Ronan Donovan Instagram – A series of images from a recently pulished article by David Quammen and I: Chimps and people are clashing in rural Uganda (link in bio).
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1 – On this trail near Mparangasi village, a boy fetching water pauses cautiously as chimps pass. Around some villages in western Uganda, small groups of chimpanzees survive in remnant strips and patches of forest. Deprived of wild foods, the chimps emerge to raid crops and cultivated fruit trees, competing desperately with people for sustenance, space, survival.
2 – Two adult male chimps gaze out across what once was primary forest habitat in western Uganda. Besides small-plot farming and sugarcane plantations, vast tea estates have displaced forests.
3 – Land conversion shows starkly from the air, as along this boundary between Kibale National Park, with its protected forest, and the sprawl of tea fields and small farming
4 – A young male chimp clutches a discarded soda bottle as he stands in a young grove of planted eucalyptus trees. Chimps are our closest living relatives and therefore we share communicable diseases with them (think malaria, HIV and ebola) and more commonly respiratory diseases. This level of close contact is troublesome for the increased potential for a spillover event. .
The story is about the dire situation in some towns in western Uganda where humans and chimpanzees have collided from resource competition. It’s a blueprint story for similar conflicts around the world as a result of habitat loss and human encroachment. As is typical with this issue, the animals tend to disappear as they become food or loose their own natural foods. But in Uganda, one of the animals happens to be wild chimpanzees, our closest living relatives. They too are territorial apes living in tribal groups, as we do. Scarcity breeds conflict and there are casualties on both sides. In this series, I’ve highlighted the plight of the chimpanzees and in future posts (as with my previous post) I’ll balance the story with telling the human side of the issue. .
How to help? Send resources/$ to the NGOs working to curb deforestation. In this case, @bulindichimps has successfully been working to find solutions. Link in bio. | Posted on 12/Nov/2019 23:11:31
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1 - On this trail near Mparangasi village, a boy fetching water pauses cautiously as chimps pass. Around some villages in western Uganda, small groups of chimpanzees survive in remnant strips and patches of forest. Deprived of wild foods, the chimps emerge to raid crops and cultivated fruit trees, competing desperately with people for sustenance, space, survival.
2 - Two adult male chimps gaze out across what once was primary forest habitat in western Uganda. Besides small-plot farming and sugarcane plantations, vast tea estates have displaced forests.
3 - Land conversion shows starkly from the air, as along this boundary between Kibale National Park, with its protected forest, and the sprawl of tea fields and small farming
4 - A young male chimp clutches a discarded soda bottle as he stands in a young grove of planted eucalyptus trees. Chimps are our closest living relatives and therefore we share communicable diseases with them (think malaria, HIV and ebola) and more commonly respiratory diseases. This level of close contact is troublesome for the increased potential for a spillover event. .
The story is about the dire situation in some towns in western Uganda where humans and chimpanzees have collided from resource competition. It’s a blueprint story for similar conflicts around the world as a result of habitat loss and human encroachment. As is typical with this issue, the animals tend to disappear as they become food or loose their own natural foods. But in Uganda, one of the animals happens to be wild chimpanzees, our closest living relatives. They too are territorial apes living in tribal groups, as we do. Scarcity breeds conflict and there are casualties on both sides. In this series, I’ve highlighted the plight of the chimpanzees and in future posts (as with my previous post) I’ll balance the story with telling the human side of the issue. .
How to help? Send resources/$ to the NGOs working to curb deforestation. In this case, @bulindichimps has successfully been working to find solutions. Link in bio.
Ronan Donovan Instagram – A series of images from a recently pulished article by David Quammen and I: Chimps and people are clashing in rural Uganda (link in bio). . 1 – On this trail near Mparangasi village, a boy fetching water pauses cautiously as chimps pass. Around some villages in western Uganda, small groups of chimpanzees survive in remnant strips and patches of forest. Deprived of wild foods, the chimps emerge to raid crops and cultivated fruit trees, competing desperately with people for sustenance, space, survival. 2 – Two adult male chimps gaze out across what once was primary forest habitat in western Uganda. Besides small-plot farming and sugarcane plantations, vast tea estates have displaced forests. 3 – Land conversion shows starkly from the air, as along this boundary between Kibale National Park, with its protected forest, and the sprawl of tea fields and small farming 4 – A young male chimp clutches a discarded soda bottle as he stands in a young grove of planted eucalyptus trees. Chimps are our closest living relatives and therefore we share communicable diseases with them (think malaria, HIV and ebola) and more commonly respiratory diseases. This level of close contact is troublesome for the increased potential for a spillover event. . The story is about the dire situation in some towns in western Uganda where humans and chimpanzees have collided from resource competition. It’s a blueprint story for similar conflicts around the world as a result of habitat loss and human encroachment. As is typical with this issue, the animals tend to disappear as they become food or loose their own natural foods. But in Uganda, one of the animals happens to be wild chimpanzees, our closest living relatives. They too are territorial apes living in tribal groups, as we do. Scarcity breeds conflict and there are casualties on both sides. In this series, I’ve highlighted the plight of the chimpanzees and in future posts (as with my previous post) I’ll balance the story with telling the human side of the issue. . How to help? Send resources/$ to the NGOs working to curb deforestation. In this case, @bulindichimps has successfully been working to find solutions. Link in bio.
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