Feral violence
The Pelorus experiment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4464617 |
|---|---|
| Authors | F Probyn-Rapsey (0000-0002-3908-0816, University of Technology Sydney, corresponding author), Rebecca Lennox (0000-0001-8862-2354, University of Technology Sydney) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 362-380 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning E Nature and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2514-8486 • E-ISSN: 2514-8494 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2514848620976959 |
| OpenAlex | W3116373398 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 36 |
In early July 2016, two male dingoes were brought by ferry to a small island called Pelorus in the Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of north Queensland, Australia, as part of an experimental 'feral' goat eradication project. What was remarkable about this project was that the two dingoes released on the island had been implanted with a slow-release capsule containing sodium fluoroacetate, commonly known as '1080'. These so-called 'Tik Toks', produced by a firm called Scientec, were designed to release their poison into the bodies of the dingoes in approximately 600 days, after they had served their purpose as goat exterminators. The public and political backlash that the Pelorus experiment aroused reveals a gap between the team's ambitions to 'set the platform' for the conservation of 'pristine' islands and community sentiment concerning animal cruelty. Just how this 'bizarre' experiment (as it was described in State parliament) gained ethics approval is one part of this story. Another relates to implants themselves and what this 'innovation' ('the stuff of horror films' as one petitioner described it) reveals about attitudes to 'killing for conservation'. The Pelorus experiment also shows us what is frequently concealed by eradication programmes, which is that they rely not on a single act of eradication, but a cycle of violence that we describe here as a form of 'feral violence'. In the case of Pelorus, the 'implants' tipped Conservation's motif from the romance of 'rescuing nature' to that of horror, imperilling the social licence that conservation projects assume
Criminology · Cruelty · Environmental ethics · Political science · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Law · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
Every Twelve Seconds
Don’t Mind Meat? The Denial of Mind to Animals Used for Human Consumption
Summoning compassion to address the challenges of conservation
Title unavailable
The War against Animals
Strong Patient Advocacy and the Fundamental Ethical Role of Veterinarians
Transitioning towards human–large carnivore coexistence in extensive grazing systems
The First Wave
Wildlife conservation, multiple biopolitics and animal subjectification
Animals, Equality and Democracy
Making the 'man-eater
Cougar - Human Entanglements and the Biopolitical Un/Making of Safe Space
Killing for Conservation
Caring for the Collective
Where species don't meet
The Anthropocene's animal? Coywolves as feral cotravelers
Killing squirrels
Conservation biopolitics and the sustainability episteme
Life for Sale? The Politics of Lively Commodities
Of place' or 'of people
Vermin Beings
Decisions about the Use of Animals in Research
Necropolitics
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |