Wild Earth 11, no. 1, features stories about New England’s wilderness: primeval forests, the Northwoods, large mammals, old growth forests, as well as conservation history and biodiversity of the eastern United States.
Thneeds Reseeds, a sculptural artwork by Deanna Pindell, is a biotactical intervention aimed at exposing and derailing dominant regimes for managing sylvan life. The “thneeds” are fuzzy softball-sized sculptures made from old sweaters. Left in the forest, these sculptures constitute brightly-colored habitats for forest plants and animals.
This article looks at whether biocultural diversity be developed as a more totalising idea that is useful for historians.
Written by cultural studies researcher Heike Hartmann, this chapter of the virtual exhibition “Ludwig Leichhardt: A German Explorer’s Letters Home from Australia” presents Dr. Leichhardt’s collecting of botanical specimens.
Wild rice was “tamed” when domesticated in the 1950s, yet both cultivated and foraged wild rice face shared contemporary challenges.
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.
This film chronicles the struggle of a community in New York state to save a lake from an invasive weed and restore it to a habitat for migrating birds, and other flaura and fauna.
Will Gadd hosts this Discovery Channel series exploring the history and formation of some of the Earth’s extreme landscapes.
Italian botanist Stefano Mancuso presents intriguing evidence for plant intelligence.
Ron Finley recounts his experiences planting vegetable gardens in unexpected places in South Central Los Angeles.
