The relationship between wildlife and humans is broken.
In the space of two centuries, we’ve gone from revering our natural world to abusing it on an unprecedented scale. Our societal need for “more” has overtaken our biological default to live in harmony the environment.
Few animals represent this better than the rhino. At the beginning of the 20th century, over 500,000 roamed across Africa and Asia. Now, due to an insane, misplaced belief that rhino horn has medicinal properties, there’s just 27,000 left on Earth.
As someone that’s spent their entire career photographing the natural world, I could wax lyrical about the injustices and horror I’ve witnessed. Some of the things I’ve seen ...