The concept of extinction is at the heart of the modern conservation movement, and massive
resources have been spent on developing models and frameworks for quantifying and …

Avoiding extinction is one of the main aims of the global conservation movement and its
study has historically been dominated by ecological thinking about the consequences of …

Among the most egregious and discouraging problems of conservation is the rapidly
escalating human‐caused species extinction rate.“De‐extinction” refers to the application of …

The ongoing global biodiversity crisis not only involves biological extinctions, but also the
loss of experience and the gradual fading of cultural knowledge and collective memory of …

Michael Shellenberger and Ted No-rdhaus started a considerable ruckus with a report
(Shellenberger & Nord-haus 2004) prepared for the annual meeting of the Environmental …

Abstract" De-extinction" projects propose to re-create or" resurrect" extinct species. Perhaps
the most common justification offered for these projects is that humans have an obligation to …

This essay argues that the concept of extinction, polysemous if not overdetermined, is
becoming an emergent keyword of contemporary public life as it faces the climate crisis. To …

This paper explores how naturalists have engaged with the issue of wildlife extinction over
the last two centuries. After a long period of resisting the notion of extinction, based on …

Extinction deeply colors the way we think about conservation and the role of humans in
nature. It is easy to overlook how recently, in fact, it has entered our consciousness. Only in …

Life on Earth is facing a mass extinction event of our own making. Human activity is
changing the biology and the meaning of extinction. What Is Extinction? examines several …