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Thom van Dooren

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Sanguine Moon – It’s arrived…

Sanguine Moon – It’s arrived…

December 20, 2013December 10, 2021

Our new print has finally arrived. Titled Sanguine Moon by American artist Margaret Barnaby, it’s a wood block print of two Alala (Hawaiian crows) perched

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Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction

December 9, 2013December 10, 2021

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

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Keeping faith with death: mourning and de-extinction

Keeping faith with death: mourning and de-extinction

November 2, 2013January 2, 2022

This post was written with Deborah Rose. It is the text of a short presentation delivered at “Dangerous Ideas in Zoology,” the 2013 forum of

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Fire and “politicising tragedy”

Fire and “politicising tragedy”

October 21, 2013January 2, 2022

A few days ago Adam Bandt, the Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens, made a statement connecting the current bushfires in New South Wales with

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Animal Death – Book Launch

Animal Death – Book Launch

July 12, 2013January 2, 2022

Last week I had the pleasure of launching a new book called Animal Death, edited by Jay Johnston and Fiona Probyn-Rapsey (Sydney UP, 2013). The

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Reflection on the anthropocene

Reflection on the anthropocene

July 1, 2013January 2, 2022

I recently wrote a short reflective piece on the anthropocene, prompted by an encounter with an albatross. “As we approached this beautiful Laysan albatross nesting

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The last snail: conservation and extinction in Hawai’i

The last snail: conservation and extinction in Hawai’i

February 28, 2013January 2, 2022

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

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Living with crows

Living with crows

December 6, 2012December 10, 2021

Conservation in haunted landscapes: In 2002 the last free living Hawaiian crow died. As of this time, the only surviving members/participants of this species have

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Science can’t do it alone: the environment needs humanities too

Science can’t do it alone: the environment needs humanities too

November 5, 2012January 2, 2022

Here’s a (belated) link to a short piece that I wrote for The Conversation in early October 2012. The piece is about the emergence of

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Albatross, plastic and the undoing of generations

Albatross, plastic and the undoing of generations

November 3, 2012January 2, 2022

In the middle of the North Pacific Ocean, at the far north west end of the Hawaiian Archipelago, lie a few tiny coral and sand

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