Sunday, 17 February 2013

Biodiverse knitting


Biodiversity is one of the things we are passionate about here in the KnitPiC network. It's no secret that there is an extinction crisis going on here on the planet. This is because habitats are being lost at a rate of knots. And human activities have a lot to do with this.

We have been knitting furiously in an attempt to understand what these extinctions mean. If three-quarters of all species thought to live on Earth do so in rainforests, and rainforests are being cut down at the substantial rate of about half a percent per year, what happens to this percentage when there’s a catastrophic fire or a meteorite explosion in the forest?

In our knitting and sewing, our darning and crochet, we are working on a pattern for the ecosystems. We rely on them as much as other creatures on the planet and we want to keep them strong. 

Yours in song
Mrs Polly Ester

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