Popular Essays

English

  1. Blumstein, D.T., C. Price, and T. van Dooren (2023) “Changing wild animals’ behavior could help save them – but is it ethical?” The Conversation. (Reprinted in the LA Times).
  2. van Dooren, T. (2021) “Smoke and Song: On the Unravelling of Regent Honeyeater Life,” in An Endangered Menagerie, Plumwood Mountain.
  3. van Dooren, T. (2020) “Pangolins and Pandemics,” New Matilda.
  4. Van Dooren, T. (2020) “Crows removing ticks: helpfulness, opportunism, or something else?” Corvid Research.
  5. van Dooren, T. (2019) “A Lesson for Ravens: Don’t Eat the Tortoises,” The Atlantic.
  6. van Dooren, T. (2019) “Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions,” Sydney Environment Institute opinions.
  7. van Dooren, T. (2019) “Moving Birds: Translocation in an Unraveling World,” Los Angeles Review of Books.
  8. van Dooren, T. (2019) “Hospice Earth.” Overland.
  9. van Dooren, T. (2018) “Curating with care: A response to Michael Wang’s Extinct in the Wild,” magazine of the German Federal Cultural Foundation. (English translation available here).
  10. van Dooren, T. (2015) “The Last Snail: Loss, Hope and Care for the Future,” in Anna-Sophie Springer and Etienne Turpin (eds.) Land & Animal & Nonanimal, Haus der Kulturen der Welt: Berlin. (PDF)
  11. van Dooren, T. (2015) Short contribution to Natasha Milne and Barbara Royal (eds.) 101 Reasons to Get out of Bed.
  12. van Dooren, T. (2015) “Ethics from the Field,” invited contribution to How far should we go to bring back lost species? on the Centre for Humans and Nature website.
  13. van Dooren, T. (2012) “Science can’t do it alone: the environment needs humanities too,” The Conversation.

German

  1. van Dooren, T. (2018) “Curating with care: A response to Michael Wang’s Extinct in the Wild,” magazine of the German Federal Cultural Foundation. (English translation available here).

French

  1. van Dooren, T. (2018) “Unraveling the worlds of snails,” Billebaude Review, vol 13 (published by Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in partnership with the IUCN). (PDF)
  2. van Dooren, T. (2016) “Le blues des grues blanches: Violence du soin dans la préservation des espèces” Judith Chouraqui, Cyril Lecerf Maulpoix, Romain André and Grégoire Chamayou (trans.), Jef Klak, 3.
  3. van Dooren, T. (2016) “La partie des manchots” in Revolutions Animales, Karine Lou Matignon (ed.), Coédition ARTE éditions / Les Liens qui Libérent.
  4. van Dooren, T. (2016) “L’arche des morts-vivants, un espoir ?” in Revolutions Animales, Karine Lou Matignon (ed.), Coédition ARTE éditions / Les Liens qui Libérent.