Environmental geographer/anthropologist. Interested in wildlife conservation, biosecurity, pastoralism & ecotourism, among others. Work mainly in Southern Africa.
Wisse van Engelen
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Scientists have known for years that most TB transmission occurs between cattle, but the idea was hard to mainstream because news coverage kept focusing on badgers. So it’s a big win to so far see no pictures of badgers in today’s press
🐗 New paper: What does "wildness" mean in a rewilded pygmy hog?
After 12 months in Assam, I explore: rewilded hogs are liminal, meanings of wildness, taming as joint politics, contaminated freedom, animal cultures, and how conservation learns (or fails to).
🔗 Link below
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My chapter ‘Livestock Commodities in a Globalizing World: Between Pastoralism and Capitalism’ has been published in Open Acces (doi.org/10.4324/9781...) in the fantastic Routledge Handbook of Pastoralism. All you ever wanted to know about why and how meat, milk and hides became global commodities.
Publication day!
Globalizing Wildlife - edited by Tom Quick, @vbateman.bsky.social and yours truly - shows that globalization is not just a human but also an animal affair.
Mridutpal Sinharay
Samuël Coghe
Raf De Bont 🟥
The new bTB strategy is published! Key points: (1) most cattle get TB from other cattle, so most recommendations target cattle; (2) cattle vaccine rollout by 2030; (3) farmers & vets empowered to improve cattle testing; (4) badger vaccination in priority areas & an end to badger culling
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This chapter analyzes how, and with what consequences, livestock commodities became an increasingly important feature of the global economy, from the late 18th
The pygmy hog (Porcula salvania), the world’s smallest and one of the rarest wild pigs, is the focus of a reintroduction effort in Northeast India, where a captive-breeding programme launched in 19...
