MISSION

Started by wildlife conservationists at Wildlife Asia, our mission with PARDICOLOR is to empower artists and communities where we work to create art, inspiring change and raising awareness on the critical issues that threaten wildlife and habitats today.

We believe that by empowering artists and supporting creative expression, we can help ourselves and the communities where we work to imagine an Earth that is sustainable and thriving with biodiversity.

GUIDING PRINCIPLES

These are our guiding principles that drive our mission to support artists and save Earth’s biological diversity.

THE RIGHT TO THRIVE

All creatures on Earth, that is, the millions of species that make up our planet’s ‘Biological Diversity’, deserve to exist and survive alongside humans in the Anthropocene.

THE RIGHT TO MAKE ART

All artists deserve to be supported, and everyone, where-ever they are, can be an artist. And, fostering creativity from diversity of people and places is key to realising our (a) vision of a future, sustainable and biodiverse Earth.

THE RIGHT TO KNOW

Everyone living on Earth deserves to know and experience the beauty of the multitude of species inhabiting our planet, and the healthy habitats they (should) live in.

OUR ORIGINS

At Wildlife Asia, our vision is a world where wildlife and wilderness thrives in harmony with people and culture. We work to conserve endangered species and threatened habitats across Southeast Asia, including the last place on earth where orangutans, tigers, rhinos and elephants all co-exist, the incredible Leuser Ecosystem in Aceh, Sumatra. You can learn more about our conservation programs at www.wildlifeasia.org.au

THE CREATIVE ARTS FUND

We support artists and communities across the world working to conserve wildlife and pristine habitats through art through our Creative Arts Fund. Learn about our fantastic and varied artists supported through the program, our ‘Pardicolorists’.

Prionodon pardicolor is the scientific name for the Spotted Linsang, a small mammal found in tropical forests across India, Nepal, China, Bhutan and mainland Southeast Asia. Due to its small size (weighing only up to 600 grams) and the fact that it is largely arboreal, this enigmatic carnivore is rarely recorded by conventional mammal survey methods, such as camera trap surveys. And so despite having a large geographic and altitudinal range (recorded at 3308 metres), the Spotted Linsang ‘is one of several tropical species which … remains virtually unknown and could disappear without anybody noticing’.

Thus we chose PARDICOLOR as a name to reflect our efforts to support artists to describe and celebrate these fascinating but understudied species, to creatively catalogue the wonders of biological diversity that make up life on Earth.

Quote: Schreiber, A., Wirth, R., Riffel, M. & Van Rompaey, H. 1989. Weasels, civets, mongooses, and their relatives. An action plan for the conservation of mustelids and viverrids. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

OUR NAME

Our logo depicting a spotted linsang with Southeast Asia spot pattern was designed by Eric Losh.