And the silliness continues…
See also full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here.
Enjoy!
Although I have incorporated a Cartoon of the Week feature on ConservationBytes.com, I think it’s worthwhile summarising them from time to time. So, continuing the Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss series with instalment 5 (see also instalments 1, 2, 3, and 4).
I have no real reason for posting this, other than I found it amusing. I do not know to whom I should attribute the cartoon, so apologies to the author. Click for a larger version if you find this too small to read.
And the most degraded and self-flagellating humour on Earth continues (see also previous instalments here, here and here) …
Some more (see previous ‘Cartoon Guide’ instalments I and II) comedic reminders of humanity’s environmental short-sightedness.
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I couldn’t resist this. Given the enormous response to our soon-to-be-published paper in Conservation Biology entitled Eating frogs to extinction by Warkentin, Bickford, Sodhi & Bradshaw (view post How many frogs do we eat?), I just had to put these up. Enjoy this subclass of biodiversity loss cartoons for what they are worth.
I’m taking Barry Brook‘s great idea on the Cartoon Guide to Global Warming Denial and applying it to biodiversity and habitat loss.
There are a lot of these sorts of things out there (amazing how we laugh at tragedy), so I will probably do subsequent posts as I find good candidates (suggestions welcome).
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