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
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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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Our dysfunctional relationships with animals and the broader environment are increasingly creating the conditions for disease like COVID-19.
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I published a short article today in The Atlantic on “educational” approaches to conservation that aim to teach “problematic” animals new ways of living –
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This blog post is the text of a short article written for the magazine of the German Federal Cultural Foundation, focused on Extinct in the
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I’m delighted to announce that our new book is now out: Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations. This collection was co-edited by Deborah
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This week our new special issue on “Multispecies Studies” appeared in Environmental Humanities. The issue was co-edited by six of us: Thom van Dooren, Ursula
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I’m very happy to announce two recent French translations of my writing.
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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
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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
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