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To conserve you must transform
15 April 2005 • 4,998 words • Research
Earlier today, in Leenco Lata’s absence, I read out on his behalf the paper he prepared for this conference. In doing so I took on the role of one who in the Dinka language—thong muonyjaang—would be called agamlong, or interpreter. … more»
Why ants don’t play
12 August 1990 • 1,271 words • Reportage & Criticism
It’s hard to love ants. Spiders and scorpions and cockroaches excepted, they are probably our least favourite insect. They give no honey; they do not… more»
Twilight on Everest
August 1997 • 913 words • Reportage & Criticism
Climbing Everest is tough work—but not as tough as all that. Nearly a thousand people have done it. You or I could do it—probably—if we… more»
The apes and us
1993 • 1,760 words • Reportage & Criticism
Since the end of the seventeenth century, when the first chimpanzee was shipped from Africa, apes have served to define the limits of the human… more»
Margaret Mee and the moonflower
1 August 1988 • 1,836 words • Reportage & Criticism
On the lower stretches of the Rio Negro, the huge brown river that joins the Amazon at Manaus, on the banks of its tree-lined creeks… more»
Kissing cousins
22 December 1991 • 996 words • Reportage & Criticism
Are you in the habit of kissing toads? Would you be willing to take part in a research project? Our topic is speciation, the relation of… more»
In the landscape of Eden
July 1998 • 2,597 words • Reportage & Criticism
In January I was driving through north-eastern Zaire—now the Democratic Republic of Congo—along the road from Goma, a town on the northern shore of Lake Kivu, to the headquarters of… more»
The man who bought a rainforest
1988 • 5,781 words • Reportage & Criticism
We are making our way along a remote fjord in southern Chile, against the wind and tide. There are three of us in the boat:… more»
Endgame in Africa
February 1999 • 4,015 words • Reportage & Criticism
The dilemmas of wildlife conservation are nowhere more acute or consequential than in Eastern and Central Africa, in the countries of the Great Rift Valley,… more»
Darwin and the social order
29 September 1991 • 1,662 words • Reportage & Criticism
Of revolutionary thinkers Charles Darwin was not only one of the very greatest, but surely also the most lovable. A dunce at school, too squeamish… more»
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