Conceptualized by Miami artist Xavier Cortada, and managed by Arielle Angel, the Endangered World Project is an outdoor installation at Homestead's Biscayne National Park. The project featured 360 brightly colored flags lining Convoy Point’s roads and trails for over a mile. Each flag represented one degree of the planet's longitude. 360 individuals and organizations from throughout South Florida decorated the flags with an image of an endangered or threatened animal that lives at that longitude. Participants also committed to an "eco-action” that directly or indirectly mitigates the plight of that animal.

Angel and Cortada also ran workshops through local schools, museums, and civic groups to assist participants in creating their flags, and to lecture about the importance of biodiversity.

The project was part of the park’s celebration of the United Nations’ "International Year of Biodiversity,” and the final countdown to BioBlitz, a 24-hour species inventory of the park sponsored by National Geographic on April 30 and May 1, 2010.

For more information, please see the Endangered World Project website.