Iberá National Park Established by Argentine Congress
Image (c) Tompkins Conservation website, News PRESS RELEASE December 5, 2018 — Buenos Aires, Argentina Iberá National Park Established by Argentine Congress New combined protected area forms largest nature park in Argentina On December 5, 2018, the Congress of Argentina passed legislation approving the creation of Iberá National Park, located in northeastern Argentina, ensuring the long-term […]
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Book Review of Dark Green Religion, by Bron Taylor
Book Review by David Johns …I take it [the problem of certainty] to be intrinsic to the human condition, that is, the condition of a species that lives, and can only live, by meanings and understandings it itself must construct in a world devoid of intrinsic meaning but subject to causal laws, not all of […]
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Rewilding at Many Scales: A Book Review Essay by John Miles
Dave Foreman, in his landmark 2004 book Rewilding North America: A Vision for Conservation in the 21st Century, makes a convincing case that “To make protected areas more effective, conservationists must now (1) work on very large landscapes, probably continental in scope, and (2) undertake ecological restoration based on rewilding.”[1] He advocated a science-based approach to […]
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Give Thanks
Image courtesy of M. Tracy Hunter by Richard Grossman © At the risk of seeming overly optimistic, I would like to make a list of good things that are happening in the world of family planning and demography. Here goes: My perception is that people are starting to realize the advantages of having small families. Their […]
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Fire in Florida and the Southeastern Coastal Plain
by Reed F. Noss Rewilding Earth editor’s note: The following is an excerpt (minus citations) from chapter one of Reed Noss’s book, Fire Ecology of Florida and the Southeastern Coastal Plain, published earlier in 2018 by University Press of Florida. As always, Reed is at the forefront of conservation biology with this timely work on […]
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The Elephant Has Left The Room
Originally published in ScientistsWarning.org by Rob Harding Recently, Margaret Pyke Trust’s Chief Executive David Johnson boldly asserted “The elephant left the room quite some time ago; let’s follow.” Of course, the elephant he was referring to is population — a primary driver of environmental degradation and a key conservation issue. Separately, eminent biologist E.O. Wilson described population’s fundamental importance for ecological […]
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Fire Storm: How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future
By Edward Struzik Book Review by John Miles This early fall of 2018, while I was reading a wonderful book by Elizabeth Rush titled Rising: Dispatches from the American Shore, which chronicles impacts of sea level rise on American seashores, Hurricanes Florence and Michael wrought havoc on the Gulf and Southeast coasts. Storm surge, about […]
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THE STORY OF A RECOVERABLE EARTH
by Paul Jepson Resurgence and Ecologist Issue 311 November/December 2018 All Is One Undercurrents A new environmental narrative that emphasises regrowth and possibility could provide the hope we need to make a change, argues Paul Jepson. Narratives matter. They establish the architecture for the telling of stories about the state of the world and how […]
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Night, Sourdough Mountain Lookout
Sourdough Mountain lies at the heart of the North Cascades. A mile above the Skagit River canyon at the intersection of six major drainages, it commands one of the most spectacular views in the range. That summer [the dry summer of 2003] marked a milestone in the cultural history of the mountains. It was the […]
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The Killing Roads
By Sandra Coveny “Looking at life from a different perspective makes you realize that it’s not the deer that is crossing the road, rather it’s the road that is crossing the forest.” – Muhammad Ali Roads take their toll Over one million animals will die on US roads today. Over one million animals will die […]
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