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The William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings consists of 477 watercolour botanical drawings of plants and animals of Malacca and Singapore by unknown Chinese (probably Cantonese) artists that were commissioned between 1819 and 1823 by William Farquhar (26 February 1774 – 13 May 1839). The paintings were meant to be of ...
Fauna of Hawaii — animals native to or naturalized in the Hawaiian Islands, part of the Oceania ecozone fauna. Subcategories. This category has the following 9 ...
While a few drawings were done in black ink or pencil, most were finely enhanced with watercolor. Many were published in Flora Parisiensis , [ 53 ] by Poiteau and Turpin (1808) and some by Turpin (and Ernestine Panckoucke ) in Flore médicale [ 54 ] by François-Pierre Chaumeton (1814–1820).
Before the Hawaiian crow became extinct in the wild, the species was found only in the western and southeastern parts of Hawaii. It inhabited dry and mesic forests on the slopes of Mauna Loa and Hualālai at elevations of 3,000 to 6,000 feet. [7] Ōhiʻa lehua (Metrosideros polymorpha) and koa were important tree species in its wild habitat.
Located about 2,300 miles (3,680 km) from the nearest continental shore, the Hawaiian Islands are the most isolated group of islands on the planet. The plant and animal life of the Hawaiian archipelago is the result of early, very infrequent colonizations of arriving species and the slow evolution of those species—in isolation from the rest of the world's flora and fauna—over a period of ...
In the 1980s, artist Keith Jennings lived with friends on a farm in St. Simons Island.He decided to kill some time by carving a face in a tree. That first tree spirit became the origin of a now 40 ...
Removal of these animals started in 1988. [6] A series of ever-larger exclosures were established, and some wild individual plants were incorporated into these. [6] The Mauna Kea silversword was declared a federal endangered species in 1986, [15] and only 41 naturally occurring plants survived in the wild in 2003. [1]
The LA wildfires across the state of California this week have taken the lives of 5 individuals and thousands displaced from their homes. These before and after pictures show the wildlife's ...