To address this, some advocates call for normalizing ecological grief by adapting traditional formats of loss to the natural world.
In 2016, Australian writer and activist Richard Flanagan published an obituary for the Great Barrier Reef after a mass coral bleaching event, treating the reef as an irreplaceable living structure rather than a collection of ecological statistics.
Similarly, mourners gathered in Iceland in 2019 to formally commemorate Okjökull, the country's first glacier lost to climate change, installing a plaque to acknowledge the loss publicly.
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Experts suggest that communities navigating rapid environmental decline require formal spaces, monuments, and ceremonies to share their collective grief and document these ecological losses together.
