"Medicinal Plants in New Zealand: Bridging the Gap between Medical and Environmental History"
Joanna Bishop explores the story of the introduction and use of medicinal plants in New Zealand and their botanical, medical, and environmental histories.
Joanna Bishop explores the story of the introduction and use of medicinal plants in New Zealand and their botanical, medical, and environmental histories.
Wild Earth 2, no. 4 with essays on environmental devastation and the war in Lebanon, the Colorado River delta, reef protection, and zoos and the “psychology of extinction.”
In Wild Earth 6, no. 1 Bill McKibben imagines new organizations like “MACHO” (Manly and Courageous Hunters Organization), Stephanie Mills visits Leopold’s shack, and Daniel Dancer seeks a deep photography ethic.
Stanley Warner, Mark Feinstein, Raymond Coppinger, and Elisabeth Clemence discuss global population growth and the demise of nature, appealing for a change in the nature of the discussion of population among environmentalists, to focus on the question of how best to manage remaining wildlife.
In Wild Earth 7, no. 2 Doug Peacock presents his field report on the Yellowstone bison slaughter, Reed Noss writes about endangered major ecosystems of the United States, and Virginia Abernethy analyzes if and how population growth discourages environmentally sound behavior.
Wild Earth 9, no. 3 celebrates Aldo Leopold’s legacy. Also in this issue are reports on the Loomis Forest Wildlands, the Southern Rockies and the Grand Canyon ecoregion, and indigenous knowledge and conservation policy in Papua New Guinea.
Wild Earth 12, no. 3, features essays on a cultural transformation towards sustainability, commerce and wilderness, the role of literary intellectuals in conservation, and the preservation of wildlands in Mexico.
This article presents findings from an interdisciplinary study of the Loma Salvatierra archaeological site, which contribute to the discussion about the origins of venereal syphilis by further clarifying a likely origin and route of transmission of syphilis from the Old World to the New.
These articles look at the historical sources that may help to trace the spread of the Plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, considering how it spread from East Asia to other parts of the world.
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.