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This year for Remembrance Day for Lost Species, November 30th, Writers Rebel are bringing together 20 writers from around the globe including Margaret Atwood, Amitav Ghosh, Elizabeth Kolbert, Ben Okri, Homero Aridjis and others to each tell\u00a0 the story of one animal. Please join us<\/a> for this free landmark event. Below, Writers Rebel member Alex Lockwood<\/strong> writes about the need to share the stories of those animals most threatened with extinction.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Shifting Baseline Syndrome is the phenomenon by which each new generation accepts the reduced, the fewer, the denuded, the gone. It is a concept 25 years old this year, introduced in 1995 by fisheries scientist Daniel Pauly to explain how each new generation of scientists, unaware of how full the seas had been before, \u201caccepts as a baseline the population size and species composition that occurred at the beginning of their careers.\u201d This acceptance led, for these scientists, to \u201ca gradual accommodation of the creeping disappearance\u201d of species.<\/p>\n

Do you remember the giant murmurations over Brighton pier? The glittering of starlings? <\/em>The schools of mackerel? The season of May flies, June bugs?<\/em><\/p>\n

In the absence of past information or experience with historical conditions, write scientists Masashi Soga and Kevin Gaston, members of each new generation accept the situation in which they were raised as being \u2018normal\u2019. Shifting Baseline Syndrome is increasingly recognized as one of the central obstacles to addressing today\u2019s climate and ecological emergencies.<\/p>\n

Did you live through the winter of 1963? When was<\/strong> your last cold winter?<\/em><\/p>\n

The shifting baseline is like last week\u2019s Irish bog slip<\/a>, a glacial frack, \u201ccreeping\u201d and slow, but actually, when it arrives, oh so quick. Change happens suddenly. The timeline is not geological. It is anthroposcenic<\/em>. A persistent downgrading of what is perceived as normal. For every sequential generation, as other scientists put it, it leads to \u201cunder-estimation of the true magnitude of long-term environmental change on a global scale.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you do not remember, who does? Which elders tell you what animals were there?<\/em><\/p>\n

Which is one of the reasons why numbers do not move us as they should. The numbers (32,000 species\u2014or 32,001 if you include humans) (a quarter of all species assessed by the IUCN<\/a>) (billions of individual animals, insects) at threat of extinction\u2014but they do not move us. (Since 1970, over 60% of the planet’s animals killed by human activity.) The shifting baseline muddles our brains; it registers for us, wretchedly for other animals, as more perceptual than mathematic.<\/p>\n

A generational amnesia.<\/em><\/p>\n

Instead of numbers at scale, our experience<\/em> of the world we live in matters most to understanding. Our brains cannot compute the vast losses; we turn instead to bodily encounters with other beings. We need our fingers in wet fur. Our ears to the morning chorus. Or as one social media post put it, \u201cstanding out in the shitty rain for seven hours hoping to see more than a duck\u201d is what connects us to the world. To the insects, trees, flowers, birds, mammals.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are falling from the sky, and I cannot bear it.\u201d <\/em>Massachusetts birdwatcher, Silent Spring, 1962<\/em><\/p>\n

Numbers run together into a mass, amassing weight, but not shape. It is the undercurrent of the shifting baseline that it is a syndrome<\/em> (from the Greek sun-<\/em>, \u201ctogether\u201d, and dramein<\/em>, \u201cto run\u201d) that even when there are less, fewer, almost, none, when the percentages are so great (80% of the Tasmanian Devil) we still see them as outlines, little more than shadows (96.8% of tigers in the last 20 years). Then gone.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Would you recognise the flight of the mouse-eared bat? <\/em>Do you know the song of the Old World Warbler? <\/em>Who will tell their story?<\/em><\/p>\n

There is no immunity from extinction in the herd. Science can offer us only so much. So, we tell stories to remember. Writers have always made attempts to help readers connect with an animal\u2019s experience, and perhaps help us learn about our behaviour towards them. From Anna Sewell\u2019s Black Beauty<\/em> to Hazel and Bigwig in Watership Down<\/em> to Lydia Millet\u2019s extraordinary Love in Infant Monkeys<\/em> to antipodean writer Laura Jean McKay\u2019s new novel The Animals in That Country<\/em>. (McKay imagines a scenario in which a pandemic\u2014how did she know?\u2014enables people to communicate with animals.) With fewer animals left it is the tales we tell, that writers imagine, that bring us back to the pawprints, the spraint, the wet nose, the bird of paradise, paradise.<\/p>\n

I wait to take a photo but the Starlings aren\u2019t here. <\/em>They\u2019re gone.<\/em><\/p>\n

How can one tackle the climate and animal emergencies we face, and tackle them creatively, with so much unmooring us? In a time of pandemic? Created, let us not forget, by our encroachment into wild habitats; our industrialisation of animals in the food system; our pressures on wild food stocks so great that free living animals become weak and susceptible to viruses that they would otherwise be able to fight off. The coronavirus jumps from animal (perhaps a pangolin) to animal (perhaps a bat) to human (perhaps me) to animal (perhaps a mink) to human (perhaps you) to\u2014. and the next pandemic will be worse. It probably already is.<\/p>\n

Time for a Recount. Critically Endangered. <\/em><\/p>\n

Cape Flats Frog. 1 of 32,000.<\/em><\/p>\n

The pandemic has crystallised the difficulty we face. But it was with us anyway, with eddies and surges and breaks under the climate and animal emergencies. The great sixth extinction of species; but no longer a loss; with each new reset of the baseline, our experience of what is out there creeps down<\/em> on us. We are all running together inside the crises, human and animal, lost and numberless. We are caught in the syndrome, shifting, baselining, not even asking how many?<\/em> how many were there?<\/em><\/p>\n

Northern Moss Frog. 2 of 32,000.<\/em><\/p>\n

Williams\u2019 Bright Eyed Frog. 3 of 32,000.<\/em><\/p>\n

Red-legged Fire-Millipede. 4 of 32,000.<\/em><\/p>\n

How should we write, and read, about our fellow beings, those vulnerable, like us, to extinction and heat death in a warming world? \u201cWe mustn\u2019t shirk from knowing how animals are being treated,\u201d writes Joanna Lilley in the collection Writing for Animals<\/em>. \u201cWe must not look away. \u2026 When I stand for hours in galleries of extinct animals, sometimes I don\u2019t think I can do it anymore. But bearing witness gives me a place to stand and look, and a defendable reason for standing and looking.\u201d<\/p>\n

Espa\u00f1ola Giant Tortoise. 5 of 32,000<\/em><\/p>\n

They are dying and I cannot bear it.<\/em><\/p>\n

Where are the starlings?<\/em><\/p>\n

The kittiwakes? <\/em><\/p>\n

The puffins?<\/em><\/p>\n

Scientists tell us the key to these memories is intergenerational learning. The perceptions of older generations who can tell us \u201chow abundant the skies! When I was a young woman\u2026 a younger man…\u201d Of the murmurations. The flocks. The fields full of flies. \u201cEven though older participants had a longer time over which to remember,\u201d the scientists write, \u201cthey recall past conditions that are more consistent with the biological dataset.\u201d Including the passing down of the stories they remember having been told by their<\/em> elders.<\/p>\n

The stories we tell of how many there were, <\/em>and who they were\u2014<\/em><\/p>\n

it is these we need to keep telling. <\/em>Who will tell their story?<\/em><\/p>\n

On Monday 30th<\/sup> November, Remembrance Day for Lost Species 2020, we will listen to their stories, told by some of the world\u2019s leading writers. Please join us<\/a>. We could select only a few. \u00a0But this is not<\/em> a new baseline. It is a remembering of what has been lost, and a clarion call for who we can still save. Here then, is our cast:<\/p>\n

Vaquita Porpoise<\/strong>, smallest marine mammal, each of you the 12 remaining<\/p>\n

says Homero Aridjis<\/strong>, I will tell your story.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tasmanian Devil<\/strong>, decimated by cancer and climate<\/p>\n

says Margaret Atwood<\/strong>, I will tell your story.<\/em><\/p>\n

Pangolin<\/strong>, you most trafficked animal in the world<\/p>\n

says Wu Ming-Yi<\/strong>, I will tell your story.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tiger<\/strong>, hunted to near extinction for your skin and bone<\/p>\n

says Ben Okri<\/strong>, I will tell your story.<\/em><\/p>\n

Puffin<\/strong>, you who have declined by as much as 42% over the last five years<\/p>\n

says Emma Thompson<\/strong>, I will tell your story.<\/em><\/p>\n

Rusty-Patched Bumble Bee<\/strong>, bombus affinis<\/em>! but only 0.1% left<\/p>\n

says Lily Cole<\/strong>, I will tell your story.<\/em><\/p>\n

Snow Leopard<\/strong>, most elusive, most hunted, only 4,000 of you<\/p>\n

says Judy Ling Wong<\/strong>, I will tell your story.<\/em><\/p>\n

Chimpanzee<\/strong>, our closest kin, hunkered down in threatened forests<\/p>\n

says Sangu Iyer<\/strong>, I will tell your story.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sumatran Rhino<\/strong>, no more than 80 who remain<\/p>\n

says Elizabeth Kolbert<\/strong>, I will tell your story.<\/em><\/p>\n

Elephant<\/strong>, great matriarch, elder, last of the extinct afrotherians<\/p>\n

says Prerna Singh Bindra<\/strong>, I will tell your story.<\/em><\/p>\n

Irrawaddy Dolphin<\/strong>, 92 of you all, ocean gods who loved the river<\/p>\n

says Amitav Ghosh<\/strong>, I will tell your story<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Black Tailed Monkey<\/strong>, mischievous heart of a sanctuary also at threat<\/p>\n

says Laura Coleman<\/strong>, I will tell your story.<\/em><\/p>\n

Giraffe<\/strong>, less than 100,000 of you to grace the plains<\/p>\n

says Emily Walker<\/strong>, I will tell your story.<\/em><\/p>\n

Orangutan<\/strong>, old man of the burning forest<\/p>\n

says Lydia Millet<\/strong>, I will tell your story.<\/em><\/p>\n

Northern Quoll<\/strong>, njanmak<\/em> to the Mayali, poisoned and entrapped<\/p>\n

says Laura Jean McKay<\/strong>, I will tell your story.<\/em><\/p>\n

Eastern Gorilla<\/strong>, largest living primate, critically endangered<\/p>\n

says Bianca Jagger<\/strong>, I will tell your story.<\/em><\/p>\n

Marine turtle<\/strong>, seven species, six who are almost gone<\/p>\n

says Nana Oforiatta Ayim<\/strong>,<\/p>\n

I will tell your story.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Please join us on Monday 30th<\/sup> November 7pm GMT for the free <\/strong>On the Brink<\/strong><\/a>, comp\u00e9red by The Urban Birder David Lindo<\/strong>, BBC Springwatch’s Gillian Burke<\/strong>, the Natural History Museum’s entomology expert Dr Erica McAlister<\/strong>, and Mya-Rose Craig<\/strong>, aka BirdgirlUK. <\/strong><\/p>\n

For more information about Lost Species Day, visit Remembrance Day for Lost Species.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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