Last of Their Kind
What are the human actions that are leading
to the extinction of the Earth’s species?
Oil paint on canvas
to the extinction of the Earth’s species?
Oil paint on canvas
These portraits celebrate the people who are the last speakers of a language and the magnificent animals who were the last of their species.
They stand as a prompt for further conversation regarding climate change, habitat loss, globalization and the loss of cultures and languages.
They stand as a prompt for further conversation regarding climate change, habitat loss, globalization and the loss of cultures and languages.
Adaptation is a marvelous counter balance to extinction and these are images celebrating current events on Earth.
©Ellen Litwiller
