BLACK-THROATED FINCH PROJECT
Twenty original postcard collages made especially for the Black-throated Finch Project 2019, which became a zine in February, 2020.
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Black-throated Finch Project
2019
Twenty original postcard collages made especially for the Black-throated Finch Project 2019
Our contribution to the Black-throated Finch Project, initiated by Charlotte Watson.
Six of the originals were posted directly to politicians by way of protest. The fourteen remaining postcards are available through our online store, with all proceeds from their sale to be donated by us to Birdlife Australia.
The Black-throated finch is an endangered bird found in small populations in Queensland. One of these fragile populations is currently under threat from the proposed Adani Carmichael mine in the Galilee Basin.
“Adani is saying the birds can just fly somewhere else — well, I’m afraid to say there are very few places left for our threatened species to just fly somewhere else, so that’s just a joke.”
“The southern race of the Black-throated Finch is listed as Endangered under national, Queensland and NSW laws. It is thought to have become extinct in NSW, where it was last seen in 1994 and according to the Black-throated Finch Recovery Team, the extent of its occurrence has contracted by 80 per cent over the last 30 years.
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If the Carmichael mine goes ahead, there will be two pits, approximately 21 and 14 kilometres long by about 8 kilometres across, which, along with associated infrastructure and underground mining areas, will take up an area of around 350 square kilometres. Carmichael will likely destroy over 16,500 hectares of Black-throated finch habitat. The mine was approved by the Australian Government in 2014.”
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#STOPADANI
BLACK-THROATED FINCH, BIRDLIFE AUSTRALIA
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Poephila cincta
February, 2020
Digital print zine
Edition of 100
A 10.5cm X 15cm, 24 page colour zine with front and back colour covers on card, and a brown cardboard spine.
A zine featuring all 20 original postcard collages, Poephila cincta was released into the wild at the 2020 Sticky Institute Festival of the Photocopier Zine Fair on Sunday the 9th of February.
Sticky poster designed by Tim Sta-Ana
