forestry

Recent research on Africa has emphasised conservation and trypanosomiasis control as the major factors, which first motivated colonial officials and scientists to embark on forestry preservation and bush clearing policies. This paper contends that in Chepalungu, Kenya, forestry preservation and bush clearing were implemented with the objective to create a racially and tribally segregated landscape.

This paper explores imperial forestry networks by focusing on a single individual, Sir David Hutchins, who spent the final years of his life in New Zealand extolling the need for scientific forest management in the Dominion.

This volume focuses on environmental knowledge production in the United States by taking as starting points the impact of natural catastrophes and of public debates on climate change and environmental threats.

This study reviews the main changes of the vegetation and fauna in northern Portugal during the Holocene, using literature from palaeoecology, archaeology, history, writings from travellers and naturalists, maps of agriculture and forestry and expert consultation.

In this issue of Earth First! Journal Lyndy Worsham vents her frustration about the new Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI); Derrick Jensen reflects on the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA)’s hostage-taking siege of the Japanese embassy in Lima; and direct action tunnelling is explained as a nonviolent means of action.

In this issue of Earth First! Journal, Judi Bari gives an update on the lawsuit against FBI for its handling of the 1990 car bombing; Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney’s car were bombed and they were both arrested for terrorism activities.

An ethnographic documentary film that follows an aging misfit bachelor as he negotiates his status in a world changed by nature conservation and the loss of traditional farming and forestry in Poland’s Białowieża Forest.