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"Seizing The Day: Perrine Moncrieff and Nature Conservation in New Zealand"
This study examines environmental work by the ornithologist and conservationist Perrine Moncrieff between 1920 and 1980.
This study examines environmental work by the ornithologist and conservationist Perrine Moncrieff between 1920 and 1980.
Petra Tjitske Kalshoven combines ethnographic studies with ornithological testimonies to present the re-creation and reenactment of the extinct great auk, or garefowl. The author aims to achieve contiguity with lost species through expressions and shaping of human perceptions and imaginations of past, and eventually future, environmental disasters.