‘An Earth Without Insects?’
Eighty percent of the biomass of insects has disappeared in just thirty years, and intensive agriculture, particularly the heavy use of pesticides, is the main driver of this collapse. The decline in populations worldwide is devastating not only for the...
Q&A: Marc Pierschel, Film Maker
1 Your film THE END OF MEAT envisions a future where meat consumption belongs to the past. What was your chief motivation in making this film? When I made my last documentary, Live and Let Live, one of my interview questions was what the human-animal relationship...
A message from Thich Nhat Hanh
The article below was written by Buddhist monk, teacher and author, THICH NHAT HANH, and we have reprinted it with original illustrations of New Zealand native plants and animals by Alex L Scott. “This is the kind of awareness, the kind of awakening that we...
VOICES FOR ANIMALS ACROSS THE AGES: LOREN EISELEY
Loren Eiseley (September 3, 1907 – July 9, 1977) was an American anthropologist, philosopher and natural science writer. During his lifetime he received many honorary degrees for his accomplishments. A ‘scholar of imagination and grace’, dubbed ‘the modern...