“We hope the Remembrance events will function as funerals for humans do,” Rachel Porter, a co-founder of Remembrance Day for Lost Species and a movement therapist, said. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A processional for the great auk during the Remembrance Day for Lost Species in 2011. Photograph: Persephone Pearl“Telling the stories of recently extinct species is a way of capturing people’s imaginations to this end,” said Pearl. No emotion is wrong, according to the founders of the Remembrance Day for Lost Species. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A child visits the ‘grave’ of Bombus franklini, a bee that went extinct in 2006, during the Funeral for Lost Species.

Source: The Guardian November 19, 2016 09:18 UTC