Call of the wild
Issue 338
May/June 2023
- WELCOME
- NEWS FROM THE RESURGENCE COMMUNITY
- EVENTS
ECOLOGIST
6 EDITORS’ PICKS
7 THE ENVIRONMENTAL FALLOUT FROM WAR – A MOSAIC
- Exploring the impact of the war in Ukraine on the ecology and environment. Writer Anna Badkhen asked poets, journalists, bloggers and ecologists to share their bereavement
8 THE DRAGON OF WAR
- War correspondent Zarina Zabrisky tells how she turns to art to make sense of the senseless
- DEVASTATING WILDLIFE Ukrainian environmentalist Oleksiy Vasyliuk counts the cost for wildlife of a war that disrupts and destroys their habitats, breeding grounds and behaviours
- MUTUAL AID IN ACTION Just Stop Oil activist Jan Goodey on the realities – some quite unexpected – of his taste of prison life
CONNECTED LIFE
12 THE IMPORTANCE OF LIVING WITH NATURE
- Fauna & Flora International’s Abigail Entwistle puts the case for a more diverse definition of Nature conservation
16 ALIEN WORLDS
- No, not those up in the heavens, but those all around us. Wildlife film-maker Steve Nicholls invites us into the world of insects
18 BRISTOL 2023: A GLOBAL MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE COMES OF AGE
- The Planet Local Summit will be a pivotal moment for those still hoping for real change, writes Helena Norberg-Hodge
- WHY ECONOMICS WITHOUT ETHICS IS SO WRONG Satish Kumar pays tribute to the author of Small Is Beautiful, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year and which has such an impact on his own life
THE SLOW READ
22 BUILDING A NEW MOVEMENT
Former editor of the Green Party magazine John Pearce lays out the blueprint for a new environmental movement that puts paid to the notion that caring about the planet is solely an elitist concern. He know what works and what doesn’t and shows us the way forward with what he calls ‘The Three Ps’
CALL OF THE WILD
28 CALL OF THE WILD
How working behind the scenes in museums inspired artist Jim Naughten’s new exhibition
30 THE AGE OF LONELINESS
- Susan Clark talks with artist/ photographer Jim Naughten about his interpretation of E.O Wilson’s word ‘Eremozoic’
32 INTO THE WILD
- When The Ecologist editor Brendan Montague steps into an “educational wilderness experience” his biggest surprise is his own response to the wildlife he encounters
36 TRUE CONNECTION
- Navigating the wild requires us to pay attention and listen deeply. Angela Maxwell, who spent six years walking the world, learns this the hard way when she finds herself lost in the Australian bush