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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Some were taken of birds and mammals in zoos or aviaries, others were taken in the wild, often in remote places. Laughing Owl, 1909, New Zealand, photo taken by Cuthbert and Oliver Parr, pp. The photographs span the years 1870 to 2004. And, they are fascinating. The photographs were never published. And remembered.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

One of the first examples I ever encountered was in the books of Gerald Durrell, the famous conservationist who was an early pioneer of the roles of zoos in conservation. He often defended that role in his books from animal rights activists who opposed “imprisoning” animals in zoos even if it saved them from extinction.