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Lucy is a self-taught wildlife artist based in the UK. Her work seeks to raise awareness and support conservation projects around the world, bringing the beauty and wonder of wildlife into our homes. Lucy uses acrylic paints and combines fine detail work with looser brush strokes to create realistic portraits with a contemporary twist. Her work focuses on the expression and personality of each animal by removing it from its context and instead focusing on their eyes, expression and often movement. “To me wildlife art is about ‘reading between the lines’ of a photo, removing the habitat from the image removes any preconceptions, while the eyes are the windows into the soul and hence the most important part of evoking the story and character of each animal”. From a young age Lucy has worked hard to grow her skills and passion, enjoying the journey of each painting and how through every layer of paint they evolve into something unexpected.

Although Pan troglodytes is the most abundant and widespread of the great apes, and many populations exist in protected areas, the declines that have occurred are expected to continue, satisfying the criteria for an Endangered listing (Oates 2006). Due to high levels of poaching, infectious diseases, and loss of habitat and habitat quality caused by expanding human activities, this species is estimated to have experienced a significant population reduction in the past 20–30 years and it is suspected that this reduction will continue for the next 30–40 years. Due to their slow life history and a generation time estimated to be 25 years, Chimpanzee populations cannot sustain high levels of mortality, whether disease-induced or caused by poaching. The maximum population reduction over a three-generation (75 year) period from 1975 to 2050 is suspected to exceed 50%, hence qualifying this taxon as Endangered under criterion A. Although conservation efforts directed at Chimpanzees and other wildlife have increased significantly in recent years, the assumption that population reductions will continue is a precautionary approach based on the rapid growth of human populations in sub-Saharan Africa, continuing poaching for bushmeat, the commercial bushmeat trade, the arrival of industrial agriculture (which requires clearcutting of forest), corruption and lack of law enforcement, lack of capacity and resources, and political instability in some range states. At the same time, zoonosis and disease outbreaks present significant risks; there is, for example, evidence that Ebolavirus will continue to spread in some parts of the Chimpanzee’s geographic range (Walsh et al. 2005). SOURCE: IUCN REDLIST

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