Trouble at the Lake

National Geographic

At Lake Naivasha, Kenya, floods and the economic fallout from COVID-19 are pitting hungry fishermen against hungry hippos—with deadly results.

Preliminary photography for National Geographic. Feature story: Human-hippo conflicts are exploding in this pristine patch of Kenya.

Jason, owner of Chateau Floral Shop, Darlington, WI

Chateau Floral, Darlington WI

James Winn, Darlington dairy farmer

Rock Island, WI

New Yorker Frantz Fils-Aime was placed in a jail cell in Petionville with four other deportees after arriving in Haiti on Aug. 9.

Samuel Lizius, a deportee who arrived in January from Fort Worth, Texas, reads a copy of his deportation order outside his Port-au-Prince home.

Merissier stands outside her Key West home with the fiancée of her son Wilfrantz Casseus and two of his children.

Eduardo Dorantes, Darlington, WI student and dairy worker

An immigrant Dairy worker in his Darlingotn, WI home

Vilmeus lives with her four children in a small shack in Port-au-Prince’s Fort National neighborhood.

Islande Vilmeus, 31, sits in front of her makeshift home with her her son Abraham, 2. Vilmeus’ school-age children are back in class thanks to President Michel Martelly’s education scholarship program.

Freguens Neise, 32, walks through rice patties and vegetable gardens near the village of Coupon. He says most Haitians prefer to buy American rice because it’s processed to remove the small rocks and dirt.

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