The second set of six biodiversity cartoons for 2019. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here.
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Sydney’s 1789 smallpox epidemic came from the First Fleet and killed up to 220,000 Indigenous Australians
Hulton Archive / Getty Images We warn readers that the content of this study is confronting and may be distressing. In April 1789, the first smallpox epidemic among Aboriginal people in the Sydney region began, just 16 months after Europeans arrived on the First Fleet. Little is known of the true scale of the epidemic,…
Corey
Have you ever seen the one of planet Earth with expanding protected areas – starting with humans fenced the iterations until wilderness is fenced
Used to have it but lost the jpg now can’t find it on the web
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Hi Kim – yes, it’s here: https://conservationbytes.com/2014/04/04/cartoon-guide-to-biodiversity-loss-xxiii/
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