{"product_id":"inconvenient-animals-dave-witty-9781923451162","title":"Inconvenient Animals","description":"\u003cp\u003eA devastating, brilliant book that will change how you think about the habitat around you\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2024, an earless dragon was spotted - the first in over 50 years. Soon, scientists and sniffer dogs patrolled the grasslands, as development ground to a halt. A tiny lizard had effectively exacerbated the housing crisis, forcing an uncomfortable question: what matters more - our right to shelter or theirs to exist?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAcross Australia, native species get caught in the tug between conservation and urban development. Some, like koalas, orange-bellied parrots, pygmy bluetongues, flying foxes, plains-wanderer birds or brilliant peacock spiders, are so crucial to the ecosystems they inhabit that their demise can herald collapse. How did we come to see nature as a resource to exploit rather than an integral part of our future?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe dragon's disappearance mirrors the vanishing of our most endangered habitat. Both are part of a deeper story: one that connects early colonists' visions of agriculture to the sprawling suburbs now built on ancient land. A story about the men who declared the continent terra nullius and the modern developers who reshape it share more than we'd like to admit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a book about what we miss when we don't look closely, and about the long shadow colonialism casts on our treatment of animals. Weaving ecology, philosophy and history, it's a reckoning with our past, and an urgent meditation on how we might save the future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dave Witty","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":68857627934963,"sku":"9781923451162","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781923451162.jpg?v=1794250693","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/inconvenient-animals-dave-witty-9781923451162","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}