"Hugh Cleghorn and Forest Conservancy in India"
This paper examines the important and pioneering role played by Dr. Hugh Cleghorn, a Scottish medical surgeon, in the implementation of forest conservancy in colonial India.
This paper examines the important and pioneering role played by Dr. Hugh Cleghorn, a Scottish medical surgeon, in the implementation of forest conservancy in colonial India.
In this issue of Earth First! Journal Stefan Wray discusses how to monkeywrench through using computers and the internet. In addition, Susanne Wong reports on the occupation of the Maheshwar dam site in India, and Jan Lundberg expresses his opinions on the use of cars within the EF! movement.
In this issue of Earth First! Journal Ron Coronado discusses the politics of protest, Kris Maenz gives an update on the hunger strike of jailed English animal rights activist Barry Horne, and Jimmy Demos explores the reaches and pollution of the Mississippi.
This issue of Earth First! Journal features various visions of war and peace. In addition, Alicia Littletree and Strongwood give an update on the bombing of Judi Bari and their fight against the FBI, Tjalve Torstjener calls for attention to how paper company Norske Skog kills 1000 species in Norway, and Larry Lohmann discusses racism.
National parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Shifting the focus from the usual emphasis on national parks in the United States, Civilizing Nature adopts an historical and transnational perspective on the global geography of protected areas and its changes over time.
Based on participant observation, the author offers an ethnographic account of urban middle class Indian tourists’ experience of seeing the tiger in Ranthambore National Park in Rajasthan, and Kanha and Bandhavgarh National Parks in Madhya Pradesh, India.
The author seeks to bring together environmental anthropology and history to frame the place of forests in humans’ lives, from a political ecology point of view. He does this by reflecting on his personal experiences in Northeast India, Kenya, and Sweden.