Encountering Ghost Species

Authors

  • Cameron Muir University of Western Australia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-springs-950

Abstract

Providence petrels on Lord Howe Island have been found to feed their chicks plastic until they choke, but researchers are now doing their best to help. On the same island, the population of woodhens, which were once close to extinction, is now recovering due to human intervention. For all species on Earth, the future is unwritten. Who will endure; and who will soon exist only as a ghost of a species this planet once knew?

Author Biography

  • Cameron Muir, University of Western Australia

    Cameron Muir is a writer and environmental historian. His work has been shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s History Awards, the Eureka Prize for Science Journalism, and the Bragg Prize for Science Writing. He is co-editor of the literary anthology, Living with the Anthropocene: Love Loss and Hope in the Face of Environmental Crisis (2020). In 2013–14 he was a Carson Fellow. He is currently a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Western Australia exploring “shadow places” in the Australian Anthropocene.

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Published

21-07-2022

Issue

No. 1 (2022)

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