Marcus Westberg

09.20.2019

Marcus Westberg

Marcus Westberg

Marcus Westberg is a renowned conservation photojournalist and writer who has spent much of the past decade working for conservation organizations and covering related stories in sub-Saharan Africa, his native Sweden, and many other locations around the world. Westberg is a Senior Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers, a Sony Wildlife Explorer, and an Advisory Board member of Girls Who Click. His images have won numerous awards, including photojournalism prizes at European Wildlife Photographer of the Year, the Siena Awards, and the Environmental Photography Awards.

Two eastern lowland gorillas (also known as Grauer’s gorillas) rest near each other in Kahuzi-Biega National Park. Known as the world’s largest living primates, these gorillas are critically endangered following decades of political upheaval in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photograph by Marcus Westberg Gorillas in Their Midst 11.22.2023 Article - In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, community-led conservation has emerged from the chaos of war, but the ghosts of colonialism still haunt locals trying to live with great apes.
Margaret Nyambura Mamai, a Maasai woman, places cactus pads infested with cochineal insects into healthy (and partially infested) thickets of prickly pear plants on the Laikipia Plateau. A Plague of Cactus 09.26.2019 Article - Across Kenya’s wildlife-rich Laikipia Plateau, a thorny enemy is advancing. But a tiny sap-sucking insect may help save the region’s animals and people.
Little auks (Alle alle) flock to Hornsund each summer to nest and feed on a tiny, fat-filled crustacean called Calanus glacialis. The copepod lives in cold Arctic waters, often near the edge of the sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. Photograph by Hannah Hoag Sea Change 10.31.2017 Article - The Arctic Ocean is beginning to look and act more like the Atlantic. It's a shift that threatens to upend an entire food web built on frigid waters.
Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression Salts of the Earth 08.15.2017 Spotlight - Life can be fleeting in one of the world’s hottest and most tectonically active environments.
Members of Pilot’s family stand at the gate of his new boma. Lion Guardians 04.11.2017 Photo Essay - With human-wildlife conflicts on the rise across East Africa, Kenya’s iconic predators find some unlikely allies.
A female Grauer’s gorilla calmly observes the team as it approaches. The Grauer’s gorilla (also known as eastern lowland gorilla) is the largest of the four gorilla subspecies, narrowly beating its closest relative, the mountain gorilla. There are an estimated 2000-5000 left, all of them in eastern DRC. Gorillas on the Mend 04.26.2016 Photo Essay - To bring medical support to mountain gorillas, a group of veterinarians brave one of the world's most dangerous national parks.
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