• Highlighting Wildlife in Crisis, ‘The New Big 5' Celebrates the Diversity of the World's Animal Denizens

    14 days ago - By Colossal

    Qiang Zhang, Golden Snub-nosed Monkey. Foping National Nature Reserve, China. Status: Endangered. All images © the photographers, from ‘The New Big 5' by Graeme Green, published by Earth Aware Editions, shared with permission
    In the Victorian era, big game hunting saw a meteoric rise in popularity, coinciding with Britain's colonization of numerous regions in the so-called “ Scramble for Africa ” and the advent of more accurate firearms that galvanized a fashion for amassing “exotic” trophies. Sometimes intended for museums, specimens were often bound for private collections, and creatures...
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