Posted by admin on May 21, 2012

You’re Trying To Say What? – Photo of the Week #16

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Posted by admin on May 18, 2012

Dairy #24 – Memories of Ivan

Atlanta, GA USA - My memories from childhood are a foreign land, a country to which I’m an infrequent visitor. Nothing horrible I remember ever happened there, in fact most of it was pretty damn wonderful – I remember my parents loving each other, I remember grade school fondly, with nice teachers and classmates, my memory is also filled with adventurous vacations into the wilderness of British...

Posted by admin on May 13, 2012

Gorilla Sized Lunch – Photo of the Week #15

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Posted by admin on May 8, 2012

Diary #21 – The Wedge of War

Trying to understand war, in any context, is something I cannot wrap my head around. Yet here I find myself trying to write the outline of a chapter focused on the idiocy of violence that has no home in me. “The Wedge of War” That’s the working title for the chapter of Great Ape Diaries on war’s impact on great apes. My research led me to Virunga NP Director Emmanuel De...

Posted by admin on May 7, 2012

“Pandora” the grand ol’dame of Karisoke: Photo of the Week #14

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Posted by admin on May 5, 2012

You Can Help Great Ape Diaries Tell The Story

“Will great apes survive in the wild by the end of this decade?” To answer that central question, Great Ape Diaries has begun to film interviews with 100 key figures deeply invested in Great Apes conservation. These interviews will be posted on a concept wall of the Great Ape Diaries homepage. We are asking you for help – do you know someone whom absolutely should be interviewed? Someone who is...

Posted by admin on Apr 30, 2012

Diary #20 – It is this “lurking reminiscence of humanity”

  “Fortunately the gorilla dies as easily as a man; a shot in the breast, if fairly delivered, is sure to bring him down. He falls forward on his face, his long, muscular arms outstretched, and utters with his last breath a hideous death-cry, half roar, half shriek, which, while it announces to the hunter his safety, yet tingles in his ears with a dreadful note of human agony. It is a lurking...