The forestry companies must be held accountable
“Send them the bill for cleaning up the slash and for repairing the destruction it caused. If they can’t pay, confiscate their land to pay the costs.”
Category Archives: biodiversity
Human beings and nature – lessons from My Octopus Teacher
For relief from the disgusting spectacle of the US elections, I turned to My Octopus Teacher (released on Netflix September 2020). This documentary records an unlikely but fascinating bond that […]
Pasteur, rabbits and the working class – a case study in the politics of science
Harry Holland and the early labour movement in Australia and New Zealand Part 7 The gold rush of the nineteenth century had brought large numbers of free immigrants to the […]
Going the way of the Dodo: four pigeons, three extinctions, and te Tiriti o Waitangi
When Northland Maori leader Sonny Tau was found to have in his possession the bodies of five protected kereru (the large native pigeon, also known as kukupa) as he boarded […]
Grass fires, firewood, and the fires of revolution
Notes from a visit to West Africa, December 2014 to January 2015. Second in a series of six articles Koussoukoingou, Benin, January 5: Everywhere we went in the dry northern regions […]
Toheroa – extinction in a tin can
On some of the wild sandy beaches of the West Coast of New Zealand, pounded by the surf rolling in from the Tasman Sea, there live (or rather, used to […]
Human beings and animal extinction
When European settlers began exploring North America from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, they found a land teeming with wildlife that were possible sources of food – from the […]
A worker at large 