A chart and some thoughts. That is all.
There are 2,106 species of plants and animals on the threatened species list in Australia, and just over 50% of these are a class of flowering plants called Magnoliopsida. Wattle, Banksia, Baronia, Quandong, Gums, Grevillea…all of these beautiful plants that I get a lot of enjoyment from every day are in trouble. The chart for week 6 revisits the data set I used back in Week 1. Because I am still open-mouthed that so many threatened species fall under the Magnoliopsida umbrella. There are thirty eight entire families of Magnoliopsida that are critically endangered - with many species that sit underneath that.
I used the tidyverse to wrangle and organise my data and prepare a base chart, that I exported took into Illustrator. I used a tutorial by Valentina D'Efilippo on Domestika as my inspiration.
I’ve attached a PDF so you can zoom right in and see the families of Magnoliopsida that we need to look out for, plant more of, and write in to our politicians and scream about. There is so much to scream about right now.
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This newsletter was created on Gadigal Land. Just up the river from where I live, pictures and marks were made on rocks to share stories about the world with others, and they were put there tens of thousands of years ago. I want to acknowledge that this tradition of story telling and using images to communicate and pass on information is nothing new - and the Custodians of this unceded land were here, and doing it first.