These 22 Pics Are Composed Of As Many Pixels As There Are Animals Still Alive In These Species
A brilliant 2008 campaign by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has been resurfacing thanks to a recent reddit post going viral. The campaign, called WWF Japan – Population by pixel, was created by the agency Hakuhodo C&D / Tokyo. The brains behind it were creative directors Nami Hoshino, Yoshiyuki Mikami, and designer Kazuhiro Mochizuki. Inspired by their work, Imgurian JJSmooth44 made a follow-up to their project and it’s just as powerful as the original. “I did it as a programming challenge,” JJSmooth44 wrote.
African Wild Dog. Estimated between 3000 and 5500 remain
Image credits: JJSmooth44
“I did it … in python … but the code is very gross. I only worried about the final product and not the readability/niceness of the code.” They paid homage to Hakuhodo C&D / Tokyo by scraping the Animal Planet endangered animals list.
Amur Leopard. Estimated about 60 remain
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Amur Tiger. Estimated about 450 remain
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Asian Elephant. Estimated between 40000 and 50000 remain
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Bengal Tiger. Estimated about 2500 remain
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Black Footed Ferret. Estimated about 300 remain
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Black Rhino. Estimated about 5000 remain
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Blue Whale. Estimated between 10000 and 25000 remain
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Bonobo. Estimated between 10000 and 50000 remain
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Bornean Orangutan. Estimated between 45000 and 69000 remain
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Borneo Pygmy Elephant. Estimated about 1500 remain
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Chimpanzee. Estimated between 172700 and 299700 remain
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Eastern Lowland Gorilla. Estimated about 17000 remain
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Fin Whale. Estimated between 50000 and 90000 remain
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Galapagos Penguin. Estimated about 2000 remain
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Giant Panda. Estimated about 1864 remain
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Green Sea Turtle. Estimated between 3000 and 5500 remain
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Hectors Dolphin. Estimated about 7000 remain
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Indian Elephant, Estimated between 20000 and 25000 remain
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Indochinese Tiger. Estimated between 600 and 650 remain
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Indus River Dolphin. Estimated about 1100 remain
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Javan Rhino. Estimated about 60 remain
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Here’s what people said about the project
Excellent metaphor to show how bad the situation is. Powerful pictures!
Agreed: the pictures send a strong message. But when it states that the number of pixels in the picture show the number of animals left alive but they clearly show fewer pixels than animals, that's not right. Easy ones to check, both Amur leopard and Javan rhino say 60 animals but pictures have 42 pixels. It would have been just as effective to do it correctly. Unless the pictures have been cropped for some reason.
It's seem that Bored Panda cropped the top parts of those images, which included the explanations, and then re-added the same explanations above the images. Probably to make it seem like they added some value by contextualizing each image. Here are the original images: https://imgur.com/gallery/NVNsyel
I saw that too
This is really impactful art because it shows how they're fading, really cool.
wow... the Leopard and the rhino made me really sad...
Excellent metaphor to show how bad the situation is. Powerful pictures!
Agreed: the pictures send a strong message. But when it states that the number of pixels in the picture show the number of animals left alive but they clearly show fewer pixels than animals, that's not right. Easy ones to check, both Amur leopard and Javan rhino say 60 animals but pictures have 42 pixels. It would have been just as effective to do it correctly. Unless the pictures have been cropped for some reason.
It's seem that Bored Panda cropped the top parts of those images, which included the explanations, and then re-added the same explanations above the images. Probably to make it seem like they added some value by contextualizing each image. Here are the original images: https://imgur.com/gallery/NVNsyel
I saw that too
This is really impactful art because it shows how they're fading, really cool.
wow... the Leopard and the rhino made me really sad...