Rainforest
by Allison Constantino
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$500
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8.000 x 10.000 x 0.125 inches
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Title
Rainforest
Artist
Allison Constantino
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Sustainable Wood
Description
I created "Rainforest" as my "poster" for these endangered eco-systems all over the world. We are destroying the world's precious ancient forests at an unprecedented rate. An area of natural forest the size of a soccer field is cut down every two seconds.
A quarter of the forest lost in the last 10,000 years has been destroyed in the last 30 years. Forest loss has a direct link to loss of biodiversity. The current extinction rate of plant and animal species is around 1,000 times faster than it was in pre-human times - and this will increase to 10,000 faster by 2050.
Damage to ancient forests is not just about total deforestation. It is also about the degradation of forest to a point at which is no longer a viable habitat for its plant and animal species.
Only intact forests of several thousands of square miles are large enough to sustain healthy population of many larger forest animals like jaguars, bears, tigers and forest elephants.
Scientists predict that the Earth is entering the sixth major extinction event in its history.
82 countries out of 148 countries lying within the original forest zone have lost all their intact forest landscapes.
The majority of the world's last remaining intact forest landscapes consist of two major forest types, tropical and boreal forest.
49% of the remaining intact forests are the tropical forests of Latin America, Africa and Asia Pacific
44% of the remaining intact forests are the great boreal forests of Russia, Canada and Alaska.
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September 22nd, 2016
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