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Drawing upon archival records in Namibia, South Africa, Portugal, the United States, and the United Kingdom, this article argues that concerns over the spread of plague across land borders led to the development of a nascent invasive species framework which indicted border-crossing “migrant” South African gerbils for the international spread of the disease.

The work of two biologists in remote forests shows that species recovery depends on both data and human–animal bonds forged in the field, as Monica Vasile writes.

A story about the environmental conflict between GM soy growers and Maya beekeepers in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico.

Excerpt from Species Cleansing: The Cultural Practice of Rat Control by Gabriela Jarzębowska.

Processing the horrid February 2025 “Killing [of] a Baboon” by a group of schoolchildren in Delmas, South Africa, Sandra Swart looks back at history and examines the role of superstition and the occult in the ongoing violence against these primates.

In this book, author and cultural historian L. Sasha Gora blends food studies with environmental history to explore how Indigenous restaurants reshape relationships between cuisine, land, and cultural identity in Canada.