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Why should we care about eels? In this story, Rosaleen Duffy talks about the day she met an eel face to face, reflecting on the hazards faced by eels on their long journey from the Sargasso sea to…
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Joseph Hamm's research centres on human-carnivore conflict in Tanzania. Here, he discusses how other conflicts (some internal, others external) influence his research and what this says about…
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Why is the ecological political? In this short story, doctoral researcher Sara van der Hoeven describes several surprising encounters with community wildlife rangers in northern Kenya in and outside…
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Sanna Komi tells a story of wolf conservation in the post-truth era in Finland. She recalls encounters with people living next to wolves, and endeavours to understand what lies beyond post-truth…
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Svongwa Nemadire tells a story of life in the township and a lecture abroad, which stirred him towards social justice research. He returned to Africa to stay in the village. There, he witnessed the…
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Robert Petitpas's story describes two trees from Southern Chile and their relationships with humans: one relationship to scientists and the other to Indigenous people. Despite their dissimilar…
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Dr Ruth Wairimu John from the Open University of Tanzania tells a story of how human-wildlife co-existence can be improved through the incorporation of traditional and Indigenous knowledge in the…
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Hanna Pettersson tells a story about the intricate challenge of sharing space with wolves, and why we should hail pragmatism in conservation. She gives examples of people, places and situations…
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This is a story of how researcher Elaine (Lan Yin) Hsiao became enthralled in the ancient elephant and forest corridors criss-crossing continents. The corridors are now divided or destroyed by…
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This is a story from Tavengwa Chitata about how he has evolved through different experiences and in the process, how his approach to research has evolved with these experiences. The story gives an…
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This is a story
about how an indigenous community in Mexico adapts tourism to their culture of
solidarity to support their members’ life projects. It centres on Itzel San Roman…
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This is a story about people’s
worldviews (their beliefs and common sense knowledge), how they fundamentally
shape our behaviour and yet how they are so often ignored in development…
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This story draws on Frances Cleaver’s experience of research in the Usangu
Plains in South West Tanzania over 20 years. It tracks how development
initiatives for improved land and water…
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This is a story about Juan Mario Diaz Arevalo's engagement with participatory
research in Colombia and the UK. It reflects on the importance of working
together with local communities as well…
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Suma Mani's story
highlights the phenomenon of woody plant encroachment in the savannas of South
Africa viewed through the lens of both white and black farmers in the Eastern
Cape. The story…
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Laure Joanny recalls her experience of learning about the technologies
keeping watch over Indonesia’s forest and wildlife, while having to report to
the national authorities.
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