ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 10月7日 20時49分

Villagers in Zimbabwe approach an elephant shot and killed by an unnamed American hunter-photograph by David Chancellor @chancellordavid for @ナショナルジオグラフィック
In just under 1 hour 42 minutes the entire village reduced the elephant to bones. The meat derived from the hunt, a vital form of protein to these remote villagers, was shared with the surrounding villages. They are participants in CAMPFIRE, a program of long standing in which rural groups sell access to their wildlife in return for some of the profit. Once a model of its kind, CAMPFIRE now gets mixed reviews: Too often the money earmarked for communities doesn’t reach them or get spent on local improvements.
The earliest evidence of an elephant having been killed by human hands dates back to a blue-mud swamp in Siberia nearly 14,000 years ago. The spine of a woolly mammoth found at the confluence of the Ob and Irtysh Rivers seems to have been penetrated by a man-made weapon that left flake traces of stone inside one of the vertebrae. The tusks, we might imagine, weren’t displayed in a trophy room back at the hunter’s cave. But hunting is more than a quid pro quo for sustenance. At some moment in our dawning consciousness, hunting became equated with status, virility, and power. Assyrian carvings from 650 B.C. depict lions being released from cages for slaughter by a chariot-riding king. The Maasai have long killed lions as a rite of passage.

With more than half the planet’s population living in cities, our relationship with the wild has become increasingly divorced from our everyday reality. We’re now less a part of that wild world from rain forest to veld than consumers of it. Yet if we eat meat or wear and use leather products, we too are hunters of a sort.
From work featured in October issue of @ナショナルジオグラフィック follow me there, and @chancellordavid to see more of my work and projects #wildlife #conservation #conserving #nopoaching #africa #elephant #ivory #rhino #fightingextinction

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