Arcadia
Entomology and Empire: Settler Colonial Science and the Campaign for Hawaiian Annexation
Pest control was a political act in late-nineteenth-century Hawaiʻi, helping sugarcane planters pursue annexation to the United States.
Pest control was a political act in late-nineteenth-century Hawaiʻi, helping sugarcane planters pursue annexation to the United States.
The killing of possums as “pests” is framed as a caring relationship towards Aotearoa/New Zealand’s natural environment.
Effective strategies for rat control based on ecology were invented in Baltimore in the 1940s. The program, however, did not last.
Garcia follows the migration of the American cockroach from its tropical origins in western Africa via slave ships to the New World.
This article thinks differently about the belonging of rabbits in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, Australia.