Following the establishment of the world’s first national park at Yellowstone (USA) in 1872, the concept was rapidly transferred to Australia, New Zealand and Canada. This article examines this second wave of adoption—and adaption—focussing on five case studies from Australia and New Zealand.
The remote Easter Island was settled around 900 by Polynesians who built hundreds of giant stone statues and completely deforested the island before their society underwent a dramatic collapse. Although controversy exists regarding the exact cause of this collapse, the story of Easter Island has unsettling parallels with modern resource issues.
Recognizing the need to protect imperiled species, the United States Congress pass the Endangered Species Act on 28 December 1973.
Typhoon Freda drifts into an extremely powerful storm formation zone in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and British Columbia, creating horrendous winds and ripping up the landscape.
In the United States the 1985 Farm Bill lead to the creation of a program called the Conservation Reserve Program. It allows farmers to enter into a rental contract in which they are paid for idling and reverting agricultural land to natural ecosystems for conservation purposes.
This article argues that hunting is not a sport, but a neo-traditional cultural trophic practice consistent with ecological ethics, including a meliorist concern for animal rights or welfare.
This article examines if the material and non-material values of nature can be reconciled and looks at the ecosystem services and the ‘elements of nature’ frameworks.
Wild Earth 5, no. 1 focuses on prairie dog ecosystems and includes a Minnesota biosphere recovery strategy.
Wild Earth 4, no. 3 features Canadian forests at risk, an activist’s guide to Central Appalachian forests, citizen involvement in mining issues, a proposal for a Thoreau Regional Wilderness in northern Maine.
Wild Earth 4, no. 2 features Wendell Berry on “A Walk Down Camp Branch,” Howie Wolke’s “Butchering the Big Wild,” and William R. Catton, Jr., on “Carrying Capacity and the Death of a Culture.”
