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Bathmawathy is a 19 year old Self-taught Award Winning Wildlife Artist who was born in 2003 and is currently based in Coimbatore in India. She found her true passion to be a Full time artist during the Covid outbreak. She works with Oil paint, Acrylic paint, Resin, Pastels and Charcoal as she loves the unique characteristics of these mediums. In some of her paintings, she uses gold leaf over canvas as a base surface and uses oil paint to paint over the gold. She uses charcoal on canvas and sometimes combines gold leaf in her charcoal paintings. According to her, “Animals are amazing creatures that are often neglected and hunted down for their teeth, tusks, fur, meat etc. They lose their habitat because of human interference and negligence and many animals just like the magnificent polar bears lose their homes due to the global warming caused by humans. As the human population increases more and more of the animals are forced out of their habitat. I have always been fascinated by wildlife and chose to become a Wildlife artist to create awareness about these amazing beings. I paint high quality paintings which make the animals come to life on the canvas. To me, the eyes of each animal play a very important role in my paintings as it is what shows the emotion of each creature”. She was selected to publish her own Google Book Art Exhibit and won the ‘Gold medal Award’ in the FAG International art competition. She has also won the Bronze Award in the Camelback gallery ‘Into the Wild’ Competition and also the ‘Special Recognition Award’ in the Light Space Time ’11th Nature’ Art Competition. Some of her other Awards include the ‘Bronze Award’ in the Camelback Gallery ‘Amazing Animals’ Art Competition and the ‘Talent Prize Award’ from the Art Show International ‘Animal’ Competition. She has also won the ‘Special Merit Award’ in the Light Space Time ’12th Animals’ Art Exhibition and won the ‘Finalist Award’ in the Camelback Gallery IAA (International Achievement Award) for Drawing.

Eastern Gorillas (Gorilla beringei) live in the mountainous forests of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, northwest Rwanda and southwest Uganda. This region was the epicentre of Africa’s “world war”, to which Gorillas have also fallen victim. The Mountain Gorilla subspecies (Gorilla beringei beringei), was listed as Critically Endangered since 1996. Although a drastic reduction of the Grauer’s Gorilla subspecies (Gorilla beringei graueri), has long been suspected, quantitative evidence of the decline has been lacking (Robbins and Williamson 2008). During the past 20 years, Grauer’s Gorillas have been severely affected by human activities, most notably poaching for bushmeat associated with artisanal mining camps and for commercial trade (Plumptre et al. 2016). This illegal hunting has been facilitated by a proliferation of firearms resulting from widespread insecurity in the region. Previously estimated to number around 16,900 individuals, recent surveys show that Grauer’s Gorilla numbers have dropped to only 3,800 individuals – a 77% reduction in just one generation (ibid.) This rate of population loss is almost three times above that which qualifies a species as Critically Endangered. Mountain Gorillas have been faring substantially better; one of the two subpopulations is recovering from an all-time low in the 1980s, making Mountain Gorillas the only great ape taxon that has been increasing in number (Gray et al. 2013). A 2015–2016, survey of the Virunga population has confirmed that it is still growing and has now increased to over 600 individuals, bringing the total population to roughly 1,000 (Hickey et al. 2018). Grauer’s Gorillas continue to decline at an average rate of 5% per year (Plumptre et al. 2016). Even with the growth of the Mountain Gorilla subspecies, the overall decline of the Eastern Gorilla species is expected to exceed 80% over three generations due to the high levels of poaching, loss of habitat as human populations expand, and civil unrest and lawlessness in parts of this species’ geographic range. If unabated, in 2054, only 14% of the 1994 population will remain. Therefore, Eastern Gorillas qualify as Critically Endangered under criterion A (A4bcd). SOURCE: IUCN REDLIST

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