The phylogenetic species concept and its role in Southeast Asian mammal conservation

Meijaard, Erik; Rawson, Benjamin M.

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“…As early as the late nineteenth century, material collected on Palawan by the French naturalist Alfred Marche were used to identify the Palawan bearded as a distinct species (Sus ahenobarbus). Revaluations of the 'species' concept in biology in the 1940s led to major 'taxonomic lumping' that reduced the number of wild pig species in Southeast Asia from over 40 to three (Meijaard & Rawson 2015), and identified the Palawan bearded pig as a sub-species of the far more widely distributed bearded pig (Sus Barbatus). While the uniqueness of the Palawan bearded pig was occasionally hinted at over the course of the twentieth century, it was not until the early 2000s that new morphometric and DNA analyses restored the Palawan bearded pig to full species-hood.…”

Section: The Place Of Pigs In Conservation Practicementioning

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Beyond Loving Nature: Affective Conservation and Human-Pig Violence in the Philippines

Smith

2020

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Contemporary social theory has forcefully argued for a 'loving' postenvironmentalism based on intimate care and making kin with the non-human world. These arguments are a central part of an influential and cross-disciplinary scholarly discourse, increasingly adopted by environmental anthropologists, that envisions a universal moral ecology of 'care, love and kinship' as the solution to the near-apocalyptic social and environmental conditions of the Anthropocene. Drawing on ethnographic work in the Philippines, I explore how this narrowed affective repertoire maps awkwardly onto indigenous Pala'wan explanations of their relationship with the non-human world where reciprocity and respect are held in tension with fear, violence and death. I focus, in particular, on the Palawan bearded pig (Sus ahoenobarbus), an endemic species that has become an emblematic conservation species while also being extensively hunted by indigenous peoples across the Island.

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Section: The Place Of Pigs In Conservation Practicementioning

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Beyond Loving Nature: Affective Conservation and Human-Pig Violence in the Philippines

Smith

2020

Ethnos

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Evolutionary Relationships and Taxonomy of Suidae and Tayassuidae

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Ecology, Conservation and Management of Wild Pigs and Peccaries

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Presenting Endangerment

Baynham-Herd

2020

Environmental Humanities

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Endangered species are not simply revealed but are presented. This process of presentation is shaped by conservation discourses that reflect how actors understand, categorize, and imagine nonhuman life. Such discourses combine to produce narratives of endangerment, which influence policy and conservation efforts. This article examines how particular physical, epistemic, and cultural geographies mediate the production of conservation discourses and narratives of endangerment. It explores an anomalous case in which the endangered species presented never physically existed: the story of the conservationist Sir Peter Scott and the Loch Ness phenomena (Nessie). By reinterpreting Scott’s correspondence covering the Loch Ness Phenomena Investigation Bureau in the 1960s and 1970s, this article outlines the discursive production of Nessie as, first, a scientifically recognized species, and, second, an endangered creature warranting protection. Nessie’s nonphysical existence is argued to reveal the ways in which living things are ancillary to the discourses through which they become protected. Specifically, this article demonstrates how Nessie’s proposed endangerment was produced through ostensibly scientific discourses accessed through particular social networks, understandings, values, procedures, and imagery. In doing so it highlights the other physical and human geographies, including nationalism, landscape, media, and technology, that shaped this and likely other presentations of endangerment.

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The phylogenetic species concept and its role in Southeast Asian mammal conservation

Cited by 3 publications

References 17 publications

Beyond Loving Nature: Affective Conservation and Human-Pig Violence in the Philippines

Beyond Loving Nature: Affective Conservation and Human-Pig Violence in the Philippines

Evolutionary Relationships and Taxonomy of Suidae and Tayassuidae

Presenting Endangerment

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