Mexican Gray Wolf Photograph by Joel Sartore; photographed at the Wild Canid Survival and Research Center, Eureka, Missouri
This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features
Still on shaky ground, the Mexican gray wolf, an endangered subspecies, is slowly increasing in number in Arizona and New Mexico, thanks to captive breeding.
See more photographs from the January 2009 feature story "Last One".
This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features
Fevered by hopes of striking it rich, illegal miners claw sacks of "money stone"—gold ore—from the Pra River in Ghana. Their toil feeds the world’s hunger for gold, and leaves a ruined landscape in its wake.
See more photographs from the January 2009 feature story "Gold."