PHOTO OF THE DAY February 28, 2005  

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Where Gabon
When 1999
Photographer Michael Nichols

J. Michael Fay of the Wildlife Conservation Society holds a chameleon. Fay endured a yearlong trek across African forests from Congo to Gabon, surveying the region's still pristine landscape.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Megatransect," October 2000, National Geographic magazine)


National Geographic magazine: Megatransect I, an explorer's incredible journey across Africa
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