Dwindling rainforests
Personal memory by Lorinda S.
1970 CE - 2023 CE • Panama
[I miss] the dwindling rainforests in Panama as a result of endless construction of government buildings and mansions.
Memory submitted at One Life: Maya Lin, National Portrait Gallery, 2022
Image: USAID Biodiversity & Forestry via Flickr, Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0)
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