A Monastery for the Ibex: Conservation, State, and the Conflict of the Gran Paradiso, 1919-1949

Description

Gran Paradiso National Park is Italy's oldest, and was instrumental in preventing the extinction of the Alpine ibex between World War I and just after World War II. Today, there are more than 30,000 ibex living in the Alps, all of which descended from that last colony protected in Gran Paradiso...