Elephants bathe in Lake Edward, the epicenter of proposed oil exploration inside Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo. This exploration would potentially poison the water system for both animal and the 60,000 humans who live along the shore. May 2015. By gettyreportage photographer brentstirton. This image is part of Brent's exhibition, "Ivory Wars," at this week's 28th Visa Pour l’Image festival, a celebration of today’s best photojournalism. The annual festival, held in the town of Perpignan, in Southern France, is a unique occasion, says Stirton, to enjoy "the pleasure of your peers, the acceptance, the affirmation and drinks under French moonlight." His exhibition “Ivory Wars” shows how Africa’s elephants, long vulnerable to hunters in pursuit of ivory, have now become prey to several of the continent’s terrorist groups, turning to poaching as a source of funding. Groups like the border-hopping Lord’s Resistance Army, the Seleka of the Central African Republic, t...