wild wonders & noble beasts

Last week, we joined the world to celebrate International Museum Day under the theme Museums Uniting a Divided World. 

We proudly posted our hometown island's museum with a majestic artwork of a three-ton carabao at its entrance. The water buffalo is the national mammal of the Philippines. The shockingly sad reality today is the carabao is slowly disappearing from our country's agricultural landscape. 

BAO: the unbowed carabao at The Negros Museum

A new exhibition at the Philippine National Museum of Natural History located in a niche at the landing on the fifth level is a family of carabaos from Nueva Ecija that was especially prepared by the museum’s taxidermists and scientists. 

exhausted & strung out

W magazine posted an article about frolicking dolphins in the clear canals of Venice. The tragic double edge to this happy news is that it took a forced lock down that quarantined humans away to create some space for nature and other animals to come out and play.

Did it have to take a pandemic of CoVid19 proportions for this to happen? This is what happens to our earth without us humans. Maybe we will learn to be more mindful about sharing in the future - provided there still is one for us. Nature all too easily takes back what is rightfully hers.