Shortis suggests that the World Park Antarctica campaign offers a positive example of an environmental campaign that includes but does not center scientific authority.
This book reveals how IUCN experts struggled to make global schemes for nature conservation a central concern for UNESCO, UNEP and other intergovernmental organizations.
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by MSc student Natasha Yamamoto, looks at how wilderness may be expressed and understood in Japanese.
This collection of studies provides valuable historical contexts for making sense of contemporary environmental challenges facing Latin America.
An early Australian conservationist offers a window onto the ways in which nature was once valued.
Nancy Shoemaker considers the four main products harvested in the nineteenth-century sperm whale trade.
Rya Forest is a nature reserve in Gothenburg, Sweden, and historically an area of both appreciation and conflict.
This part of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by semiotician Kadri Tüur, describes how terms denoting general categories regarding nature are quite diverse in Estonia—a country where language and culture have been very intimately intertwined with landscapes and their natural conditions.
Jason Colby explores the role of one female gray whale in shaping human perceptions of her species and their status in the wild.
The cult of Bonbibi worship in the Sundarbans mangrove forests can inform conservation practices.
