5 Books That Transformed How I Think About Wildlife Conservation

Isort of fell into wildlife conservation as a topic of research during my Ph.D. As a linguist by training, my main focus for much of my graduate life had been on how people “construct”— tell stories about––their cultural and social worlds through the use of language. But when I began researching local controversies around sea turtle tourism in Hawai‘i, mainly to investigate the language of debate and conflict arising as ‘ecotourists’ inundated local Hawai‘i communities to see, touch and swim with sea turtles, I was sucked into the complex world of wildlife conservation. <a href="https://medium.com/thewildones/5-books-that-transformed-how-i-think-about-wildlife-conservation-6fe8019f0435">Website</a>