濒危纹身:志愿者通过纹身帮助拯救物种 [幻灯片]

哺乳动物、植物,甚至真菌都被纹在为它们象征物的生存而战的人们身上

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慈善捐款以帮助保护濒危物种是一回事。但是,您会为了拯救哺乳动物、植物甚至真菌而纹上永久性的身体艺术吗?三年前,英国的100名男女——普通人,而不是科学家——就这样做了。他们每个人都接受了纹身,纹上了一种他们誓言要帮助保护的物种。一个赞扬这些纹身倡导者的巡回展览即将结束,但该项目可能会催生更广泛的推广工作。

这个名为extInked的项目是由英国曼彻斯特的终极控股公司构思的——这是一个由自由艺术家组成的集体,他们试图利用艺术来引发对令人不安的社会问题的讨论。2009年,该集体与自然资源保护主义者合作,确定了英国100种珍稀濒危物种,然后请来艺术家在为期三天的公众马拉松活动中为100名志愿者纹身。哺乳动物、两栖动物、爬行动物、鸟类、鱼类、无脊椎动物、植物和四种真菌被纹在了乐于助人的“大使”的颈部、手臂、腿部和背部。

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从那时起,志愿者们在会议上发表演讲,分发文献资料,与保护组织一起筹集资金,参加展览,并承担与他们收养的物种相关的其他积极分子角色。“大使们将艺术界、生态界、科学界和纹身界聚集在一起,”终极控股的项目经理凯特·霍尔顿说。“该项目是鼓励对话的一种创造性方式。”霍尔顿说,来自加拿大、巴西和韩国等遥远地区的人们在看到或读到关于纹身大使的文章后,也开始关注相关事业。

该展览以所有100名志愿者及其纹身的专业照片以及关于他们物种的信息为特色,即将在英国拉格比的拉格比艺术画廊和博物馆进行最后一次展出。霍尔顿说,展览定于11月10日闭幕,但其他画廊现在有兴趣恢复巡展。终极控股公司也在其他国家寻找合作组织,以启动类似的项目。

extInked项目也可能正在激发独立的努力。加利福尼亚州湾区的一个名为Tatzoo的组织已经举办了几次训练营,以培训志愿者成为当地动植物保护的领导者。毕业生将获得证书和他们选择的濒危物种的纹身。

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Mark Fischetti has been a senior editor at 大众科学 for 17 years and has covered sustainability issues, including climate, weather, environment, energy, food, water, biodiversity, population, and more. He assigns and edits feature articles, commentaries and news by journalists and scientists and also writes in those formats. He edits History, the magazine's department looking at science advances throughout time. He was founding managing editor of two spinoff magazines: 大众科学 Mind and 大众科学 Earth 3.0. His 2001 freelance article for the magazine, "Drowning New Orleans," predicted the widespread disaster that a storm like Hurricane Katrina would impose on the city. His video What Happens to Your Body after You Die?, has more than 12 million views on YouTube. Fischetti has written freelance articles for the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Fast Company, and many others. He co-authored the book Weaving the Web with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, which tells the real story of how the Web was created. He also co-authored The New Killer Diseases with microbiologist Elinor Levy. Fischetti is a former managing editor of IEEE Spectrum Magazine and of Family Business Magazine. He has a physics degree and has twice served as the Attaway Fellow in Civic Culture at Centenary College of Louisiana, which awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2021 he received the American Geophysical Union's Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism, which celebrates a career of outstanding reporting on the Earth and space sciences. He has appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, CNN, the History Channel, NPR News and many news radio stations. Follow Fischetti on X (formerly Twitter) @markfischetti

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