ENDANGERED: Fine Art & Photography Contest 2021 Submission

Living in South Florida I see the impact of humans on nature every day. One example is the devastation caused by releases of Burmese pythons into Everglade’s decades ago. The python was a consumer product, purchased and then disposed of with terrible consequences. In some areas of the Everglades, it is estimated the pythons are responsible for close to 99% reductions of native species like a racoons, opossums, rabbits, foxes and birds. As the pythons eat and decimate all around them, they are the only species left and they eat each other. This mosaic is about encroachment of human consumerism into the wild. Whether it is the killing of apes or keeping and releasing of dangerous invasive snakes, the root cause is our human collective never-ending hunger for more stuff. Eventually we too might be the only species left. There is an estimate of 400 wild flamingos in Florida, flamingos are not considered a threatened or endangered species by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

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