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Industrializing pathogens? Cattle pictured in a feedlot in South Africa. Photo: Martin Harvey/Getty Images

Planet Farm

As industrial agriculture encroaches into the last wild places of the Earth, it’s unleashing dangerous pathogens. Time to heal the metabolic rift between ecology and economy, suggests Rob Wallace.

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From left to right: A conservationist demonstrates to a class of schoolchildren the whooping crane costume used to rear chicks; Bullseye harlequin poison dart frog from the rainforest of Colombia; Andatu, the first Sumatran rhinoceros born in captivity in Indonesia. Photos from left to right: Nature and Science/Alamy; Dirk Ercken/Alamy; Reynold Sumakyu/Alamy.

What it takes

Around the world thousands of conservation projects are trying to rescue wildlife species in peril, often against huge odds. Each of them will face unique challenges, as these brief case histories demonstrate. Words: Dinyar Godrej.

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Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim.

‘Indigenous people respect all species’

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is an environmental activist and member of Chad’s pastoralist Mbororo community who believes in twinning traditional knowledge with science to tackle ecosystem challenges.

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Machiguenga children at play in Manu’s spectacular wilderness, while their pet spider monkey explores a tree. Photo: Charlie James/National Geographic/Alamy

The limits of Eden

Peru’s Manu National Park is a biodiversity success story. But its management has left its ancestral peoples without voice and agency. Could that be about to change? asks Jack Lo Lau.

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Tourists and photographers zoom in on wildlife at the Mara river during the great wildebeest migration, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Photo: Eric Baccega/Alamy

Beyond the tourist trail

Graeme Green speaks with local experts about why wildlife protection in Africa and Asia must push beyond relying on international visitors and foreign professionals towards sustainable, locally led initiatives.

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Why I matter

Seirian Sumner gives voice to a creature of amazing ecological value that humans usually consider a pest and the stinging scourge of summer picnics.

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Action & info

Action & info

Action, information, and advocacy groups to support on biodiversity.

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 Another chunk of the Amazon rainforest goes up in smoke. In the last 10 years alone, 38,600 km2 (equal to 8.4 million football fields) has been deforested for ranching, logging, soy and oil-palm cultivation. Photo: Loren McIntyre/Stock Connection Blue/Alamy

The case for nature

We have brought the natural world and its diversity to a breaking point. Dinyar Godrej surveys the damage and explores how we need to act to repair it.

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Spotlight: Abduweli Ayup

Spotlight: Abduweli Ayup

Uyghur poet and teacher Abduweli Ayup talks to Jan-Peter Westad about language, cultural survival and the unspeakable.

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Mixed Media: Music

Mixed Media: Music

Uprize! by Spaza; Zan by Liraz.

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Mixed Media: Film

Mixed Media: Film

Luxor directed and written by Zeina Durra; Shirley directed by Josephine Decker.

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Mixed Media: Books

Anatomy of a Killing by Ian Cobain; Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah; United We Are Unstoppable edited by Akshat Rathi; The Pride of an African Migrant by Mossocki ma Massocki.

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The Puzzler

Crossword Puzzle, Association Words and Wordsearch

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 Illustration: Andy Carter

What if…

What if we dealt with our own rubbish instead of sending it abroad, Vanessa Baird suggests.

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Planet Farm

As industrial agriculture encroaches into the last wild places of the Earth, it’s unleashing dangerous pathogens. Time to heal the metabolic rift between ecology and economy, suggests Rob Wallace.

Rob Wallace January, 2021 529 Read
What it takes

Around the world thousands of conservation projects are trying to rescue wildlife species in peril, often against huge odds. Each of them will face unique challenges, as these brief case histories demonstrate. Words: Dinyar Godrej.

Dinyar Godrej January, 2021 529 Buy
‘Indigenous people respect all species’

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is an environmental activist and member of Chad’s pastoralist Mbororo community who believes in twinning traditional knowledge with science to tackle ecosystem challenges.

Dinyar Godrej January, 2021 529 Buy
The limits of Eden

Peru’s Manu National Park is a biodiversity success story. But its management has left its ancestral peoples without voice and agency. Could that be about to change? asks Jack Lo Lau.

Jack Lo Lau January, 2021 529 Buy
Beyond the tourist trail

Graeme Green speaks with local experts about why wildlife protection in Africa and Asia must push beyond relying on international visitors and foreign professionals towards sustainable, locally led initiatives.

Graeme Green January, 2021 529 Read
Why I matter

Seirian Sumner gives voice to a creature of amazing ecological value that humans usually consider a pest and the stinging scourge of summer picnics.

Seirian Sumner January, 2021 529 Buy
Biodiversity - The Facts

Facts, and stats on biodiversity.

January, 2021 529 Buy
Action & info

Action, information, and advocacy groups to support on biodiversity.

January, 2021 529 Buy
The case for nature

We have brought the natural world and its diversity to a breaking point. Dinyar Godrej surveys the damage and explores how we need to act to repair it.

Dinyar Godrej January, 2021 529 Buy
Spotlight: Abduweli Ayup

Uyghur poet and teacher Abduweli Ayup talks to Jan-Peter Westad about language, cultural survival and the unspeakable.

Jan-Peter Westad November, 2020 528 Buy
Mixed Media: Music

Uprize! by Spaza; Zan by Liraz.

November, 2020 528 Read
Mixed Media: Film

Luxor directed and written by Zeina Durra; Shirley directed by Josephine Decker.

November, 2020 528 Buy
Mixed Media: Books

Anatomy of a Killing by Ian Cobain; Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah; United We Are Unstoppable edited by Akshat Rathi; The Pride of an African Migrant by Mossocki ma Massocki.

November, 2020 528 Buy
The Puzzler

Crossword Puzzle, Association Words and Wordsearch

November, 2020 528 Buy
What if…

What if we dealt with our own rubbish instead of sending it abroad, Vanessa Baird suggests.

November, 2020 528 Buy