Here, is a compelling, selfish, way to make the case for conservation: we aren’t human without wild spaces or the animals who cling to islands of refuge there.įor me, Meloy’s compelling call to conservation evoked the hunger with which I devoured another dog eared paperback. Representations of wild animals are everywhere, and yet we fail to connect these images to the real thing- to the conservation of the wild resources on which our imaginations depend. In line at the register, a toddler clings to his mother’s pants with one hand and to a weary teddy bear in the other. The woman standing near my wobbly table-vantage point has the tattoo of a cartoon fox across her calf. Even the coffee shop I’ve sought out to write this review, covered in a blanket of wifi, boasts a rack of greeting cards printed with a local photographer’s wildlife shots. To illustrate this human/wild connection, Meloy draws attention to the representations of wild animals evoked in our cultural imagery.
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