Are you looking for significant signs of hopefor the future, in our collective living-insympathy with the environment? If so, pleaselet me draw your attention to Farmer ManagedNatural Regeneration (FMNR), and specificallythe story of it as told by Tony Rinaudo in hisbook, The Forest Underground.Tony Rinaudo may be regarded as the …
I am currently in the Solomon Islands, where I have been spending a fortnight visiting the Anglican Church of Melanesia on behalf of my own Diocese of Lichfield and with the support of Melanesian Mission UK (MMUK). I have been visiting a whole range of places and communities, learning about …
Robert MacFarlane has worked as a Fellow at Emmanuel College University of Cambridge for many years, but in a parallel life has become well known as a champion of English nature writing and also a practitioner in this field, writing accounts of journeys on foot through the countryside and collaborating …
As we journey through the season of Lent, we enter a period of lamentation. Globally, we are experiencing more frequent and severe climate-related disasters, such as floods, droughts and storms, which are disproportionately impacting those at the margins of society. A UN Refugee Agency reports climate change is a growing …
During lockdown a beautiful documentary film was released which I know many of us loved called ‘My Octopus Teacher’. In this documentary, naturalist and filmmaker Craig Foster spent nearly a year diving in a kelp forest off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa. Over this year he closely followed …
Canon Brian Wakelin reflects on a trip to visit Muhabura diocese in Uganda and issues of environmental care, sustainability and climate change. The Setting The Ugandan Diocese of Muhabura borders Rwanda and DR Congo. It is based in Kisoro – perhaps best known as a base to view mountain gorillas …
