The Animal Cell - view two

by Gloria Ssali

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$5,000

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50.000 x 100.000 inches

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The Animal Cell - view two

Artist

Gloria Ssali

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Sculpture - Ceramics

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Endangerment- Both species of gorilla are endangered,and have been subject to intense poaching for a long time. Threats to gorilla survival include habitat destruction and the bushmeat trade. In 2004 a population of several hundred gorillas in the Odzala National Park, Republic of Congo was essentially wiped out by the Ebola virus.A 2006 study published in Science concluded that more than 5,000 gorillas may have died in recent outbreaks of the Ebola virus in central Africa. The researchers indicated that in conjunction with commercial hunting of these apes, the virus creates "a recipe for rapid ecological extinction." Conservation efforts include the Great Ape Survival Project, a partnership between the United Nations Environment Programme and the UNESCO, and also an international treaty, the Agreement on the Conservation of Gorillas and Their Habitats, concluded under UNEP-administered Convention on Migratory Species. The Gorilla Agreement is the first legally binding instrument exclusively targeting Gorilla conservation and came into effect on 1 June 2008.

I have tried to represent this danger to extinction in a way the gorilla is in a cell and as an animal with such a close relation to humans should encourage compassion to free it from its fate - The Animal Cell

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January 30th, 2011

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