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Elephants

New and forthcoming environmental books (March 2025)

March 23, 2025 by John Yunker

I’m happy to share a new selection of environmentally themed books — including poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Please check them out… Green to Grey: An Environmental Anthology Edited by Ian …

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Categories Animal Rights, Animals, Anthropocene, Architecture, Conservation, Earth Architecture, Ecology, Fiction, Nonfiction, Oceans, Poetry, Veganism, W. W. Norton & Company

Bycatch

October 2, 2023 by John Yunker

In fishing, there is what you catch, and then there is bycatch. Catch is what is intended; bycatch is what is unintended.  A necessary evil. That is, until one understands …

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Categories Animal Rights, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Essays, Hunting, Oceans, Sustainability, Veganism

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

Animal Resistance: When animals fight back and when humans listen

August 9, 2025January 18, 2021 by John Yunker
Animal Resistance

In the first chapter of Animal Resistance in the Global Capitalist Era, Sarat Colling tells the story of Emily, possibly the most famous cow to have escaped a slaughterhouse. It …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Michigan State University Press, Nonfiction, Pets, Topics, Veganism, What we're reading

Beyond Words: The more we study animals, the smarter they get

September 29, 2019July 29, 2015 by John Yunker

In Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel, Carl Safina sets out on a global journey to listen to and understand animals on their terms and not ours. By the end …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Conservation, Endangered Species, Henry Holt and Company, Nonfiction, Oceans

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