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Book Reviews

Book Review: Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction by Michelle Nijhuis

December 2, 2021 by Melissa Dennihy

Beloved Beasts is a richly informative history of the international conservation movement and the central figures who have played crucial roles in developing conservationism and moving conservation efforts forward. The …

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Listen, We All Bleed: The artists who are helping us hear what animals have to say

November 8, 2021 by John Yunker

So much of animal activism is focused around what one sees — witnessing the beauty as well as the suffering of the animals we share this planet with. But what …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Insects, Nonfiction, Oceans, Rewilding, Veganism

Two new books from the Whale Warrior

October 14, 2021October 14, 2021 by John Yunker

Few people have done as much to protect whales and the waters they live in than Paul Watson. Founder of the Sea Shepherd Society, Watson has devoted a lifetime to …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, History, Hunting, Nonfiction, Oceans, Oil, Veganism, What we're reading

Book Review: The Longest Story

October 4, 2021 by Olivia Radbill

Upon reading the synopsis, Richard Girling’s The Longest Story appears to take on an ambitious task: cover the relationship between humans and non-human animals throughout all of history in under …

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Categories Animal Rights, Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, History, Nonfiction

Book Review: A Most Remarkable Creature

December 28, 2023October 1, 2021 by John Yunker

In A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Bird of Prey Jonathan Meiburg has crafted an epic ode to the caracara, a long-overlooked …

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Categories Alfred A. Knopf, Animal Behavior, Anthropocene, Birds, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, History, Nonfiction, Oceans, What we're reading

How to Be Animal: Lessons in evolution for the human animal

September 11, 2021September 10, 2021 by John Yunker

Perhaps it is human nature to rank things. We rank cities and states and countries. We have the best restaurants and best movies; we even have best friends. And when …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Anthropocene, Birds, Book Reviews, Conservation, Ecology, History, Nonfiction, Penguin Books, Pets, Sustainability, What we're reading

Book Review: Willodeen by Katherine Applegate

September 7, 2021 by Melissa Dennihy

Katherine Applegate’s Willodeen, out today from Feiwel and Friends, aptly begins with an epigraph quoting Greta Thunberg: “I have learned you are never too small to make a difference.”  This …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Children's Books, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Fiction, Hunting, Topics

Interview with Bear Boy author Justin Barker

September 2, 2021 by Lillie Gardner

Justin Barker is an American animal activist, producer, and author of Bear Boy: The True Story of a Boy, Two Bears, and the Fight to Be Free. He recently chatted …

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Categories Animal Rights, Climate Change, Nonfiction, Q&A, Veganism

Book Review: Bear Boy by Justin Barker

August 30, 2021 by Lillie Gardner

In 1995, thirteen-year-old Justin Barker was begrudgingly browsing a used bookstore with his dad when he came across PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk’s Kids Can Save the Animals: 101 Easy Things …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Nonfiction

Book Review: We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge

August 25, 2021 by Midge Raymond

Kaitlyn Greenidge’s stunning and unique novel, We Love You, Charlie Freeman, begins as the story of a family that moves into the The Toneybee Institute for Ape Research to teach …

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Categories Algonquin Books, Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Fiction

Growl: Life lessons from an animal advocate

August 21, 2021 by John Yunker

Kim Stallwood has been on the forefront of the animal rights movement since the 1970s, giving him a unique perspective on where the movement has come from and where it …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, History, Hunting, Nonfiction, Oceans, Sustainability, Veganism, What we're reading
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