Extinction
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I always felt a special love for seahorses (Hippocampus). I was really getting sad while finishing this piece of art … stupid humans, destroying everything and trying to get the last specimens before complete extinction.
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A free-range baby orangutan sucking its thumb in Singapore Zoo, Singapore. This critically endangered species demonstrates significant intelligence, with an ability to reason and think. The orangutan is closest relatives, sharing 97% of the same DNA as humans. I’ve been to Borneo (Dec 2007) and was shocked at the amount of jungle cleared to make way for palm oil plantations. Close your eyes, and imagine flying into Sandakan on the east coast – as far as you can see there are rows upon rows of palm trees. Rows upon rows. Then more rows upon rows. Then more rows upon rows. “Orangutans are one of the most critically endangered of the great apes, due to poaching and habitat loss. Based on the World Bank’s estimation that mechanized logging in the Kalimantan forest, (Indonesian Borneo), will result in its total loss by 2010, and other statistics stating that wild orangutans are disappearing at a rate of 5,000 orangutans per year, optimistic predictions give the orangutan ten more years before extinction in the wild.” (Source: Borneo Orangutan Survival UK http://www.savetheorangutan.co.uk/index.php) Taken with Canon 5D, ISO 1250, f5.6, 1/50th sec, 100-400mm L Series Canon Lens @ 400mm, handheld, no flash, Auto white balance. No post production. Featured in Canon DSLR Group, Image Writing Group, Animal Portraits Group & All animals Great and small Group (May 2009). Winner “Zoo Animals” challenge in the Animal Photography Group, June 2009.
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This is the first in a series I foresee doing, to increase awareness to the plight of endangered and threatened animals from around the globe. This First Edition focuses on three of the largest and most endangered carnivores today, the Sumatran tiger, the Amur leopard, and the Snow leopard. These are by no means the only imperiled wild cats, as the majority of wild cat species smaller in average body size than 30 kg are at a critical stage. / / / Because without these animals I would never be able to bring their beauty to you, I am going to pledge to donate 100% of all of my sales proceeds from cards and prints of the imagery in this series here on Redbubble to Wildlife Conservation Society Thank you for your support in the race to stave off the extinction of these magnificent creatures.
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Rock on! Ahh the 80’s in all of it’s tape deck glory! ;D For those that look at this interesting thing and wonder…now..just what is that????!!! Here you go: / The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. A Few More Takes On Color For You…. / / CarrieGlennStudios.Com / My Zazzle Gallery
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Acrylic on canvas 36” x 18” This work is up for critique and comment here / please join in – your opinion is always welcome
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The mad scientists that brought us the Devil Bot have been working lots of unpaid overtime to bring us the Tiger Bot. Tiger Bot is standing in until its inspiration the Tasmanian Tiger (or Thylacine to the technically minded) comes out of hiding. He’s quick to empty and has self-cleaning HEPA filters. Also available as a Greeting Card
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Acrylic on canvas 36” x 22”
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Acrylic on canvas 48” x 26” This work is up for comment and critique here
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WHen man Atttacks giant lizards and looses you heardthat the dino sore is extinct its true i no your shocked / ! / /
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acrylic/oil/wax/graphite on canvas 24” x 18” This new work is up for critique here
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“Extinction is forever” t-shirt. Part of my line promoting awareness and raising funds for endangered species globally. This is also available as cards and prints. All proceeds (100%) are going to the Wildlife Conservation Society for endangered species protection. Because without these animals I would never be able to bring their beauty to you, I am going to pledge to donate 100% of all of my sales proceeds from cards and prints of the imagery in this series here on Redbubble to Wildlife Conservation Society
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This is the other version of my “Extinct Sounds” tee….enjoy…and remember to… Rock on with your bad self! My Design Was Featured On The Home Page ! Thanks Everyone! / Featured in Scarlettveith’s jounal / (Thanks Scarlett…YOU rock!) Take One… / Take Two… / If you like this shirt…check these out too You can contact Carrie at: carrie@carrieglennstudios.com and please visit Carrie Glenn Studios /
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/ / ScienceDaily (Jan. 10, 2002) AUSTIN, Texas Half of all living bird and mammal species will be gone within 200 or 300 years, according to a botany professor at The University of Texas at Austin. (link) / / Although the extinction of various species is a natural phenomenon, the rate of extinction occurring in today’s world is exceptional as many as 100 to1,000 times greater than normal, Dr. Donald A. Levin said in the January-February issue of American Scientist magazine. (link) / / If present trends continue, a mass extinction is very likely underway. The evidence is pieced together from details drawn from all over the world, but it adds up to a disturbing picture. This time, unlike the past, it’s not a chance asteroid collision, nor a chain of climatic circumstances alone that’s at fault. Instead, it is chiefly the activities of an ever-growing human population, in concert with long-term environmental change. (link) / / The typical rate of extinction differs for different groups of organisms. Mammals, for instance, have an average species “lifespan” from origination to extinction of about 1 million years, although some species persist for as long as 10 million years. There are about 5,000 known mammalian species alive at present. (link) / / Given the average species lifespan for mammals, the background extinction rate for this group would be approximately one species lost every 200 years. Of course, this is an average rate; the actual pattern of mammalian extinctions is likely to be somewhat uneven. Some centuries might see more than one mammalian extinction, and conversely, sometimes several centuries might pass without the loss of any mammal species. Yet the past 400 years have seen 89 mammalian extinctions, almost 45 times the predicted rate, and another 169 mammal species are listed as critically endangered. (link)
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Gorilla Oil Painting on canvas (40×40cm) When I first saw this gorilla, I was immediately struck by what I perceived to be sadness. He looks so deep in thought and I wondered what this beautiful creature was thinking… of family lost, freedom lost and what we humans do in our endless arrogance and greed to other animals on this planet. I hope that one day, we will realise that they are just as worthy of life and freedom as we would like to believe ourselves to be. I love painting eyes. However, what I like about this painting is not being able to see the gorilla’s eyes. His posture tells the story. This is a close-up view of the painting. Gorillas, the largest of the living primates, are ground-dwelling herbivores that inhabit the forests of Africa. The DNA of gorillas is 98%–99% identical to that of a human, and they are the next closest living relatives to humans after the two chimpanzee species. Gorilla’s are highly endangered, and have been subject to intense poaching for a long time. Threats to gorilla survival include habitat destruction and the bushmeat trade. In 2004 a population of several hundred gorillas in the Odzala National Park, Republic of Congo was essentially wiped out by the Ebola virus. A 2006 study published in Science concluded that more than 5,000 gorillas may have died in recent outbreaks of the Ebola virus in central Africa. The researchers indicated that in conjunction with commercial hunting of these apes creates “a recipe for rapid ecological extinction”. (Wikipedia) My thanks to Rocketchook for his kind permission to use his photograph as reference for this painting!!! The original photograph by Rocketchook
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best regards, / the rest of the world. xx
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The mad scientists that brought us the Devil Bot have been working lots of unpaid overtime to bring us the Tiger Bot. Tiger Bot is standing in until its inspiration the Tasmanian Tiger (or Thylacine to the technically minded) comes out of hiding. He’s quick to empty and has self-cleaning HEPA filters. Buy Tiger Bot on a T-Shirt Here!
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Acrylic/oil/graphite/wax on canvas / 32” x 22” You can find the tortuous route to this work here
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Thought I’d try something a little Arthurian… Thanks for looking
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That I looked at them with living eyes. / That they looked at me with their living eyes. / That we embraced. / That we began to learn each other’s language. Words by Muriel Rukeyser From a series of ink drawings Music – Carnival of the Animals 26th October 2008
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A combination of 2 of my tee designs.
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