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Thom van Dooren

Thom van Dooren

University of Sydney | University of Oslo

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Crows removing ticks: helpfulness, opportunism, or something else?

Crows removing ticks: helpfulness, opportunism, or something else?

Posted on October 28, 2020January 31, 2021Birds and extinction, Other Animals

If you’ve spent much time at all watching YouTube videos of corvids, you’ve likely come across some of the numerous examples of them engaging in the seemingly helpful act of removing ticks and other ectoparasites ...

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A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions

A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions

Posted on July 1, 2020February 23, 2021Uncategorized

I am currently finishing work on a new book focused on the disappearing land snails of Hawai’i. While I’ve tried to make all of my books accessible and engaging, this is the first one that I’ve written in a deliberate effort to speak to a general readership.

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A few photos from a recent research trip to the Mariana Islands

A few photos from a recent research trip to the Mariana Islands

Posted on June 10, 2016November 25, 2020Birds and extinction, Photography, Uncategorized

In May and June of 2016 I travelled to Guam and Rota in the Mariana Islands on a research trip. My focus was the critically endangered aga or Mariana Crow (Corus kubaryi). During the trip ...

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Ethics in the Field: How far should we go to bring back lost species?

Ethics in the Field: How far should we go to bring back lost species?

Posted on August 4, 2015November 25, 2020Birds and extinction, Extinction and Ethics

Translocation, captive breeding, somatic cell nuclear transfer (cloning), back-breeding, gene and seed banking—the list goes on. Today, there are a whole range of different technologies and techniques aimed at holding on to, or even resurrecting, ...

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Flight Ways on the New Books Network seminar

Flight Ways on the New Books Network seminar

Posted on April 17, 2015Birds and extinction, Environmental Humanities, Extinction and Ethics

A great interview on Flight Ways has just been posted on the New Books Network seminar. Thanks so much to Carla Nappi for taking the time to read the book and chat with me.

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Encountering Crows: Living with wildlife in a changing world

Encountering Crows: Living with wildlife in a changing world

Posted on December 8, 2014Birds and extinction, Extinction and Ethics

I am currently beginning work on a new 3-4 year research project focused on crows around the world. Below are a few excerpts from a recent grant application, stitched together to give a sense of ...

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Some forthcoming papers: conservation and extinction

Some forthcoming papers: conservation and extinction

Posted on March 23, 2014Birds and extinction, Environmental Humanities, Extinction and Ethics

For the last couple of years my research on ethics, extinction and conservation has focused on Hawai’i, and the Hawaiian crow (or alala) in particular. I seem to have accumulated a fair few articles and ...

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Talking about the Environmental Humanities and Hawaiian Crows

Talking about the Environmental Humanities and Hawaiian Crows

Posted on January 18, 2014Birds and extinction

Here’s a link to a recent interview I did with Jan Oosthoek as part of the Exploring Environmental History podcast (number 58, 18 Jan 2014).

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Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction

Posted on December 9, 2013Birds and extinction, Extinction and Ethics

In celebration of the recently released cover for my new book, I’ve posted a little description of it here. The book is forthcoming with Columbia University Press in early to mid 2014.

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The last snail: conservation and extinction in Hawai’i

The last snail: conservation and extinction in Hawai’i

Posted on February 28, 2013Uncategorized

As I stood in the presence of this individual, the last of a species, I was reminded of how incredibly ill equipped we are as a culture to make sense of the immensity of the ...

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Snail logo image courtesy of David Sischo.