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Cyril Ruoso

www.cyrilruoso.com

Cyril Ruoso has been a professional photographer since the mid-1990s, and now travels the globe in search of visual stories to tell. He is particularly interested in primates, and has published several books and dozens of feature stories about apes and monkeys of the world. More recently, he has turned his attention to amphibians and their plight, spying on frogs in the snowy Alps, giant salamanders in Japan, and goliath frogs in Cameroon. With his images, Ruoso hopes to bring more attention to the issues of biodiversity and ecosystem loss, and inspire people to care more about conservation.

Cyril Ruoso's Latest Articles

goliath frog (Conraua goliath).
Taking Down Goliath

The world’s largest frogs are also among the most coveted in the African bushmeat trade. Can grassroots efforts save the goliath frog from extinction?

Sustainability in Prisons Project cofounder and forest ecologist Nalini Nadkarni lectures inmates about trees. Photograph by Benjamin Drummond.
Conservation Meets Corrections

Prison sustainability programs can bring science to the sentenced and their findings to the world

chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan paniscus)
The Great Divide

A fateful crossing of the Congo River by ancestral apes led to the rise of the modern bonobo.

Common frog (Rana temporaria) sitting on snow in the breeding season in the Alps, France, June..
The Ice Frog Cometh

Living at the extreme edge of its range, an alpine frog begins its breeding season with a march across a rather forbidding landscape.