The Texas Fauna Project tells a story of the state’s environmental movement through the evolution of our relationship with animals, including livestock, game, pets, endangered species, pests, and more.
The Texas Fauna website includes citations about wildlife science and conservation collected from a variety of publications from journals, books, magazines, newspapers and other reports. As well, the site contains an archive of interviews with more than 150 biologists, zookeepers, wildlife managers, veterinarians, nature guides, advocates, filmmakers, singers, writers and others.
The audio excerpts can also be found in a YouTube playlist here, while the audio files for the full interviews can be heard here and the complete transcripts read here. The Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas has been kind to hold the archive for the work here.
The main Texas Fauna staff is David Todd. He trained as an environmental attorney (A.B., Princeton; M.S., Rice; J.D., Emory), and has worked in the oral history field since 1997. He is also responsible for the literature review and drawings that accompany the interviews.
The Texas Fauna Project is hosted by the Conservation History Association of Texas, a non-profit organization first recognized by the IRS in 1999. Background information about the Association can be seen on Guidestar and Charity Navigator.
The Association also supports several programs in addition to the Texas Fauna Project, including the Texas Legacy Project, an environmental oral history archive, the Texas Landscape Project, an environmental history atlas, and the Texas Notebook Project, a portfolio of wildlife and plant drawings and paintings.
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