[PDF.39lk] Seeking the Sacred Raven: Politics and Extinction on a Hawaiian Island

Seeking the Sacred Raven: Politics and Extinction on a Hawaiian Island

[PDF.ix73] Seeking the Sacred Raven: Politics and Extinction on a Hawaiian Island

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 | #1696295 in Books |  Island Press |  2006-06-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.90 x6.00l,1.10 | File type: PDF | 304 pages

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||5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| A Somber but Important Tale|By Boria Sax|In the 1970s, when the environmental movement was at its height, stories of conservation were often presented as melodramas, in which idealist crusaders battled against greedy developers and public indifference. The story of the extinction of the alala, or Hawaiian raven, in the wild, as it is told in this book, could hardly be more diff|From Publishers Weekly|The 'alala, a member of the raven family, is for native Hawaiians a sacred bird, revered as a guardian spirit for the soul on its way to the afterlife. These birds, indigenous to the island of Hawaii, were once plentiful, but disease, pre