CONTENTS

Give and take Issue 319 March/April 2020

1 WELCOME

FRONTLINE

4 NEWS

ECOLOGIST

10 SEEING THE WORLD FOR THE TREES Catherine Early digs into global tree-planting schemes 14 THE RIGHT TO LIFE The Arhuaco people have much in

common with vegans, but they eat meat, say Ana Ilba Torres Torres and Gunkeywia Torres Chaparro 16 RETHINKING PARENTHOOD Zion Lights interviews the founder of the BirthStrike

movement

KEYNOTES

18 THE SACRED ACT OF REBELLION Skeena Rathor writes on the transformation of

active grief

Cover image: In Dreams We Wake by Molly Costello www.mollycostello.com

UNDERCURRENTS: DECOLONISATION

24 CHANGING THE COURSE OF HISTORY Thembi Mutch unpicks the meaning of ‘decolonisation’ 26 THE WILDERNESS MYTH At the heart of restoration there needs to be reciprocity,

argues Kara Moses 30 MUSEUM OF CONTROVERSY Thembi Mutch looks at the problems with putting

culture on display

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