... veterinarian to zoological director to global conservation activist, the article shows that the Malthusian fears that underpinned Grzimek's plea for national parks in sub-Saharan Africa that segregated people and wildlife had their origins in an environmental Kulturkritik born of post-Nazi and Cold War...

... of this excess mortality projected for Africa.” 9 As the forecast extends and temperatures increase, so, too, do the fatal “excess” numbers. The details of the future extinction of wildlife, plant life, and vulnerable human communities are precise; in some instances, the process is irreversibly underway...

... was attributed to the carelessness of Poles and other Slavs; 11 the Maasai were said to interfere with wildlife migration patterns in the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem.) For us, however, the crucial issue is the continuity of certain ideas related to the evolving notion of rewilding. Once again, obscure debates...

... of exclusively human interests in a new, desacralized guise, notably in research laboratories.47 The survival needs of nonhuman species are also regularly sacrificed to the cause of modernization through the destruction of wildlife habitat, as was the case with the massive expansion of water control...

... sponsored by European and North American nongovernmental organizations has often ignited protest and resistance move- ments. Old-style conservation that focuses on creating wildlife reserves and national parks to protect endangered plants and animals has often displaced local communities...

..., one can perceive the natural- ness of flowers, trees, meadows, wildlife, and fruits even if one knows that they have been planted and harvested, and are managed and the like. The atmosphere of a bog in autumn can be intensively felt even if one knows that it has been restored...

... the early lecture proceeds from a concept of nature associated with mythic repetition and timeless stasis, the university lectures include exoteric references to “green” nature (such as the creation of nature preserves or the protection of wildlife habitat). 26 The later lectures thus begin to translate...

... Malick’s numerous shots from the ground, looking up through the tropical trees, teeming with wildlife, to the majestic skies above, seem like photographic representations of the fourfold itself— they are, in Cavell’s sense, “the world viewed.”64 The theme of dwelling gets even fuller treatment...