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Daniel Beltra captures the beautiful, the comical, and the tragic site of nature. Beltra has dedicated the last 20 years of his much admired career to conservation. “Right now, we’re just trashing our planet too much.” Because of his outstanding work, photographs like these, melting icebergs in the arctic, forest fires in Africa, droughts that ravaged the Brazilian countryside have led to much deserved accolades응당한 칭찬, 작위수여식. And just this year, Beltra has been recognized with Prince Charles Rainforests Project Award.

 

“Photographic images can tell a compelling어쩔 수 없는 story about the truth of the situation.” The Prince tasked일을 할당하다 Beltra with documenting the world’s most beautiful and most endangered rainforests. "Tropical deforestation벌채 around the world is responsible for 20% of the CO2 emission worldwide, so if we stop tropical deforestation, that's a great way to control global warming." Beltra traveled to Congo and Brazil. His images are striking.

 

When we caught up with him, Beltra was in Indonesia, an island nation that ranks 3^rd in carbon emissions worldwide behind China and the United States. All because of deforestation. “Fly over the top of all of these forests, it’s you can see all these logging roads, cut just about everywhere from miles and acres. That’s pretty sad looking.” "It's heartbreaking. The degree of destruction here, it's amazing. I want people to be aware of what's happening and do something. And in order to do something, you need to understand that there's still 80% of the rain forest standing and it's so gorgeous.”

 

“What are the most stunning emotional pictures you’ve ever taken?” “The drought that occurred in the Amazon at the end of 2005. "I was really stunned by what I saw. I do a lot of aerial photography and so we found stranded boats in the middle of huge sand dunes언덕. The river really, really very low. Millions of fishes are dying."

 

Beltra says it is challenging to highlight so much tragedy and still keep people engaged, but he remains optimistic. "People are getting more and more concerned about the direction we're taking as…..by the humanity, you know, in our planet. What are we doing to our house? I always say that in this one, there's no Republicans or Democrats, or there's no right or left. We're all under the same, under the same roof. It's our house. We need to take care of it."

 

And so we choose Daniel Beltra. He shot more than 40,000 images during his assignment. About a 100 will be published in the special book for the leaders of the climate conference and we put together slice show those photos on our blog the World News at abcnews.com.

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