The Missing Link

A story about the bond between man and wildlife, ancient and deep, but mostly broken, forgotten, sold, replaced by borders. I remember always wondering what we humans are, whether animals, extraterrestrials or gods. The most plausible answer is in our DNA: we are terrestrial animals composed of 70% of simple water, evolved in an atmosphere composed of nitrogen, oxygen and carbonic hadrine. We are mammals, primates of the family of hominids, the great apes, which includes Gorillas, Orangutans and Chimpanzees among others, that are for 97% the same as us. We are a real family. We have a blood bond with the rest of the animals as old as life itself. How did we get to this point then? How could we forced our evolution as much as to tear this bond pushing away ourselves so radically and so far from our families of origin? What happened to the evolutionary link that binds us? In 2016 I started looking for this link. Everywhere. I found what's left of it, or what it's evolved into, ironically, in the border areas, where there is no black and white, no pure heroes or evil villains, anything has a fair amount of right and wrong. Areas made of boundaries, whether they are to keep away or to protect, at times so invisible as to reveal the ancient bond still intact, at other times so clear and insurmountable as to cut every traditional link and create new artificial ones.