Etosha Pan to the Skeleton Coast examines the conservation histories and concerns of one of southern Africa’s most iconic conservation regions: the variously connected ‘Etosha-Kunene’ areas of north-central and north-west Namibia. This cross-disciplinary volume brings together contributions from a Namibian and international group of scholars and conservation practitioners, working on topics ranging from colonial histories to water management, perceptions of ‘wildlife’ and the politics of belonging. Together, these essays confront a critical question: how can the conservation of biodiversity-rich landscapes be reconciled with historical injustices of social exclusion and marginalisation?

Conservation surveillance, or the monitoring of people for conservation purposes, is a core component of coercive conservation governance. Over the la…

"A Bee Song" is a new single by recording artist Banco de Gaia (https://banco.co.uk/) and Future Pasts (www.futurepasts.net) – a research project…

Based on a traditional Damara (Namibian) song that praises the honey bee, A Bee Song brings Banco de Gaia together with the Future Pasts project to create an uplifting and vibrant track full of life and humanity. With an infectious groove and a buzzing bassline, the track is guaranteed to get heads nodding and feet

“Acoustic Pasts, Echoed Futures: Auralgraph from !Huidi-ǁgams, Omaruru, 1954.” — by Welhemina Suro Ganuses & Sian Sullivan • Curated by Basler Afrika Bibliographien Archives.

We investigated intimidation of conservation social scientists, which is ongoing and aimed at silencing or discrediting research findings. Although social scientists share with conservation biologist...

We investigated intimidation of conservation social scientists, which is ongoing and aimed at silencing or discrediting research findings. Although social scientists share with conservation biologist...

One of the most influential philosophical works of the 20th century, Discipline and Punish is unsettlingly prescient in our age of digital surveillance.

"Very few Hadzabe understand the carbon project.”

Arguments abound on the benefits and dangers of trophy hunting. We need a careful, measured approach to analyzing how it’s justified and promoted.

When a copper mine started operating in Namibia’s //Huab Conservancy in 2021, blasting of rock and heavy machinery disturbed the area’s critically endangered southern black rhinos, and they moved out ...

Made through the Future Pasts (www.futurepasts.net) and Etosha-Kunene Histories (www.etosha-kunene-histories.net) projects, this film documents "ǂNūkhoe Xûn",…

I engage with two recent articles published in the Journal of Political Ecology, both of which critique political ecology engagements with ontological and epistemological complexities. These complexit...

Thirty years ago, more than 500 activists united to save a street – and their actions marked a major turning-point in the environmental movement

BG Correspondent - Why do politicians inflate the value of recreational hunting and community benefits when the economic evidence in favour of trophy hunting is thin, JOEL KONOPO asks.

James Elder describes children on the brink of death and families desperate for clean water, food and shelter

<em>Conservation Biology</em> is the leading global journal in the field of conservation, publishing groundbreaking papers contributing to the conservation of biological diversity.

International Launch of Benjamin Neimark's New Book: 'Hottest of the Hotspots: The Rise of Eco-precarious Conservation Labor in Madagascar'

Areas of the Apurinã territory in the Lower Seruini area, in southern Amazonas state, were sold by Nemus under an NFT project that promises to preserve the forest and generate carbon credits.

Genes show signatures of an ice sheet collapse and warn of a precarious future

Short Trailer for new film from oral history and heritage mapping research through the Future Pasts (www.futurepasts.net) and Etosha-Kunene Histories (www.etosha-kunene-histories.net)…

Climate change negotiations have failed the world. Despite more than thirty years of high-level, global talks on climate change, we are still seeing carbon emissions rise dramatically. This edited vol...

Climate change negotiations have failed the world. Despite more than thirty years of high-level, global talks on climate change, we are still seeing carbon emissions rise dramatically. This edited vol...