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before urban development took over

they look to humans

their natural habitat

on the edges of the rainforests

are essential to maintaining

script: While some visitors to Singapore expect a high-tech city, there are also some parts of the island that still reflect how it used to look before urban development took over.

In one of the main Central Nature Reserves, monkeys still roam freely, living side by side with humans. The macaques have grown accustomed to being fed, so they look to humans as a source of food. But this in itself is problematic. As the monkeys depend more on humans for food, they venture further from their natural habitat, a phenomenon that has worried experts.

There is just not enough space. Essentially, in much o f Southeast Asia we’ve seen a lot of habitat loss where rainforest has been destroyed and converted into human settlement. Singapore is a very urbanized city, and it’s taken a lot of space, so there is not much space left for long-tailed macaques.

We really need to stop encroaching into nature reserves. We need to stop building the houses so nearby the reserves, which then causes the problem of the macaques coming into people’s houses and raiding them. These macaques are French species so they live on the edges of the rainforests.

If humans keep building the houses so near the reserves, there will definitely be a constant human-macaque conflict issue.

After all, the macaques are essential to maintaining the rainforest’s ecosystem. More should be done to protect them.

V1 script: These creatures are known as statistics by most people. But we are treating them as individuals,

trying to capture their personalities. We want to see them face to face, eye to eye, make them unavoidable.

The series is now their mission in life, their calling and their passion. For the two photographers, it’s an endless odyssey across America to show the faces of creatures we may never see again. These creatures are in danger. They’re slipping away. But if people can see them, maybe we can make the effort to keep them with us here on earth.

―Ok. Make here. Great! Great!‖

The first Europeans on this continent had a common enemy to conquer. It was called nature. America seemed to be an endless expanse of hostile wildness. Bison wandered along the Potomac. Grizzly bears strolled [along] the beaches of California. Human beings did not even know it was possible for a species to go extinct. But we learned. Hundreds of creatures slipped into extinction. Even our national symbol was disappearing before our eyes.

When you are driving across America, you understand why so many plants and animals are endangered. They’re losing their homes. We’re building a human world, and losing a wild one. Expert: ―It’s a sobering fact th at there is an extinction crisis. There have always been species going extinct time to time. But now, human activities push them to a hundred to a thousand times. We