February Update & Introducing tomorrow's Map Drop (Patreon)

I hope you are all well.

I just returned from spending two weeks in Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal, and though it was great to be with friends, it was disheartening to witness the real and very dramatic results of climate change. While Venice's canals have dried up, and Ottawa's famed Rideau Canal was closed for skating for the first time in its history, we in Vancouver have been experiencing a drier but colder winter. It has all been very disorienting, for both tourists and locals alike. I can only imagine how local wildlife are struggling to adapt.

It seems the old distribution maps will have to be redrawn as temperatures push many species out of their traditional ranges. It is important to me that we understand biogeography maps are not static representations of nature, but then again, we shouldn't be redrawing the maps so frequently either. 

This past month, Matteo and I have been working on our own biogeography maps. We've been sprucing up the two biogeography corner maps that put on the Chorographical Depictions map, and they look great! The one pictured in this email has already been released on Deviantart and Reddit. It is the first map that we were able to complete and is the Distribution of Terrestrial Fauna map, featuring the zoogeography of Altera! I'll be dropping the print-ready file tomorrow, so stay tuned!