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
Read MoreIn 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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