When the oil tanker Exxon Valdez runs aground on 24 March 1989, it releases 41.6 million tons of crude oil along the coast of Alaska. The spill causes enormous damage to local ecosystems and wildlife.
This volume of RCC Perspectives, featuring artwork by Australian artist Mandy Martin, is a tribute to the wonderful career of Jane Carruthers.
Content
Marthe Kiley-Worthington discusses integration of wildlife conservation, food production and development in relation to ecological agriculture and elephant conservation in Africa.
Looks at popular esayari (animal-feeding) behavior in Japan, why people do it, and what its effects are.
Jac A. A. Swart points at the fact that environmental ethics has to deal with the challenge of reconciling contrasting ecocentric and animal-centric perspectives and analyse the two classic attempts at this reconciliation.
In his essay, Robert L. Chapman analyzes the role of environmental restoration.
John A. Curtis argues that there may be instances where assessing wildlife for monetary valuation might be quite reasonable and useful for public policy, even when there are strong arguments against valuation of wildlife and nature.
This article looks at three approaches through history of humans to birds.
This article discusses la bête du Gévaudan, a wolf or wolves that terrorized parts of the French populace between 1764 and 1767.
This article argues in favour of “audacity”: employing the practice of history fully to tell a complex story involving conservation science.
