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Within just 350 square miles, crystal-clear springs and wetlands shelter more than 70 species found nowhere else on Earth, including three critically endangered turtles: the Cuatro Ciénegas Slider, the Coahuilan Box Turtle, and the Black Spiny Softshell.

Last week, Prince Hussain delivered a keynote speech to students, partners, and fellow conservationists for ‘Our Living Ocean,’ in partnership with @wwf & @graduateinstitute in Geneva.

The event focused on solutions for a productive and resilient ocean, sustaining people and nature.

Prince Hussain said the following;

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But we can do better, you and I.

Forgive me, please, if I make mistakes, because I spend most of my time
trying to communicate with fish, cephalopods, seagrass, orchinoderms, not

Hazar Imam shown with Princes Hussain and Prince Irfan

I would like to ABSOLUTELY thank Marta, who has been amazing and inspiring… encouraging and unbelievably supportive throughout.
And for giving me a platform and outreach capacity I never dreamed I might have.

It is such an immense honor for me to be here today… And it always feels like so many other people are more deserving, have been doing
this for longer and are more technically competent.

Never in my life did I dream I would become a wildlife photographer – despite spending hundreds of hours as a child looking at

A warm welcome to you all.

In a way there is nothing more exposing than standing in front of one’s own work but it’s through my passion for photography that I’m also able to share my passion for animals, wildlife and conservation and now with the help of evenings like this I want to take this passion to the next stage by starting a fund called Focused On Nature.

We are decimating these animals!

Losing them to habitat destruction and degradation, to hunting, poaching and many other factors.