Read this Wildlife Art Journal article

NOTE:  It would surely be ideal if the places that each of us covets most had no name.  Problems start when word of mouth spreads, when hideaways of geography get placed on travel maps and then discovery by the masses leads to people arriving who want to change them.  Often, their motivation is profit, not respect for the customs of local inhabitants.  The Isle of Sark no longer has the luxurity of near-anonymity, which has allowed it to exist for centuries in a state of suspended animation where intrusion by modernity is concerned.  No fast food outlets, no cars, traffic jams, and no sprawl of suburbia.  A few years ago, developers found the tiny nub of green land in the middle of the English Channel (part of the Channel Islands) and today some of them have big plans.   In the essay that follows, Sark denizen and artist Rosanne Guille pens a "Letter From" that describes the natural elements giving her idyllic solitude.  More gripping than her words, however, are her watercolour paintings and sketches.  The Artists for Nature Foundation, led by Ysbrand Brouwers, is organizing an  intervention at Sark May 4 thru May 16, 2011 with artists from around the world gathering to chronicle the island's natural and cultural wonders in all their glory.  The idea is to send a message that the history there, of untrammeled vistas and wildlife habitat, is worth preserving. Artists who would like information on ANF-Sark, click here. —Todd Wilkinson