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View a Sample PDF Issue RECONNECTING WITH THE LIVING PLANET Issue 325 | £5.95 March/April 2021 Watershed moment DRINKABLE RIVERS • NONVIOLENT HEROES • WRITING HOME We’ve saved you a perch … and a magazine Let us know if you’d like us to reserve your next copy of Resurgence & Ecologist by taking out a membership to The Resurgence Trust. We’ll send you six issues a year, direct to your door, plus you’ll receive access to the full 50+ year online archive. Special offer: £5 off (use code Z18) New print members only Buy a whole year for just £25 (UK, inc. delivery) Call us on 01208 841824 (Mon–Thu) Join online at www.resurgence.org/membership Illustration by Axel Scheffler Join the conversation Videos: vimeo.com/resurgencetrust Podcast: resurgence.podiant.co Online group: tinyurl.com/resurgencegroup Twitter: @Resurgence_mag @the_ecologist WELCOME Changing course ivers have shaped landscapes over millennia, arteries of fresh water that have carved paths through rock and soil from source to sea. As they bring Rlife, so any kind of disruption like droughts or floods can take it away. As I write this, storms have triggered flooding across England, with rivers bursting their banks, damaging homes and infrastructure. It’s just a taste of what is to come, as research shows climate change can increase the probability of heavy rains by 40%. Rivers have provided humanity with a good place to set up home for thousands of years. It is now, as we micromanage the landscape like never before, that a swollen waterway threatens the most disruption. In the words of Wendell Berry: “Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and bide its time, like a caged animal alert for the slightest opening.” There are other human impacts too: pollution and reduced space for other living things that can help keep rivers healthy. As our relationship with Nature frays, the threads connecting us become all the more precious, and people across the world are fighting to protect the rivers they love – and winning. In this issue of Resurgence & Ecologist we meet some of the people doing just that. Vandana K investigates grassroots activism in India, and Nicola Cutcher celebrates a recent victory by citizen scientists in Ilkley, England. Li An Phoa walks along the river Meuse, and Derek Gow brings beavers back to Britain. With many of us still living in isolation under the dark cloud of Covid-19, Julian Abel explains why being compassionate is good for us, and Russell Warfield speaks to Rutger Bregman about his book Humankind. In Arts, Louisa Adjoa Parker interviews poet and nurse Romalyn Ante about migration, and how the care industry has shaped her life and that of her family in the Philippines. We hope these stories will, like spring buds and vaccines, help light up the darkness. In another, more sombre, celebration of life, we are also very sad to share news of the death of Peter Abbs, whose wisdom and talent have helped nourish Resurgence over the last 40 years. We miss him. Marianne Brown Editor of Resurgence & Ecologist Resurgence & Ecologist is published by The Resurgence Trust, an educational charity. See inside back cover and our website www.resurgence.org for more information. Views expressed in these pages may not necessarily reflect those of the Trust. Issue 325 Resurgence & Ecologist 1 CONTENTS Watershed moment Issue 325 March/April 2021 Cover image: A single flower / ray of hope by Zena Holloway zenaholloway.com 1 WELCOME UNDERCURRENTS: RIVERS 28 STREAM OF LIFE FRONTLINE Monika Vaicenavičienėintroduces our themed section 4 NEWS 30 WHOLESOME FLOW Vandana K investigates action to save ECOLOGIST India’s waterways 32 REWILDING BRITAIN’S WATERWAYS 10 FITTING THE BILL Marianne Brown meets ‘beaver man’ Derek Gow Vicki Hird shares the latest on the post-Brexit 34 UNDERSTANDING THE CURRENT landscape Lisa Schneidau listens to the lessons of old tales 12 THE END OF NEOLIBERALISM 37 THE SOURCE OF LIFE Russell Warfield interviews historian Rutger Bregman Li An Phoa walks 900km for drinkable rivers 16 SURVIVAL OF THE KINDEST 38 THE RIGHT TO BATHE Julian Abel explains why we should be more Nicola Cutcher reports on a recent victory of compassionate citizen science 18 GROWING TOGETHER Being a carer led Ian Solomon-Kawall to help others WISDOM & WELLBEING 20 THE ROAD AHEAD Transport must be at the heart of a low-carbon future, 40 BONDING AND BELONGING writes Helen Beynon Satish Kumar explores the landscape of love 22 POLES APART 44 DIY PUB GRUB Anna Turns speaks to climate educator Aimee Ryan serves up some lockdown comfort food Szymon Malinowski 46 WAKE-UP CALL Endangered birdsong inspires Cosmo Sheldrake KEYNOTES 48 THE WORLD OF PAVEMENT WEEDS Amanda Tuke goes for a plant walk in London 24 REAL HEROES Research for a novel led Rivera Sun to become an activist 2 Resurgence & Ecologist March/April 2021 Magazine Editorial STAY CONNECTED WITH RESURGENCE Marianne Brown [email protected] Helen Banks Nicole Channon Rachel Marsh INFORMED BY NATURE. Emily Martin Emma Randall Russell Warfield www.resurgence.org www.resurgenceevents.org www.theecologist.org The Ecologist Brendan Montague @Resurgence_mag Resurgencetrust @resurgencetrust [email protected] @the_ecologist TheEcologist The Resurgence Trust Editor Emeritus Satish Kumar PA to Satish Kumar Elaine Green ARTS 64 SEEDS OF RESILIENCE Kate Blincoe reviews A Small Farm Trust Manager Angie Burke 50 SIREN CALL Future: Making the Case for a Society David Buckland writes on the power of Built Around Local Economies, Self- Finance Manager performance poetry Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Mark Gough Shared Earth by Chris Smaje Resurgence Centre 53 WRITING HOME Events Manager Louisa Adjoa Parker speaks to poet 65 STALLING FOR PROFIT Amy Lythgoe-Jones and nurse Romalyn Ante Gwen Buck reviews the podcast How They Made Us Doubt Everything, Fundraising Manager 56 LIGHTS, CAMERA, CREATIVE ACTION Sharon Garfinkel produced by BBC Radio 4 Huw Wahl writes on the growing genre +44 (0)7435 781842 of ecological film-making [email protected] 66 SHOP Outreach Officer Georgie Gilmore REVIEWS 68 LETTERS [email protected] 70 RESURGENCE COMMUNITY 58 BRAVE NEW FUTURE Membership Tiffany Francis-Baker reviews The 71 ADVERTISEMENTS & Classified Advertising Reindeer Chronicles: And Other Inspiring Jeanette Gill Mandy Kessell Stories of Working with Nature to Heal +44 (0)1208 841824 the Earth by Judith D. Schwartz and [email protected] Islands of Abandonment: Life in the 24 Post-human Landscape by Cal Flyn Office Assistant Jenny Routley 60 A QUESTION OF POWER +44 (0)1237 441293 Grace Blakely reviews Competition Is [email protected] Killing Us: How Big Business Is Harming Our Society and Planet – and What To Advertising Sales Dan Raymond-Barker Do About It by Michelle Meagher +44 (0)7776 361671 61 TAKING ON AN EMPIRE [email protected] Georgina Quach reviews The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Resurgence & Ecologist is published by Economy edited by Jake Alimahomed- The Resurgence Trust, Wilson and Ellen Reese a registered educational charity (no. 1120414) 62 H IS FOR HUMANITY Registered office: Adam Weymouth reviews Vesper The Resurgence Centre, Flights by Helen MacDonald Fore Street, Hartland, Bideford, Devon 63 MAGIC FOR STRANGE TIMES EX39 6AB, UK Jini Reddy reviews A Spell in the Wild: +44 (0)1237 441293 A Year (and Six Centuries) of Magic by www.resurgence.org Alice Tarbuck Issue 325 Resurgence & Ecologist 3 FRONTLINE Protection for ocean giants in Mozambique Melissa Hobson reports on the impact of a new fishing law fter years of lobbying, a new commercial fishing law sures. A 2017 study illustrated the urgent need for protec- Awill offer protection in Mozambique for several threat- tion, showing that populations of manta and shortfin devil ened species, including manta and mobula rays and whale rays in southern Mozambique had declined by over 90%. sharks. For the Marine Megafauna Foundation (MMF) this Simon Pierce, a co-founder of MMF, said: “Whale sharks is a huge step in the right direction. were first listed as globally endangered in 2016 and giant The legislation, which came into effect on 8 January this mantas followed last year. This is a national response to year, also mandates turtle excluder devices on industrial step up protection for them and their habitats, which will and semi-industrial nets. Fishers must land the full body also benefit the other threatened species living along the of any shark caught with fins attached, and bycatch must Mozambican coast.” be thrown back unless prior written permission has been Protection in Mozambican waters will have a wider impact given to use it for research. The harvesting of live coral and for these highly mobile marine species, according to Pierce: destructive fishing practices on coral, seagrass and man- “We’ve tracked ‘Mozambican’ whale sharks swimming to groves have been banned. Madagascar, South Africa and Tanzania. It’s important now Getting to this point has taken years of lobbying and to synchronise regional protection efforts so we can create research, in particular MMF’s studies on the Mozambican the equivalent of marine Serengetis for these ocean giants.” coastline’s importance for these ocean giants, and the Healthy populations of megafauna are vital for a balanced threats posed by human activity, primarily fishing pres- ocean ecosystem. Protections for megafauna also benefit 4 Resurgence & Ecologist March/April 2021 Spiny starfish on a a seagrass bed in West Wales © Andrew Pearson / Alamy Stock Photo Ocean action plan would boost biodiversity and economy: report n ocean recovery action plan could not only help miti- Agate the climate crisis and rebuild biodiversity, but also deliver the economy with an additional £50 billion by 2050 and help create 100,000 new jobs, according to a new report published by WWF and Sky Ocean Rescue.
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