Making Do by Mardi Reardon-Smith - 9781503643635

Making DoConservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia\nAuthor(s): Mardi Reardon-Smith\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9781503643635, 978-1503643635\nSynopsis\nCape York is a remote and biodiverse peninsula in northeastern Australia that has been inhabited by Aboriginal communities for thousands of years. Since colonization, much of the peninsula has been used for large scale cattle farming. It is also a place of global significance as the site of multiple environmentally protected bioregions, with ongoing efforts to recognize them as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Despite the very human role in shaping the landscape of Cape York, the region remains widely thought of as a \""wilderness\"" to be conserved and protected. In this context, what counts as natural and native matters cruciallyas does who gets to decide how species and people are categorized and, accordingly, how they are controlled.\n\n .