In my previous post, I wrote about Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, the Haida artist who illustrated the book Flight of the Hummingbird using his own Haida manga style.

As noted in that post, the hummingbird of the story tirelessly drops beads of water onto a great forest fire, presumably to little, if any, material effect. As the forest's creatures cry that smoke and heat from the fire are overwhelming and terrible, a bear asks the hummingbird, "What are you doing?"

And the hummingbird replies, "I am doing what I can."

Thus ends the story.

Or does it?

Flight of the Hummingbird made me wonder: Who are today's hummingbirds?

Well, here are some examples of people and organizations that are through considerable effort dropping metaphorical beads of water on the great fires of climate change, rampant fear and greed, and human rights abuses.

Readers: Any other people or organizations you'd like to add?