Biophile Design

Happy International Day of Biodiversity!!!

Always moving forward together for environmental conservation.

First frog of the Peru 2023 Amazon trip! A juvenile South American common toad, Rhinella margaritifera. As adults these guys grow crests above and behind their eyes 👀

Exciting news!! Biophile will be in one of the most pristine tropical rainforests left on the planet for the next 6 MONTHS! Stay tuned for a TON of awesome nature photos, videos, and conservation stories from southern Peru, starting Monday, February 27th! 🌍 🐸

Maybe one of the best science graphics you will ever see! 😁 in 2021, Inaka & Kimura found that bathing in Japanese hot springs improves skin health of Capybaras! And even found that capys close their eyes and enjoy the baths when most comfortable 🛁

Read the article here:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-03102-4.pdf

📷 (C) Scientific Reports 2021 - Kengo Inaka and Tohru Kimura

When you’re the result of millions of years of evolution and end up as an overgrown lizard with an overbite 😅 Sorry Casea broilii, you’re beautiful on the inside!

Today the Monarch butterfly, a
cultural icon of North America was internationally listed as endangered (World Conservation Congress]). The Monarch is one of very few invertebrates which has received the benefit of international attention and conservation actions, and yet still is perilously threatened with extinction; imagine the state of the thousands of other native species which had not had that opportunity while habitat destruction, exploding development, and pesticide use have run rampant across our planet.

The best ways to help monarchs and their habitat is to:
1) Plant milkweed *native to your area*
2) Do not use pesticides, and discourage their use everywhere.
3) If you have a yard, plant as many native plants and flowers as you can to bolster pollinator populations, including monarchs.
4) Share what you know with others!
5) Provide optimal habitat for monarchs, with more details here:
https://blog.nwf.org/2015/02/saving-monarchs/

Only together can we help save this iconic species!




For more information also follow:

World Conservation Congress]

📷 Kenneth Dwain Harrelson CC BY-SA 3.0

You can join me again today at the 2022 Art Fair on the Square in Madison, WI today until 5PM! Thanks for everyone who has stopped by, and hello to my new followers. 10% of all sales from this weekend will go to support habitat conservation in Colombia with !

Happy Earth Day! We are happy to announce that 10% of our sales from tomorrow’s SpringFest in Madison, WI (Warner Park Community Center from 9AM-3PM) will go to the Ecotonos Foundation of Colombia. This donation will go directly towards maintaining a nature preserve in the “Valle de Cauca” one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth. You can also come snag this BRAND NEW monarch butterfly print!!

🌍 Happy World Wildlife Day! 🦅 Today we celebrate what makes our planet so special: the incredible diversity of life found in every corner of our planet. Today we celebrate the wildlife that makes our planet so vibrant, our cultures more rich, and our lives more fulfilling. We also today recognize that our way of living is dramatically impacting the very character of our planet. Wildlife populations have collapsed dramatically over the past 50 years. The 2020 WWF Living Planet Report indicated that humans have caused a 68% decrease in wildlife populations globally between 1970-2016, a terrifying loss when considering the role all wildlife plays in maintaining a healthy and habitable planet.

It’s on all of us to be aware of the impacts we have on our planet and relentlessly push for leadership that puts the planet first, and the planet before profits.
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Biophile Design pledges 5% of all sales of our art to supporting leading conservation organizations worldwide.
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Today and every day we strive to pursue a more just world: one that Dr. King so passionately advocated for. We remember him today not only as a leader in the civil rights movement in the United States, but a visionary for human, labor, and environmental rights. “It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.” -Martin Luther King Jr., Christmas 1967

Madison, come check us out at Art Fair on the Square today until 6:00 and tomorrow 10:00-5:00 on the capital square! 10% of sales are donated to The Madison Audubon Society. 🦅