Bonbibi: A Religion of the Forest in the Sundarbans
The cult of Bonbibi worship in the Sundarbans mangrove forests can inform conservation practices.
The cult of Bonbibi worship in the Sundarbans mangrove forests can inform conservation practices.
This article, using colonial New Zealand as a case-study, and integrating environment, empire and religion into a single analytic framework, contends that Christian and environmental discourses interpenetrated and interacted in irreducibly complex ways during the long nineteenth century.
This article argues that local religious institutions are used by ruling lineages for political control, to grant preferential access to particular resources, and to enhance political hegemony.
In this issue of Earth First! Dave Foreman posits that the United States Forest Service has assaulted big wilderness areas in the 1920-30s.
In this issue of Earth First!, John Patterson and Jean Ravine bring good news from the protests against the Grand Canyon uranium mines, George Wuerthner contributes an essay entitled “An Ecological View of the Indian,” editor Dave Foreman writes an open letter to the bioregional movement concerning criticism of the ecological cause, and Chim Blea discusses spirituality.
Earth First! 26, no. 1 features reports about climate change and climate justice, looks into the future of civilization, and fights for the rights of animals.
This study historicises environmental issues at the Chinhoyi Caves that are of contemporaneous resonance with the ecological crisis faced by the modern world. It deals with important themes like water-resource management, indigenous knowledge and its efficacy in the preservation of nature, colonialism and its environmental implications, forest use and deforestation, dislocation and displacement of indigenous people, and the interaction of the local with the global.
In this issue of Earth First! Mike Roselle tells the story of 15 protesters who were arrested for taking action against logging in the Middle Santiam, Oregon.
In this issue of Earth First! Ron Huber gives an update on the situation on the tree sitters attacked by a giant crane in Millennium Grove. Dave Foreman discusses the conservationists’ lack of vision, Arne Naess describes various lifestyle characteristics of the deep ecology movement in Scandinavia, and much more.
This issue of Earth First! is filled with essays about various themes such as sustainable agriculture, nuclear disarmament, and deep ecology.