The Brazilian press and political system is ignoring a wholesale theft of land and the murder of its people
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Toxic Shock
The Government’s official position is that we should pour our hazardous waste down the drain.
Murder in the Amazon
Nearly all the mahogany leaving Brazil has been taken, illegally, from protected reserves
Subversive Genius
Roads protesters are bringing art and necessity back together, sowing the seeds of cultural renewal
The Scattering of the Dead
A disastrous project funded by the Canadian Government is destituting an African people
The Maasai and the Mercedes Men
A fraudulent privatisation project is reducing the Maasai to little more than tourist dancers
Back to 1662
The Government’s repressive new laws contain eerie similarities to statutes passed hundreds of years ago
A Private Order Called Public Order
Environmentalism is at the vanguard of Britain’s movements for political change
Moses in the Wilderness
One man’s story might hold the key to the survival of the Maasai
Keepers of the Artificial Wilderness
In East Africa, conservationists are creating a wilderness out of inhabited lands, then punishing the people they have dispossessed
The Astromancer
Did Ledumen, the celebrated Samburu prophet, know I was coming to visit him three months before I decided to do so?
Wishful Thinking
Environmentalism is yet to inspire a great novel
Fire in a Box
Britain’s protest movements have emerged in response to the enclosure of the land, the mind and political power. They are seeking to recover the freedom all of us have lost
Hero or Villain?
Richard Leakey’s reappointment as head of the Kenya Wildlife Service is a disaster for Kenya’s nomads
Collateral Damage
Local people are the real victims of the turf war between the conservation authorities in Kenya
The Tragedy of Enclosure
The “Tragedy of the Commons” is one of the modern world’s most dangerous myths.
The Smith and the Devil
Why are the same myths associated with blacksmiths all over the world?
Conservation without Miracles
A peasant farmers’ project in the western Amazon might hold the key to protecting the forests
Death in Your Living Room
The only people who can prevent the invasion of Indian reserves in Brazil and British and American consumers
Your Round
Why doesn’t Guinness stop fighting us and help us to turn its land into something worthwhile?