In this issue of Earth First! Journal the editors express their thoughts and ideas on life and the journal, Gavin Edwards gives an update on the Nuxalk Nation’s protests against logging in British Columbia, and Mary Brook and Orin Langelle call for attention to the rain forests of Nicaragua.

Excerpt from Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms: Forays with Fungi across Hemispheres by Alison Pouliot.

Sophie Chao delves into an unexplored dimension of the agribusiness nexus—the affective attachments of corporate actors to oil palm seeds. Drawing from fieldwork in an oil palm concession in Riau, Sumatra, she highlights the conflicting nature of caring for palm oil seeds.

When is it defensible to keep birds in confinement, and what do we owe those who escape?