by vanessa | Feb 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
In September 2022, the Moving Animals team presented their work at the 10th ESHS Conference (European Society for the History of Science) in Brussels. The panel, Genes, Ghosts, and Icons: Networks of (Amateur) Scientists in the Conservation, Collection, and...
by vanessa | Feb 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
In July 2022, Monica Vasile presented the paper “Thinking with the wild ass: teaching the Przewalski’s horse to move in the Gobi Desert, a contemporary history of conservation science” at the Animal History Group Summer Conference. She shows how humans...
by vanessa | Feb 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
Monica Vasile discusses the problematic, complicated, and ambivalent ‘success story’ of the reintroduction of European bison in Romania and Poland in her Open Access article in the journal Environment and History. “From Reintroduction to Rewilding: Autonomy, Agency...
by vanessa | Feb 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
In June 2022, Monica Vasile did fieldwork on the Przewalski’s horse (takhi in Mongolian) reintroduction. She visited the Gobi B protected area, a nature reserve in Gobi desert (situated in the southwestern part of Mongolia at the border with China), where horses...
by simone | Jul 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
In July, the Moving Animals members organized three panels at the the ESEH conference 2022, presenting project work on 20th century captive breeding of lemurs, Rhuddy duck erradication projects, Swiss zoo design, and behavioral experiments with wild Arctic ungulates. ...
by simone | Jul 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
In May and June 2022, Monica Vasile did fieldwork on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, researching the story of recovering the Vancouver Island marmot from near extinction. She looked into personal archives and collections of reports, interviewed scientists and...
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