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the times of environmental decline, global warming, and zoonotic pandemic, it is easy to despair, Now more than ever we need some good news and a bit of optimism, And here comes to the rescue this book,

Michelle Nijhuis recalls many of the most famous success stories in the history of conservation, It is heartwarming to read that despite experiences of similar feelings of despair, our predecessors managed to change the world in positive ways.
We still have bisons and whooping cranes, after all!

It is a very engaging and interesting read.
I especially appreciate including stories of brave and stubborn women, who challenged the status quo and made a difference.


The narrators voice in the audiobook version can at first appear as a little generic, but you stop noticing that after a few minutes, and her good diction is really important because of many Latin terms and names in the book.


Thanks to the publisher, Melville House Publishing, and NetGalley for the advance copy of this audiobook, Bringing this book to print must have required excellent organizational skills, Spanning time since the's and intertwining the lives of so many key people in the sciences of conservation and preservation, this book connects individuals and organizations that you probably heard about but had no idea where they fell in the timelines and lives of others.


Even if you are a conservation minded individual, I suspect this book will make you stop and think.
. . "hmmm I had no idea"

Be sure to check out the seven pages of recommended reading too, . . A bit too dense for my liking but I recognize that its well written and I certainly enjoyed some of the tidbits of information specifically about the bird watching drama and the history of the bison.
Shame on me: I didn't read the subtitle of this text, I anticipated reading something that focused more on the "beasts" and less on the history of policies, regulations and laws and the characters associated with environmentalism, conservationism, naturalism, and all the other isms that are related to the movements of saving animals from extinction and/or bringing animals back from extinction.


There was nothing wrong with Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction by Michelle Nijhuis.
I just had hoped to read something different, However, if you're interested in the history of conservation and all of its complexities and that's my big takeaway: the issue of conservation is much more complex than I realized.


My only complaint is that, like other nonfiction texts I've listened to this year, this text mentions inaccuracies about Covid.
Let's just not, yeah Because there was absolutely NO reason to go there,

If you're interested in conservationism, environmentalism, extinction and the work associated with bringing certain animals back from extinction and the historical figures associated with the aforementioned "isms", then this could be the book for you!

Audiobook, Scribd This was a/star book, and in fact I changed how many I had clicked.
This is a good introductory book for the development of the conservation movement and ideas and concepts we have today.
It's a good and easy read, but, other than the Namibian couple and Soulé, there wasn't a lot that was new to me in the book, either on individuals or ideas.
And, given that the book introed with Linnaeus, having a chapter devoted to modern discussion of what a species is and related issues would have been good, along with discussion of conservation issues and focusing on species vs subspecies.
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Very interesting and informative, I wanted to love this book more than I did, Maybe I would have if I wasn't listening to it, but reading, Maybe. There's also the mismatch between what I expected and what was in it, which is obviously my fault, The stories of the scientists/lay people who made a difference and the lives they might be saving and the other lives they might be squelching because these were fallible people were great, but it wasn't really what I was expecting.
I'll give the physical book another go, preferably when my son is looking over my shoulder, now that I know what's in the book.
BELOVED BEASTS is an excellent new book about the history of modern wildlife conservation, This is the book I wish I had read years ago! If you want to learn about the relationships between conservation biology, environmentalism, the animal rights movement, hunting, and other related disciplines, this is the book for you.
And what about connections to womens suffrage, Indigenous rights, and sustainable development Or colonialism, racism, and eugenics All that is here, too.


Nijhuis packs a lot in this book, so some topics get more attention than others, but she still manages to treat them with considerable nuance.
If you know some conservation history there will be a lot of familiar characters and topics here, but its worthwhile reading anyway to get a better understanding of how they are all woven together.
There is a focus on terrestrial wildlife and on North American wildlife management, but there are discussions of international conservation movements and some good examples from Africa as well.


What I think may be the most valuable part of this book is where Nijhuis considers wellknown frameworks and concepts in conservationfrom the Tragedy of the Commons to trophy hunting, protected areas, and endangered species managementand asks whether they are useful to carry forward into the next generation of conservation.
An important question, indeed. I loved that this book was broken into digestible chapters and that the language was not so academic that is was inaccessible.


I really appreciated the way Ms, Nijhuis linked the people, organizations and players in the various developments across time to show how small the conservation community was yet how widespread.


Each chapter focused on one person or event and how those involved started something that influenced another person who then contributes to conservation from another angle.


It was readerfriendly, heartwarming, and I cheered and jeered many times through the book, I borrowed this book from my local library but I have dogeared so many pages I may have to get my own copy.
I learned a lot from reading BELOVED BEASTS, especially about conservation biology, Most of the chapters focus on birds, but there were also interesting chapters on forestry, rhinos, and wolves, The sixth extinction is coming, people, . . What a piece of work we are, This line in the book really stuck out to me, as did so many others, I thoroughly enjoyed every page of this book and it was a very engaging, eyeopening account of the history of conservation and some of the most prominent figures in it such as Aldo Leopold, Julian Huxley, Rosalie Edge and many others.
You will read of the creation of the Audubon Association, World Wildlife Fund, IUCN and many other groups, Conservation and nature in general has interested me since I was a child and this book was the perfect account of what it can really be like for the people who work in that field and how our mindsets towards conservation has developed and changed over time and how in some ways, it hasn't.
The most fascinating parts of the book to me were the chapters on Namibia and the black rhino, the bison and William Hornaday and the sections on hunting and trophy hunting.
All of it was excellent however, and I highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the topic.
Very balanced narrative on the reality of the conservation movement, Nijhuis is a great writer and journalist, She provided new perspectives on conservation heroes/villains I thought I already

knew well and also brought up some challenging questions.
I felt the strongest chapters were towards the end but this also were the areas I was more interested in and/or new less about.


Read in a reading group with a bunch of wonderful PhD/MS students studying wildlife and people in some way/shape/form.
Highly recommend a reading group to continue the conversations! A lovely and yet sad book, At the bottom of all this is the sad fact that our species sees itself on the outside of the natural world, somehow better or more valuable than other species that share this planet with us, and all our conservation efforts are attempts to save species while we fail to see that everything is connected, that we should living within the nature that gave us life, in mutualism with all other species on earth.
I'm grateful to have read Michelle Nijuis' book, Learning about the conservation movement's history and the people who pioneered it went beyond the ones I already knew about, which include the stakeholders, human and animal, who live on these lands, whose lives are interconnected, and how we as humans have tried to come up with solutions that look at all best interests, not just the endangered animals.
Thoughtful book. Thank you, Ms. Nijuis! This was a great read! I was torn between giving thisandstars, I felt it had a bit of a slower start, but I liked it more as I got into it and became more used to the authors writing style like another reviewer said.
I liked how Nijhuis told a mix of both the positives of conservation and also the controversies of its past and some of the people involved.
Overall, I learned a lot about the field and how it evolved over time, and I really enjoyed learning about key case studies and people in conservation.
Talking about this with a book club made it even better! Would recommend if you want to learn more! Fantastic read! An epic journey through time learning about the evolution of conservation

This took me back to my Ecology, Evolution and Conservation classes at University, but interestingly covered some of the lesser known figures and moments in history in between the more notable ones.
I really enjoyed discovering the transformation of the concept of conservation from the start of naming and classifying species, all the way to the modern notion of population biology.


It delves very deep into the topics presented, but they are told as shortstories to make each subject get the attention it deserves.
I always find it fascinating to connect the dots between all these events happening through time that helped shape ideas and beliefs of today.
It makes you wonder how this field will grow from here in the future, .

I think the examples selected made perfect sense, and highlighted some of the major matters of debate such as “why protect an animal”, “how does it affect us, humans”, “are we really responsible for extinctions”, or even “what actions can be taken”.


Highly recommend this book to give a good perspective on the current situation of biodiversity loss across the planet and how we got to this point, in a more educational, factual, and contextual narrative rather than from an ecoextremist point of view.


Special thanks go to the netgalley team and the publishers for providing this ARC, I appreciate the opportunity to read it in exchange for an honest review, At first, I didn't really like this book, Its format is a little different from most nonfiction books I read, It leans more heavily into the narratives and it's organized aboutpages per chapter, On the longer side for each story,

As I pushed myself to read it though, I started to enjoy it more, I have not read many books specifically in the conservation biology genre, It seems that most books in the genre focus on one species to highlight, explain its evolutionary history, and the challenges to the species.
This book is basically the history of the conservation movement, I liked it because it's not an oft written about topic,

Also, as I went on I began to understand why the author sectioned off her book as she did.
Each book chapter serves to highlight important steps in the conservation movements from establishing the EPA, WWF, and Environmental Working Group among others to looking at different ideas in the movement like focusing on involving local communities in conservation.
In other words, at first you think the book is a bit meandering and as you read through it you become more reflective on how it is organized.


I think you do have to be in the mood to read longer narratives and chapters, but I think it is well worth your time.
My favorite chapters were "The Eagle and the Whooping Crane" which focuses on Rachel Carson's contributions and 'The Professor and the Elixir of Life" which focuses on the Huxley family.
I knew the Huxley family through TH Huxley aka "Darwin's bulldog", but had no idea what an impressive family he came from.
There are a few poetic and interesting anecdotes splashed in there as well, The book also challenges you with some fascinating thought experiments and moral arguments that she leaves openended in the later chapters.


Yes, there are a few duller chapters, but overall you really do get into the history of conservation as you go on.
It's also neat to learn how thinking has evolved in conservation even among its pioneers and even now, If you are interested in the conservation movement, Nijhuis weaves an interesting yarn and you're probably bound to learn something.

“Boundaries have been useful to conservationand will continue to be, But the lesson of ecology, much like that of Aesops fables, is that human relationships with the rest of life are both inescapable and inescapably complex.
The great challenge of conservation is to sustain complexity, in its many forms, and by doing so protect the possibility of a future for all life on earth.
And for that, there are no panaceas, ”.