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"I drew them, to recognize their wordless story, and bound them into a book." Through illustration and environmental history, Ann-Marie Ezzy wrangles with Tasmania's past as a whaling outpost. Check out this latest story: extinctionstories.org/2022/0…

Our newest story tells the story of Tawake Eriata as she explores and resists multiple layers of unravelling connections to pandanus in Kiribati. Read it now here: extinctionstories.org/2022/0…

In this short film of object theatre, artist Daniel Kelin ruminates on the historic journeys of Pacific Islanders, and the imposition of the global on the local. extinctionstories.org/2021/0…

And finally, the winners for best story Australia were Katrina Schlunke and Hannah Stark for the piece 'Domains of Extinction', a meditation on diverse histories of the Hobart Domain and the famous Beaumaris Zoo. A huge thanks to all who submitted! extinctionstories.org/2020/0…

'NIU: The Tree of Life' by Vilsoni Hereniko is our competition winner for Hawai'i. This piece explores how coconut trees have become ornamental in Hawai'i, striking the author as symbols of lost identities. Congratulations Vilsoni. extinctionstories.org/2020/0…

Our winner for young Australian storyteller is Luciana Geuna, for 'The Coastal Affection', a story on the transformation and loss of coastlines around the world. Congratulations Luciana! extinctionstories.org/2020/0…

The competition winner for Fiji is Vazrick Nazari with the story 'The Coconut Moth of Fiji', about the moth's mysterious 1877 outbreak, and its subsequent biological control. Congratulations Vazrick! extinctionstories.org/2020/0…

Congratulations to Magnolia Cook! Our winner for Hawai'i young storyteller with her entry 'Free Wings', a short poem on the critically endangered ʻAlalā, or Hawaiian Crow. extinctionstories.org/2020/0…

Congratulations to A.M.V. Loerzel, storytelling competition winner for the Mariana Islands (CNMI and Guam), for the story 'Regrets'. A narrative which considers the struggle to hold on to memories of fading island ecosystems. extinctionstories.org/2020/0…

The winners of our 2020 storytelling competition have been announced. Congratulations to them all. extinctionstories.org/2020/1… Over the coming week we'll be posting a selection of their amazing stories here.

An Island fable about the coconut tree, this story explores how the trees have become ornamental in Hawai'i, especially in Waikiki and Honolulu, rather than a source of food and water. Coconut trees without coconuts become symbols of lost identities. extinctionstories.org/2020/0…

In a new post Lorraine Shannon looks to the history of diseases in bananas in Australia, exploring questions of memory, diversity, and loss in the colonial and monocultural space of the plantation. extinctionstories.org/2020/0…

Entries close in a few days for our storytelling competitions. Do you have a story to share about the loss of plants or animals in Oceania? extinctionstories.org/2020/0…

One species of Cycad has spread around Oceania by producing buoyant, seafaring seeds. In a new post, Anders Lindstrom writes of these ancient plants and their vulnerabilities to human driven environmental changes. extinctionstories.org/2020/0…

In Australia's Northern Territory, and elsewhere, Indigenous vocabularies do more than identify species. As linguist Nicholas Evans writes here, they also communicate a range of important ecological information. extinctionstories.org/2020/0…

Two decades ago wildlife biologist Arthur Medeiros founded the Auwahi project, a large-scale forest restoration project in the Hawaiian Islands. Here Arthur reflects on this project, and on thousands of years of human forest relations in Hawaii. extinctionstories.org/2020/0…

What happens to hope when you lose sense of a place? In a recently published story, a marine biologist meditates on what it means to float over a coral bay, taking notes as relationships come undone. extinctionstories.org/2020/0…