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Jan 9, 2025 | 
e360.yale.edu | Christopher Preston
In the last decade, laboratory initiatives to recreate long-extinct species have stirred controversy. Now, scientists increasingly agree “de-extinction” is not possible, but breeding living animals with genes similar to those lost species can be a useful conservation tool. I was crouched on the ground, 50 feet from an aurochs. At least it looked like one. Eight generations of back-breeding had resurrected an animal reminiscent of the giant bovine that crashed from Earth’s biota in 1627.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
e360.yale.edu | Christopher Preston
Christopher Preston is an environmental philosopher at the University of Montana. His latest book, Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries that Change How We Think About Animals, won the 2024 High Plains International Book Award for nonfiction.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Mazharul Islam |Bikram S Gill |Jenna Malone |Christopher Preston
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
dispensationalpublishing.com | Christopher Preston
By Christopher PrestonThe recent segment on dispensationalism aired on Tucker Carlson’s show, featuring John Rich, was nothing short of embarrassing and utterly risible. While the platform gives it circulation, it’s crucial to dissect and address the points raised, many of which are based on misconceptions and mischaracterizations. There are valid critiques of dispensationalism; however, this segment failed to present any. Here’s a detailed examination of why the arguments presented were flawed.
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Mar 23, 2024 | 
washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Christopher Preston
While each tale is uplifting, the author of Tenacious Beasts neither minimizes how arduous and exasperating such undertakings can be nor provides false reassurances about rapid resurgences. The essence of Preston’s literary pursuit is captured in his chapter on river restorations and the complexities of balancing cleanups, dam removals, and fish hatcheries. “The question is this,” he asks on page 99.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
mitpress.mit.edu | Christopher Preston
Description Praise Resources An inspiring look at wildlife species that are defying the odds and teaching important lessons about how to share a planet. The news about wildlife is dire—more than 900 species have been wiped off the planet since industrialization.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
academic.oup.com | William Young |Christopher Preston |Rola Kwayess |Shikha Khosla
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
imagine5.com | Christopher Preston |Ben Wilson |Mikaela Loach |Esha Chhabra
5Tenacious Beasts – Wildlife Recoveries that Change How We Think about Animals by Christopher J. PrestonMore than 900 species have become extinct since industrialisation. As bleak as this sounds, there are glimmers of hope. Bears in Italy, bison in North America and whales in the Atlantic are back from the brink, sometimes in startling numbers. How has this happened? In Tenacious Beasts, Christopher J.
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Nov 23, 2023 | 
matr.net | Christopher Preston
American bison were hunted almost to extinction by European settlers. Now making a comeback, they could help reverse damage to prairies from decades of poor management. It takes mettle to live on Montana’s shortgrass prairie. It’s dry, windy and a long way from anywhere. In summer, temperatures can top 100F (38C). In winter, the mercury plunges to -50F (-45C). In some spots, it is more than an hour’s drive on gravel roads to buy a loaf of bread.
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Nov 5, 2023 | 
indianpolitics.co.in | Christopher Preston
By Christopher J PrestonAmerican bison were hunted almost to extinction by European settlers. Now making a comeback, they could help reverse damage to prairies from decades of poor management. It takes mettle to live on Montana’s shortgrass prairie. It’s dry, windy and a long way from anywhere. In summer, temperatures can top 100F (38C). In winter, the mercury plunges to -50F (-45C). In some spots, it is more than an hour’s drive on gravel roads to buy a loaf of bread.
