Description
A taxidermy of a South Island Kokako from Auckland Museum is backlit with the etched mountains of Te Wahipounamu, from the Atlas of Australasia 1888.
Last seen in 1967, there is a $10,000 reward out for anyone who can locate the South Island Kƶkako – their last stronghold was Mt Aspiring in the background, a remote alpine region of NZ. The area is managed every year with intensive pest control, upholding a 70-year-long agricultural tradition.
Reports of bird-song have kept the SI Kokako off the official extinction list for now.
The background text is from a application with the Royal Zoological Society London EDGE of Extinction project (by Justine Philip) 2024.
Photomontage screen print, acrylic on 285gsm Fabriano Rosaspina printmaking paper 285gsm. 70 x 50cm
Edition of 3 [2 available]
