Earlier this year Anton Thomas finished his Wild World map—a hand-drawn pictorial map of the natural world on the Natural Earth projection—and prints and posters have been shipping out. I’ve covered Wild World before on The Map Room, but this is news I somehow missed at the time.¹ But this week Anton’s project has gotten some fairly significant news coverage: first from The New York Times (paywalled) and then from CBC Radio’s The Current (not).²

Previously: Anton Thomas’s Next Project: Wild World; Anton Thomas’s Wild World: A Progress Report.

1. And by somehow I mean: it was probably on Twitter, and I’m not any more.
2. And given how the media tends to chase the story once one of them picks it up, probably other venues as well. I bet Anton’s been busy this week.