The misty Virunga mountains of eastern Congo, Uganda and Rwanda are home to the world's last mountain and eastern lowland gorillas. While their numbers have recovered over recent years, these animals are still under constant threat from poachers, mining companies, and armed rebel groups still operating within their territory.
Kibale National Forest in western Uganda has one of the highest concentrations of primates in Africa. It is home to a large number of endangered chimpanzees, who live in several large colonies throughout the forest. While a single colony may contain over 150 individuals, they cohabitate in smaller social groups, consisting of 20-30 individuals.
Every year thousands of humpback whales make the journey from their feeding grounds in Antarctica to the warm whallows of the South Pacific in order to give birth, mate and raise their calves. I have been documenting this annual calving season for the past four years.
Tucked away in a calm bay in Mexico's Sea of Cortez, large numbers of juvenile whale sharks spend their growing years here feeding before re-entering the open ocean as sexually mature adults. The reason they stick around this area for so long is the abundence of plankton, their primary fod source.
Every fall, from November until the beginning of March, millions of monarch butterflies migrate over 5,000 kilometres for survival, travelling from northeastern Canada and the U.S. and descending upon the high altitude fir tree forests of Michoacán and Estado de México.
Between the northern half of Vancouver Island and the British Columbian mainland lies the world's second highest concentration of grizzly bears. This now proitected region forms the southern end of the Great Bear Rainforest, an ecological treasure trove both above and below the sea.