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All over Europe there is a dramatic decline of insects, plants and birds to be registered

Artist: Antonia Kühn

Antonia Kühn© Antonia Kühn / LE MONDE diplomatique
All over Europe there is a dramatic decline of insects, plants and birds to be registered.

Pinnatipartite mugwort, last evidenced around 1900 at the river Elbe.

Osiris blue butterfly, last seen 1923.

Rosy grizzled skipper, last seen 1928.

Tiny tipped sedge, last seen 1950.

Lesser grey shrike, last seen 1987.

There are more than 7000 species of cornflakes worldwide.

Danube clouded yellow, last seen 2000.

And they are multiplying by the day.


Antonia Kühn Portrait Antonia Kühn
Antonia Kühn was born in 1979 in Potsdam. Later she moved to Kiel where she studied communication design. Afterwards she studied film at the HfBK and illustration at the HAW in Hamburg, where she lives with her family and also runs a small animation studio. Her works have been exhibited several times at the International Comix Festival FUMETTO in Lucerne and at the Comicfestival Hamburg. In 2018, her first comic Lichtung was published by Reprodukt.
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