This page provides an opportunity for the global community to participate in commemorating the annual extinction of 27,000 plant and animal species.

The Memorial project has been designed to heighten individual and community awareness of the annual global extinction rate. It is a worldwide collaborative project that will involve many people in creating an artwork. The artwork will provide a physical and visual reminder of the estimated 27,000 species of plants and animals lost forever through extinction each year.   

You are invited to participate by cutting out a shape from a 5cm x 5cm piece of paper to commemorate the loss of a species and sending it to us. Your contribution will be placed in a pocket of the artwork.

You may also like to participate as a school or community group by:

• cutting out shapes;
• contributing information to the website; or
• exhibiting the Memorial project in a local exhibition venue.

It is our hope that participation in the Memorial project will foster a deeper understanding of the fragility of living entities and a greater concern for the biodiversity that we have inherited. We hope that participating in the Memorial Project by contributing a shape, or viewing the final artwork, will generate an increased sense of urgency to care for and nurture our fragile planet, upon which all life depends.

An artist's impression of the memorial on completion.