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Nine years. That's the average interval between births for a female Sumatran orangutan — the longest of any land mammal on earth.

Seven hundred Tapanuli orangutans are left. The species was only identified as its own in 2017 and it is already the rarest great ape alive. They live in lowland rainforest, which is the richest habitat there is, which is exactly why it goes first — coal, palm oil, pulp, rubber. What's left isn't smaller forest. It's forest in pieces, patches too far apart to cross.

Somewhere there's a spreadsheet where an animal sharing 97% of your DNA sits in a cell as an obstruction to a rubber yield. The person who built that cell went home and had a nice dinner.

You can delete the forest. You cannot delete what lived in it.

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/when-november-comes-i-wanna-surf-that-blue-wave-straight-into-the-pipe?utm_source=PixelFed&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica

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These photographs of Benedek Lampert's might be called 'lack of nature photography'. He has arranged miniature scenes using the very materials that are destroying the living world such as plastic netting, fishing nets, etc., photographs them, and adds a bit of text. They are featured in his show called 'The Nature We Replaced'. The short video at the end of this piece showing Lampert creating his pieces is also very striking.
#art #photography #environment #ClimateCrisis #extinction #photographs #MiniatureArt

https://mymodernmet.com/benedek-lampert-the-nature-we-replaced/