In this interview, Josh Milburn speaks to Marcy Norton about her 2024 Harvard University Press book The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals After 1492 The book explores the contrasting human–animal ‘modes of interaction’ developed in Europe and Native America, and how these modes of interaction impacted, and were impacted by, the 1492 arrival of Europeans in America The conversation starts with the differences between European hunting and Native American predation, before turning—via a discussion of witchcraft and demonology—to European livestock farming and Native American familiarisation, the latter of which is an important, overlooked part of the origins of contemporary practices of ‘pet-keeping’

As trawlers compete with Greenland sharks for halibut and cod, conservationists and fishers clash over what to do about misunderstood species

As institutions mobilize ambitious land-use transition agendas, dominant policy narratives risk constraining their transformative potential. The land sparing–land sharing (SpSh) framework, introduced ...

Abstract Behavioural biology often focuses on identifying general patterns, yet unusual or rare behaviours at both the population and individual level can provide insight into animal behaviour. Here, ...

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River charters part of wider movement establishing ‘moral’ framework to protect nature and hold institutions to account