IUCN Pronouns for Threatened Species

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) categorises species into the following labels:

DD: Data deficient

LC: Least Concern

NT: Near-threatened

Vu: Vulnerable

En: Endangered

Cr: Critically endangered

EW: Extinct in the Wild

Ex: Extinct

NE: Not evaluated

The cartoon appears in my column with Roundglass Sustain. The entire archive of Green Huour comics published on Roundglass is on https://roundglasssustain.com/green-humour

In case you’re wondering where you’ve seen that moose before, it’s this comic on COP 27 and Biodiversity COP15!

Uses and Impacts of Palm Oil

Uses of palm oil versus impacts of palm oil. Meanwhile Malaysia just lost its last Sumatran Rhinoceros, and the critically endangered species is now extinct from the country.

Comic from my column with The Hindu.

Illegal Palm Oil

Redesigned logos of some companies sourcing illegal palm oil in Indonesia. Based on the findings of an investigation in Sumatra, Indonesia by Rainforest Action Network. Comic from my column with Sunday Mid-Day.

Batang Toru Dam and the Tapanuli Orangutan

The Batang Toru Hydropower Project and the Tapanuli Orangutan. From my column with Sunday Mid-Day.

Animals that Pout Better than You

Five animals whose pouts can give your Instagram profile a run for its money, the Slingjaw Wrasse being the mother of all pouts! From my column with Sunday Mid-day.

So please, pout with a purpose!

The Best Animal Moms

It's Mothers' Day tomorrow! Here's a comic from my column with BLink about five of the best moms from the wild- the elephant, the orangutan, the Harp Seal, the Giant Pacific Octopus and the sea louse. A happy Mothers' Day to all moms tame and wild!

Prints of the comic are available from my webstore here. For orders within India you can mail me on rohanchakcartoonist@gmail.com.

Orangutan Halloween

The orangutans celebrate Halloween on Green Humour just the way the tiger, the leopard, the rhino and the elephant did last year (http://greenhumour.blogspot.in/2012/10/halloween-in-wild.html). Fortunately for the orangutans, the anti-palm oil movement is getting stronger each day, but substantial measures still have to be implemented if we are to assure our intelligent cousins of a secure future. If you haven't renounced palm oil yet, do it NOW!

This work by Rohan Chakravarty is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Orangutans and Palm Oil

Palm oil companies have already destroyed 90 % of the Orangutan's habitat in Borneo and Sumatra. Orangutans that lose their homes and stray into the plantations are exterminated in brutal manners and the babies are sold in the illegal pet trade. Manufacturing palm oil is not only veritably unsustainable, but is also the biggest threat to the survival of Orangutans. Read more about this issue on http://www.saynotopalmoil.com/ 

This work by Rohan Chakravarty is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.