‘Super Nature’: New documentary captures nature in fresh way with vintage cameras
‘Super Nature’: New documentary captures nature in fresh way with vintage cameras
A global love letter to nature, the documentary ‘Super Nature’ is an immersive exploration of our world today. Shot by people all over the world, the universal and the local combine in this intimate gaze on nature, with a transcendent score and sound design, and voices in many tongue. Embracing all we have, and all we have to lose, it proposes a new way of seeing, as it takes us on a spellbinding journey of discovery and togetherness with our fellow dwellers on earth, both human and non-human. MATTHEW CAREY: ‘Super Nature’, a new documentary about the natural world directed by […]
Every Individual Matters: Wildlife conservation body just widened the circle of what it protects
Every Individual Matters: Wildlife conservation body just widened the circle of what it protects
Compassionate conservation developed from the refusal to accept the presumed conflict between protecting individual animals and protecting populations or ecosystems as inevitable. It didn’t dismiss extinction, it asked, instead, whether conservation had accepted harm too quickly, and whether populations and ecosystems could be protected without treating the individuals within them as disposable. Individuals matter. Remove them, and a population may remain numerically present but lacking in behavioral diversity, cultural knowledge and the capacity to adapt. The loss of the individual and the weakening of the whole go hand in hand. GOSIA BRYJA: For a long time, conservation and animal welfare were […]
Making a Killing: How the ‘pest’ control industry profits from lack of regulation
Making a Killing: How the ‘pest’ control industry profits from lack of regulation
There’s big money in poisons. It’s a little-known fact that the global ‘pest’ control market is valued at more than $25 billion. As it is, the go-to solution is to reach for the poison, regardless of the pain and suffering that rodenticides cause to target and non-target wildlife alike. The current routine used is a cruel, agonising death for the animal targeted, and potentially for other animals too – including foxes, badgers, otters, owls and other birds of prey – who either consume poisons directly or eat creatures who have eaten the baits. As animal rights advocates, we urgently need to […]
