Reading and Media Resources: Animals in the Wild

Pulitzer Prize winning depiction of the future, focusing specifically on the mass extinction currently unfolding and inevitably to increase over the coming years due to human impact on the planet and...

Investigates the multibillion-dollar global exotic pet trade and the ways in which exotic pets are fetishized and commodified and calls for a “wild life” politics allowing animals to live for the sake...

A firsthand account of a social psychologist’s somewhat accidental introduction to the world of cat rescue, the trap-neuter-return method of feral cat management and the often hidden world of feral...

Documentary about the international trade of captive orcas.

Personal narrative from the famed primate researcher regarding her years of interactions with and observations of the chimpanzee residents of Gombe, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.

Incorporates indigenous law to advocate for folding animals into our existing system of property law to allow them to own land in trust, thereby creating a crucial tool to reduce biodiversity loss.

Depicts the fictionalized true story of the work of naturalist Dian Fossey with the mountain gorillas of Rwanda. Directed by Michael Apted, starring Sigourney Weaver.

Examines, in an accessible fashion, questions of fish sentience, intelligence and memory from consideration of the point of view of individual representatives of the over 30,000 species of fish...

Future generations, wildlife, and natural resources identify the common vulnerabilities of “the voiceless" and show how the law can evolve to protect their interests more effectively by incorporating...

Examines the work of four prominent theorists of nature, Theodore Roosevelt, Aldo Leopold, Holmes Rolston III, and Warwick Fox, and argues against their allegiance to abstract constructs, and instead...