Leuser National Park, North Sumatra, Indonesia, 2018. Orangutans and humans are part of the same family, “Orang – Utan” in the local language means “man of the jungle”, one of the closest relatives we have, we share with them 97% of our DNA and with it also the same diseases. Pathogens transmitted by contact with tourists can be lethal for entire families or groups. Fragmented and isolated by the deforestation of their habitat, many orangutans have found themselves forced to compete with farmers for the same food resources. Over time the locals began to feed them, to attract tourists, making them dependent on humans and accustomed to contact. Once released into the park, this habit was passed on to new generations, irreversibly changing their behavior. Even today, to satisfy the growing demand for “selfies” from mass tourism, locals exploit and consolidate these behaviors. In many cases guides are forced to give food in order to avoid retaliation from the more aggressive orangutans.

Adelaide river, Northern Territory, Australia, 2018. The Adelaide River is home to the largest concentration of saltwater crocodiles in the world. Here a singular practice has spread to attract tourists: with a bait lowered into the water from the boat, the locals lure the crocodiles until they “jump”, pushing themselves vertically out of the water with their tails. The show is called “Jumping croc”. Many riverside crocodiles have now linked the sight of boats to food, making this “rushing for bait” an instinctive behavior.

Gweru, Zimbabwe, 2019. “75% of Earth’s ice-free land area has already been significantly altered, and could no longer be considered wild”. The expansion of human infrastructures is now reaching even the most remote and pure natural reserves. Our landscape is slowly taking over the natural one, making millions of years of evolution obsolete. Even animals that have evolved to be the tallest can now find architectural barriers in their horizons.

Gweru, Zimbabwe, 2019. Nomads, forged to travel long distances guided by memory, elephants have ever-shrinking areas to move around. What was once their habitat is now private farmland, private homes, food and water are private but they still don’t understand this concept. Zimbabwe has the world’s second-largest elephant population after neighboring Botswana, squeezed into areas that cover less than 27% of the country’s total land. This is because human expansion has progressively erased their habitats from neighboring countries, pushing them to migrate to protected areas. So now the elephants are in collision with humans and their properties, forcibly crushed, they continue to visit farms, eat in the fields and drink from private water sources. This does not appeal to local farmers. So, one of the most peaceful animals in the world, unknowingly, triggers a conflict that it doesn’t want to fight and it can’t win: in 2021 the Zimbabwean government decided to reduce the number of elephants because they were considered “overpopulated” with a mass culling plan. “The elephant in the room” continues to be ignored.

Sudan, last male northern white rhino, passed in 2018, Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya, 2017. 95% of the world’s rhinos have disappeared in the last 40 years due to their horn, the most expensive organic matter and one of the 10 most expensive in the world ($110 per gram). Its value is determined by the Chinese market demand for the production of aphrodisiacs. The keratin that composes it, the same substance of human nails, has no aphrodisiac properties. The law of the market is the sentence to certain extinction: with the same demand, the more the number of specimens decreases (the offer), the more its value is destined to increase. The higher the value, the greater the efforts to bring down more. A vicious system that leads to exhaustion.

Andrea Boccini – The Missing Link Photo Exhibit

Ricerca fotografica del legame evolutivo che unisce l’uomo ed il resto degli animali. Storie di convivenze e di conflitti, di conservazione e di estinzione. Un viaggio ai confini tra riserve naturali e aree antropizzate, dove “civiltà” umana e animali “selvaggi” collidono.

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03 luglio 2024

Andrea Boccini – The Missing Link Photo Exhibit

Dal 03 al 15 luglio 2024

fotografia

Location

EX CHIESA DELLA MISERICORDIA
Perugia, Via Guglielmo Oberdan, 54, (Perugia)

Orario di apertura

da lunedì a domenica ore 10-20

Sito web

https://www.facebook.com/events/769439978605770/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A%5B%5D%7D

Autore

Andrea Boccini

Progetto grafico

Boch di Boccini Andrea

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Direzione generale:
Uros Gorgone
Federico Pazzagli
Direttrice Responsabile:
Giulia Ronchi
Direttore Editoriale:
Cesare Biasini Selvaggi
Direttore Commerciale:
Federico Pazzagli
f.pazzagli@exibart.com
Fax: 06/89280543

Amministrazione:
Pietro Guglielmino
Adriana Proietti
Art Director:
Uros Gorgone
Curatore edg:
Daniele Perra
Caporedattore:
Mario Francesco Simeone
Responsabile Opening:
Elsa Barbieri
Redazione:
Erica Baglio
Nicoletta Graziano
Giorgia Magrin
Yasmin Riyahi
Erica Roccella

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Andrea Boccini – The Missing Link Photo Exhibit

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