Tourism is important because it can create sustainable local economies. Id much rather have 1,000 tourists going up the Tambopata than 1,000 gold miners.

Life is a force in its own right. It is a new element. And it has altered the Earth. It covers Earth like a skin.

A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.

What my eyes seek in these encounters is not just the beauty traditionally revered by wildlife photographers. The perfection I seek in my photographic composition is a means to show the strength and dignity of animals in nature.

Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate.

It's up to us as photographers to give voice to the natural world.

I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just snapping at whats in front of you.