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Attempts to Establish Eider Farms in the USSR, and Why These Failed
Little-known information is presented on the efforts to set up eider farms in the USSR between 1930 and 1960.
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Perspectives Article
Entangled Nature: The Stirling Range National Park
Using the example of the Stirling Range National Park, Andrea Gaynor shows that the dualistic practice of reservation does not necessarily ensure the preservation or conservation of landscapes and ecosystems.
Perspectives Article
Through the Reef: Settler Politics, Science, and the Great Barrier Reef
Rohan Lloyd explores the relationship between scientific management and preservation of the Great Barrier Reef, with the understanding of anthropogenic climate change marking a pivotal point.
Arcadia
Ecological Impacts of Land Struggles in Makonde District, Zimbabwe: 1890 to Present
In 2000, the government restored land resources to the indigenous people of Zimbabwe. The chaotic land reform caused widespread environmental problems.
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Enhance ITN
ENHANCE is a four-year innovative training network (ITN) funded by Marie Skłodowska Curie that is dedicated to further establishing the Environmental Humanities as a field of cutting-edge scholarship in Europe and further afield.
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"Thomas Potts and the Forest Question: Conservation and Development in New Zealand in the 1860s"
The author examines the advent of native forest conservation in New Zealand’s Colony and the role of Thomas Potts in advocating exotic tree-planting as a response to timber shortage.
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Munich and the Isar | Ecopolis München
Munich and the Isar: The City Makes the River?
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Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film
From the early exploits of Teddy Roosevelt in Africa to blockbuster films such as March of the Penguins, Gregg Mitman reveals how changing values, scientific developments, and new technologies have come to shape American encounters with wildlife on and off the big screen.
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Forest Voice 8, no. 2
This issue of Forest Voice, a publication of the Native Forest Council, showcases the work of the NFC, of other activist groups, and of citizens to investigate legal action on forest plans. It focuses on Congress efforts to sneak unlimited “salvage” logging past the law and the people. Victor Rozek draws a connection between inflammatory rhetoric and violence. In his column, Howie Wolke reflects on the large-scale grassroots “uprising” as a strategy for conservation groups dealing with politicians.
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Mendocino Environmental Center Newsletter, Issue 27
This issue of Mendocino Environmental Center Newsletter features stories on the fraud surrounding a Habitat Conservation Plan, an update on Mendocino Environmental Center court actions, and the Eel River Diversion Plan.