"Prehistory of Southern African Forestry: From Vegetable Garden to Tree Plantation"
This paper explores the history of trees and scientific forestry in South Africa and how it changed southern African hydrologies.
This paper explores the history of trees and scientific forestry in South Africa and how it changed southern African hydrologies.
Wild Earth 14, no. 3/4, is the last issue of the Wild Earth Journal. It presents essays on connectivity and long-distance migration in human-fragmented landscapes, the Great Bear Rainforest archipelago, and rewilding Patagonia.
In Wild Earth 6, no. 3 Max Oelschlaeger discusses religion and the conservation of biodiversity, Christopher Genovali reflects on the Alberta oil rush, Joseph P. Dudley writes about biodiversity in Southern Africa, and A. Kent MacDougall considers thinking of humans as a cancer.
Earth First! 25, no. 4 reports on the protests against logging in the wild Siskyou Mountains in Oregon, on jurisdictional consequences for Earth Liberation Front activists, and features an essay on “Stupidity and Critics of the Ecology Movement.”
In this issue of Earth First! Journal David Barbarash reports on the blockades at the Yukon Highway, where activists protested against killing wolves. In addition, Erik Ryberg brings bad news regarding logging activities in Idaho, and Judi Bari, Mike Roselle, Captain Paul Watson, and others take on the subject of tree spiking.
In this chapter of the virtual exhibition “Ludwig Leichhardt: A German Explorer’s Letters Home from Australia,” cultural studies researcher Heike Hartmann writes about the influence of indigenous knowledge on Dr. Leichhardt’s environmental observations.
In the early 1970s industrialization in Norway causes acid rainfall which damage indigenous spruce forests. As a result, the government implements a market-based carbon tax on fossil fuels in order to control pollution levels and decrease acid rainfall.
Should Trees Have Standing? continues to serve as the definitive statement as to why trees, oceans, animals, and the environment as a whole should be bestowed with legal rights.
The Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Park has experienced an infestation of emerald ash borer beetles. In October 2010 the National Park Service began for a tree replacement program to revitalize the park.
The United States and Guatemala agree to a debt-for-nature swap worth $24.4 million. The developing Central American country agreed to invest the savings to conservation work over the next 15 years.