National Geographic Magazine and National Geographic Explorer contributor Joel Sartore visited the Kansas Wetlands Education Center recently to add to his National Geographic Photo Ark Project.

Sartore is a photographer, speaker, author, teacher and conservationist who visited the Great Bend Brit Spaugh Zoo in 2015 to photograph Todd, an Arctic Fox, for the Photo Ark Project. The Photo Ark is an effort to document every species living in the world’s zoos, aquariums, and wildlife sanctuaries. It aims to inspire action through education and help protect wildlife and their habitats by supporting on-the-ground conservation efforts.

According to a post on the KWEC Facebook page, Sartore photographed three animals during his recent visit to add to the collection: “Cricket,” a Wyoming Ground Squirrel; “Mickey” a Great Plains Rat Snake; and a crayfish in the Procambarus genus.

Check out his work at NatGeoPhotoArk.org and visit the KWEC online at https://wetlandscenter.fhsu.edu/.