Table of Contents

Introduction. Sarah Johnson 1. An Animal: What is it? Keekok Lee I. Using animals: populations and exploitation Livestock 2. Bodies on the Beach: Domesticates and Disasters in the Spanish Philippines 1750-1898. Greg Bankoff 3. Goats, Marginality and the 'Dangerous Other'. David Siddle Hunting 4. Three Centuries of Whaling and Walrus Hunting in Svalbard and its Impact on the Arctic Ecosystem. Louwrens Hacquebord 5. A 'Sportsman's Paradise': The Effects of Hunting on the Avifauna of the Gippsland Lakes. Coral Dow 6. Environmental History of Marine Mammal Exploitation in Trinidad and Tobago, W.I., and its Ecological Impact. Aldemaro Romero, Ruth Baker, Joel E. Cresswell, Anuradha Singh, Annabelle McKie and Michael Manna II. Animal conservation: history and theory 7. Conservation and Individual Worth. Gill Aitken Preservation and protection 8. The Grey Seal in Britain: A Twentieth Century History of a Nature Conservation Success. Robert A. Lambert 9. For the 'Preservation of Friends' and the 'Destruction of Enemies': Studying and Protecting Birds in Late Imperial Russia. Brian Bonhomme III. Population management: past realities and future strategies 10. Wolves in the Early Nineteenth-Century County of Jonkoping, Sweden. Orjan Kardell and Anna Dahlstrom 11. De-Domestication: Ethics at the Intersection of Landscape Restoration and Animal Welfare. Christian Gamborg, Bart Gremmen, Stine B. Christiansen and Peter Sandoe IV. Where culture meets creature Conservation as negotiation 12. 'The Common Cormorant or Shag Lays Eggs Inside a Paper Bag'. A Cultural Ecology of Fish-eating Birds in Western Australia. Joanna Sassoon 13. A Cultural History of Crocodiles in the Philippines: Towards a New Peace Pact? Jan van der Ploeg, Merlijn van Weerd and Gerard A. Persoon Wild displays 14. Demonstration Wildlife: Negotiating the Animal Landscape of Vancouver's Stanley Park, 1888-1996. Sean Kheraj