Vergara, Germán (Author)
Wakild, Emily (Author)
Environmental History
Volume: 27
Issue: 2
Pages: 294-307
Edition Details: Forum: Extinction and Its Interventions in the Americas
Language: English
This forum argues that environmental historians ought to pay more attention to animal extinction—the disappearance of a lineage of life—than they have to date. Examining the pre-and post-extinction contexts of charismatic terrestrial vertebrates in the Americas certainly underscores the power humans have had over other animals and their habitats. Yet, the contingencies and unexpected results of conservation efforts merit no less attention. Indeed, by uncovering important nuances in the extension of human power, they provide insights into the conditions critical to avoid extinction. As environmental history has long shown, abstracting the human from the nonhuman world distorts the history of both. Thus, leaving extinction to other disciplines misrepresents what historians can offer and how societies can address ongoing crises of extinction. In this forum, historians partner with scientists in collaboratively composed essays, negotiated across stylistic conventions and subject orientations, to highlight the latent promise of such partnerships. In doing so, they engage spatial and temporal scales that clearly illustrate the significance of deep history and historicize extinction by calling attention to the power, production, and scales of species decline.
...MoreArticle Peter S. Alagona; Alexis M. Mychajliw (2022) Southern California’s Three-Bear Shuffle: Survival, Extinction, and Recovery in an Urban Biodiversity Hot Spot. Environmental History (pp. 308-313).
Article Germán Vergara; Alberto Lafón (2022) Living on the Edge: A Transnational Perspective on the Mexican Wolf and Its Near-Extinction. Environmental History (pp. 314-319).
Article Reinaldo Funes Monzote; Etiam A. Pérez Fleitas (2022) In Grave Danger: A Brief Environmental History of the Cuban Crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer). Environmental History (pp. 320-327).
Article Mark V. Barrow; Allan R. Woodward (2022) Acting in the Face of Uncertainty: The Campaign to Save the American Alligator. Environmental History (pp. 328-333).
Article Elizabeth Hennessy; James P. Gibbs (2022) When De-extinction Really Happens: The Revival of the Floreana Giant Tortoises in the Galápagos Archipelago. Environmental History (pp. 334-339).
Article Nancy Langston; Kathleen Brosemer (2022) Loons and the Risk of Extinction in a Warming, Toxic World. Environmental History (pp. 340-346).
Article Dolly Jørgensen; Isla Gladstone (2022) The Passenger Pigeon’s Past on Display for the Future. Environmental History (pp. 347-353).
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