CONTENTS

Call of the wild Issue 338 May/June 2023

1 WELCOME 4 NEWS FROM THE

RESURGENCE COMMUNITY 5 EVENTS

Mule Deer, 2021 © Jim Naughten

ECOLOGIST

6 EDITORS’ PICKS 7 THE ENVIRONMENTAL

FALLOUT FROM WAR – A MOSAIC Exploring the impact of the war in Ukraine on the ecology and environment. Writer Anna Badkhen asked poets, journalists, bloggers and ecologists to share their bereavement 8 THE DRAGON OF WAR War correspondent Zarina

Zabrisky tells how she turns to art to make sense of the senseless 9 DEVASTATING WILDLIFE Ukrainian environmentalist

Oleksiy Vasyliuk counts the cost for wildlife of a war that disrupts and destroys their habitats, breeding grounds and behaviours 10 MUTUAL AID IN ACTION Just Stop Oil activist Jan Goodey on the realities – some quite unexpected – of his taste of prison life

CONNECTED LIFE

12 THE IMPORTANCE OF

LIVING WITH NATURE Fauna & Flora International’s

Abigail Entwistle puts the case for a more diverse definition of Nature conservation 16 ALIEN WORLDS No, not those up in the heavens,

but those all around us. Wildlife film-maker Steve Nicholls invites us into the world of insects 18 BRISTOL 2023: A GLOBAL

MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE COMES OF AGE The Planet Local Summit will be a pivotal moment for those still hoping for real change, writes Helena Norberg-Hodge 20 WHY ECONOMICS WITHOUT

ETHICS IS SO WRONG Satish Kumar pays tribute to the author of Small Is Beautiful, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year and which has such an impact on his own life

CALL OF THE WILD

28 CALL OF THE WILD How working behind the scenes in museums inspired artist Jim Naughten’s new exhibition 30 THE AGE OF LONELINESS Susan Clark talks with artist/

photographer Jim Naughten about his interpretation of E.O Wilson’s word ‘Eremozoic’ 32 INTO THE WILD When The Ecologist editor

Brendan Montague steps into an “educational wilderness experience” his biggest surprise is his own response to the wildlife he encounters 36 TRUE CONNECTION Navigating the wild requires us to pay attention and listen deeply. Angela Maxwell, who spent six years walking the world, learns this the hard way when she finds herself lost in the Australian bush

THE SLOW READ

22 BUILDING A NEW MOVEMENT

Former editor of the Green Party magazine John Pearce lays out the blueprint for a new environmental movement that puts paid to the notion that caring about the planet is solely an elitist concern. He know what works and what doesn’t and shows us the way forward with what he calls ‘The Three Ps’

2 Resurgence & Ecologist

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