Friday, June 8, 2012

ESSAY: Firefly Populations in Decline


Oh, is this beautiful: Yayoi Kusama’s installation for her retrospective at the Whitney.  
It makes me grieve, for the rivers of Thailand with their firefly displays are losing them.  Some say locals are spraying pesticides on the grasses and trees where the beetles lay their eggs because they are tired of the swarms of tourists.  The hundreds of small motorboats are destroying the grasses with their sight-seeing trips, and and the tourist housing is encroaching on the areas as well.  Where is a government when it’s needed?


The fireflies of Indonesia - tourists mob the riverbanks where the fireflies roost - building tourist facilities close to the sites is causing a decline - big surprise.

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