Ganges river dolphin Canvas Print

The Ganges river dolphin – is one of the sweetwater dolphins native in Asia (Bangladesh, India and Nepal). This species – as all the other freshwater dolphins – has been very adversely affected by human use of the river systems, from entanglement in fishing nets through irrigation and poisoning from industrial and agricultural chemicals to habitat loss and segregation of the populations by the building of dams. It’s listed as endangered since 2004.

A few years ago I started a wildlife conservation-environmental awareness poster project called ‘12images’ - you can find more details and information about it on my blog: http://www.12images.net/endangered-and-extinct-animals/12-images-for-environmental-awareness/.

I started with two 12 piece series featuring already extinct and critically endangered animals - these are the images of these two collections. I plan to continue the project with more collections from time to time - I've already made another portray...

Collections featuring original artwork of illustrator and writer Moira Risen and carefully curated collections of digitally restored and cleaned illustrations from artists of the Golden Age, vintage botanical drawings, advertising posters from the early 1900's, traditional Chinese flower and bird paintings and some selected works of modernist painters. With licensing inquiries or any other questions please contact Moira personally via this email. You find more information about her and her creative projects on her personal website. All original images and text are copyrighted by Moira Risen. Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of any of the original content, for personal or commercial use...