by octopusgarden | Oct 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
Recently, Raf De Bont’s monograph Nature’s Diplomats appeared with the University of Pittsburgh Press. The book explores the development of science-based and internationally conceived nature protection in its foundational years before the 1960s, the decade...
by octopusgarden | Mar 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
How does one become certain that a species is no more? How does one document extinction? Monica Vasile tackles these questions in a blogpost for Mosa Historia. In particular, she discusses how scientists tried to find out whether there were still surviving free-living...
by octopusgarden | Mar 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
The wild hamsters of the Dutch province of Limburg are currently cherished as a cute-yet-threatened indigenous species and a marker of local identity. This has not always been the case however. In a blogpost for Mosa Historia, Raf De Bont discusses how the Dutch...
by octopusgarden | Nov 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
In September-October 2020, The British Animal Studies Network devoted its autumn meeting to ‘Animal Borderlands’. Moving Animals’ project leader Raf De Bont gave one of the plenary lectures. A full report of the BASN autumn meeting can be found...
by octopusgarden | May 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
Moving Animals in NRC Moving Animals made it into the NRC. We talked about globalization, conceptions of wildness, zoological gardens and… hamsters. Subscribers can read the interview (in Dutch) here: De Historische Rol van de Korenwolf (NRC) * Credits...
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