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Meet the Anti-Fracking NanasWhy are older women dedicating their retirement to fighting frackers? In this long-form feature for The Conversationalist, I tell the stories of three anti-fracking nanas and their networks, from activist knitting to lock-ons to generations-long Indigenous resistance.
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Did the water in Dorset’s Christchurch Harbour poison me and my family?After taking a dip in our local harbour, I discovered that it contained dangerous levels of E coli, and other locals had been hospitalised. The Christchurch story serves as a microcosm of the toxic problem surfacing all across the UK. For the Independent.
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The vegan activists exposing slaughterhouse secretsAs animals arrive at slaughterhouses, Save Movement activists across the world are bearing witness. I went to Canada to co-produce a documentary and write a feature about Toronto Pig Save, where the global Save Movement first began. There, I heard about the animal suffering inside some of the slaughterhouses, and a petition to have one Toronto slaughterhouse closed down.
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Wildlife Photographer of the Year: The Southern Right Whales' Song of HopeIn the subantarctic Auckland Islands, Wildlife Photographer of the Year winner Richard Robinson captures a bright new future for the whales almost hunted to extinction. For the Natural History Museum.
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Indigenous Climate ActionAcross the world, Indigenous communities are dedicating themselves to protecting the land, ecosystems, and traditional cultures with thousands of years of history. In Canada, Indigenous Climate Action (ICA) is supporting some of those communities, and raising Indigenous voices in a debate that is now critical. I spent a week in Canada meeting some of the communities ICA supports. For Lush Times and The Ecologist.
Indigenous Climate Action took me to meet the Tiny House Warriors, who are building 10 tiny houses to mount a protest against a huge pipeline expansion. For Lush Times and The Ecologist.
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The Timbaktu CollectiveIn a drought-prone area in Andhra Pradesh, Southern India, the Timbaktu Collective is regenerating the land, bringing back wildlife, and restructuring the social systems for the people living and working in the area. I went to to stay with the group, but wasn't expecting to find a huge new factory being built. For Lush Times.
I knew the regenerated landscape would be impressive, but what surprised me was an inspiring example of social regeneration in the form of women's cooperatives. For Lush Times.
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Jackson Bigasaki, caretaker at a Karambi permaculture garden
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Growing Self-Sufficiency in UgandaAfter I visited the Karambi Group of People with Disabilities in Uganda, I got back in touch to find out how their permaculture work was faring during the Covid-19 pandemic. Originally printed in Resurgence magazine in June 2020, this is one of a selection of articles made available online during lockdown.
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Tackling ocean plastic pollution is in the hands of the consumerThe devastating impact of plastic pollution on our oceans has now surfaced, but the good news is that organisations working to protect the sea are showing very clearly how the power to tackle and maybe even reverse the problem lies in the hands of consumers and the choices we all make. For Lush Times.
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Why recycling alone will not clean up the planet’s plastic pollution problemPlastic is making a permanent (and unwelcome) home on Planet Earth, and both scientists and campaigners are calling for the ‘wonder material’ to be confined to a closed-loop system, and for ‘disposable’ plastic to become a thing of the past. For Lush Times.
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