Jeremy Shelton is a freshwater conservation biologist and photographer based in Cape Town, South Africa. He is passionate about finding innovative solutions to freshwater conservation challenges, and about using visual storytelling to inspire and support meaningful conservation action. Jeremy is a National Geographic Explorer and has published 17 scientific papers in the field of freshwater conservation. His photography and video has featured in recent stories for National Geographic, The Nature Conservancy, and WWF.
South Africa is the only place in the world where the endangered western leopard toad can be found. Can locals learn to coexist with—and conserve—their vulnerable amphibian neighbors?
In a biodiversity wonderland hardly known outside South Africa, a decades-long effort to restore native fish and their streams is starting to pay off—but new trouble could undermine this fragile comeback.