The environments importance is keeping our collective home in good shape.

The Hawaiian Crow (Alala) is a great symbol of the environment problem on many levels.
This crow evolved in the isolated Islands of Hawaii, with no natural predators it flourished on all the Islands.
Today with the development the crow cannot exist in the wild.
Two people on Maui asked me to donate artwork on the Alala which is a Raven, I have been making bird paintings of Hawaii since 1976, its a passion. I have artwork in Maui Hands, Paia Maui, and am a resident of Maui since 1975.
The two people had a whole program for raising money and awareness of the plight of this crow. I thought the Karmapa being involved would be a plus, not only for his spiritual qualities.
His work in the Himalayas with his Khoryug Project are having a positive effect in his efforts.

The two people bowed off and moved to the US mainland. I put time, effort and passion into this project. HHGK and I had a long talk about crows, 
Crows have a a place in Tibetan Culture, and all other cultures on the planet.
I painted it in India while interviewing HHGK for the film "Thongdrol".
His calligraphy was inked a few days later in the week.
Both Leslie and I have been working with His Holiness since 1992'

The Hawaiian crow or ‘alalā is a medium-sized crow, 18 to 20 inches in length. The sexes are similar in color and size. The ‘alalā is a duller black than its North American cousins, with brown-tinged wings, and the throat feathers are stiff with hairlike webs and grayish shafts. The bill and legs are black.
Since 1973, there has been extensive research on the ‘alalā. They were once abundant in the lower forests of the western and southern sides of the island of Hawai‘i. When coffee and fruit farmers began shooting them in the 1890s, their population was already declining. By 1978, only 50 to 150 crows were believed to exist. Disease, predation by alien mammals, and loss of suitable habitat due to grazing and logging are also factors in the decline of the Hawaiian crow. The last two ‘alalā vanished from their territory in South Kona in 2002.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working in cooperation with the State of Hawai‘i Division of Forestry and

Wildlife (DOFAW), the Zoological Society of San Diego, U.S. Geological Survey's Biological Resources Division, and private landowners to save and restore the ‘alalā. The Zoological Society of San Diego operates captive propagation facilities at the Maui Bird Conservation Center on Maui and at the Keauhou Bird Conservation Center on the Big Island at Volcano. From 1993-1997, 27 juvenile ‘alalā were released into the wild. However, due to a variety of factors including predation by the ‘io and disease, 21 died or disappeared, and the remaining six were taken back into captivity. In 1997, the Service acquired 5,300 acres of land in the South Kona District to establish the Kona Forest Unit of the Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge. This refuge unit contains a significant amount of ‘alalā habitat. Efforts are ongoing to improve habitat conditions on the refuge and to release captive-reared ‘alalā again to the wild.
The ‘alalā was listed as an endangered species in 1967 under the Federal Endangered Species Act and the revised recovery plan was published in 2009 with the goal to ultimately remove the crow from the list of Endangered and Threatened Species.
For ‘alalā voice recordings, click here.
 
 This project has three goals.
!. The painting will be sold and the funds go the the Maui Bird Conservancy.
2. Geclee prints be made and the money goes to Khoryug Org
3.May this project promote the massive loss of species on Earth in this age,
a play a part in our worlds cleanup.