ARKive: Images of life on Earth www.arkive.org, Wildscreen Trust, Bristol, Reviewed by Fred Pearce
THE Tasmanian tiger is the new dodo, because we have it on film. Pacing endlessly up and down its cage back in 1936, the last animal awaits the doom of its species. You can watch it forever in the new virtual Noah’s Ark, now online at www.arkive.org.
ARKive is a stirring enterprise: it aims to store and make endlessly available stills, footage and sounds of hundreds, eventually thousands, of rare, endangered, totemic and just plain cuddly species of animals, plants and insects.
At one level…
