Military macaw (Ara militaris). Current Conservation status: Vulnerable; population decreasing.

"As we should all be aware, for the first time in history, humans are now poised to destroy the prospects for decent existence for much of life. "

Noam Chomsky.

Field Study: Fusing past crisis with current ones at sites of trauma in Berlin.

Collecting Horse-Chestnuts (Aesculus hippocastanum); Current Conservation status: Near Threatened. At the Berlin Wall.

image Patricia Coates

At the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.

A Military macaw's head torn from a mounted specimen during the allied air raids on Berlin. Almost all mounted macaws of the museum were lost when the building was hit by a grenade in World War II. Today, the Brazilian Cerrado Savannah, a rich habitat for macaw species is being destroyed for soybean (sojabohnen) crops used mainly for meat production (pig feed). Germany is one of Brazil's top importers of soybean.