New: Joel's latest book, Rare: Portraits of America's Endangered Species is now available. What started as a personal project grew to a multi-year effort to document everything from grizzly bears to endangered flies.
RARE covers American species on the brink, success stories, and what you can do to help. Order before March 16 and get free media mail shipping anywhere in the US. Signed copies are available upon request. More info/purchase the book.
Amphibians the world over are facing extinction in astounding numbers. Disease, habitat loss, and other pressures threaten to extinguish up to half of all amphibian species over the next ten years. Scientists are racing against the clock to save the frogs (and salamanders and caecilians and newts) before it's too late. Click here to see the gallery.
Joel's wife Kathy's experience with treatment and successful recovery from breast cancer is on the Editor's Page of the January, 2009 issue of National Geographic Magazine, and has also been shown on CBS Sunday Morning. Click here to learn more.
