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  • World’s Largest Primates Are On The Brink Of Vanishing

    World’s Largest Primates Are On The Brink Of Vanishing

    The largest great apes on Earth have suffered a “catastrophic” population collapse over the past twenty years, according to a report published today by the Wildlife Conservation Society. Grauer’s gorilla, a subspecies found only in the lawless eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, is a victim of the same brutal civil war that claimed up to…


  • The Congo’s Unending War Captured In Vivid Infrared Colour

    The Congo’s Unending War Captured In Vivid Infrared Colour

    Irish war photographer Richard Mosse has traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo three times in the past three years — he’s made it his mission, he says, to document a war so deep-seeded and tragic that it challenges “the limits of description”. To describe the indescribable, Mosse has developed a unique methodology: he shoots…