Silver-back Gorilla

Congo, Rwanda, Uganda

WILDLIFE & WILDFIRES...The Miracle that is Mogo

August 22nd 2022
The Aussie East Coast bushfires of 2019 and 2020 were not only the most devastating and destructive in documented history with over 5,900 buildings destroyed including over 2,800 homes and 33 lives lost...but the estimation of loss of wildlife was in the billions. The images of blackened singed koalas and wallabies in burnt, scorched, smoking wastelands circled the World in 2019 like the soundw ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more

23rd August 2022

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

We've also seen gorillas
A few years ago we visited Rwanda. We then visited gorillas in the wild. It was amazing to see them in their real habitat. /Ake

25th August 2022

Dancing Dave
David Hooper

We've also seen gorillas
Ahh...I have read a lot about the allure of trekking to see the mountain gorillas in Rwanda, Ake, which can get to be a bit of hit & miss. Something you have done but we can only dream. The advantage of this guy was he was not obscured by foliage and did not resist the invasion from distance of my lens. His portraits turned out pretty well so our first visit to a zoo since our kids were small was a worthwhile experience.

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