Minimizing Animal-Human Conflict with Convivial Conservation
By looking at a recent case study in Botswana, Anna Carlson & Kimberly Thomas explore convivial conservation as a clever, balanced way to address the needs of both wildlife and people.
Tagged: Extinction
The Unreliable Bestiary: A Conversation with Deke Weaver
Performance artist Deke Weaver gives a behind-the-scenes look at Unreliable Bestiary, an expansive multimedia project that tells the stories of endangered animal species.
Eleven Ecohorror Films to Creep You Out
Curious about ecohorror? An ecocritic recommends classic, campy, and little-known films that play with our culture’s deepest fears about nature. A few of these creature features just might get under your skin—literally.
Starlicide
In this meditation on the pesticide Starlicide, a poet explores how human hubris leads us to control nature’s “nuisances” and how we fail to see their beauty.
Millions of Insects and a Curator at Work
Insects are going extinct at alarming rates. Curators at one of the country’s premier insect collections are working to slow that change.
Ursula K. Heise Thinks Beyond Melancholy: A Review of “Imagining Extinction”
Extinction stories have a flavor, and it tastes like melancholy. A new book asks what different narratives we could bring to the table.
Can a Piano Sing a Birdsong?
The French composer Olivier Messaien attempted to reproduce the calls of 80 European birds in a three-hour piece for solo piano. Did he succeed?
Hunting a Unicorn: A Conversation with William deBuys
The preeminent environmental writer and conservationist ventures into the mountains of Laos to find one of Earth’s rarest creatures and returns believing well-crafted narratives showcasing the beauty of nature can help to fight the Sixth Extinction.
Expressing Extinction: A Conversation with Anna Lehner
During this period of rapid political change, glass and Morse code provide mediums for reflection on the environment and extinction.
Rewilding and Reptiles: A Conversation With Naturalist Harry Greene
World-renowned herpetologist and naturalist Harry Greene discusses humanity’s “deep history” with snakes, empathy and embodiment in animal research, Pleistocene rewilding, natural history in education, and more.
