By: Cate Jones Globally, coral reefs are experiencing high levels of bleaching and biodiversity loss. For example, the Great Barrier Reef experienced a massive bleaching event between 2015 and 2017 that left half of the corals dead (Braverman, 2019). According to many scientists, coral reefs are threatened by the Anthropocene, a proposed geological epoch that... Continue Reading →
A Bridge of Trees: Conflict Between Barred and Spotted Owls
By: Alexander Ferentinos https://youtu.be/xgKE4Knihrc The Northern Spotted Owl is an iconically famous, or perhaps infamous, endangered species that ranges from California to British Columbia. The first controversy involving this species was originally back in the 1990s, when its protection caused the logging industry to claim that it would be severely impacted (Satchell, M. (June 25,... Continue Reading →
Between democracy and the market: conservation along the southern Andes (Argentina and Chile)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jo-6elcNhM Panel Presented at the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) meeting 2021: Anthropology & Conservation Since the 1990s, the southern Andes along the Argentinean-Chilean border has seen an unprecedented growth of public and private conservation projects. Such growth has contributed to the transformation of this area from a remote natural resource frontier, whose economic and political... Continue Reading →
Conservation Ethics Syllabus
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Concepts for Conservation Ethics – A Toolkit
This toolkit provides with concepts to think with for a more ethical conservation -its practices, scholarship, and futures.- The concepts are crafted by students in the course Conservation Ethics at William & Mary. Affect Anthrophobia Arrogance (experts) Biopolitics Ecological Colonialism Environmental Kin Study Mastery of Nature Reciprocity Sharing Suffering Utilitarianism Wilderness
Afternatures: The Politics of Race, Science, & Nature 