
We are currently experiencing a devastating loss of wild nature—both the habitats that have been left unaltered by human activity and the native species that have historically inhabited those places.
This collection of new and previously published pieces offers a place to start when considering how to address this crisis.
Where the Wild Things Were: Disappearance and Regeneration of Wild Nature
Join us for a conversation with Lesley Hughes (Macquarie University) and Doug Tallamy (University of Delaware) about how governments, scientists, activists, community groups, and individuals can address this crisis.
OPEN EVENTPutting Nature at the Center
Is it too late to save biodiversity and the living Earth? In this article I’ll argue that only a collective effort to put wild nature at the center of our priorities will prevent its devastation and the possible disappearance of our own species, among countless others.
February 5, 2025
Letter From The Farm | The West of Ireland Never ‘Dewilded’
In the west of Ireland I find there has been less industrialisation of agriculture with many farming in a more traditional manner keeping small mixed holdings with off farm incomes – very often in construction where I meet them.
January 9, 2025
Guide to Preserving Sacred Land Near You
Preserving biodiversity is among the most urgent issues of our time, and it needs to be addressed regionally to succeed.
January 9, 2025
Wild Communities, Tamed Publics
At present, we can only try to shape the emergence of resilient livelihood communities as best we can and speak up for agrarianism and against the industrial food system and its processes of corporate enclosure.
December 16, 2024
How the Hé Sapa Resolution Could Help ‘Indigenize’ Global Wilderness Conservation
All relevant institutions [must] actively promote wilderness policy that acknowledges that nature is multi-dimensional, transcending the material and physical realms; and use language that honors the rights and roles of Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Knowledge and Wisdom Systems, natural and customary law.” —Hé Sapa Resolution, 2024
September 20, 2024
‘Land Back’ at the Center of Debates Over How to Preserve the Biosphere
Gathering in the last week of August in the Black Hills of South Dakota, or Hé Sapa in Lakota, speakers and organizers of the 12th convening of the World Wilderness Congress say the extinction crisis is intrinsically tied to both the dispossession of Indigenous peoples and the rising heat generated by the burning of fossil fuels.
September 11, 2024
Call for Submissions
Have you written or recorded something that addresses the loss of wild nature and should be included in this list? Please send us your submissions. If it’s a good fit we’ll include your work in this series.
Header image: Photo by Niels Baars on Unsplash.