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Facing It
Facing It is a podcast about love, loss, and the natural world, written and narrated by Jennifer Atkinson.
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Interview with Juno Salazar Parreñas, author of Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Juno Salazar Parreñas is interviewed on her new book, Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation.
Arcadia
The Tragedy of the Paradise Parrot
The tragic story of the Paradise Parrot is haunted by both the spectre and the reality of extinction.
Multimedia | journal article
“Erasing the Extinct: The Hunt for Caribbean Monk Seals and Museum Collection Practices”
Article from a special issue on animal history.
Multimedia | journal article
“O desaparecimento do que está extinto: a caça às focas-monge-do-caribe e as práticas de acervos museológicos”
Article from a special issue on animal history.
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“Encountering Ghost Species”
On Lord Howe Island, writer Cameron Muir has a run-in with a nearly extinct species: the woodhen. In the 1970s, scientists counted just 15 birds. Now the number is around 300, yet he calls this an encounter with a ghost species and contemplates how the fate of the lone bird he meets overlaps with the fate of humans.
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The Life, Extinction, and Rebreeding of Quagga Zebras: Significance for Conservation
A book on the extinct quagga, a pony-sized zebra that inhabited southern Africa.
Arcadia
From Wilderness to Breeding Farms: The Domestication of the Chinchilla lanigera
When Mathias Chapman opened his first chinchilla breeding farm in Southern California, he also saved the fur trade industry.
Arcadia
Sight and Sound: Beyond the Huia Extinction Story
Beyond the 1907 Huia-extinction signposts, many voices, never silent, call for hearing as well as justice toward mending relations.
Multimedia | book excerpt
Anthropocene Days
A book by John Dargavel on how humans experience the Anthropocene in everyday life.