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Famous memorialist, Maya Lin, is working on a new project that will honor the animals, birds, and plants we have driven into extinction. Here's a description of this ambitious and necessary project from a recent article in the LA Times:

Lin envisions it as a multisite chronicle, including photography and video, at places around the world and with a commemorative list of names - this time the names of extinct species. It is to be launched with a memorial table on Earth Day in April 2009 commissioned by the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, which chose her design to include in its new building in Golden Gate Park, an academy spokeswoman said.

says Lin about the project:

"It's all about what Jared Diamond calls 'landscape amnesia.' We accept it. I'm trying to say, 'It's not OK.' "

via TreeHugger