Reading Time: 7 minutesGuided by an ancestral call to recover the Primordial Water in Cape Town, this essay reflects on how human–nature connections continue to adapt, resist, and reimagine themselves in contemporary South Africa.
A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community
Category: Politics of Nature
Queering Sanctuary and Un/Becoming with Wolf/Dogs
Reading Time: 12 minutesIf there is anything to be salvaged from the fraught concept of “wildness,” it is in the wily tenacity and audacious hopefulness of these queer taxonomic renegades.
![The cover image is an excerpt from a press article entitled “Ecological disaster in the upper valley. The Aude river polluted by a violent poison” (“Catastrophe écologique en Haute-Vallée. L’Aude polluée par un poison violent [sic]”), published by the regional newspaper L'Indépendant on 18 September 1983, the day after the pollution. Beneath the headline are two photographs. On the left lies a dead trout, “fallen victim to human stupidity” as the caption states (“Une truite splendide victime de la bêtise des hommes”). On the right, there are the inhabitants of Quillan perched on the city's old bridge, gazing out over the river. The caption reads: “A destruction that rallied all the Quillan residents” (“Une destruction qui a mobilisé tous les habitants de Quillan”).](https://i0.wp.com/envhistnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Image_LT.jpeg?fit=640%2C377&ssl=1)
More-than-Human Remains: Reckoning with Ivory in (Post)Colonial Museums
Reading Time: 7 minutesMuseums developed and funded by European colonization often grapple with the morally blurry lines between public education and neocolonial exploitation. Elephant tusk — otherwise known as ivory — is embedded in these politics of historical display.
When Extinction Came to Disney World
Reading Time: 7 minutesThe dusky seaside sparrow was a small songbird once abundant within a small range in Southern Florida.