Nature
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Wild About Good News
With the door closed on 2022, this seems like the right time to celebrate some of the good news from the past year. Not Dead Yet One of my favourite themes from 2022…
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Wild About the Big Here
As someone who grew up in a rural environment, and has now lived in an urban environment for many years, it’s easy to feel disconnected from the landscape and environment around us. And…
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Wild About Solarpunk
What if we imagined a better future? And more than that, what if we brought it to life? This is exactly what solarpunk asks us to do—to set aside dystopian, catastrophic visions of…
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Wild About Bird Songs
Have you ever stepped out your front door and just listened? If you live in a city, your local soundscape is probably dominated by the sounds of urban life: traffic, kids playing, the…
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Wild About Pteridomania
If you were a young Victorian woman of a certain sort, chances were you spent your time hiking through woodlands and scrambling up cliffs in search of a very particular prize—ferns. Throughout the…
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Wild About the Trimates
Today, Jane Goodall is a household name associated with not only the conservation of chimpanzees, but with protecting nature around the world. Originally, however, Goodall was one of three women recruited by anthropologist…
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Wild About Carnivorous Plants
Plants that are large enough to catch and eat people or other large prey only exist in fantasy novels and our imagination, but their smaller, real-life cousins are just as fascinating. Whether it’s…
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Wild About the Return of Bison
Try as I might, my 21st century settler brain cannot comprehend the scale of bison herds that used to roam across the plains of North America. Early colonizers report riding for three days…
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Wild About Corvids
If you live in a city, which most of us do these days, corvids are probably one of the groups of birds that you are most familiar with and have an opinion about.…
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Wild About Newly Discovered Species
Every year scientists discover new species of animals and plants and 2022 is no exception. Some are discovered through exploration and fieldwork, while others are identified using DNA evidence. Whether they live in…
