I am currently finishing work on a new book focused on the disappearing land snails of Hawai’i. While I’ve tried to make all of my books accessible and engaging, this is the first one that I’ve written in a deliberate effort to speak to a general readership.
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I’m very happy to announce two recent French translations of my writing.
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In May and June of 2016 I travelled to Guam and Rota in the Mariana Islands on a research trip. My focus was the critically
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Translocation, captive breeding, somatic cell nuclear transfer (cloning), back-breeding, gene and seed banking—the list goes on. Today, there are a whole range of different technologies
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A great interview on Flight Ways has just been posted on the New Books Network seminar. Thanks so much to Carla Nappi for taking the
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On Monday morning I appeared on a short program on the ABC Radio National program ‘Life Matters‘. We talked about extinction, conservation and ethics. You
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For the last couple of years my research on ethics, extinction and conservation has focused on Hawai’i, and the Hawaiian crow (or alala) in particular.
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Here’s a link to a recent interview I did with Jan Oosthoek as part of the Exploring Environmental History podcast (number 58, 18 Jan 2014).
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Our new print has finally arrived. Titled Sanguine Moon by American artist Margaret Barnaby, it’s a wood block print of two Alala (Hawaiian crows) perched
Read MoreIn celebration of the recently released cover for my new book, I’ve posted a little description of it here. The book is forthcoming with Columbia
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