Tropical Rainforest on a Wall Mural: Bring Nature into the City

Tropical Rainforest on a Wall Mural:

Bring Nature into the City

"If we lose the world's forests, we lose the fight against climate change. Rainforests are our Earth's greatest utility - our planet's lungs, thermostat and air-conditioning system." - Michael Somare

Wall Mural by Dr Abe V Rotor

"Happy childhood lives on in old age, 

     that what makes a man a sage,

writing a book of life page by page,

     his greatest role on stage." 

                - AV Rotor

A Tropical Rainforest Wall Mural (3.5 ft x 15 ft) in acrylic by Dr Abe V Rotor at his residence in Lagro, Block 61, Lot 55 (corner Kudyapi St and Lam-ang St) 2015. The mural is an integral part (3rd panel) of a larger mural (7 ft x 30 ft).

The mural is made up of three sections as shown in the above photos: Emergent trees and their tenants (top); Exploring a forest stream (middle),

Food web and energy flow (lowermost)

 

 

Among the countless creatures of the tropical rainforest that comprise its rich biodiversity are: a rat, giant among its kind in the lowland, lives in a hollow of a tree; boa constrictor adapted to arboreal life, transient gulls adapted to both sea and forest life; tree iguana that branched out of marine iguanas, and those that live in dry conditions; chameleon the master of camouflage and mimicry; sloth, mother and young, clinging on a tree motionless and sleeping most of its life.

My grandson, Markus Andrei, then 6 months old and his nanny. ~

"Rainforests are our Earth's greatest utility – our planet's lungs, thermostat and air-conditioning system.” – Michael Somare, former Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea and 'father of the nation'.