Love Letters, Sources
Adkins, Collette, Lawsuit Filed Over Trump Administration Failure to Update Plan to Save Red Wolves, Center for Biological Diversity,
Aguilera, Jasmine, The Trump Administration's Changes to the Endangered Species Act Risks Pushing More Species to Extinction, Time, August 14, 2019, https://time.com/5651168/trump-endangered-species-act/
Attenborough, Sir David, The 60 Minutes Interview, https://youtube.com/watch?v=Li5Xi9mlvDg
Breimann, Kate, We must save wildlife if we are ever going to save ourselves, Bay Journal, November 20, 2019, updated July 10, 2020, https://www.bayjournal.com/opinion/forum/we-must-save-wildlife-if-we-are-ever-going-to-save-ourselves/article_c1a32755-73dd-5f27-938e-057056bc1e9a.html
Butchart, Stuart H.M., Lowe, Stephen, Martin, Rob W., Symes, Andy, Westrip, James R.S., Wheatley, Hannah, Which bird species have gone extinct? A novel quantitative classification approach, Biological Conservation, Volume 227, November 2018, Pages 9-18, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320718308012
Clark, Raymond B. Jr., Historical Handkerchiefs, Fenimore Art Museum, New York History, Vol. 36, No. 2, April, 1955, pp 189-196
Friedman, Lisa, U.S. Significantly Weakens Endangered Species Act, New York Times, Aug. 12, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/climate/endangered-species-act-changes.html
Grandoni, Dino and Fears, Darryl, Biden administration moves to bring back endangered species protections undone under Trump, Washington Post, June 4, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/06/04/biden-endangered-species/
Klare, Michael, Rethinking Our Relationship to the Natural World After Covid-19, The Nation, April 3, 2020, https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/coronavirus-nature
Kolbert, Elizabeth, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2014
Langley, Liz, What is extinction? The answer is complicated, National Geographic, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/reference/extinction-wild-endangered-species/
National Audubon Society, Audubon California; New Audubon Science: Two-Thirds of North American Birds at Risk of Extinction Due to Climate Change, https://ca.audubon.org/news/new-audubon-science-two-thirds-north-american-birds-risk-extinction-due-climate-change
Osborn, Emma, The Political Handkerchief, A Study of Politics and Semiotics in Textiles, The Textile Society of America 13th Biennial Symposium: Textiles and Politics, 2012, https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1721&context=tsaconf
Rubenstein, Leni, The Great Art of China’s Soundless Poems, Fidelio, Spring, 1999, The Schiller Institute
Scholtz, Werner, Ed., Animal Welfare and International Environmental Law: From Conservation to Compassion, New Horizons in Environmental and Energy Law series, Edward Elgar, 2019
J. Walston, K.U. Karanth, and E.J. Stokes. 2010. Avoiding the Unthinkable: What Will it Cost to Prevent Tigers Becoming Extinct in the Wild? Wildlife Conservation Society, New York. July, 2015; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279976890_Avoiding_the_Unthinkable_What_Will_it_Cost_to_Prevent_Tigers_Becoming_Extinct_in_the_Wild
Wuerthner, George, Crist, Eileen, Butler, Tom, eds, Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth, Island Press, Washington, DC, 2014
Websites
The Cousteau Society, https://www.cousteau.org/
The Endangered Species Act, https://www.fws.gov/laws/lawsdigest/esact.html
The Endangered Species Coalition, https://www.endangered.org
The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Red List, https://www.iucnredlist.org/
The Jane Goodall Institute, https://www.janegoodall.org/
World Wildlife Organization, Species Directory, https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/directory?direction=desc&sort=extinction_status
Species’ Notes
Franklin’s Bumblebee, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/135295/4070259
Wyoming Toad, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/54583/11155140
Florida Panther, https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Mammals/Florida-Panther
https://www.wtsp.com/article/life/animals/four-florida-panthers-killed-in-2020-so-far/67-895dd8d9-612f-4dab-8bb6-d878b78b0842
Staghorn Coral, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/133381/3716457
Bowhead Whale,
Kit M. Kovacs, Christian Lydersen, Jade Vacquiè-Garcia, Olga Shpak, Dmitry Glazov, Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen, The endangered Spitsbergen bowhead whales' secrets revealed after hundreds of years in hiding, 10 June 2020, https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0148
Peter O. Thomas, Randall R. Reeves, Robert L. Brownell, Jr., Status of the World's Baleen Whales, Marine Mammal Science, December, 2015
Maltese Ray, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/61405/48954483
White-Bellied Heron, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22697021/134201407
Blue-tailed Skink, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/102327291/102327566
Scimatar Oryx, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/15568/50191470
Hooded Grebe, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22696628/145837361
Tango in the Wind, Birdlife International and Aves Argentina, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCVd34iHMP0
Apparition Orchid, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/44392250/44416391
Forest Gardenia, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/30927/9593228
Vaquita, https://porpoise.org/save-the-vaquita/
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/10/12/saving-the-vaquita-marina-and-the-urgency-of-this-fall/
Mexican Grey Wolf, https://www.endangered.org/animals/mexican-gray-wolf/
https://www.endangeredwolfcenter.org/educational-resources/mexican-wolf/
Artists, Images, Audio
Byars, James Lee, The Perfect Love Letter is I Write I Love You Backward in the Air, ©James Lee Byars, 1974, https://www.wikiart.org/en/james-lee-byars/the-perfect-love-letter-is-i-write-i-love-you-backwards-in-the-air-1974
Denes, Agnes, Why Did Agnes Denes Create This Wheatfield in New York?;
https://publicdelivery.org/agnes-denes-wheatfield/
Dine Sand Painting: https://navajopeople.org/navajo-sand-painting.htm
Forman, Zaria, https://www.zariaforman.com/
Hesse, Eva, https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.10136.html#works
https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/08/thoughts-on-replication-and-the-work-of-eva-hesse
https://nga.gov.au/international/catalogue/detail.cfm?IRN=49353
Long, Richard, http://www.richardlong.org/
Prince of Wales Commemorative Handkerchief , https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O86723/handkerchief/
Tibetan Sand Painting Dispersal Ceremony, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MandalaSable2008-17.JPG
Tricolored Blackbird, Agelaius tricolor, Steve Hampton, Yolo County, CA, 2003 , https://www.xeno-canto.org/562181
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
World Map, Hammer Projection, www.freeworldmaps.net
Zhou, Shen, Turtledove Calling for Rain, https://www.comuseum.com/painting/masters/shen-zhou/turtledove-calling-for-rain/