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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.

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  • Stop illegal poisoning of our wildlife : a joint campaign by government and other concerned organisations / prepared by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for the agriculture departments, with the Department of the Environment and the Nature Conservancy Council, as part of the Campaign against the illegal poisoning of wildlife.
  • Stop illegal poisoning of our wildlife : a joint campaign by government and other concerned organisations / prepared by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for the agriculture departments, with the Department of the Environment and the Nature Conservancy Council, as part of the Campaign against the illegal poisoning of wildlife.
  • Head of an extraordinary man (according to Lavater). Drawing, c. 1793.
  • 1.83 resources : population / produced by the Education Department of the World Wildlife Fund in collaboration with the International Planned Parenthood Federation and with the assistance of Population Concern.
  • 1.83 resources : population / produced by the Education Department of the World Wildlife Fund in collaboration with the International Planned Parenthood Federation and with the assistance of Population Concern.
  • 1.83 resources : population / produced by the Education Department of the World Wildlife Fund in collaboration with the International Planned Parenthood Federation and with the assistance of Population Concern.
  • 1.83 resources : population / produced by the Education Department of the World Wildlife Fund in collaboration with the International Planned Parenthood Federation and with the assistance of Population Concern.
  • 1.83 resources : population / produced by the Education Department of the World Wildlife Fund in collaboration with the International Planned Parenthood Federation and with the assistance of Population Concern.
  • 1.83 resources : population / produced by the Education Department of the World Wildlife Fund in collaboration with the International Planned Parenthood Federation and with the assistance of Population Concern.
  • The back of an orange hobbyhorse with purple hair tied with a bow on its tail representing an advertisement for Ôvegylet alapítvány, a Foundation to promote safer sex and AIDS in Hungary. Colour lithograph by Sebastian Hänel for DMB&B.
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