Sunday, January 25, 2009

Conservation cartograms | Conservation Magazine

This is from a magazine that we subscribe to and read regularly - Self described as follows:
"Without being heavy handed, without preaching, pleading, or bias, we take on key environmental issues, explore them from novel angles and bring cutting-edge science to the table.

Thought this map/cartoon might be of interest to everyone."

Conservation cartograms | Conservation Magazine

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2 comments:

Helen said...

Les, I'm sorry but I dont really get it. Are the colored things supposed to look like cartoon characters? Are they countries (continents)?

I thought you were going to post Alder's new exercise in unfolding towels....Dad had a chuckle when I told him. Love, Mom

jbulluck said...

Its a rendition of a world map where countries are "swollen" or "shrunken" to display their relative contribution/expression of whatever the title of each map is. If you click through the slides it'll make more sense.