The Civil Animal

Month: May 2019

  • Ecological Depression

    Ecological depression may become an acceptable diagnosis for an increasing number of people. It is characterised by feelings of impotence and despair when confronted with the massive scale of socio-environmental destruction in our world. It leads to paralysis. In today’s news cycle, not only are environmental problems under-reported, they also tend to be assimilated to…

  • Rewilding Documentary

    ARTE is set to air (though you can already watch it online) the first full-length documentary on European rewilding. While I was researching the reintroduction of European Bison to the Souther Carpathians (you can read about that here) I had the pleasure to meet the film crew and talk with them about my work. Some…

  • Know thy neighbour: how humans know jackals in the Danube Delta

    via Know thy neighbour: how humans know jackals in the Danube Delta