Chimpin' Around- Zambia
Chimping AroundTues 11 Oct, ZambiaThe Congo border is 6km away. On a clear night, you can see the lights of Lumumbashi glow over the horizon. I've arrived at Chimfunshi chimpanzee sanctuary after being...
View ArticleBirthdays and goats in Uruguay
I spent my birthday across the river from Buenos Aires in Colonia, Uruguay. a nice way to renew my Argentinean visa and wander the historic streets of the UNESCO World Heritage listed village. The...
View ArticleEngland- "Jermaine is in the kitchen"
Greeted at Heathrow airport by billboard advertising Slough Industrial Estate…I always thought "Slough" was a fictional place chosen as a setting for the BBC "The Office" television series by virtue of...
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Bonobo- Gentle Sages to the Slaughter
Imagine someone travelled back in time and assassinated Aristotle, Confucius, Da Vinci, Voltaire, Buddha, Shakespeare, Jesus, Newton- all the great souls who had done so much to teach us about...
View ArticleHong Kong- June 28, 09
Drinking a beer at the Cheung Chao Windsurfing Club, looking out over the beach.Dark evening storm clouds, like the underbelly of a vast flying dragon, descend upon the silver sunset. Rain roars on the...
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Bonobo Health Clinic- Saving Lives, New Lives
Kokolopori, Congo DRC, 8/10/09Martin BendelerI have returned to Kokolopori, Congo, after four years. The last time, I came as an ecotourist wanting to see wild bonobos before I turned 30. Now I come as...
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Surgery at the Bonobo Health Clinic, Congo
Surgery at the Bonobo Health Clinic11/10/09, Kokolopori, Congo.Martin BendelerThe rooster crowed outside my door at about 6.00am this morning and I tried to both ignore it and decide whether we should...
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Where the Wild Bonobos Are- Bonobo Trekking, Congo DRC, Oct 2009
Where the Wild Bonobos AreBonobo TrekkingYetee, Kokolopori, Congo DRCOctober 14, 2009Martin BendelerThe morning Martin put on his jungle trousers and made mischief of one kind and another, the bonobos...
View ArticleDenmark- You're too....blonde! (and green). COP15 Follies.
I must admit that I haven't followed the global warming debate closely enough. Working out how to save the bonobo species (and myself) has kept me busy enough and I haven’t formed an educated opinion...
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The Jasmine Revolution Blooms
The buds of the Tunisian Jasmine Revolution sprouted in the ashes of 26 year old Mohammed Bouazizi, who incinerated himself in, literally, the ultimate protest at the corruption of a state that...
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Libya- No One Writes to the Colonel
Martin Bendeler, 22/12/11Libya’s West and East is divided by the Gulf of Sirte and a long stretch of sparsely populated desert. Tripoli on one side and Benghazi on the other, 1000kms away as the camel...
View ArticleStill, No One Writes to the Colonel
Still, No One Writes to the ColonelMartin Bendeler, 28/02/11The international knives are out for Muammar Gaddafi. Asset freezes, travel bans, revoking of diplomatic immunity already. Maybe soon arrest...
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Gaddafi’s guards steal from African refugees as they flee Libya
Gaddafi’s guards steal from African refugees as they flee Libya“Look at me, man!” complains Kenneth Ansu, 29, from Ghana. “You think I like wearing two hats for fun? Three jeans at once? All I could...
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Libya- Please stop shooting, it scares the children
Billboard in Benghazi- Please stop shooting, it scares the children.Street by street, house by house. Zenga, Zenga, said Gaddafi in Arabic. These were the words the world used to justify its...
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RIP Toddler Yueyue Wang, a Tiny Martyr for Chinese Freedom.
Martin Bendeler, 21 October 2011*Published on ABC The Drum Website, 24/10/11http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/3596926.htmlOn October 13, 2011, two-year-old Wang Yueyue wandered away from her parent's...
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