The ongoing battle between US tree-sitters and North America’s big logging firms pitches some of the world’s most determined activists against some of its most ruthless corporations. It is a battle that the tree-sitters simply must not lose.
… Yellow Pages declares, ‘yes, we even rescue cats’) is working for Maxxam Inc/Pacific … United States occurred in 1985, when Oregon’s Cathedral Forest was being cut by Willamette …
The problem with vivisection, argues Derrick Jensen, is that we’re experimenting on the wrong sort of animals.
… minister for innovation and science, advocate of genetic engineering and owner of a … or rather his existence: add another category of those eligible to be vivisected. … The use of vivisectors’ families should eradicate the technical and moral problems caused …
Richard Wrangham's forthcoming book The Goodness Paradox explores the strange relationship between virtue and violence in human evolution. CURTIS ABRAHAM interviewed Wrangham for The Ecologist
… at Harvard University. He is the author of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human , … for proactive and reactive aggression. In cats, those connections carry signals when one … than in humans. CA: What is self-domestication? RW: I define self-domestication as a …
The idea of a 'good, or even great, Anthropocene' as promised in the Ecomodernist Manifesto is purely delusional, writes Derrick Jensen. Worse, it underlies a narrative in which the wholesale destruction of nature and of sustainable indigenous societies is repackaged as a noble mission - one whose ultimate purpose is the complete alienation of humans from the planet that spawned us.
… insane enough to attempt to provide justifications for this murder. That brings us to An … elephants and great apes and great cats and two hundred species per day; it's … the oceans are acidifying, and are suffocating in plastic. I guess none of this counts …
How poaching for the illegal wildlife trade, intensive farming, climate change and population growth all threaten Africa's unique wildlife
… south is worse off. Tanzania has been implicated as the source of nearly 50 per cent of … officials have discovered that sophisticated criminal networks have targeted certain … ignorance, and abuse. Not only are these big cats affected but so too are vultures, birds …
Ogeto Mwebi, a senior research scientist at the Department of Zoology of the National Museums of Kenya and Nduhiu Gitahi, the chief technologist at the Department of Public Health, Pharmacology & Toxicology based at Nairobi University are attempting now to uncover the mystery behind two man eating lions from more than a century ago. CURTIS ABRAHAM investigates
… rinderpest. This decimated countless herds of cattle, buffalo, wildebeest, and zebra- the … immediately recognized those by date, location and the collector’s name – J.H. … in Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History catalogue) revealed that they were malformed …