When
The May Micro Festival takes place on Portland, 13th-22nd May 2008.
Most of the carvings for the monument will be produced at a series of carving festivals to be held in the years running up to the Olympics in 2012. Like this year’s Micro Festival, these festivals will take place around the time of International Day of Biodiversity on 22nd May, and will dovetail with the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival, just down the Jurassic Coast.
2009 coinciding with the Darwin anniversary.
2010 International Year of Biodiversity, the ‘deadline’ of the Countdown 2010 international biodiversity pledge, and coinciding with the Royal Society’s 350th anniversary.
2011 coinciding with WWF’s 50th anniversary.
2012 coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Olympic sailing events based at the National Sailing Academy on Portland, and the 350th anniversary of the last sighting of live Dodos.
