animal and plants, land protection, urban green space

National Butterfly Center smeared by Pizzagate-style disinfo campaign closing ‘for the immediate future’

Center Director Marianna Treviño-Wright says ‘psyops’ harassment and a recent violent confrontation preceded decision to close.

By Greg Harman

/ 2 Feb 2022

National Butterfly Center smeared by Pizzagate-style disinfo campaign closing ‘for the immediate future’

Plans to Fell Brackenridge Trees Rooted in City’s War on Birds

Plans to take down more than 100 trees at Brackenridge Park have been cast as being about historic structures. For Parks, it’s about something higher.

By Greg Harman

/ 31 Jan 2022

Why I’m Making ‘The Bee Maker’ Available Free to Teachers

Ancient Greece, Vietnamese Buddhism, the biodiversity collapse, and Texas students being failed by the system helped inspire ‘The Bee Maker.’

By Greg Harman

/ 19 Jan 2022

We Can Live with Jaguars Again

More than a century after being driven from their historical territories from Texas to California, jaguars are returning to the United States. More than 25 years of experience in South and Central America illustrate how we can share the land with them successfully.

By Greg Harman

/ 25 Nov 2021

San Antonio Snoozing on ‘Lights Out’ Bird Campaign

Bird populations are crashing. City lights are a major culprit. But ‘Bird City Certified’ San Antonio isn’t dimming its downtown—it’s turning on the River Walk’s holiday lights two weeks early.

By Greg Harman

/ 11 Nov 2021

Honor All Life: Make Ecocide an International Crime

To stop the destruction of life on this planet, international criminal codes must expand beyond human-focused war crimes and genocide to include ecocide—recognizing non-human life has inherent

By Greg Harman

/ 18 Jul 2021

Growing Back Better: Planting for Pollinators

It’s been three months since Winter Storm Uri scorched South Texas, leaving stands of gray stalks where living trees once stood, collapsing walls of cacti and making puddles out of aloe. What better time to rethink what we are growing and why—particularly in this time of global biodiversity crisis.

By Greg Harman

/ 14 May 2021

To Help Stop the Age of Extinction, Give Nature a New Pronoun

For Indigenous scholar Robin Wall Kimmerer, Western grammatical norms of using “it” to refer to more-than-human relatives absolve settler cultures of moral responsibility for exploiting and dominating nature.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 19 Mar 2021

To Help Stop the Age of Extinction, Give Nature a New Pronoun

CULTIVATOR: News for January 24-January 30

What a time to start a weekly news wrap-up on the climate justice front. Stories of sweeping and rapid change have followed the incoming Biden Administration: reentering Paris and

By Greg Harman

/ 31 Jan 2021

CULTIVATOR: News for January 24-January 30

‘Terrified’ Pennsylvania General Energy Company Seeks to Destroy Local Rights of Nature Law

‘PGE throwing another lawsuit at us to try to bring us to heel, when our community has overwhelmingly said “hell no” multiple times.’ Jessica Corbett/Common Dreams In a clear

By Greg Harman

/ 15 Dec 2020

Threats to Indigenous Rights Dangerous for World Climate

Though critical to forest protection and reversing the climate crisis, indigenous rights are under attack and losing the fight in Bolivia against agricultural interests. Iokiñe Rodríguez and Mirna Inturias Earth’

By Greg Harman

/ 14 Feb 2020

Threats to Indigenous Rights Dangerous for World Climate

Another Monarch Defender Killed in Mexico Preserve

Monarch mural in Mexico. Image: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – Midwest Region. Raúl Hernández Romero received death threats before his body was found, family says. Julia Conley Human rights

By Greg Harman

/ 13 Feb 2020

Another Monarch Defender Killed in Mexico Preserve

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