Democratic Republic of Congo

If you said ‘NO’, then you were right! They can’t actually swim, but they love to play in the water. Check out these incredible pictures from Lola Ya Bonobo by adventure photographers Julie Calvert and Adam Bates of Shutter Speed Travel.

How can individuals and small businesses ensure that the money they spend offsetting their carbon really reaches the people who need it most? Mercy Corps has an answer.

Currently many carbon offset projects are often too arduous or expensive to reach small communities who are desperately in need in developing countries. As a result, those communities remain neglected without a potentially profitable and environmentally friendly project opportunity.

In the Tshuapa, Lomami and Lualaba river basins in the DRC where the bonobos live, humans have it very rough – we couldn’t say if they have it better or worse than the bonobos. However, we can say that the human women have it worse than the human men in the DRC. In the United States, women are free to get jobs, go to school and live by themselves – you may think it’s strange that we’re even mentioning those things because we are so used to these freedoms!