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Rewilding coral reefs Eileen Crist writes: “Encountering a wild animal in its natural habitat is a great privilege as it brings us into contact with the quality of awareness the animal exudes. The etymology of ani…

🪸 🐠 🪼 New to #RewildingSuccesses, Expressions is a space for writers to explore what #rewilding means to them. Eileen has written the first piece, reflecting on #coralreefs:

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"Coral reefs deserve the generosity and wisdom of No Take and No Entry."

Sámi-led healing of a salmon river [Northern Europe] Tero Mustonen writes: “Since its inclusion in the Convention on Biological Diversity (§8(j)), Traditional Knowledge has increasingly developed influence in its own right. This influence is ev…

🐟 🏞️ In Skolt #Sámi #Finland, Sámi-led efforts are restoring the #Näätämö River, blending Indigenous #TraditionalKnowledge and science to rebuild salmon habitat.

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#SnowchangeCooperative @rewilding.org #Rewilding #Indigenous #RewildingHope

Feral Lines - Rewilding Fiction YouTube video by The Ecological Citizen

🐺 Feral Lines, a collection of four rewilding-themed tales, has been narrated for The Ecological Citizen’s YouTube channel.

Watch here:
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#EcoFiction #RewildingStories #EcoLit

🌱 🌍 Defenders of the #Earth, Vol 9 No 1 is live!

Access it here: ecologicalcitizen.net/issue.php?i=...

#ColonialPerception #JaneGoodall #Indigeneity #ConservationPolitics #PhenomenologyOfNature #IndigenousLandManagement #AnimalEthics #AnimalNarratives #LiminalEcology #EcoCulturalCriticism

🌍 We've launched the Global Map of Stories on our #RewildingSuccesses microsite! This interactive 3D model visualises a range of positive #rewilding stories from all corners of the #Earth.

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🐄 For Crist, #FactoryFarming represents a moral collapse. She rejects the myth of an 'ancient contract' and calls for abolishing industrial #animal #agriculture in favour of a primordial covenant of care, freedom, and responsibility towards farm animals.

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📗 We've compiled an #ecocentric book list. Each category explores a different way of being and acting in the world. 🌍

This is a living selection of key works, not a definitive canon, and we may expand or refine it in future.

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#Nature #Books #Literature

🏙️ We're open to submissions for Vol 9 No 2. This will be a semi-themed issue concerning #Ecocentrism in the #BuiltEnvironment. 🌳

We are particularly keen to be sent pieces with practical messages offering a 'way forward'.

Further information:
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👣 First pieces from 9.1 — focusing on #indigeneity — are out. Exploring #badgers, #meat ethics, #raptors, the bonds between humans, nonhumans, & place, plus #conservation politics, these essays highlight #ecocentric ways of being. Incl. #JaneGoodall tribute. 🐾

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Reviving Portugal’s vultures [Southern Europe] Milene Matos writes: “The mighty cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus) is a true giant of the skies. It is the largest Old World vulture and one of the heaviest birds of prey in the world, wi…

🦅 After decades of decline, Portugal’s cinereous #vultures are returning. Breeding pairs have more than doubled since 2022 thanks to the LIFE Aegypius Return project.

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🐒 Today, we mark the passing of #JaneGoodall — not just an eminent primatologist, but a voice for all life. As an early signatory to the Statement of Ecocentrism, she stood for nature’s intrinsic value, beyond its use to humans. 💚

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We're extending the deadline for Feral Lines submissions to the 14th October (originally 30th Sep)!

Thanks to those who've already submitted their stories.

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Preservation - An Ecocentric Story YouTube video by The Ecological Citizen

🗣️ NEW TO THE ECOLOGICAL CITIZEN YOUTUBE CHANNEL: Ecocentric Stories

🧪 Preservation by Joe Gray 👩‍🔬
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#EcologicalLiterature #SpeculativeFiction #Ecology #Conservation #Biodiversity #Extinction

Stories from the Field: an interview with May and Yasmine (Global Rewilding Alliance) We talk with May Scott and Yasmine Grignard from the Global Rewilding Alliance.

🌍 "Rewilding is as much about people as it is about nature and wildlife." 🫂

#RewildingSuccesses has published its second interview!
#StoriesFromTheField #Rewilding #RewildingHope

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Today there was a good reminder on LinkedIn of @ecologicalcitizen.bsky.social mission to promote econentrism www.ecologicalcitizen.net/pdfs/v01n1-0...

Rewilding a temperate rainforest [Northern Europe] Isabella Clarke writes: “‘We have nine different species of bat here,’ says Merlin Hanbury-Tenison as we walk through the wooded valley on his family farm in Cornwall. ‘Incl…

🌿 🌳 Cabilla farm, owned by the Hanbury-Tenison family, holds a rare #TemperateRainforest. Through careful restoration and help from wild nature, they’re nurturing this rare woodland. @rewildingbritain.org.uk @rewilding.org #rewilding #rewildinghope

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🐺 🏞️ The deadline for submissions to Feral Lines is approaching fast!

We haven’t received as many submissions as we hoped yet, but there’s still time to help us bring TEC's first fiction collection to life. #Ecofiction #Ecolit #FlashFiction #Rewilding

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Helping Catalonia’s only tortoise [Southern Europe] Joe Gray writes: “Northern Spain is home to a number of species of animal whose presence might, to the uninformed, come as something of a surprise. Here, across the upper band of the Iberian …

🐢 After decades of effort, Hermann’s #tortoises are returning to #Catalonia — proof that with patience, even long-lost species can return. #HermannsTortoise @rewilding.org #Rewilding #RewildingHope #GenerationRestoration
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🌍 ⚖️ Defenders of #Earth, Vol 8 No 2 is live!

This issue opens with a moving tribute to co-founder Ian Whyte.

Access it here: ecologicalcitizen.net/issue.php?i=...

#DoLeastHarm #EcologicalTax #Rewilding #CompassionateConservation #EcoLit #EcologicalAttention #BarredOwls #Solarpunk #Sustainability

Regarding misanthropy Is human nature destructive? Or have human beings indoctrinated themselves into a belief system that is destructive? The quandary is worth pursuing even if it yields no conclusive answer.

🙏 🌎 Critiquing #humansupremacy isn’t #misanthropy.

Eileen's new #EarthTongues essay argues that a god-complex — casting humans as rulers over life — drives ecological ruin through profanation and nihilation. #TrueHumanity begins by renouncing dominion.

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Today marks #WorldPopulationDay, a day that reminds us of the urgent need to scale back the devastating impact of our growing numbers on the planet.

We are committed to reclaiming the population discussion as central to feminism, human rights, animal protection, and ecology.

We believe that #AI is energy-intensive, ecologically destructive, anthropocentric in purpose, represents a false solution to ecological problems, and causes alienation in human-nature relationships.

That's why we're now using #NotbyAI at #EarthTongues.

Not by AI website: notbyai.fyi

🌱 Population Balance (@popnbalance.bsky.social) is one of the few voices saying it plainly: a smaller human footprint is the only path to lasting ecological balance. #Pronatalism #EcologicalJustice #Childfree

Thank you for hosting Joe's story. Hear it below:

CUHRE tackles low ecoliteracy with 5 bold projects:

-School gardens as climate classrooms
-Rewilding & biodiversity debates
-Roleplay with cli-fi to imagine futures
-Coastal literature as nature insight
-Tools to embed sustainability in education

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🌱 📗 🤝 We’re thrilled to partner with the Elite Centre for Understanding Human Relationships with the Environment (CUHRE). Their goal is to explore how education shapes citizens who are able to imagine futures and create change rather than simply knowing facts.

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🦉 William Lynn condemns the culling of 500k #BarredOwls to 'save' #SpottedOwls as a moral atrocity. The plan is unscientific, ethically bankrupt, and fails to address root causes like #HabitatLoss and #Climate change.

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Thanks for your support, Ellen. For the Earth!

🐺 Feral Lines — a flash fiction call from The Ecological Citizen — seeks *plot-driven* stories of nature’s resurgence, human retreat, and Earth unchained.

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🖋️ <500 words
📅 Due: 30 Sept 2025

#EcologicalFiction #Rewilding #EarthStories #FlashFiction

We've updated our topics list. Items in bold italics are those for which we are, at present, especially keen to receive submissions, but all topics mentioned are of great importance to us as a publication. #Nature #NaturalHistory #PracticalEcocentrism

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Playing with marbles – the inversion of nature | The Global Rewilding Alliance It is a mild spring day in England, and I am on a passenger train headed for central London. I have a couple of unremarkable errands to run, and I am in no great hurry. In my carriage, I overhear a yo...

🌍 The world [...] is a tightly sealed container packed with innumerable spherical objects of almost-infinite variety – or, put more simply, a huge jar of marbles. And the place of humans? Just one of the orbs.

- Joe Gray

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#Rewilding #WorldRewilded