and examine these complex and difficult decisions - 'staying with the trouble' (Haraway) -- provide an opening into a more ethical mode of conservation? Biography: Thom van Dooren is a Lecturer in Environmental Humanities at the University of New South Wales. His current research explores the social, political and ethical dimensions of extinction and conservation. At present he is completing work on a book that takes up these themes through a focus on five avian case studies (forthcoming with Columbia University Press).