Broadsheet: “Graphic Story of Elephants According to Their Accomplishments,” 1746
Elephants: their functions and their depiction around 1746.
Elephants: their functions and their depiction around 1746.
The Canadian government established the Wood Buffalo National Park in 1922 to protect a remnant herd of wood bison. The park has become North America’s biggest national park and is still home to the largest free-roaming herd of wood bison. However, the park’s wildlife has also been subject to some of the most intrusive and ill-conceived management interventions in Canadian history.
In April 1979, the European Communities (EC) adopted the Council Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds (79/409/EEC), the so-called “Birds Directive.”
Between 1875 and 1925, trout expanded beyond their native haunts to inhabit every corner of the globe. London’s Fisheries Exhibition in 1883 was a catalyst that ignited a transnational fish-culture revolution and turned trout into a cosmopolitan species.
The Vanoise National Park was created in 1963 in the northern French Alps, along with numerous large ski resorts. Born as twins, the park and the resorts grew up at best as strangers, at worst as foes.
Onora O’Neill discusses environmental values and anthropocentrism and speciesism, with reference to obligation-based reasoning.
Hub Zwart reflects on the possibility of a moral relationship with animals.
Keekok Lee discusses why posing the question “what is an animal?” is neither irrelevant nor futile.
Clare Palmer discusses the concept of the domesticated animal contract.
Gill Aitken discusses conservation in relation to individual worth.