Thesis

Mao’s Push and Nature’s Shove:
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The Four Pests Campaign Breaks Ecological Barriers

"Birds, Insects, and Turtles Sketched from Life (寫生珍禽圖), (黃筌, ca.903-965), Huang Quan

"The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. What nature cannot cope with is the steady undermining of its fabric by the activities of man."

- Naturalist Gerald Durrell, 1975  ​​​​​​​

Jack Randolph and Jackson Nguyen

Junior Division

Group website

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