In this issue of Earth First! the development of the blockade actions against road building through National Forest Roadless Areas is discussed. Rick Davis calls for action to save the Hokkaido Brown Bear in Japan, Tom Starr and Axel Hannemann discuss the local fight against storing nuclear waste in West Germany, and Graham Innes reports on the measures to preserve the Daintree Rainforest of the Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland, Australia.

This article examines the conflicts behind the scenes, within the AAS, between the AAS and the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority (SMA), and within the SMA. It argues that the scientists’ conflict with the SMA over plans for the summit area of Mount Kosciusko (now Kosciuszko) not only established ecology as a scientific basis for conservation thinking: It foreshadowed the current idea that management of a healthy country involves recognition of the links between aesthetic and scientific thinking.

In this article for a special section on “Inheriting the Ecological Legacies of Settler Colonialism,” Lesley Instone and Affrica Taylor engage with the figure of the Anthropocene as the impetus for rethinking the messy environmental legacies of Australian settler colonialism.

Looking at cases of Indigenous land and sea management in Australia, Austin et al. suggest four ways Indigenous groups and institutional investors can work together to establish meaningful criteria for ensuring effective conservation outcomes.