Biodiversity
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Jumping the Shark
Misleading claims by Discovery and other channels help to fuel wildlife massacres. There are, I think, two factors at work.…
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Trophic Cascades – On the Reintroduction of Wolves to Yellowstone National Park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.…
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Saving Our Animal Friends from Garbage and Goo!
‘Protected’ patches of land are the only spaces some creatures have left to explore, find food, and make their homes…
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Wake up Before it is Too Late – Make Agriculture Truly Sustainable Now for Food Security in a Changing Climate
Click to download (5mb PDF) In late September of last year (2013) the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development…
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My Story, in Contribution to Our Story of Hope (Zimbabwe)
by Mugove Walter Nyika I grew up with my grandparents in a village 200 km south of the capital Harare,…
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The Fruit Hunters (video)
Narrated by David Suzuki, this two-part CBC series is a fascinating look into the world of fruit hunters — people…
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Are We Using Invasive Species? (Kyrgyzstan)
The rabbit has been an invasive species all across the globe for over 2000 years, but is most commonly known…
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Systems that Deprive Us of Wonder – a Conversation with George Monbiot
A conversation with George Monbiot and Steve Wheeler for Dark Mountain Steve Wheeler: Have you been surprised by the reactions…
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India’s Dangerous ‘Food Bubble’
Editor’s Note: As is often the case with the Earth Policy Institute (EPI), crucial solutions are largely missing from the…
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Addressing the Causes of Land Degradation, Food/Nutritional Insecurity and Poverty: a New Approach to Agricultural Intensification in the Tropics and Subtropics
by Roger RB Leakey, Agroforestry and Novel Crops Unit, School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia.…
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Weeds or Wild Nature: a Permaculture Perspective
by David Holmgren Summary Land design and management informed by permaculture principles tends to regard naturalized species of plants as…
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Thinking Like a Forest
Why do conservation groups help to keep our wildlife in a state of extreme depletion? by George Monbiot I returned…
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