Apology, anthropology, and colonial genocide
A review of Terra Nullius, A Journey Through No One’s Land, by Sven Lindqvist Terra Nullius – a Latin expression meaning ‘no one’s land’ – was a legal fiction used to clear […]
Category Archives: extinction
Going the way of the Dodo: four pigeons, three extinctions, and te Tiriti o Waitangi
When Northland Maori leader Sonny Tau was found to have in his possession the bodies of five protected kereru (the large native pigeon, also known as kukupa) as he boarded […]
Toheroa – extinction in a tin can
On some of the wild sandy beaches of the West Coast of New Zealand, pounded by the surf rolling in from the Tasman Sea, there live (or rather, used to […]
Human beings and animal extinction
When European settlers began exploring North America from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, they found a land teeming with wildlife that were possible sources of food – from the […]
A worker at large 