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Reasons to be cheerful

Reasons to be cheerful

Coal mines out; Cleaners in; Park life.

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Another war over

Another war over

The conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, report by Jan-Peter Westad.

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Around 50 people were arrested trying to protect this sacred Directions Tree, eventually felled to make way for a road. Photo: Sean Paris

‘We've lost too much’

Another day of mourning for First Nations people in Australia, reports Will Higginbotham.

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Socorro Aguilar de-spines a cactus pad in Real de Catorce, Mexico. She likes to cook it up with onions, tomato and chillies or drink it in smoothies. Photo: Antonio Cascio

Return to the wild

Sustainable living in Mexico, report by Antonio Cascio.

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We dance

We dance

Update on queer tango from Argentina by Nina Meghji.

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‘We’re coming for them’

‘We’re coming for them’

Police profiling in Nigeria by Shayera Dark.

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Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as the popstar Bobi Wine, speaks during a rally in Hoima in the west of Uganda. Photo: OPA Images/SIPA USA/PA Images

‘Let them own their country’

‘Let them think for themselves’, says the ‘ghetto president’, Bobi Wine.

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Finntopia

Finntopia

Danny Dorling and Annika Koljonen explain how Finland has come to be so equal, peaceful and happy – and sketch out the lessons we might learn from its example.

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Wafa Ali Mustafa holds up a picture of her father during a demonstration on the International Day of the Disappeared, at Alexanderplatz, Berlin. Photo: Ahmad Kalaji

The search for Syria’s missing

The families of the disappeared are not giving up their search until they have answers. Jan-Peter Westad reports.

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An ingenious agroforestry farming system, which combines trees, shrubs and crops is practiced throughout Ethiopia’s lush southern highlands. Photo: Olivier Bourguet/Alamy

The sheltering forest

Tesfa-Alem Tekle travels to meet the Ethiopian farmers whose unique agroforestry system has kept hunger at bay for millennia.

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Industrializing pathogens? Cattle pictured in a feedlot in South Africa. Photo: Martin Harvey/Getty Images

Planet Farm

As industrial agriculture encroaches into the last wild places of the Earth, it’s unleashing dangerous pathogens. Time to heal the metabolic rift between ecology and economy, suggests Rob Wallace.

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From left to right: A conservationist demonstrates to a class of schoolchildren the whooping crane costume used to rear chicks; Bullseye harlequin poison dart frog from the rainforest of Colombia; Andatu, the first Sumatran rhinoceros born in captivity in Indonesia. Photos from left to right: Nature and Science/Alamy; Dirk Ercken/Alamy; Reynold Sumakyu/Alamy.

What it takes

Around the world thousands of conservation projects are trying to rescue wildlife species in peril, often against huge odds. Each of them will face unique challenges, as these brief case histories demonstrate. Words: Dinyar Godrej.

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Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim.

‘Indigenous people respect all species’

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is an environmental activist and member of Chad’s pastoralist Mbororo community who believes in twinning traditional knowledge with science to tackle ecosystem challenges.

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Machiguenga children at play in Manu’s spectacular wilderness, while their pet spider monkey explores a tree. Photo: Charlie James/National Geographic/Alamy

The limits of Eden

Peru’s Manu National Park is a biodiversity success story. But its management has left its ancestral peoples without voice and agency. Could that be about to change? asks Jack Lo Lau.

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Reasons to be cheerful

Coal mines out; Cleaners in; Park life.

January, 2021 529 Preview
Another war over

The conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, report by Jan-Peter Westad.

Jan-Peter Westad January, 2021 529 Preview
‘We've lost too much’

Another day of mourning for First Nations people in Australia, reports Will Higginbotham.

Will Higginbotham January, 2021 529 Preview
Return to the wild

Sustainable living in Mexico, report by Antonio Cascio.

Antonio Cascio January, 2021 529 Preview
We dance

Update on queer tango from Argentina by Nina Meghji.

Nina Meghji January, 2021 529 Preview
‘We’re coming for them’

Police profiling in Nigeria by Shayera Dark.

Shayera Dark January, 2021 529 Preview
Introducing... Luis Arce Catacora

The Bolivian president elect.

January, 2021 529 Preview
‘Let them own their country’

‘Let them think for themselves’, says the ‘ghetto president’, Bobi Wine.

Liam Taylor January, 2021 529 Preview
Finntopia

Danny Dorling and Annika Koljonen explain how Finland has come to be so equal, peaceful and happy – and sketch out the lessons we might learn from its example.

Danny Dorling and Annika Koljonen January, 2021 529 Read
The search for Syria’s missing

The families of the disappeared are not giving up their search until they have answers. Jan-Peter Westad reports.

Jan-Peter Westad January, 2021 529 Preview
The sheltering forest

Tesfa-Alem Tekle travels to meet the Ethiopian farmers whose unique agroforestry system has kept hunger at bay for millennia.

Tesfa-Alem Tekle January, 2021 529 Preview
Planet Farm

As industrial agriculture encroaches into the last wild places of the Earth, it’s unleashing dangerous pathogens. Time to heal the metabolic rift between ecology and economy, suggests Rob Wallace.

Rob Wallace January, 2021 529 Read
What it takes

Around the world thousands of conservation projects are trying to rescue wildlife species in peril, often against huge odds. Each of them will face unique challenges, as these brief case histories demonstrate. Words: Dinyar Godrej.

Dinyar Godrej January, 2021 529 Preview
‘Indigenous people respect all species’

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is an environmental activist and member of Chad’s pastoralist Mbororo community who believes in twinning traditional knowledge with science to tackle ecosystem challenges.

Dinyar Godrej January, 2021 529 Preview
The limits of Eden

Peru’s Manu National Park is a biodiversity success story. But its management has left its ancestral peoples without voice and agency. Could that be about to change? asks Jack Lo Lau.

Jack Lo Lau January, 2021 529 Preview