{"id":1497,"date":"2025-05-14T11:19:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T11:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biodisseminazioni.it\/representing-biodiversity-showing-and-hiding\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T15:13:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T15:13:40","slug":"representing-biodiversity-showing-and-hiding","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.biodisseminazioni.it\/en\/representing-biodiversity-showing-and-hiding\/","title":{"rendered":"Representing biodiversity. To show and to hide"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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What is the link between biodiversity representation and conservation?<\/h3><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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You can’t save what you can’t see: images allow the discovery of biological diversity, creating the knowledge<\/span> and the <\/b>emotional<\/span> impact<\/span> necessary for the development of new forms of awareness and action.<\/p>

Representations of biodiversity reflect the relationships between society and the environment, express the value we accord it according to different historical moments, and accompany our perception of the relationships that exist between the animal, plant and mineral worlds.<\/p>

Images<\/span> play a role in the generation of cultural geographic imaginaries and ecological sensibilities, but they do not always represent the complexity of ecosystems.<\/span> They may therefore conceal rather than reveal contemporary environmental and social issues, reproducing the separation of culture and nature, instead of showing human societies as integral parts of biodiversity. We often focus on the representation of “charismatic megafauna,”<\/span> forgetting that the concept of biodiversity implies two other levels: not only species diversity but also genetic and ecosystem diversity. <\/p>

The rapid rate of species loss over the past two decades has spurred the creation of visual archives and multimedia databases on biodiversity<\/span>: “ARKive.org” has created a visual inventory for more than 16,000 species, “The Encyclopedia of Life” intends to provide “global access to knowledge about life on Earth,” and “The IUCN Red List” ranks species according to their risk of extinction.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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There are an increasing number of photo contests and citizen science projects that invite people to submit their images and to participate in the visual knowledge and memory of local biodiversity by reproducing or transforming the aesthetic strategies<\/span> of its representation. The NBFC studied the role of images in communicating biodiversity in a range of contemporary visual practices that focus on coastal and marine environments. Multimedia insights which aim to enhance Italian biodiversity have also been created for the “Greenatlas,” through an analysis of media discourses, including various photographic and audiovisual representations from the 1920s to the present. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Photographs from the fund of the geographic-environmental photography competition “Obiettivo Terra,” promoted by UniVerde Foundation and Italian Geographic Society, now in its 16th edition. With over 17,000 shots, it constitutes the largest national photographic archive on Italy’s Protected Areas <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The contents of the online exhibition are based on the chapters of the volume “DisSeminActions: Telling Biodiversity.” Ledizioni, 2025 – open access <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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