This November, the people of Colorado will have the chance to vote for a viable gray wolf population to be brought back into their wild forests after a 70-year absence. In the past, the reintroduction of wolves to wild lands in the lower-48 States was decided by national policy makers in Washington. This vote is unique in that the decision would come from the public of Colorado to determine whether free-willed nature is truly valued in that state. It would be a remarkable step towards the restoration of a keystone species that would ultimately renew a historic wolf connection from the High Arctic down the spine of our continent to Yellowstone and south to Mexican border.
I’ve committed to spreading the word and while this will be determined by Coloradans, I also feel that as Americans we all have a stake in returning wolves to appropriate public lands across the United States and in Colorado. The initial 200,000 signatures from the public of Colorado were gathered and Initiative 107 will be on the November 2020 ballot in Colorado.
Please share this information or this post with your Colorado friends and learn more about how you can help #restorethehowl at wolfactionfund.com @rockymtnwolf and take a look at the language of Intuitive 107. To quote an article by the Center for Biological Diversity @centerforbiodiv , “Initiative 107 instructs Colorado Parks and Wildlife to develop, after public input, a science-based plan for reintroducing wolves to western Colorado by 2023.”
Other’s who are using their reach include @janefonda, @psihoyos , @leilanimunter and @alexilubomirski.
#colorado #wolves #wildnature #restoration Planet Earth
This November, the people of Colorado will have the chance to vote for a viable gray wolf population to be brought back into their wild forests after a 70-year absence. In the past, the reintroduction of wolves to wild lands in the lower-48 States was decided by national policy makers in Washington. This vote is unique in that the decision would come from the public of Colorado to determine whether free-willed nature is truly valued in that state. It would be a remarkable step towards the restoration of a keystone species that would ultimately renew a historic wolf connection from the High Arctic down the spine of our continent to Yellowstone and south to Mexican border.
I’ve committed to spreading the word and while this will be determined by Coloradans, I also feel that as Americans we all have a stake in returning wolves to appropriate public lands across the United States and in Colorado. The initial 200,000 signatures from the public of Colorado were gathered and Initiative 107 will be on the November 2020 ballot in Colorado.
Please share this information or this post with your Colorado friends and learn more about how you can help #restorethehowl at wolfactionfund.com @rockymtnwolf and take a look at the language of Intuitive 107. To quote an article by the Center for Biological Diversity @centerforbiodiv , “Initiative 107 instructs Colorado Parks and Wildlife to develop, after public input, a science-based plan for reintroducing wolves to western Colorado by 2023.”
Other’s who are using their reach include @janefonda, @psihoyos , @leilanimunter and @alexilubomirski.
#colorado #wolves #wildnature #restoration Planet Earth
This November, the people of Colorado will have the chance to vote for a viable gray wolf population to be brought back into their wild forests after a 70-year absence. In the past, the reintroduction of wolves to wild lands in the lower-48 States was decided by national policy makers in Washington. This vote is unique in that the decision would come from the public of Colorado to determine whether free-willed nature is truly valued in that state. It would be a remarkable step towards the restoration of a keystone species that would ultimately renew a historic wolf connection from the High Arctic down the spine of our continent to Yellowstone and south to Mexican border.
I’ve committed to spreading the word and while this will be determined by Coloradans, I also feel that as Americans we all have a stake in returning wolves to appropriate public lands across the United States and in Colorado. The initial 200,000 signatures from the public of Colorado were gathered and Initiative 107 will be on the November 2020 ballot in Colorado.
Please share this information or this post with your Colorado friends and learn more about how you can help #restorethehowl at wolfactionfund.com @rockymtnwolf and take a look at the language of Intuitive 107. To quote an article by the Center for Biological Diversity @centerforbiodiv , “Initiative 107 instructs Colorado Parks and Wildlife to develop, after public input, a science-based plan for reintroducing wolves to western Colorado by 2023.”
Other’s who are using their reach include @janefonda, @psihoyos , @leilanimunter and @alexilubomirski.
#colorado #wolves #wildnature #restoration Planet Earth
This November, the people of Colorado will have the chance to vote for a viable gray wolf population to be brought back into their wild forests after a 70-year absence. In the past, the reintroduction of wolves to wild lands in the lower-48 States was decided by national policy makers in Washington. This vote is unique in that the decision would come from the public of Colorado to determine whether free-willed nature is truly valued in that state. It would be a remarkable step towards the restoration of a keystone species that would ultimately renew a historic wolf connection from the High Arctic down the spine of our continent to Yellowstone and south to Mexican border.
I’ve committed to spreading the word and while this will be determined by Coloradans, I also feel that as Americans we all have a stake in returning wolves to appropriate public lands across the United States and in Colorado. The initial 200,000 signatures from the public of Colorado were gathered and Initiative 107 will be on the November 2020 ballot in Colorado.
Please share this information or this post with your Colorado friends and learn more about how you can help #restorethehowl at wolfactionfund.com @rockymtnwolf and take a look at the language of Intuitive 107. To quote an article by the Center for Biological Diversity @centerforbiodiv , “Initiative 107 instructs Colorado Parks and Wildlife to develop, after public input, a science-based plan for reintroducing wolves to western Colorado by 2023.”
Other’s who are using their reach include @janefonda, @psihoyos , @leilanimunter and @alexilubomirski.
#colorado #wolves #wildnature #restoration Planet Earth
Images by Michael ‘Nick’ Nichols @michaelnicknichols in collaboration with Yellowstone National Park @yellowstonenps and myself.
It was June 16th, 2014 when I received a voicemail from Michael ‘Nick’ Nichols @michaelnicknichols. We had never spoken before and he wanted to talk to me about camera traps. I called him back on the train from D.C. to Charlottesville and we immediately began to discuss his need for a longterm camera trap assistant for a project in Yellowstone.
The following day, I met with Kathy Moran @kfmoran , at the time the senior natural history editor for National Geographic Magazine, and she officially offered me the position. Kathy said, ‘we’ll give you two weeks to start since you’ve never met Nick and you need to have that first date.’ Two weeks turned into nearly two years working with Nick and it’s remained the most formative time in my career. Spending that time with Nick and his wife Reba in the field was a rare opportunity to learn from a master artist, technician, and storyteller. Nick is a mentor, but more importantly, he’s my friend. •
Nick has a new retrospective book coming out soon with a limited first run needed to reach 500 copies sold before the publisher begins the next run. Find a link with more info in Nick’s profile @michaelnicknichols
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From the publisher:
WILD is famed wildlife photographer Michael Nichols’ choice of his favorite images. Presented in chronological order from the beginning of his career in 1980, when he used Transparency film and was a Magnum photographer, until 2016, when he had embraced digital capture as the editor at large of National Geographic magazine. Shown without words to explain the images, Nichols is asking the viewer to “look and feel.”
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“This book is to be displayed and left open to a page that sings for a time. It is as if I had made 240 limited edition prints of my career and had given them to all of you …this is truly meant as a BOOK for FRIENDS.
If you are one of the first 500 people to order this book, you are helping to pay for the printing. You get a dedication, as well as the book and a fine art print.”
– Michael Nichols
Images by Michael ‘Nick’ Nichols @michaelnicknichols in collaboration with Yellowstone National Park @yellowstonenps and myself.
It was June 16th, 2014 when I received a voicemail from Michael ‘Nick’ Nichols @michaelnicknichols. We had never spoken before and he wanted to talk to me about camera traps. I called him back on the train from D.C. to Charlottesville and we immediately began to discuss his need for a longterm camera trap assistant for a project in Yellowstone.
The following day, I met with Kathy Moran @kfmoran , at the time the senior natural history editor for National Geographic Magazine, and she officially offered me the position. Kathy said, ‘we’ll give you two weeks to start since you’ve never met Nick and you need to have that first date.’ Two weeks turned into nearly two years working with Nick and it’s remained the most formative time in my career. Spending that time with Nick and his wife Reba in the field was a rare opportunity to learn from a master artist, technician, and storyteller. Nick is a mentor, but more importantly, he’s my friend. •
Nick has a new retrospective book coming out soon with a limited first run needed to reach 500 copies sold before the publisher begins the next run. Find a link with more info in Nick’s profile @michaelnicknichols
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From the publisher:
WILD is famed wildlife photographer Michael Nichols’ choice of his favorite images. Presented in chronological order from the beginning of his career in 1980, when he used Transparency film and was a Magnum photographer, until 2016, when he had embraced digital capture as the editor at large of National Geographic magazine. Shown without words to explain the images, Nichols is asking the viewer to “look and feel.”
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“This book is to be displayed and left open to a page that sings for a time. It is as if I had made 240 limited edition prints of my career and had given them to all of you …this is truly meant as a BOOK for FRIENDS.
If you are one of the first 500 people to order this book, you are helping to pay for the printing. You get a dedication, as well as the book and a fine art print.”
– Michael Nichols
Images by Michael ‘Nick’ Nichols @michaelnicknichols in collaboration with Yellowstone National Park @yellowstonenps and myself.
It was June 16th, 2014 when I received a voicemail from Michael ‘Nick’ Nichols @michaelnicknichols. We had never spoken before and he wanted to talk to me about camera traps. I called him back on the train from D.C. to Charlottesville and we immediately began to discuss his need for a longterm camera trap assistant for a project in Yellowstone.
The following day, I met with Kathy Moran @kfmoran , at the time the senior natural history editor for National Geographic Magazine, and she officially offered me the position. Kathy said, ‘we’ll give you two weeks to start since you’ve never met Nick and you need to have that first date.’ Two weeks turned into nearly two years working with Nick and it’s remained the most formative time in my career. Spending that time with Nick and his wife Reba in the field was a rare opportunity to learn from a master artist, technician, and storyteller. Nick is a mentor, but more importantly, he’s my friend. •
Nick has a new retrospective book coming out soon with a limited first run needed to reach 500 copies sold before the publisher begins the next run. Find a link with more info in Nick’s profile @michaelnicknichols
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From the publisher:
WILD is famed wildlife photographer Michael Nichols’ choice of his favorite images. Presented in chronological order from the beginning of his career in 1980, when he used Transparency film and was a Magnum photographer, until 2016, when he had embraced digital capture as the editor at large of National Geographic magazine. Shown without words to explain the images, Nichols is asking the viewer to “look and feel.”
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“This book is to be displayed and left open to a page that sings for a time. It is as if I had made 240 limited edition prints of my career and had given them to all of you …this is truly meant as a BOOK for FRIENDS.
If you are one of the first 500 people to order this book, you are helping to pay for the printing. You get a dedication, as well as the book and a fine art print.”
– Michael Nichols
Images by Michael ‘Nick’ Nichols @michaelnicknichols in collaboration with Yellowstone National Park @yellowstonenps and myself.
It was June 16th, 2014 when I received a voicemail from Michael ‘Nick’ Nichols @michaelnicknichols. We had never spoken before and he wanted to talk to me about camera traps. I called him back on the train from D.C. to Charlottesville and we immediately began to discuss his need for a longterm camera trap assistant for a project in Yellowstone.
The following day, I met with Kathy Moran @kfmoran , at the time the senior natural history editor for National Geographic Magazine, and she officially offered me the position. Kathy said, ‘we’ll give you two weeks to start since you’ve never met Nick and you need to have that first date.’ Two weeks turned into nearly two years working with Nick and it’s remained the most formative time in my career. Spending that time with Nick and his wife Reba in the field was a rare opportunity to learn from a master artist, technician, and storyteller. Nick is a mentor, but more importantly, he’s my friend. •
Nick has a new retrospective book coming out soon with a limited first run needed to reach 500 copies sold before the publisher begins the next run. Find a link with more info in Nick’s profile @michaelnicknichols
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From the publisher:
WILD is famed wildlife photographer Michael Nichols’ choice of his favorite images. Presented in chronological order from the beginning of his career in 1980, when he used Transparency film and was a Magnum photographer, until 2016, when he had embraced digital capture as the editor at large of National Geographic magazine. Shown without words to explain the images, Nichols is asking the viewer to “look and feel.”
•
“This book is to be displayed and left open to a page that sings for a time. It is as if I had made 240 limited edition prints of my career and had given them to all of you …this is truly meant as a BOOK for FRIENDS.
If you are one of the first 500 people to order this book, you are helping to pay for the printing. You get a dedication, as well as the book and a fine art print.”
– Michael Nichols
I took these photos last week as reptiles are becoming more active in spring’s warmth. They still like to be close to their hibernaculum hole since snowy days aren’t yet over. Who can name this North American snake? Swipe left for another clue. I’ll post the answer in the comments section soon… #reptiles #snake #wildlife @venuslaowa
I took these photos last week as reptiles are becoming more active in spring’s warmth. They still like to be close to their hibernaculum hole since snowy days aren’t yet over. Who can name this North American snake? Swipe left for another clue. I’ll post the answer in the comments section soon… #reptiles #snake #wildlife @venuslaowa
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In the coming days, I will be sharing images and stories from an article David Quammen (@davidquammen) and I worked on that’s printed in the current August issue of National Geographic Magazine (@natgeo)
At its core, this story is about deforestation. @natgeo, Quammen and I chose to highlight this flash point between humans and wild chimpanzees in Uganda as a way to have a different conversation about the global challenge of deforestation.
What does deforestation in Uganda look like? This series of images shows the scale of deforestation across western Uganda. At current rates of deforestation, ~2-3% per year, Uganda will lose the remaining native forest cover outside if heavily protected areas in 30 years – according to a 2010 paper titled: Status of forests in Uganda. Much of the deforestation isn’t through large scale industrial logging that we in the Northern Hemisphere are used to seeing. These forests are disappearing by millions of tiny cuts that add up over years and decades.
Learn more and consider a donation (link in my bio) to the NGO @bulindichimps and learn more in the @natgeo magazine issue, on shelves now.
The collision between humans and wild things is nothing new, after all, we came from the same wild lands. What is new is our mental detachment from those wild lands paired with our capacity to fulfill our insatiable appetite for resources. Now, when a modern human meets the gaze of a wild animal they are too disconnected to see how their futures are intertwined. The health of the land will forever dictate the health of humanity.
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#chimpanzee #chimp #chimpanzees #chimps #ape #wildlife #conservation #animals #africa #uganda #wildlifephotography #nature #natgeo
In the coming days, I will be sharing images and stories from an article David Quammen (@davidquammen) and I worked on that’s printed in the current August issue of National Geographic Magazine (@natgeo)
At its core, this story is about deforestation. @natgeo, Quammen and I chose to highlight this flash point between humans and wild chimpanzees in Uganda as a way to have a different conversation about the global challenge of deforestation.
What does deforestation in Uganda look like? This series of images shows the scale of deforestation across western Uganda. At current rates of deforestation, ~2-3% per year, Uganda will lose the remaining native forest cover outside if heavily protected areas in 30 years – according to a 2010 paper titled: Status of forests in Uganda. Much of the deforestation isn’t through large scale industrial logging that we in the Northern Hemisphere are used to seeing. These forests are disappearing by millions of tiny cuts that add up over years and decades.
Learn more and consider a donation (link in my bio) to the NGO @bulindichimps and learn more in the @natgeo magazine issue, on shelves now.
The collision between humans and wild things is nothing new, after all, we came from the same wild lands. What is new is our mental detachment from those wild lands paired with our capacity to fulfill our insatiable appetite for resources. Now, when a modern human meets the gaze of a wild animal they are too disconnected to see how their futures are intertwined. The health of the land will forever dictate the health of humanity.
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#chimpanzee #chimp #chimpanzees #chimps #ape #wildlife #conservation #animals #africa #uganda #wildlifephotography #nature #natgeo
In the coming days, I will be sharing images and stories from an article David Quammen (@davidquammen) and I worked on that’s printed in the current August issue of National Geographic Magazine (@natgeo)
At its core, this story is about deforestation. @natgeo, Quammen and I chose to highlight this flash point between humans and wild chimpanzees in Uganda as a way to have a different conversation about the global challenge of deforestation.
What does deforestation in Uganda look like? This series of images shows the scale of deforestation across western Uganda. At current rates of deforestation, ~2-3% per year, Uganda will lose the remaining native forest cover outside if heavily protected areas in 30 years – according to a 2010 paper titled: Status of forests in Uganda. Much of the deforestation isn’t through large scale industrial logging that we in the Northern Hemisphere are used to seeing. These forests are disappearing by millions of tiny cuts that add up over years and decades.
Learn more and consider a donation (link in my bio) to the NGO @bulindichimps and learn more in the @natgeo magazine issue, on shelves now.
The collision between humans and wild things is nothing new, after all, we came from the same wild lands. What is new is our mental detachment from those wild lands paired with our capacity to fulfill our insatiable appetite for resources. Now, when a modern human meets the gaze of a wild animal they are too disconnected to see how their futures are intertwined. The health of the land will forever dictate the health of humanity.
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#chimpanzee #chimp #chimpanzees #chimps #ape #wildlife #conservation #animals #africa #uganda #wildlifephotography #nature #natgeo
In the coming days, I will be sharing images and stories from an article David Quammen (@davidquammen) and I worked on that’s printed in the current August issue of National Geographic Magazine (@natgeo)
At its core, this story is about deforestation. @natgeo, Quammen and I chose to highlight this flash point between humans and wild chimpanzees in Uganda as a way to have a different conversation about the global challenge of deforestation.
What does deforestation in Uganda look like? This series of images shows the scale of deforestation across western Uganda. At current rates of deforestation, ~2-3% per year, Uganda will lose the remaining native forest cover outside if heavily protected areas in 30 years – according to a 2010 paper titled: Status of forests in Uganda. Much of the deforestation isn’t through large scale industrial logging that we in the Northern Hemisphere are used to seeing. These forests are disappearing by millions of tiny cuts that add up over years and decades.
Learn more and consider a donation (link in my bio) to the NGO @bulindichimps and learn more in the @natgeo magazine issue, on shelves now.
The collision between humans and wild things is nothing new, after all, we came from the same wild lands. What is new is our mental detachment from those wild lands paired with our capacity to fulfill our insatiable appetite for resources. Now, when a modern human meets the gaze of a wild animal they are too disconnected to see how their futures are intertwined. The health of the land will forever dictate the health of humanity.
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#chimpanzee #chimp #chimpanzees #chimps #ape #wildlife #conservation #animals #africa #uganda #wildlifephotography #nature #natgeo
In the coming days, I will be sharing images and stories from an article David Quammen (@davidquammen) and I worked on that’s printed in the current August issue of National Geographic Magazine (@natgeo)
At its core, this story is about deforestation. @natgeo, Quammen and I chose to highlight this flash point between humans and wild chimpanzees in Uganda as a way to have a different conversation about the global challenge of deforestation.
What does deforestation in Uganda look like? This series of images shows the scale of deforestation across western Uganda. At current rates of deforestation, ~2-3% per year, Uganda will lose the remaining native forest cover outside if heavily protected areas in 30 years – according to a 2010 paper titled: Status of forests in Uganda. Much of the deforestation isn’t through large scale industrial logging that we in the Northern Hemisphere are used to seeing. These forests are disappearing by millions of tiny cuts that add up over years and decades.
Learn more and consider a donation (link in my bio) to the NGO @bulindichimps and learn more in the @natgeo magazine issue, on shelves now.
The collision between humans and wild things is nothing new, after all, we came from the same wild lands. What is new is our mental detachment from those wild lands paired with our capacity to fulfill our insatiable appetite for resources. Now, when a modern human meets the gaze of a wild animal they are too disconnected to see how their futures are intertwined. The health of the land will forever dictate the health of humanity.
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#chimpanzee #chimp #chimpanzees #chimps #ape #wildlife #conservation #animals #africa #uganda #wildlifephotography #nature #natgeo
In the coming days, I will be sharing images and stories from an article David Quammen (@davidquammen) and I worked on that’s printed in the current August issue of National Geographic Magazine (@natgeo)
At its core, this story is about deforestation. @natgeo, Quammen and I chose to highlight this flash point between humans and wild chimpanzees in Uganda as a way to have a different conversation about the global challenge of deforestation.
What does deforestation in Uganda look like? This series of images shows the scale of deforestation across western Uganda. At current rates of deforestation, ~2-3% per year, Uganda will lose the remaining native forest cover outside if heavily protected areas in 30 years – according to a 2010 paper titled: Status of forests in Uganda. Much of the deforestation isn’t through large scale industrial logging that we in the Northern Hemisphere are used to seeing. These forests are disappearing by millions of tiny cuts that add up over years and decades.
Learn more and consider a donation (link in my bio) to the NGO @bulindichimps and learn more in the @natgeo magazine issue, on shelves now.
The collision between humans and wild things is nothing new, after all, we came from the same wild lands. What is new is our mental detachment from those wild lands paired with our capacity to fulfill our insatiable appetite for resources. Now, when a modern human meets the gaze of a wild animal they are too disconnected to see how their futures are intertwined. The health of the land will forever dictate the health of humanity.
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#chimpanzee #chimp #chimpanzees #chimps #ape #wildlife #conservation #animals #africa #uganda #wildlifephotography #nature #natgeo
In the coming days, I will be sharing images and stories from an article David Quammen (@davidquammen) and I worked on that’s printed in the current August issue of National Geographic Magazine (@natgeo)
At its core, this story is about deforestation. @natgeo, Quammen and I chose to highlight this flash point between humans and wild chimpanzees in Uganda as a way to have a different conversation about the global challenge of deforestation.
What does deforestation in Uganda look like? This series of images shows the scale of deforestation across western Uganda. At current rates of deforestation, ~2-3% per year, Uganda will lose the remaining native forest cover outside if heavily protected areas in 30 years – according to a 2010 paper titled: Status of forests in Uganda. Much of the deforestation isn’t through large scale industrial logging that we in the Northern Hemisphere are used to seeing. These forests are disappearing by millions of tiny cuts that add up over years and decades.
Learn more and consider a donation (link in my bio) to the NGO @bulindichimps and learn more in the @natgeo magazine issue, on shelves now.
The collision between humans and wild things is nothing new, after all, we came from the same wild lands. What is new is our mental detachment from those wild lands paired with our capacity to fulfill our insatiable appetite for resources. Now, when a modern human meets the gaze of a wild animal they are too disconnected to see how their futures are intertwined. The health of the land will forever dictate the health of humanity.
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#chimpanzee #chimp #chimpanzees #chimps #ape #wildlife #conservation #animals #africa #uganda #wildlifephotography #nature #natgeo
In the coming days, I will be sharing images and stories from an article David Quammen (@davidquammen) and I worked on that’s printed in the current August issue of National Geographic Magazine (@natgeo)
Locked in a momentary standoff, a boy on his way to collect water meets the gaze of a wild male chimpanzee in the village of Mparangasi in western Uganda. Since our split from a shared ancestor some ~6 million years ago, humans and chimpanzees still share much in common: from diet to raising young to social structure to territoriality, to name a few. As a result, these commonalities have the potential to lead to competition when resources become scarce. In western Uganda, the hand of modern humans has steadily leveled the unprotected forests for timber and to clear land for agriculture. With nowhere to go and not enough wild foods to sustain them, wild chimps across western Uganda have turned to foraging in farmer’s fields for corn, mangos, sugarcane and jackfruit.
As humans continue their global expanse, converting wild lands to meet the needs of our growing population, this kind of scene will only increase until there are no wild lands outside of protected borders. But then what? Will the human lust for land and resources suddenly cease? What if we worked now to find solutions for a sustainable land-use system, not just for chimpanzees, but for humanity?
Luckily, people have dedicated their lives to finding solutions for these issues in western Uganda and beyond. I worked extensively and was guided by the work of Dr. Matthew McLennan and his late fiancé Jacqueline Rohen who started the NGO (@bulindichimps). The above photo was taken with McLennan and Rohen at my side in the village at the core of their work, Bulindi. Please consider donating to their work and learn more through their Instagram feed and the link in my bio.
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#chimpanzee #chimp #chimpanzees #chimps #ape #wildlife #conservation #animals #africa #uganda #wildlifephotography #nature #natgeo
What comes after COVID-19? This video message from the virus to humankind is a chilling reminder that our future is intimately connected with all other life on Earth. We know where the pandemic came from, and we know how to stop the next one. It’s time to make our voices heard. Enough is enough. Now that our own vulnerability has been laid bare, it’s time to demand #ExtinctionEndsHere — for all life on Earth.
Link in my bio to learn more and so sign the declaration to end the commercial trade in wild animals.
Video from @global_wildlife_conservation #covid19
