DeWitt explores tensions between national parks, private sector tourism, and environmentalism. Although private business owners feel connected to nature and play a role in park guardianship, a longstanding mistrust of private sector activity in and around national parks means their voices are often overlooked. The article calls for greater attention to the significance of gateway communities.

Recognizing elephants as moral actors in the institutional space of the elephant stable, Piers Locke reconceives traditionally humanist ethnography as interspecies ethnography.

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.