Nature's distress call through art

Nature's distress call through art

Paintings by Dr Abe V Rotor

 

Satellite image of the Earth showing the major biomes - forest, coral reef, grassland, tundra, savannah, being consumed by wildfire and desertification, both induced by man's unscrupulous activities.  

Water pollution and global warming are destroying our coral reef, and consequently its productivity as an ecosystem.  Destruction of the coral reef is likened to the destruction of the rainforest.  Intrusion of settlements and farming on waterways and shorelines which we call reclamation exacerbates the loss of this ecosystem, indeed a requiem to nature. 

 Skeleton of a tropical rainforest after a wildfire.  Deforestation permanently destroys the forest, more so with the deleterious effect of slash-and-burn or kaingin farming on the  clearing.  As a consequence the soil is stripped away by erosion, siltation and flood.  Production falls below the marginal level, and ultimately the land is abandoned. Rivers dry, floodwater causes tremendous damage to life and properties of unimagined proportion - a fact that is happening today in many places of the world.