Meeting Martha Sartore has always loved animals.


When he was a kid, he read about a passenger pigeon named Martha. She lived in a zoo. At one time, there were billions of passenger pigeons. In 1913, Martha was the only one leſt . When she died, her species became extinct. Sartore wondered how billions


of birds could become extinct. He learned that their large numbers made them easy to hunt. T eir habitats were destroyed to build farms and cities. Many other species have become extinct, too. T at makes Sartore sad.


young mandrill


On Assignment National Geographic gave Sartore a


job many years later. His job was to find the ivory-billed woodpecker. Scientists thought this bird was


extinct. Yet a few people said they had seen it. Others told Sartore he would never find it. Sartore and teams of scientists


started looking. T ey never found the bird. Sartore found something else, though. He found people trying to help endangered animals. He wanted to join them. He felt


his photos could make a diff erence. His photos could tell people about endangered animals.


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