Creatures of Story and Song Lee Raye, London: Reaktion, 2026, 312pps., hb., £16.95 In 2023, the State of Nature Report reported that Britain is one of the world’s most nature-depleted countries – scarcely surprising to anyone who knows the ever-emptier countryside, indeed predictable for the small island that birthed the Industrial Revolution. Dr. Raye consults… Continue reading
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Greens, reds and blues, and the extinction of distinction
GREENS, REDS, BLUES AND THE EXTINCTION OF DISTINCTION Ka ngaro I te ngaro a te Moa (“We are lost as the moa is lost”) Maori lament There he kneels, the young, proud, ignorant farmer – posing smiling with his dog and gun, and the unusual-looking predator he has just killed propped up against the fence…. Continue reading