“Wildlife Trafficking Can’t be Eradicated Just by ‘Nice, Nice’ Campaigns”

A conversation with direct action conservationist Suwanna Gauntlett

Photos courtesy Wildlife Alliance Suwanna Gauntlett, founder and CEO of Wildlife Alliance, likes to call herself “a direct action conservationist.” For over three decades now, Gauntlett has been working on the frontlines of efforts to protect endangered species and forests across the…
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by: Maureen Nandini Mitra – December 16, 2012

Sandra Steingraber

photo Dede Hatch Sandra Steingraber’s gentle voice belies her fierce outrage at the destruction of Earth and human life, a rage that has driven her to devote herself to combating the chemical contaminants that endanger our well-being. An ecologist, cancer survivor, poet, and mother, Steingraber has authored three critically acclaimed books that explore the environmental toxins that permeate our land, air, water, and food. In Living Downstream she documented her struggle with…
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by: Maureen Nandini Mitra – Winter 2013

Caputuring the Insane Beauty of Climate Change

Film Review: Chasing Ice (Documentary)

What does climate change look like? For decades now, scientists and environmentalists have been struggling to offer compelling, real world, visual examples of how global warming is altering our world. But what is considered rapid change in geological terms takes many years…
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by: Maureen Nandini Mitra – November 30, 2012

California’s Ban on Hounding of Bears Is A Response to State Official’s Idaho Cougar Hunt

State passes a slew of animal protection laws, two of which hold CA wildlife officials to higher standards

During the last week of September, right before the California State Assembly went into recess for the year, Governor Jerry Brown signed a flurry of bills that strengthen wildlife and animal protection in the state. Photo by Justin Shoemaker / courtesy USFWS…
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by: Maureen Nandini Mitra – October 10, 2012

‘You Cannot Look at Growing Food in the Way that You Look at Factories or Industries’

A conversation with documentary filmmaker Micha Peled

Every 30 minutes, a farmer in India kills himself. I’ve heard this statistic repeated often when talking about the devastating impact the use of genetically modified cotton has had on cotton farmers in India. (Over a quarter million Indian farmers have taken…
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by: Maureen Nandini Mitra – September 25, 2012

Love and Environment in Kashmir

Film Review: Valley of Saints (fiction)

Watch trailer. This is a film set in Kashmir. But it is not, as you’d expect, about the tortured politics and violence that has haunted this contested Himalayan valley region along the Indo-Pakistan border for decades. Though the socio-political reality of the…
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by: Maureen Nandini Mitra – September 14, 2012

PETA Forced to Hold Restricted Screening of Animal Abuse Film at the Kansas State Fair

Fracas over the film is yet another chapter in the fight between animal rights groups and Big Ag

At the annual Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson, KS, which kicked off on Labor Day and continues through this coming Sunday, there are all kinds of animals on show — whinnying horses, snorting pigs, mooing cows, clucking chicken, and even an “exotic…
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by: Maureen Nandini Mitra – September 12, 2012

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