Nihilism is coeval with violence. Among many forms of violence, war has been nonstop since civilization’s ascent, when nihilism began its slow-motion advent toward consensus reality. In a profanate…

Fernanda Abra and Mayan Press Goldfreind write: “For passionate conservationists, it is very common to find our way deeper and deeper into the subject, sometimes from a very young age. With t…

Information on The Ecological Citizen, which is an independent, free-to-access, peer-reviewed, ecocentric journal. Broadly speaking, the Journal covers ecocentrism and biocentrism, ecocentric and bioc...

The world in which we all live is neither ‘spiritual’ nor ‘material’ but both, in ways that are liminal, messy, mysterious, relational, boundaried, enchanting, scary, serious, funny, sensuous, anar…

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In popular culture, nihilism is taken to mean the felt sense that things are futile and bound ineluctably toward dissolution. This is a reasonable description of the human experience of nihilism, b…

Eileen Crist writes: “Encountering a wild animal in its natural habitat is a great privilege as it brings us into contact with the quality of awareness the animal exudes. The etymology of ani…

Tero Mustonen writes: “Since its inclusion in the Convention on Biological Diversity (§8(j)), Traditional Knowledge has increasingly developed influence in its own right. This influence is ev…

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Milene Matos writes: “The mighty cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus) is a true giant of the skies. It is the largest Old World vulture and one of the heaviest birds of prey in the world, wi…

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We talk with May Scott and Yasmine Grignard from the Global Rewilding Alliance.

Isabella Clarke writes: “‘We have nine different species of bat here,’ says Merlin Hanbury-Tenison as we walk through the wooded valley on his family farm in Cornwall. ‘Incl…

Joe Gray writes: “Northern Spain is home to a number of species of animal whose presence might, to the uninformed, come as something of a surprise. Here, across the upper band of the Iberian …

Is human nature destructive? Or have human beings indoctrinated themselves into a belief system that is destructive? The quandary is worth pursuing even if it yields no conclusive answer.

It is a mild spring day in England, and I am on a passenger train headed for central London. I have a couple of unremarkable errands to run, and I am in no great hurry. In my carriage, I overhear a yo...

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Building a movement to increase respect for plants