Ice and Ivory: the cryopolitics of mammoth de-extinction
Woolly mammoth tusk hunting has become a black-market industry in the Siberian region of Yakutia, where thawing permafrost due to climate change is revealing the bodies of thousands of mammoths. They are often in a state of incredible preservation, and their accompanying tusks can be sold to China w...
Main Author: | Charlotte A. Wrigley |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Arizona Libraries
2021-10-01
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Series: | Journal of Political Ecology |
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Online Access: | http://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/id/3030/ |
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