Book review of "Animals Count: how population size matters in animal-human relations" edited by Nancy Cushing and Jodi Frawley, London, UK, Routledge Environmental Humanities, 2018. ISBN 978-0-81538136-5

Brennan, Claire

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[Extract] This book makes an interesting and sustained argument both about the significance of non-human species in Australian environmental history and about the way in which variationsin animal populations affect human responses to them. In the introduction, the editorsmake a strong argument for the role of studies of Australian history in contributing to under-standings of animals at a population level. They state that Australia's colonisation occurred asanimals were becoming marginalised in industrial society and argue that this removal ofanimals from most people's everyday experiences provides an opportunity to unravel theway in which the population size of a particular species influences human reactions to it.

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10.1080/24750158.2019.1682770