Photographer Nick Nichols went to document a very small and relatively unknown wildlife sanctuary in Chad, called Zakouma.

Sanctuary.

Sovereignty is no longer a sanctuary.

This mosque is a living sanctuary.

Las Lajas Sanctuary received canonical coronation from the Vatican in 1951 and the sanctuary was declared a basilica in 1954.

They take this sanctuary in time very serious.

For Afghans, the simple home is a sanctuary.

The center is also a sanctuary for rescued elephants.

Las Lajas Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Rosary.

In Costa Rica, killing wildlife to eat?

TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, tweeted

On Twitter, the Wildlife Conservation Society noted

It's a sanctuary. It's a burial ground of their ancestors.

Wildlife may fare better than the physical environment.

Defenders of Wildlife, an animal advocacy group, blogged

However, the illegal wildlife trade has not stopped.

Do not buy ivory or other wildlife products.

Undercutting the wildlife crime industry means selling horn cheaply.

The organization plays a principal role in wildlife conservation.

The main threat to wildlife in Amboseli is human population growth.

The name of the sanctuary is inspired by the material used to build it

The Coast Guards' proposal, which was duly recommended by the Andaman and Nicobar administration and their State Board for Wildlife, called for diverting 0.637 hectares of land from within the Narcondam Island Sanctuary for installation of the surveillance radar and its accompanying power source.

The stunning Gothic style Las Lajas Sanctuary in Colombia, was built between 1916 and 1949.

The Wildlife Foundation of Quebec and the Data Centre on Natural Heritage of Quebec (CDPNQ)(French acronym) are the main agencies working with officers for wildlife conservation in Quebec.

An influential group of South African wildlife ranchers are taking the opposite tack.

Pakistan remains a sanctuary for Al Qaeda and some of the world s other most dangerous terrorists.

Under his rule, the country has become a sanctuary for crime, terrorism, and corruption, Bermudez says

In 1844, he began to cleanse the heavenly sanctuary in fulfillment of the Day of Atonement.

He and his wife Parris are supporters of the Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary in New Mexico.

His passion for promoting the nature and wildlife of Nepal, however, isn t always easy.

Asifi and her family found sanctuary in Pakistan in 1999, hoping for a better and safer future.

In December 2015, British newspaper The Telegraph ranked Las Lajas Sanctuary as the world's most beautiful church

Europe was now directly confronted with the harsh realities from which it had appeared to be a sanctuary.

Latin America is blessed with more than its fair share of wildlife and lush forests.

Fishermen prepare to fish before sunset near Karamjal Wildlife Breeding Centre in the East Sundarbans.

Social media tools are increasingly being used by scientists to identify and track wildlife species.

The Himalayan country of Nepal has always fascinated trekkers, climbers, wildlife lovers and adrenaline junkies.

Hamilton Pool is a pool and wildlife park located about 30 minutes from the city.

NEW YORK The terrorist sanctuary in the South Waziristan region of Pakistan s tribal frontier with Afghanistan is coming apart.

And then, in mid 2014, he allowed Iraqi elements of the Islamic State to find sanctuary in eastern Syria.

Pakistan s western reaches are now a sanctuary for militias and terrorists that are moving in and out of Afghanistan.

Las Lajas Sanctuary, considered 'God's miracle over the abyss,' is visited annually by 750.000 parishioners, mostly Colombians and Ecuadorians.

And that's what many people know East Africa for the wildlife, the elephants, and so on.

It also provides an avenue for data from the public to flow into structured wildlife studies.

Wildlife protectors, for their part, have to become expert gene manipulators, criminologists, military technologists and marketers.