



McWay Waterfall in Big Sur, California



Jaguar emerging from the Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil




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Rhett Butler, mongabay.com (December 28, 2009).

Year in photos: nature & conservation pictures.

http://news.mongabay.com/2009/1228-photos.html


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