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Endangered Fauna on the Tree of Life
Published in The Jakarta Post: August 18, 2009
By Rafadi Hakim
"All living things come from a single ancestor, a single root. Hence, we have represented Indonesia's amazing biodiversity in a 'tree of life' with all its branches," said Agus Prijono, illustrator of 98 beautiful yet scientifically accurate drawings of endangered species in Indonesia.
As he spoke, he stood in a room decorated in bold greens and browns with a wooden mural of a tree, surprisingly a description of Darwin's theory of evolutionary lineages.
Agus Prijono and Piet Eggen were the two illustrators of the works shown in PILI (Pusat Informasi Lingkungan Hidup) Green-Indonesia's exhibition, "Revisiting Darwin's Tree of Life: Biodiversity of Indonesia, Drawings of Threatened Beauty", at the Erasmus Huis, Jakarta, which was opened Aug. 11 with the support of the Ford Foundation.
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