Dr Whitten was a senior advisor with Fauna and Flora International – one of the world's oldest conservation groups. He documented biodiversity in Asia, before being killed in a cycling accident.
A new species of snail has been named after Dr Tony Whitten by one of the winners of the 2019 Tony Whitten Conservation Prize. Landouria tonywhitteni lives in a limestone habitat threatened by quarrying for the cement industry. https://t.co/NBIX6e3cP3 pic.twitter.com/dVQfk9fuEs— Oryx (@OryxTheJournal) January 7, 2020
We posted in Charopa Lafargei and #BiodiversityDay how cement companies have form with biodiversity in Asia, how a Cement company blows up limestone hill and renders snail extinct:
No cement business has ever admitted the scale of the problem. They tout their biodiversity pages in their websites and sustainability reports with pictures of ducks and frogs and children enjoying the wetlands created from the hills they remove. They give and receive prizes for their restoration work – but do not acknowledge what is being lost.
