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This blog by Cameron Boyle, originally published a a Snapshot in Environment and History 29.2, May 2023) addresses connections between the local extinction of kākā, a native parrot, and the colonial erasure of related indigenous Māori place names and meanings, in Wellington, New Zealand’s capital city. The loss of kākā in the early twentieth century … More WHEN THE PARROT RETURNS TO ITS PERCH: CONTESTATION OF PLACE AND NATURE IN WELLINGTON, AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND

This blog republishes the ‘Snapshot’ article by Henry Jacobs that first appeared in Environment and History 29.2 (May 2023) addressing the history of the Panama Canal Zone Summit Gardens in the context of concerns about extractivism and exploitation, depletion and species extinction. James Edgar ( J.E.) Higgins ‘devoted his entire life to tropical agriculture’ and in service … More SCARCITY AT SUMMIT: THE ARC OF ENVIRONMENTAL ATTITUDES AT A PANAMANIAN BOTANICAL GARDEN

This blog by Emily O’Gorman reflecting on more-than-human histories was originally published as the ICEHO pages in Global Environment 16.2 (June 2023). Emily is the author of Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-than-Human-Histories of Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin (University of Washington Press, 2020), joint winner of the inaugural Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Environmental History Network … More WHAT’S IN A NAME? MORE-THAN-HUMAN APPROACHES AND ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY

 This blog reproduces the concluding commentary written by Maryam Niamir-Fuller, Co-Chair of the International Support Group for the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists 2026, to the recent Special Issue of Nomadic Peoples entitled ‘Sedentist Biases in Law, Policy and Practic’, edited by Greta Semplici and Cory Rodgers. The whole issue (and all 2023 content) … More SEDENTIST BIASES IN LAW, POLICY AND PRACTICE: CONCLUDING COMMENTARY

This edited volume by Viktor Pál, Tuomas Räsänen and Mikko Saikku is now available online and Open Access. It will be published in print on 15 October – and can be purchased from our online bookstore. The editors’ introduction to the volume is reproduced here to give readers a flavour of this ground-breaking collection. Finland … More Green Development or Greenwashing: Environmental Histories of Finland

At the ESEH Conference in Bern last month, The White Horse Press maintained our tradition of awarding the Poster Prize. A judging committee comprising Sarah Johnson (of WHP), Marianna Dudley (ESEH Vice-President), Sebastian Depretto (University of Bern) and Anastasia Fedotova (ESEH regional representative for Russia) examined a dozen posters and second place was awarded to the beautiful … More White Horse Press / ESEH Poster Prize: Second Prize Winner

At the ESEH Conference in Bern this month, The White Horse Press was delighted, as ever, to award the Poster Prize. A judging committee comprising Sarah Johnson (of WHP), Marianna Dudley (ESEH Vice-President), Sebastian Depretto (University of Bern) and Anastasia Fedotova (ESEH regional representative for Russia) examined a dozen posters and concluded that Bob Pierik … More ESEH / White Horse Press Poster Prize 2023: First Prize Winner

In today’s blog, John C. Ryan, editor of Plant Perspectives, ruminates on the power, intelligence and empathy of plants – and invites submissions to The White Horse Press’s new interdisciplinary plant humanities journal. The exciting identification of Asia’s tallest tree, a 102-metre cypress in Tibet’s Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, calls attention to how we monumentalise … More On the Intelligent Presence of Plants: The ‘Bright Thought Submerged’

In today’s blog, Isis Brook, Deputy Editor of Plant Perspectives, reports on a very special plant humanities conference held in Palermo in May. Plant Perspectives is now open for submissions – this is your invitation to pass through the ‘portal to the plant realm’! How wonderful to have a conference and summer school on philosophy … More Vegetal Turn Conference: Palermo, May 2023