Sumatran elephant Metal Print

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The Sumatran elephant – is one of the three recognized subspecies of the Asian elephant, and native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The subspecies is pre-eminently threatened by habitat loss, degradation and fragmentation, and poaching. The IUCN RedList updated its status to critically endangered in 2011, as Sumatran elephants have lost half their population and 69% of their habitat through deforestation in the past 25 years.

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 portraying species of Madagasca...

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 and on her blog. About Moira's artwork: 'I rather label my creations illustrations than classic fine art pieces because almost always there's a story (or at least a fragment of a story...) behind them -...