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Thom van Dooren

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BBVA Biophilia Award

  • September 30, 2025September 30, 2025
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Talking about the Environmental Humanities and Hawaiian Crows

Talking about the Environmental Humanities and Hawaiian Crows

January 18, 2014December 10, 2021

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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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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I acknowledge the traditional custodians of Country in Australia,
including the Dharug and Gundungurra peoples of the Blue Mountains where I live,
and the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation where the University of Sydney is located.

I pay my respects to elders, past, present and emerging
and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.

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