Mumbai’s Doongerwadi Forest: Revisiting the Death of Nature in the Future City
This article explores the past and future of one of Mumbai’s largest city forests.
This article explores the past and future of one of Mumbai’s largest city forests.
How birds and poetry reacquaint us with an awareness of history and feelings of loss in Anthropocene nature reserves.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Timothy Beatley is interviewed on his book, The Bird-Friendly City: Creating Safe Urban Habitats.
An early Australian conservationist offers a window onto the ways in which nature was once valued.
The Korgalzhyn nature reserve is a blue-green oasis of protected nature in the heart of the semi-arid Kazakh steppe.
Beyond the 1907 Huia-extinction signposts, many voices, never silent, call for hearing as well as justice toward mending relations.
On Lord Howe Island, writer Cameron Muir has a run-in with a nearly extinct species: the woodhen. In the 1970s, scientists counted just 15 birds. Now the number is around 300, yet he calls this an encounter with a ghost species and contemplates how the fate of the lone bird he meets overlaps with the fate of humans.
Book excerpt from Fidelia Bridges by Katherine Manthorne.
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, demand for backyard chickens soared. This article traces how, since settlement, Australians have turned to backyard chooks in times of crisis in pursuit of food security.