0.800.0FAUNA0FLORA: The Guide to the Flora and Fauna Information Service is a 52-page artist’s book in the form of a guide. The guide outlines in how to use the toll-free telephone service in order to help preserve and protect plants and animals. The toll-free telephone service operated throughout the United Kingdom in January and February 2008. While the guide strives to protect animals around the world it emphasizes the plight of flora and fauna in the region that includes Iraq, Iran, Syria, Jordan and parts of Turkey, Chechnya, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. The text in the book is based on the toll free telephone service. My book suggests practical solutions to the restoration of plants and animals through the purchase of safety and rescue equipment for animals or through the sponsorship and cultivation of ancient plants whose heritage is endangered by events such as the accidental bombing that destroyed the National Farm Seed Bank at Abu Ghraib Iraq. The narrative structure of 0.800.0FAUNA0FLORA: The Guide to the Flora and Fauna Information Service is a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book.  Flow charts are provided to facilitate reading but you are welcome to read the text and look at the pictures any way you desire.

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This book is part of a trilogy. The other two books in the series are Bird Radio, published in 2007 by KW, Berlin and Walther Konig, Koln is about the birds and bird songs of Iraq, Iran, Syria, Jordan and parts of Turkey, Chechnya, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and Two Boiler Suits and a Playlist: A Primate Guide, published in 2010 by YYZ in Toronto (at press) describes the chattels of prisoners and the music that is played to them at the prison camps in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. No editorial or artistic control was relinquished by the artist to the publishers or funders of these books.