Stories
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In search of the ‘nature cure’
Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.
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Dying to be in nature
The modern funeral business is one that uses up precious resources and pollutes the planet. But you can make sure it’s only your memory that leaves its mark with these new and natural ways to leave this earth.
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How nature is defending itself in court
The idea that nature has legal rights is increasingly being taken seriously, but who gets to speak for it? Isabella Kaminski asks how the non-human can be represented within a human-made system.
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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections
A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources)-The World Conservation Union
Date: 1981-1991Reference: GC/142/17Part of: Nicholson, (Edward) Max, CB, CVO- Books
Procés-verbaux / septième Assemblee générale [de l'] Union internationale pour la conservation de la nature et de ses resources = Proceedings / seventh General Assembly [of the] International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. General Assembly 1960 : Warsaw, Poland)Date: 1960- Books
Global biodiversity : status of the earth's living resources : a report / compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre ; editor, Brian Groombridge ; in collaboration with the Natural History Museum, London ; and in association with IUCN-the World Conservation Union [and others].
Date: 1992- Journals
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Environmental conservation
Date: 1974-- Books
Coatings on photographs : materials, techniques, and conservation / edited by Constance McCabe.
Date: [2005], ©2005