The Life, Extinction, and Rebreeding of Quagga Zebras: Significance for Conservation
A book on the extinct quagga, a pony-sized zebra that inhabited southern Africa.
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“Encountering Ghost Species”
On Lord Howe Island, writer Cameron Muir has a run-in with a nearly extinct species: the woodhen. In the 1970s, scientists counted just 15 birds. Now the number is around 300, yet he calls this an encounter with a ghost species and contemplates how the fate of the lone bird he meets overlaps with the fate of humans.
“O desaparecimento do que está extinto: a caça às focas-monge-do-caribe e as práticas de acervos museológicos”
Article from a special issue on animal history.
“Erasing the Extinct: The Hunt for Caribbean Monk Seals and Museum Collection Practices”
Article from a special issue on animal history.
The Tragedy of the Paradise Parrot
Arcadia, Summer 2021, no. 27
Interview with Juno Salazar Parreñas, author of Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Juno Salazar Parreñas is interviewed on her new book, Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation.
Facing It
Facing It is a podcast about love, loss, and the natural world, written and narrated by Jennifer Atkinson.
Extinction Studies Working Group
The Extinction Studies Working Group is a group of humanities scholars researching and writing on the themes of time, death, generations, and extinction.
"Piecing Together the Extinct Great Auk: Techniques and Charms of Contiguity"
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.
"Anthropomorphism in the Anthropocene: Reassembling Wildlife Management Data in Bear 71"
Looking at Leanne Allison and Jeremy Mendes’s interactive documentary Bear 71 (2012), Katey Castellano shows how the environmental humanities can be employed to rearticulate scientific data as innovative multispecies stories.