“It’s the best way to not only protect the bird, but to allow people to do business,” — “The lesser prairie chicken has historically called five states home, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico, but continued land fragmentation and degradation has reduced the bird’s historical occupancy range by an estimated 84 percent”. http://www.currentargus.com/carlsbad-news/ci_25433458/lesser-prairie-chicken-declared-threatened
art ecology science & animals
From March, 2014
THE LIVING DEAD, ZOMBIE SPECIES
“”I’m afraid to tell everybody we’re in a terminal situation. We’re confronting a whole raft of species about to go over the extinction cliff,” Professor David Bowman, an expert in environmental change biology at the University of Tasmania, said.” http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-19/australian-species-facing-extinction-living-dead-triage/5331908
#2 THE BIOMES
National Ecology Center botanic greenhouses by Grimshaw and Samoo
#1 THE BIOMES
National Ecology Center botanic greenhouses by Grimshaw and Samoo
STINGRAY HOMAGE
“they are social, gentle and intelligent — they have the largest brain to body ratio of any fish.” http://news.discovery.com/animals/endangered-species/the-worlds-biggest-manta-ray-sanctuary-created-140221.htm more: museum of comparative zoology, harvard university. Bigelow & Schroeder
THE TIGER TRIPLET PEEPSHOW
FATWA ISSUED TO PROTECT WILDLIFE
(…)”the fatwa by the Indonesian Council of Ulema (MUI) declares poaching and wildlife trafficking unethical, immoral and sinful” http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/indonesian-council-of-ulema-issue-fatwa-to-protect-wildlife/
TO SAVE ENDANGERED TORTOISES
“they stare back at you through ancient eyes.” — looking for a beautiful tortoise, one that’s not damaged? http://www.npr.org/2014/02/27/283437278/to-save-endangered-tortoises-conservationists-deface-their-shells
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