i really loved this!! as someone who plans to major in zoology, this book gave me a lot to think about surrounding humans and nature. particularly the idea that the answer to helping nature is not always to just leave it alone, that nature and humans can coexist and ultimately have a sort of symbiosis (which makes sense, since indigenous people have been existing alongside the rest of nature for an incredibly long time!! it’s just something that never occurred to me until reading this).
this also puts into a lot more context for me what happened in Polynesia earlier this year, when whales were officially recognized as legal persons. back when i found out about that i was confused but supportive, and now i think i understand it much better than i did then.