Word: faunas
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...accent on restoring the original wildlife. "These are swamps, so you can't immediately see the 80 fish species or the amphibians. Also, the land has been environmentally degraded and many of the indigenous animals, such as jaguars, have disappeared." Tompkins is slowly reintroducing this native fauna. "We've started with the marsh deer. Eventually we'll be able to reintroduce the jaguar, the top of the food chain." For the moment, though, Tompkins will have to watch out for politcal predators in Buenos Aires...
...Montreal has always appeared to be something that it’s not, starting with the name: no one in the band is from Montreal. And, true to form, new release “Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?” sets gloomy lyrics to undeniably upbeat hooks, startling the listener to bittersweet effect. The best example is “A Sentences of Sorts in Kongsvinger.” Leadman Kevin Barnes sings, “I spent the winter on the verge of a total breakdown while living in Norway” over an irrepressible synth...
...John Derian Co. The East Village boutique is a treasure trove of flora and fauna, much of it displayed with a modern wink. Elephants, right, monkeys and other wildlife stampede across a series of square decoupage glass platters. Cache pots display delicate branches, top, and a vibrant crab is the centerpiece of an oval plate, above. tel: (1-212) 677-3917; www.johnderian.com
...polar bear have something powerful on their side, and that's the simple fact that people love them. Like pandas, tigers and other so-called charismatic mega-fauna, polar bears are one of those iconic animals that almost everyone agrees the world would be far poorer without. That's a fight even the most stubborn White House might not want to take on. "There's a legal battle and a public relations battle," says Brendan Cummings, an attorney for the Center for Biodiversity. "I don't think the Administration wanted to lose both of them." The fear of that twin...
Cross-pollination is at the heart of Adelaide-based Fiona Hall's work, and her botanical passions have often brought her in close proximity to Aboriginal Australia. This is cleverly suggested in "Prism" by placing her cabinet of glass-beaded native flora and fauna, Understorey, 1999-2004, in the anteroom to a gallery of work by mainly women artists from the Central Australian settlement of Utopia, whose riotous desert-flower colorfields appear to wink at Hall's work...