Resurgence & Ecologist magazine Unexpected Pollinators
In this issue we celebrate pollinators – and not just the ones you would expect us to include. Bees and butterflies, of course, but slugs and snails and mice and bats and lizards and beetles are important pollinators too. As are wind and water.
We extend the idea of ‘Unexpected Pollinators’ to introduce people who are working to encourage others to champion the natural world and recognise what we stand to lose if we don’t all work to protect our planet.
You will meet Dax Dasilva, a Canadian Tech entrepreneur working with Jane Goodall to help protect Indigenous wisdom in the Amazon, and influencer Lydia Millen, who uses her high fashion platform to share her love of gardening and bees. Both unexpected pollinators and, perhaps, equally unexpected champions of the natural world.
In our Slow Read, psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist explains why we must strive to be worthy of trust – the single quality that he believes will steer us out of the mega-crises we face together, and in our Art & Culture section, writer Lucy Shrimpton visits Fenix, the new museum of human migration in Rotterdam.
Our special theme is a celebration of many facets of pollination – from Anisha Jaya Minocha’s reflection on her experience of bhramari (yoga’s calming bee breath) to an artist’s statement from Freddie Yauner who paints with pollen to highlight the plight of pollinators.
We offer a though-provoking issue with something for everyone and plenty to get you thinking about the way you too can be a pollinator and champion of right thinking and thus, of the natural world.
Highlights
- We must strive to be worthy of trust: Iain McGilchrist
- Nature’s Big Tech Champion: Susan Clark interviews Dax Dasilva
- Introducing the Beetle Lady: Katie Dancey-Downs interviews M.G. Leonard
- Pollinators and scent: Simon Constantine
- Nerves of steel: J. P. O’Malley
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Welcome
Unsung heroes • Susan Clark
Bats, mice, lizards, slugs, snails, fish, beetles, spiders, frogs, crabs, ants, moths, woodlice, tortoises, snakes, earwigs, wind, water and… humans
Regulars
Noticeboard
Highlighting stories for change
Ecologist
Queering conservation • Kara Moses
On the downsides of heteronormativity
The return of the red kite • Roman Goergen
Reporting on a conservation success story
Connected Life
Nature's Big Tech Champion • Susan Clark
An interview with entrepreneur and environmentalist Dax Dasilva
Rooted innovation • Martha Dillon
Meeting changemaker Joycelyn Longdon
It all starts with seeds • Adam Alexander
A short extract from The Accidental Seed Heroes
Feature Articles
We must strive to be worthy of trust • Iain McGilchrist
Making the case for the right-brain quality that could help us out of the 'metacrisis' together
Unexpected pollinators
Bees: a guide for the curious • Susan Clark
Introducing a new Nature series of books
Introducing… the Beetle Lady • Katie Dancey-Downs
Katie Dancey-Downs interviews M.G. Leonard
In the breath of a bee • Anisha Jaya Minocha
A personal reflection
Pollinators and scent • Simon Constantine
Investigating the role of scent in communication
Wisdom and Wellbeing
Acknowledging abundance • Lydia Millen
Summer is all about trust in the bounty of the natural world
Defining and renovating our forests • Lauren E Oakes
Exploring the history of our woodlands
Tuning in to the Earth • Padma Aon Prakasha
On the power of Earth's frequency
Wild enchantments • Nathaniel Hughes
Remembering how a plant first 'pollinated' him
Art and Culture
Stories of human movement • Lucy Shrimpton
Reflecting on a visit to Fenix, Rotterdam's new museum of migration
How language shapes our relationship with the natural world • Rachel Marsh & Briony Hughes
Sharing the work of poet Isabel Galleymore
Nerves of steel • J P O'Malley
Meeting the documentarians behind a film about one of Europe's most polluted cities
Art for your oceans • Laura Culpan & Susie Allen
The curators of Artwise explain their latest project with WWF
Reviews
Nature writing that allows Nature to speak • Adam Weymouth
Review of Is A River Alive?
Learning from how Nature shares harvests • Holly Rose
Review of The Serviceberry: An Economy of Gifts and Abundance
Choosing stewardship of our food system • Rashi Goel
Review of The Nature of Nature: The Metabolic Disorder of Climate Change
It’s a question of equity and better balance • Mark Cocker
Review of Just Earth: How a Fairer World Will Save the Planet
Where should we direct our action? • Russell Warfield
Review of Climate Radicals: Why Our Environmental Politics Isn’t Working
The case for coexistence • Tiffany Francis-Baker
Review of The Wolf Within
Reimagining a flourishing future • Edward Davey
Review of Transformative Adaptation: Another World Is Still Just Possible
