Michael "Nick" Nichols. Orphan Chimps.

Caretaker Ludovic Rabasa doubles as a surrogate parent to more than 50orphaned chimpanzees at Tchimpounga Sanctuary in Congo. Every day, he plays with these infants, helping them develop the social skills they would normally learn from their mothers and family in the wild. These chimpanzees can live for over fifty years and cannot be safely released into areas with humans or other wild chimps. The work Ludovic and the sanctuary do is essential—not just to give these chimps a safeand nurturing life, but to preserve their well-being and teach themthe social foundations they need to thrive. Michael “Nick” Nichols captured these quiet, unforgettable moments. For Nichols, storytelling is epic in scale: his subjects range from lions and elephants to tigers and chimpanzees, but the human conservationists who dedicate themselves to these animals—Jane Goodall, J. Michael Fay, Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Craig Packer—are justas central to his narrative. His long friendship with Goodall has given him