This is my final art project for Tori Heflin's Biological Anthropology class at the University of San Diego, a collection of digitally enhanced photos I took during the course of the semester as we studied the primates. But it's more than that, it's a reflection of the things I found most interesting and the things that really opened my eyes ...
Our studies over the course of the semester have focused on a variety of primates; Old World Monkeys, New World Monkeys, Apes and the evolution of humanity. I have been particularly affected by what I have learned about the endangerment of many species. In this age of technology, intelligence and 'progress,' we continue to destroy the ecosystems around us and the planet on which we live.
Friday, November 28, 2008
Orangutans
"In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught." — Baba Dioum (Senegalese Conservationist)
"Species, for instance, are estimated to be heading towards extinction at a rate of about one every 20 minutes. That's a pace a thousand times faster than the norm during Earth's history" (http://www.conservation.org/learn/ species/Pages/overview.aspx).
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