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The Thylacine was once one of Australia's iconic creatures like the Kangaroo or Emu, but that was before man had really claimed the continent. As the original penal colony grew, deforestation for farm land and lumber only lead to poaching the creature, finding it a nuisance and something that would kill livestock.
Few people considered the Tasmanian Wolf worthy of protection or captive breeding, labeled stupid, dull, and uninteresting. Though a few zoos still wanted to make an attempt, they realized it was too late when in 1936 the last captive Thylacine died of neglect at the Hobart Zoo. She had been locked out of her indoor pen on cold nights and was not fed regularly.
By the 1940's it was official, the Thylacine was indeed Extinct.

While the Quagga was not native to Australlia, I wanted to add it into this piece. Once used as a sturdy pack animal in parts of South Africa, people gradually found it more valuable for its meat and hides, which made excellent leather, and to preserve grazing lands for domestic stock.
Around the 1870's it was rather unanimous that this subspecies of Zebra was extinct in the wild and in August of 1883, the last captive Quagga died at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.

While naturally Species do go extinct, yet it is unnatural for man to wipe them out so mercilessly. Quick to label a race or creature expendable as long as it is for his own gain, he is cruel with a history drenched in blood and death.

"[Humans] will never rest until they've spoiled the Earth."
~ Fiver, Watership Down

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Do Not Trace, Alter, or redistribute.

Description
The Thylacine was once one of Australia's iconic creatures like the Kangaroo or Emu, but that was before man had really claimed the continent. As the original penal colony grew, deforestation for farm land and lumber only lead to poaching the creature, finding it a nuisance and something that would kill livestock.
Few people considered the Tasmanian Wolf worthy of protection or captive breeding, labeled stupid, dull, and uninteresting. Though a few zoos still wanted to make an attempt, they realized it was too late when in 1936 the last captive Thylacine died of neglect at the Hobart Zoo. She had been locked out of her indoor pen on cold nights and was not fed regularly.
By the 1940's it was official, the Thylacine was indeed Extinct.

While the Quagga was not native to Australlia, I wanted to add it into this piece. Once used as a sturdy pack animal in parts of South Africa, people gradually found it more valuable for its meat and hides, which made excellent leather, and to preserve grazing lands for domestic stock.
Around the 1870's it was rather unanimous that this subspecies of Zebra was extinct in the wild and in August of 1883, the last captive Quagga died at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.

While naturally Species do go extinct, yet it is unnatural for man to wipe them out so mercilessly. Quick to label a race or creature expendable as long as it is for his own gain, he is cruel with a history drenched in blood and death.

"[Humans] will never rest until they've spoiled the Earth."
~ Fiver, Watership Down

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Artwork ©
Do Not Trace, Alter, or redistribute.