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Concerns about species extinctions have produced efforts to stabilize these losses and to do so on a planetary scale. These conservation efforts call upon the language and politics of the commons, although in often divergent ways. Using ethnographic research that examines efforts to save the California condor, I analyze the moral claims that animate these conservation practices. The specter of the Sixth Extinction has led conservation communities to treat the Earth as a 'planetary commons', albeit an apocalyptic one. Yet 'touching extinction' produces practices of bioethical care that exist and resist the abstractions of the planetary commons. Lastly, I offer an example of condor reintroduction into the Grand Canyon to illustrate how these commoning practices have the potential to enact 'uncommon worlds'.

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