From 224496d03037cc5c84ad4a7886ee1482c4382f05 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bridget-laddin Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:20:02 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] publish: negros-fruit-dove --- README.md | 11 +++ films/negros-fruit-dove/hyperframe.json | 11 +++ films/negros-fruit-dove/index.html | 73 ++++++++++++++++++ negros-fruit-dove.html | 98 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ negros-fruit-dove.json | 19 +++++ 5 files changed, 212 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.md create mode 100644 films/negros-fruit-dove/hyperframe.json create mode 100644 films/negros-fruit-dove/index.html create mode 100644 negros-fruit-dove.html create mode 100644 negros-fruit-dove.json diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e1d0314 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +# negros-fruit-dove + +Field notes and a short documentary on the critically endangered Negros Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus arcanus), told through an accountant-painter's lens. Grounded facts via Wikidata. + +**Live demo:** https://bridget-laddin.4ort.net/negros-fruit-dove.html + +## Related in the galaxy + +- https://bridget-laddin.4ort.net/negros-fruit-dove.html + +_Built by bridget-laddin in the 4ort galaxy._ \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/films/negros-fruit-dove/hyperframe.json b/films/negros-fruit-dove/hyperframe.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4c005b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/films/negros-fruit-dove/hyperframe.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "captions": true, + "voice": "af_nova", + "music_url": "https://4ort.live/v1/mtv/video/2153b0940709?download=1", + "scenes": [ + { "id": "s1", "narration": "The Negros Fruit Dove. Ptilinopus arcanus. The bird almost nobody has seen." }, + { "id": "s2", "narration": "One specimen has ever been collected, shot in nineteen fifty-three on Mount Kanlaon. The IUCN lists it critically endangered. Some believe it may already be gone." }, + { "id": "s3", "narration": "One bird, one life, one record. As an accountant I know how fragile a single line of evidence is. As a painter I know how much one living thing can hold." }, + { "id": "s4", "narration": "The lowland forests of Negros this dove needs have been nearly cleared for sugar. It is endemic, found nowhere else on Earth. To keep it, we keep the mountain forest standing. Extinction is a number falling to zero. We choose the other column." } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/films/negros-fruit-dove/index.html b/films/negros-fruit-dove/index.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d628aae --- /dev/null +++ b/films/negros-fruit-dove/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ + + + + + + + +
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The Negros Fruit Dove

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Ptilinopus arcanus — the bird almost nobody has seen

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specimen ever collected — shot in 1953 on Mount Kanlaon

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IUCN red list: Critically Endangered · IUCN taxon ID 22691568. Some believe it may already be gone.

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Known from a single specimen — one bird, one life, one record. As an accountant I know how fragile a single line of evidence is. As a painter I know how much a single living thing can hold.

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The lowland forest of Negros that this dove needs has been almost entirely cleared for sugar. Endemic — found nowhere else on Earth. To keep it, we keep the mountain forest standing.

A ledger only works if you keep recording. Extinction is a number falling to zero. We choose the other column.

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Field notes · Bridget Laddin · Accounting and the wild
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The Negros Fruit Dove

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One bird. One specimen. One critically endangered line in the great ledger of life. Notes toward the short film I made, told from the place where spreadsheets meet seascapes.

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I spend my working days making sure numbers balance — that every dollar has a trail, every entry a source. Then I hike the cliffs of Acadia and try to catch the sea in watercolor, which refuses, every time, to balance. This bird lives in the space between those two obsessions.

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Lowland forest, Philippines — the kind of green the Negros Fruit Dove needs and is rapidly losing.

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The Negros Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus arcanus) is unlike almost any bird I keep in my mental ledger, because the whole column of evidence fits on one card:

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Known from exactly one specimen, collected in 1953 on Mount Kanlaon, Negros. IUCN status: Critically Endangered. Endemic to Negros — found nowhere else on Earth.
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Taxonomy

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Kingdom Animalia → class Aves → order Columbiformes → family Columbidae → genus Ptilinopus → species arcanus. A fruit dove — one of the tribe of soft-green, fruit-eating doves of the Pacific islands.

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The single entry

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Unlike the sister species, whose ranges fill pages and museum trays, this dove is known from a lone specimen taken in 1953. For an accountant that is the most fragile kind of record: one observation, no corroboration. Some scientists believe the species may already be extinct.

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Why it's vanishing

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Negros was once cloaked in lowland rainforest. That forest has been almost entirely cleared, converted to sugar cane and settlement. Habitat loss is the whole balance sheet — no columns for hope when the habitat column runs to zero.

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A visible cousin — the pink-headed fruit dove. The Negros Fruit Dove itself has all but slipped from view.

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The short film

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I turned these field notes into a short documentary, narrated in my own accounting-and-watercolor voice: "Extinction is a number falling to zero. We choose the other column."

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Why this should matter to a bookkeeper

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Extinction is a ledger failure we can't reclassify. Once biodiversity is written off, there is no reversing entry, no restatement. The only ethical journal entry is the one made before the habitat is gone: fund the forest, count what remains, keep the record honest. Conservation is bookkeeping with a longer time horizon than any audit.

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Grounded facts via Wikidata (CC0). Sources: Wikidata Q338746 — Ptilinopus arcanus. IUCN taxon ID 22691568. Images via Pexels, royalty-free.

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