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  • 15 Apr 2019
    Simon A. Black

    Choosing a Future For Nature and For Ourselves

    Simon Black, Author of, Species Conservation; Lessons from Islands, explains how our challenge is to understand how we can co-exist with nature by addressing two drivers of change. First, we need the positive efforts of the few people who have necessary technical skills to transform wild ecosystems. Second, we need to divert the negative impact of the millions of us human consumers (who create the problem in the first place) and reverse our psychological separation from the natural world.

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  • 15 Apr 2019
    David Johns

    Doing Battle With The Next Asteroid

    David Johns, Author of, Conservation Politics; The Last Anti-Colonial Battle, tells us how ultimately global conservation is failing. Why, when the majority of people say they value nature and its protection? David Johns argues that the loss of species and healthy ecosystems is best understood as human imposition of a colonial relationship on the non-human world - one of exploitation and domination.

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  • 30 Jan 2019
    Anne Innis Dagg

    How a Canadian ‘giraffologist’ stuck her neck out to fight sexism in academia

    Anne Innis Dagg was the first person to study giraffes in the wild in Africa in the 1950’s and is now considered the world’s first ‘giraffologist’.

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