{"product_id":"inconvenient-animals","title":"Inconvenient Animals","description":"\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e.cs97DFFCB{12pt;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-style:normal;Times New Roman;} .cs3270F94{margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:0pt}\u003c\/style\u003e\r\n\t\r\n\t\u003cp class=\"cs3270F94\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs97DFFCB\"\u003eA devastating, brilliant book that will change how you think about the habitat around you.In 2024, an earless dragon was spotted – the first in over 50 years. Soon, scientists and sniffer dogs patrolled the grasslands, as development ground to a halt. A tiny lizard had effectively exacerbated the housing crisis, forcing an uncomfortable question: what matters more – our right to shelter or theirs to exist?Across Australia, native species get caught in the tug between conservation and urban development. Some, like koalas, orange-bellied parrots, pygmy bluetongues, flying foxes, plains-wanderer birds or brilliant peacock spiders, are so crucial to the ecosystems they inhabit that their demise can herald collapse. How did we come to see nature as a resource to exploit rather than an integral part of our future?The dragon’s disappearance mirrors the vanishing of our most endangered habitat. Both are part of a deeper story: one that connects early colonists’ visions of agriculture to the sprawling suburbs now built on ancient land. A story about the men who declared the content terra nullius and the modern developers who reshape it share more than we’d like to admit.This is a book about what we miss when we don’t look closely, and about the long shadow colonialism casts on our treatment of animals. Weaving ecology, philosophy and history, it’s a reckoning with our past, and an urgent meditation on how we might save the future.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ADS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43124969963600,"sku":"9781923451162","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0211\/2428\/files\/9781923451162_1.jpg?v=1794026749","url":"https:\/\/beaumarisbooks.com.au\/products\/inconvenient-animals","provider":"Beaumaris Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}