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A recent email from a photographer friend congratulated me on successfully navigating’ a “minefield” and walking “a very tricky tightrope.” These sound like dramatic ways to describe the production of a book. But, it’s true that creating The New Big 5 has been a massive challenge — a two-year task that involved working with hundreds of photographers, conservationists and wildlife experts, and tens of thousands of images, balancing the personalities and requirements of people and organizations with my central idea and mission for the book. It’s been a long road… I first had the idea for a New Big 5...