Mountains, the Asiatic Black Bear and conservation in Japan and New Zealand

This episode of Exploring Environmental History features an
interview with Japanologist and environmental historian Cath
Knight. In her spare time she maintains the blog envirohistory NZ
which explores the environmental history of New Zealand. On the
podcast Cath briefly talks about the origins and topics of the
blog before exploring her work on Japanese environmental history.
She will discuss Japanese conservation history, in particular in
relation to the Asiatic brown bear and the conceptualisation of
uplands and mountains in Japanese and Maori folklore.


Music credit: Time Decay by morgantj available from ccMixter