Stop Eating Palm Oil - Protect Pongo
species extinction & biodiversity loss
A baby orangutan holds a pencil and appears to have just written on the wall in Scottish Gaelic, "sguir ag ithe ola palm" (stop eating palm oil). This is one of a series of murals depicting orangatans to raise public awareness about how they are threatened with extinction due to deforestation for the palm oil industry.
Louis Masai
From the artist's Instagram (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CFfPSB6HWH-/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@louismasai</a>).
2020-09-23
BAS
Louis Masai (<a href="https://louismasai.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">louismasai.com</a>)
See more of Louis Masai's eco street art addressing species extinction and biodiversity loss in his projects "<a href="http://humannatureshow.com/endangered13/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Endangered 13</a>" and "<a href="https://louismasai.com/projects/the-art-of-beeing/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Art of Beeing</a>."
Digital photograph
Scottish Gaelic
Still Image
UAM-ECO_0023
Ashton Lane, Glasgow, Scotland
It's Oh So Quiet
species extinction & biodiversity loss
In a mural on the side of a building, an enormous sparrow perches on a sagging chainlink fence while holding a plastic drinking straw in its beak. The caption reads "IT'S OH SO QUIET." As explained in the artist's own December 16, 2019 Instagram post of the piece, this ordinary songbird is "endangered with rapidly decreasing numbers! They are suffering from habitat loss due to overpopulating cities and a lack of food due to; pesticides and herbicides being used on the crops in the countryside which feeds an over populated country... im sure that when the last bird is no longer around to be heard anymore, we can start to vote in governments that give a shit about the environment and the fragile state of its biodiversity." (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B6ISY2Ong28/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@louismasai</a>)
Louis Masai
Photographed and posted on Instagram by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CIJm8XIAs10/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@whatstreetshavetosay</a>.
2020-11-28
Brooke Nyberg/BAS
Photographer: @whatstreetshavetosay (Instagram)
Artist: @louismasai (Instagram)
See a video of the work in progress on the artist's Instagram (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B6GCTaZHZI3/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@louismasai</a>).
Digital photograph
Still Image
UAM-ECO_0022
Wimbledon, England
Don't Make Us History Whale
species extinction & biodiversity loss
This image is one among a series by Parisian stencil street artist Polar Bear Stencils with the message "Don't Make Us History." This stencil image of a whale appears against a colorful graffiti-painted wall.
Polar Bear Stencils
From the artist's Instagram (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CNsVlfmFUE-/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@polarbearstencils</a>).
2021-04-15
Angie Weber, BAS
Created and photographed by Polar Bear Stencils (<a href="https://www.polarbearstencils.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.polarbearstencils.com/</a>)
Digital photograph
Still Image
UAM-ECO_0011
Paris, France