Home Actor Ronan Donovan HD Instagram Photos and Wallpapers August 2020 Ronan Donovan Instagram - 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. ⁣ .⁣⁣ .⁣⁣ .⁣⁣ .⁣⁣ .⁣⁣ #chimpanzee #chimp #chimpanzees #chimps #ape #wildlife #conservation #animals #africa #uganda #wildlifephotography #nature #natgeo⁣⁣

Ronan Donovan Instagram – 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. ⁣ .⁣⁣ .⁣⁣ .⁣⁣ .⁣⁣ .⁣⁣ #chimpanzee #chimp #chimpanzees #chimps #ape #wildlife #conservation #animals #africa #uganda #wildlifephotography #nature #natgeo⁣⁣

Ronan Donovan Instagram - 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. ⁣ .⁣⁣ .⁣⁣ .⁣⁣ .⁣⁣ .⁣⁣ #chimpanzee #chimp #chimpanzees #chimps #ape #wildlife #conservation #animals #africa #uganda #wildlifephotography #nature #natgeo⁣⁣

Ronan Donovan Instagram – 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⁣⁣ | Posted on 12/Aug/2020 02:38:26

Ronan Donovan Instagram – 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) ⁣
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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. ⁣
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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? ⁣
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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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