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If we are all to become conservationists, the conservation movement must embrace its own complexity—and perspectives left out in the past

W.W. Norton & Co., $27.95 On October 29, 1929, a date best remembered for the infamous Black Tuesday stock market crash, socialite and amateur bird watcher Rosalie Edge attended a meeting of the National Association of Audubon Societies. She was there to ask whether it was true, as a pamphlet had claimed, that the organization supported bounties on bald eagles in Alaska and turning wildlife refuges into shooting grounds. The men who led the organization were outraged that she brought up the issue. But the pamphlet revealed a truth about conservation at the time: The movement was not as much a...

Human nature and ‘Beloved Beasts’ How best can we protect and defend the same animal kingdom we endanger? By Dan Cryer Globe Correspondent,Updated March 4, 2021, 2:38 p.m. Email to a Friend On Oct. 29, 1929, at the annual meeting of the National Association of Audubon Societies [ sic], a hitherto-unknown upper-crust birdwatcher from Manhattan’s Upper East Side rose from the audience to address the society’s directors. Rosalie Edge, a former suffragist, wasn’t intimidated. As a writer in The New Yorker later noted, her habitual demeanor was “somewhere between t...