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SUMMARY:Celia’s ghosts: On biotic loss and recovery in the Pyrenees. - A
 dam Searle\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20210216T130000Z
DTEND:20210216T140000Z
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CONTACT:Rogelio Luque-Lora
DESCRIPTION:The bucardo (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica)\, an endemic subspecie
 s of Iberian ibex from the Pyrenees\, was declared extinct in January 2000
 . The last individual\, known internationally as Celia\, was crushed to de
 ath by a falling fir tree in the Parque Nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido
 \, Aragón\, Spain. Months before her death\, however\, a team of genetici
 sts performed a skin biopsy and cryopreserved her cells. In 2003\, the ibe
 x rose to worldwide fame as scientists in Zaragoza cloned Celia’s cells\
 , and an extinct animal was born to a surrogate mother. The clone died min
 utes later—but\, for the first and only time in history\, extinction was
  not forever. In this presentation\, I discuss empirical material from my 
 doctoral thesis\, building upon an extensive period of fieldwork in Spain 
 and France. The bucardo’s story was further complicated in 2014 when eco
 logists in the Parc National des Pyrénées released another subspecies of
  Iberian ibex (Capra pyrenaica victoriae) translocated from central Spain.
  These ibex are not bucardo\, yet they occupy its ecological niche\, and r
 esemble the extinct animal in a number of ways. I explore what concern abo
 ut the bucardo can teach about the changing meanings of extinction and res
 toration in the Anthropocene. The case raises a range of questions concern
 ing the political ecologies of extinction and de-extinction\, who gets to 
 speak for Celia’s ghosts\, and on whose terms.
LOCATION:Delivered online via Zoom
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