1. Manx Nature 2050

2. Manx Nature 2050
We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth super-highway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road — the one less traveled — offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.”
From Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (Sep 1962)

3. Conservation isn’t working Biodiversity misses the point
Manx Nature 2050
I would suggest:
Conservation isn’t working
Biodiversity misses the point
It’s all about the long game

4. Last bird standing (i.e. singing!) = House Sparrow
Please turn up your volume An extinction audioline of Manx birds Very roughly in past and likely future chronological order. Approx 1min 36 secs.
Last bird standing (i.e. singing!) = House Sparrow
Even our common’all’garden sparrows are suffering massive declines

5. Manx Nature 2050?

6. Manx Nature 2050: Findlay gets it!

7. BirdLife
Manx
For birds. For everyone
What is to be our legacy?
“We know the pain of looking at our children and saying, what I had when I was your age I can't give you.”
Michael Goldfarb 30 March 2016
What will be our legacy to our children?
A world that is poorer than when we inherited it?

8. Conservation isn’t working… Biodiversity misses the point…
Manx Nature 2050
Conservation isn’t working…
It’s still a rear-guard action – firefighting
Biodiversity misses the point…
Give us bioabundance and bioomnipresence
It’s all about the long game…
Demand our leaders think epochs not elections

9. Manx Nature 2050? This… Manx BirdLife
For birds. For everyone
Manx Nature 2050? This…
“… but where are all the birds?” asked Pooh.
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10. Manx Nature 2050? Or this? Manx BirdLife
“Just look at all the birds!” exclaimed Christopher Robin.
BirdLife
Manx
For birds. For everyone
Manx Nature 2050? Or this?
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