Honest Breed of Corruption
2009-06-12, Bakaria, Guinea. By: carnivore

Today, I arrived in Bakaria, where I have been assigned to work for a week or so. The project, in addition to our base camp in Somoria, has a release site near the village of Bakaria. There is a sma...

Primordial Earth
2009-06-06, Somoria, Guinea. By: carnivore

One of my primary roles here on the project is to take the chimps "en brousse" (French for "into the bush"). We lead them on long hikes into the forest to reacclimate them to their home, which they w...

Blade of the Machete
2009-06-02, Sidikoro, Guinea. By: carnivore

This morning, Mattieu and I took the project vehicle and drove to Sidakoro, a village nearby. We needed to buy some fruit for the chimps, as our supplies were dwindling. The mission also served as a...

Skin Molt
2009-05-28, Somoria, Guinea. By: carnivore

Today, we received a hand written letter from a neighboring village, Kouroussa, located on the north boundary of the national park. It indicated a chimp was in their village, injured, and had its han...

Call My Dermatologist
2009-05-25, Somoria, Guinea. By: carnivore

Ive been in the bush for a week now and I have officially joined the ranks of the leper colony. My skin has deteriorated into a warzone of bites, scrapes, blisters, bruises, etc. I have no less than...

First Contact
2009-05-21, Somoria, Guinea. By: carnivore

Learning to live without electricity has been a challenging test of my tolerance. I think a regular dose of deprivation is healthy. In the West, we all live far too comfortably and have become too a...

Hells Bells
2009-05-18, Somoria, Guinea. By: carnivore

On my first full day at the CCC (Centre du Conservation pour les Chimpanzes), I was talking with Jerome, a French volunteer, over breakfast in the kitchen. This is the communal place where we prep an...

Hole in our Rubber
2009-05-16, Faranah, Guinea. By: carnivore

Spent the morning collecting the last of the supplies. Left Faranah late morning headed for the remote village, Somoria, where our project camp is located. Within five minutes, we burst a tire. Lim...

Scars from Colonial Wounds
2009-09-05, Faranah, Guinea. By: carnivore

We left Conakry at 6am with one of the project vehicles (there are two 4x4's, a motorcycle, and a boat) headed to Faranah, a town in Upper Guinea in the interior of the country. It's the launching po...

Army No Like Photo
2009-05-14, Conakry, Guinea. By: carnivore

Estelle & Mat left early to run errands in the city center. They left some bread, instant coffee with a thermos of hot water, and a triangle of Laughing Cow cheese. In the confusion and darkness of l...

Frothy from the Blender
2009-05-13, Conakry, Guinea. By: carnivore

Yesterday, flew from San Francisco to Washington DC to start my second journey to Africa (actually, it's my 3rd but I don't count the trip to Morrocco in northern Arab Africa). Minor panic in the Dul...

you have to visit this place
2002-11-23, boke, Guinea. By: batafon

this is a secluded spot in little-known guinea conakry. a 10 minute local taxi ride away from the town of boke, the house is set near the river and just down the hill from the village of tamakenen. ...