SOS
Save Our Species
From the first cave paintings of human-animal partnerships to modern day animal memes, human and animal lives have always been intertwined. While there are countless examples of mutualism between humans and animals, in recent years, this symbiosis has given way to parasitism in favor of the humans, and the ecological balance the planet has maintained for so many millennia is starting to tip.
About SOS
Save Our Species is an information visualization project that explores how human activities contributed to the gross imbalance between the human and animal world. We tell the stories of endangered species to illustrate specific human drivers of endangerment and their downstream impacts on the ecosystems we live in.
Drivers
A driver is defined as any natural or human-induced factor that directly or indirectly causes a change in an ecosystem. We focus on three anthropogenic drivers of extinction and loss of biodiversity: medicine, policy, and art. For each driver, we explore the ecological changes of human exploitation through the lens of an endangered species.
The Team
Mia Hart
Director of Barketing
Phoebe Lu
Branch Manager
Sharanya Soundararajan
Assistant Branch Manager