... because we humans can only work
for a future we can imagine.
RESTORED ECOSYSTEMS
One of the virtual 'skins' from Imagine The Future Inc's re-interpretation of a traditional Kulin possum skin cloak created by Csaba Szamosy from images contributed by project partners, Painting the future real, 1996.
[2002 version and accompanying story Rehabilitating habitats, rehabilitating the world.]
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
DRAFT TEXT ONLY - TO BE CHECKED BY CONTRIBUTORSThe following images were used in this digital composite about restored ecosystems on the basalt plain:
Eastern Barred Bandicoot (Parameles gunnii) photographed by Anthony Dufty for Werribee Zoo. This bandicoot is now endangered but is being bred in captivity for re-introduction into the 'wild' in carefully restored habitats.
Red kangaroos photographed by D.Pollock for Werrbee Zoo and contributed to the project by the Zoo.
Purple swamphens photographed at the Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, and contributed to the project by Keir Patterson for Melbourne Water.
Yellow billed spoonbill photographed at the Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, and contributed by Keir Patterson for Melbourne Water.
School students revegetating Truganina Swamp at Laverton during Arbor Week 1996, photographed by Andrew Shannon, environmental planner with the City of Hobsons Bay.
Black swans with Westgate Bridge in the background, contributed to the project by Parks Victoria.
Wombat contributed by Parks Victoria.
Native succulents photographed at Altona by Merrill Findlay.
Grasslands and remnant eucalypts, including an ancient stag, on private property between Geelong and Queenscliff, photographed by Merrill Findlay.
Restored saltmarsh photographed at Altona by Merrill Findlay.
Lichen covered basalt boulders in a rock pool at Altona, photographed by Merrill Findlay.
Restored saltmarsh at Altona, photographed by Merrill Findlay.
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'Painting the future real' is an initiative of Imagine The Future Inc with the support of project partners.
For more information, contact Imagine The Future at
340 Gore Street, Fitzroy, Victoria 3065, Australia
phone: +61 3 9417 2033, fax: +61 3 9416 0767
email: imagine@peg.apc.org, or merrillf@dingo.vut.edu.au
[Page history: created and first published on www.ecoversity.org.au as part of Painting the future real (1995-97), the prototype for Redreaming the plain (1998-2002); taken off-line in 1998 and re-posted in a slightly modified form in July 2004 as a web archive. For more information contact redreaming@rmit.edu.au.]