Frans Lanting
Frans Lanting
Frans Lantingis a Dutch photographer specializing in wildlife photography...
NationalityDutch
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth13 July 1951
lions different individual
A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.
skins elements earth
Life is a force in its own right. It is a new element. And it has altered the Earth. It covers Earth like a skin.
local tourism tourists
Tourism is important because it can create sustainable local economies. I'd much rather have 1,000 tourists going up the Tambopata than 1,000 gold miners.
belief driven extinction interpret links midst natural scientists time
I want to interpret the natural world and our links to it. It's driven by the belief of many world-class scientists that we're in the midst of an extinction crisis... This time it's us that's doing it.