{"id":508,"date":"2020-08-31T11:19:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T09:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soil-laboratory.aalto.fi\/?page_id=508"},"modified":"2020-11-27T15:33:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T13:33:48","slug":"critically-endangered-species","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/soil-laboratory.aalto.fi\/critically-endangered-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Critically Endangered Species"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Critically Endangered Species <\/em><\/strong>addresses soil as the living habitat of species that depend on its wellbeing. The project evolves during the Soil Matters exhibition as an artistic studio practice in the Soil Laboratory. The project follows the \u201cFinnish Red Book\u201d (The 2019 Red List of Finnish species), by the Finnish Environment Institute SYKE on the viability of species in 2019. The book presents 36,604 species, 22,416 of which were identified as currently threatened. Among these threatened species, 489 species have been listed as critically endangered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to The Red Book, the decreases of specific species are caused by the changes in their habitats. The species selected for the paintings, such as algae, mosses, vernacular plants, insects and lichens, are related in one way or another to land and land-use, such as construction or mining activities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n