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Contents:
12 The Mauritius blue pigeon
16 The Dodo
24 The extinct parrots
26 Thirioux's grey parrot
28 Broad-billed parrot
30 Rodrigues parakeet
34 Rodrigues parrot
36 The Solitaire
38 Red rail
40 Rodrigues rail
42 Commerson's lizard-owl
44 Saddle-backed giant turtle
46 Rodrigues giant gecko
48 Newton's day gecko
52 Grey white-eye
54 Echo parakeet
56 Mauritius bulbul
58 Mauritius cuckoo-shrike
60 Mauritius kestrel
62 Mascarene swiftlet
64 Mascarene swallow
66 Mauritius fody
68 Pink pigeon
72 Olive white-eye
76 The coloured day-geckos
78 Telfair's skink
80 The snakes
86 The Flying foxes
88 The Dugong
91 About the project and the artist
93 Bibliography
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In 2009 Ria Winters visited Mauritius on behalf of the Artists for Conservation
Foundation (AFC) with the goal to render and portray the endemic wildlife.
The journey resulted in a body of work of more than thirty paintings and hundreds of photographs.
Two and a half years later the Blue Penny Museum in Port Louis organised an exhibition with the
theme "The last gong for the Dugong" showing paintings, sculptures and antique books of extinct and
endangered species of the Mascarene islands. Together with the exhibition the book "A Treasury of Endemic Fauna of Mauritius and Rodrigues"
was launched. The book is both a catalogue of the paintings shown in the exhibition as well as a personal view of the artist
on the local wildlife.
Details:
A Treasury of Endemic Fauna of Mauritius and Rodrigues
ISBN 978-99949-30-11-1
Author and illustrator: Ria Winters
Published by: Christian le Comte Publisher, 2011
Sponsored by: Mauritius Commercial Bank - MCB
Size: 22 x 28 cm / 8.5 x 11 inches
Pages: 95, full colour
Price: 740 Mauritian Rupees (MUR)
How to order the book:
The book is available through the Blue Penny Museum in Mauritius.
The price is 740 MUR which is approximately the equivalent of 20 Euros, 25 USD or 16 GBP.
Please contact mrs. Davina Rousselin, marketing and communication officer of the Blue Penny Museum
for payment instructions and information about shipping and shipping costs.
The contact details of mrs. Rousselin are:
E-mail: bpm.marketing@mcb.co.mu
Phone: (230)210-9204 or 210-8176
Fax: (230)210-9243
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