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CONTENTS Imagine Issue 349 March/April 2025 1 WELCOME 4 NOTICEBOARD 5 EVENTS 69 ARCHIVE 70 SHOP Insect World by Kristina Gauer www.kristinagauer.com Ecologist 6 THE PLANETARY DEMOCRATS Anton Rüpke on why Nature needs a vote 9 NEWS & STORIES 10 THE SEASHORE THAT IS NO MORE Clément Girardot documents the demise of the Caspian Sea 12 VITAL SIGNS Gayle Chog Kwan explores how humans connect to the River Thames Connected life 14 THE RAINFOREST IS FEMALE Karina Miotto celebrates two Indigenous champions 18 WHEN THE EAGLES LANDED Katie Dancey-Downs interviews wildlife conservationist, Tina Morris 20 A TWO-WAY HEALING Anna Souter reports on Wild, a new exhibition at Manchester Museum 2 Resurgence & Ecologist The slow read 22 WILD LEARNING Regenerative thought leader Tom Mansfield shares the mysterious behind-the-scenes story of how his Cards for Life system was birthed. The system, which celebrates the interconnectedness of all life, has taken off to fully capture and deeply root in the imaginations of regenerative networks and practitioners around the globe. March/April 2025
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Imag ine 28 IMAGINE WHAT COULD COME BACK… A definition of rewilding, from Scotland The Big Picture 30 FORESTS TEEMING WITH LIFE… Gary Cook talks to Roger Tempest about the challenges of rewilding his inherited estate in North Yorkshire 34 OCEANS SUPPORTING AN ABUNDANCE OF LIFE… Melissa Hobson reports on Scotland’s first coastal ‘Hope spot’ 36 ECHOES OF CRANES … AND SOUNDS OF THE OTHERS Mike Edwards introduces the idea of sonic rewilding 40 RENATURING AND THE SEARCH FOR ABUNDANCE Roger Morgan-Grenville discovers how active renaturing quickly leads to bio-abundance Wisdom & wellbeing 42 THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES James Clarke is a fan of Jean Giono’s Nature writing classic 46 THE MANGONOMY Satish Kumar celebrates the ‘mango’ economy 48 CAPTURING NATURE’S FLEETING BEAUTY Artist Susanna Bauer on the challenges and joys of working with Nature Art & culture 50 THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF SOIL Emily Stewart previews a new show where some 40 artists and scientists bring soil to life 54 WILDLIFE ARTIVISM Alicia Hayden explores how art may hold the key to activism 56 A GREENER ART PL Henderson on a residency that encouraged artists to become more ecologically aware 58 EMOTIONAL LIFE-LINES Our poetry editors, Rachel Marsh and Bryony Hughes introduce the poet, S.C. Flynn whose work often examines the looming threats of species extinction Issue 349 Reviews 60 CAN WE TRULY LEARN FROM THE PAST?... Martha Dillon says Sunil Amrith’s book, The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years, captures how the story of the environmental movement is truly a story of justice and freedom FURTHER REVIEWS IN THIS ISSUE: 62 Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown by Wim Carton and Andreas Malm 63 The Re-Use Atlas: A Designer’s Guide Towards a Circular Economy by Duncan Baker-Brown 64 In Search of the Perfect Peach: Why Flavour Holds the Answer to Fixing Our Food System by Franco Fubini 65 Ingrained: The Making of a Craftsman by Callum Robinson 66 The Place of Tides by James Rebanks 68 For the Wild: An Anthology of the Anthropocene hosted by Ayana Young Resurgence & Ecologist 3

CONTENTS

Imagine Issue 349 March/April 2025

1 WELCOME 4 NOTICEBOARD 5 EVENTS 69 ARCHIVE 70 SHOP

Insect World by Kristina Gauer www.kristinagauer.com

Ecologist

6 THE PLANETARY DEMOCRATS Anton Rüpke on why Nature needs a vote 9 NEWS & STORIES 10 THE SEASHORE THAT

IS NO MORE Clément Girardot documents the demise of the Caspian Sea 12 VITAL SIGNS Gayle Chog Kwan explores how humans connect to the River Thames

Connected life

14 THE RAINFOREST IS FEMALE Karina Miotto celebrates two

Indigenous champions 18 WHEN THE EAGLES LANDED Katie Dancey-Downs interviews wildlife conservationist, Tina Morris 20 A TWO-WAY HEALING Anna Souter reports on Wild, a new exhibition at Manchester Museum

2 Resurgence & Ecologist

The slow read

22 WILD LEARNING Regenerative thought leader Tom Mansfield shares the mysterious behind-the-scenes story of how his Cards for Life system was birthed. The system, which celebrates the interconnectedness of all life, has taken off to fully capture and deeply root in the imaginations of regenerative networks and practitioners around the globe.

March/April 2025

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