Source: Cool Earth
A new rainforest photography exhibition showcases the interesting and rich variety of wildlife that call the Amazon rainforest home.
Speaking to the US newspaper the Daily Emerald, wildlife photographer Torben Ulrik Nissen talked about his latest exhibition, which is being shown at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Oregon at the moment.Photos taken by National Geographic photographer Sam Abell are also included in the show.
The event - called Amazonia - is an attempt to show the complexity of life in the rainforest and includes more than 50 photos, as well as commentary.
"The Amazon is a visually and physically claustrophobic place, and photographers don’t go to the Amazon because it’s a difficult place to photograph. In my 30-year career, this is the hardest place I have worked and the hardest place to make interesting photographs," said Abell.
Deforestation due to logging and the global beef industry has led to large areas of the Amazon rainforest being destroyed. According to figures on Monga Bay, 232,000 square miles of the rainforest has been cleared since 1970.