山魈，中非（摄影：Michael Nichols）

中非某地，一只被拴住的山魈正凑近相机镜头。这些彩面的原始生灵正受到极大威胁——很多非洲人在猎杀它们，视其为盘中美餐。随着农业和定居点的扩张，它们的雨林栖息地也一天天在缩小。

A mandrill, tethered on a rope in central Africa, reaches for the camera. These colorful primates are threatened. They are often hunted as bushmeat, and many Africans consider them to be a delicacy. Mandrills are feeling the squeeze of spreading agriculture and human settlement—both are shrinking their rain forest homeland.

(Photo shot on assignment for "Clearing,” March 2001, National Geographic magazine)

 

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