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Ila France Porcher
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Announcing a Special Issue on Elasmobranch Behaviour!
When I discovered sharks in the turquoise Tahitian lagoons, I was fascinated by their complex and clearly intelligent responses in different situations. Based on what I saw myself, I figured they were more intelligent than dogs. But later, when I got an internet connection, I was shocked to learn that science had not noticed!
By then the community I had watched for years was being slaughtered for s
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The Five Star Bears: A True Story that Will Show You the Darkness of Canada's Crimes against Earth.:
"The Five Star Bears is a gripping and heartbreaking account of compassion colliding with cruelty. Porcher's narrative exposes the devastating intersection of wildlife crisis and human prejudice as fifteen fire-displaced bears become pawns in a commun"
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The Five Star Bears: A True Story that Will Show You the Darkness of Canada's Crimes against Earth.:
"Ila France Porcher doesn’t just write about bears; she writes about presence, memory, and the fragile threads that connect us to the wild. The Five Star Bears is not a typical wildlife account. It’s a deeply personal, poetic elegy for a vanished worl"
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Richard M.'s review
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The Five Star Bears: A True Story that Will Show You the Darkness of Canada's Crimes against Earth.:
"Having just read Ila's book I can only say that it seems to me to be essential reading for anyone who cares about our wildlife, and not only bears. The situation in Canada is devastating.
The Five Star Bears is a unique account of the trials and dang" Read more of this review » |
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Jose Azevedo's review
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The Five Star Bears: A True Story that Will Show You the Darkness of Canada's Crimes against Earth.:
"Ila Porcher was called a witch by her neighbors. Good for her! And good for us, too- we who love the rich tapestry of wildlife, and are scared of the forces ripping it to pieces.
This book documents an event in which a local community reacts violently" Read more of this review » |
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The Stone Throwers: The First Telling of the 'Omens & Havens' series
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| This novel is masterfully written, pulling the reader into a world that feels at once familiar and quietly enchanted. The dialogue is so strikingly authentic that it carries you directly into the lives of its characters—children whose voices ring wit ...more | |
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“Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole universes fit in there! But what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet? Little broken things, sad trinkets that we play with over and over. The world turns our key and we play the same little tune again and again and we think that tune's all we are.”
― The Invisibles, Volume 1: Say You Want a Revolution
― The Invisibles, Volume 1: Say You Want a Revolution
