The documentary contrasts the results of using genetically-modified crops purchased from multinational agrochemical corporations with the maintenance of community seedbanks and biodiversity.
Regina Horta Duarte uses the unannounced leveling of 350 Ficus benjamina along the principal avenue of Belo Horizonte, Brazil in November 1963 as the starting point for discussing the relationship between nature and society in Latin American urban environments.
Napier Shelton offers a tour of notable natural sites in Missouri through the eyes of the people who work with them.
Between 1875 and 1925, trout expanded beyond their native haunts to inhabit every corner of the globe. London’s Fisheries Exhibition in 1883 was a catalyst that ignited a transnational fish-culture revolution and turned trout into a cosmopolitan species.
In this essay, Marks Woods and Paul Veatch Moriatry try to answer two philosophical questions in order to develop and enact sensible policies: (1) What exactly makes a species native or exotic, and (2) What values are at stake?
Ned Hettinger argues that exotic species should not be identified as damaging species, species introduced by humans, or species originating from some other geographical location and presents an alternative characterization.
In this paper, the author argues that species may also be native or non-native to human communities and that, by way of an analogy with varieties of domesticated and cultivated species, that this sense of nativity is grounded by the cultural relationships human communities have with species.
Kleinstuck Marsh in Michigan is not the pristine, untouched landscape it might at first seem. Once a peat bog, the property was drained for a botanical garden and later sold as an unwanted piece of property and embedded with sewage pipes for a neighboring housing development, before becoming a nature preserve.
This article aims to demonstrate the complexity of the interchange of Japanese and European knowledge of natural history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
This article examines the contribution of socio-cultural and economic motives to the process of introductions and invasions of species, in this case, the introduction of the common carp (Cyprinus carpio) to Palestine’s freshwaters in the 1930s, while suggesting a third motive, an ideological one.
