Why are almost all the trees that councils plant exotic species?
Author: monbiot
DDT 2.0
We’re just beginning to understand the wider impacts of neonicotinoids.
Resurrection Men
De-extinction sounds like a great idea. But there’s a problem most people have overlooked.
For More Wonder, Rewild The World
My manifesto for the rewilding of people and planet.
Ghost Plane
Lobbying results in old and dirty technologies being maintained long beyond their useful life.
The Naturalists Who Are Terrified of Nature
A radical challenge to British conservation and its bizarre priorities.
Smoking Gun
Who killed the plan for cigarettes to be sold only in plain packets?
The Landed Mafia
It’s time we confronted the National Farmers’ Union and the millionaires it works for.
The Culture of Nature
The ignorance and philistinism of those who attack nature lovers knows no bounds.
Robber Barons
Why do we ignore the most blatant transfer of money from the poor to the rich?
A Serengeti on Our Doorsteps
Is it really possible? Yes, I think it is.
The Wrong State
The police spy scandal shows that mass surveillance will be used against us.
Pistols at Dawn
A three-year, £100 bet on solar power has matured. Who won?
Elevation
Who do Bono and the ONE campaign really represent: the very poor or the very rich?
Corporate Carve-Up
Under the pretext of preventing hunger, the rich nations are engineering a new scramble for Africa.
Agricultural Hegemony
Why do farmers’ groups indulge in such ridiculous scaremongering about the restoration of the natural world?
Rewilding Made Simple
A brilliant and beautiful animation.
Innocent Until Proved Dead
If assassinating suspects makes sense overseas, why not at home?
The Healing
How a community might recover from a horror that defies imagination.
Raucous Summer
Our Newsnight film about rewilding.