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Eriksson and Arnell address the ecological and cultural effects of the Swedish infield system in Scandinavia. Their essay sheds light on how the human construction and management of infields maintained a spatial continuity that greatly altered, and continues to impact, how humans and other organisms have developed.
This film tells the stories of displaced people and livelihood changes in Iran after the construction of the Karun-3 Dam which submerged 12,300 acres of valuable forest with water.
This paper explores the history of trees and scientific forestry in South Africa and how it changed southern African hydrologies.
Wild Earth 14, no. 3/4, is the last issue of the Wild Earth Journal. It presents essays on connectivity and long-distance migration in human-fragmented landscapes, the Great Bear Rainforest archipelago, and rewilding Patagonia.
In Wild Earth 6, no. 3 Max Oelschlaeger discusses religion and the conservation of biodiversity, Christopher Genovali reflects on the Alberta oil rush, Joseph P. Dudley writes about biodiversity in Southern Africa, and A. Kent MacDougall considers thinking of humans as a cancer.
Earth First! 25, no. 4 reports on the protests against logging in the wild Siskyou Mountains in Oregon, on jurisdictional consequences for Earth Liberation Front activists, and features an essay on “Stupidity and Critics of the Ecology Movement.”
In this issue of Earth First! Journal David Barbarash reports on the blockades at the Yukon Highway, where activists protested against killing wolves. In addition, Erik Ryberg brings bad news regarding logging activities in Idaho, and Judi Bari, Mike Roselle, Captain Paul Watson, and others take on the subject of tree spiking.
In this chapter of the virtual exhibition “Ludwig Leichhardt: A German Explorer’s Letters Home from Australia,” cultural studies researcher Heike Hartmann writes about the influence of indigenous knowledge on Dr. Leichhardt’s environmental observations.
Seventeen letters sent by Ludwig Leichhardt from 1842–48 vividly depict his stay in Australia. In this exhibition curated by historian Heike Hartmann, we are introducing a brand new English translation of the letters and a timeline tool with which to view those, this virtual exhibition documents Leichhardt’s adventurous stay in Australia and opens up new perspectives for the environmental history of the land, Europeans’ engagement with its indigenous population, and international scientific networks at the time.
Heike Hartmann
