In this blog, Chris Halsted contextualises his new article in Environment and History(online first December 2025), ‘Germany’s Feral Rheas: Colonialism, Rewilding, and Deep History in the Schaalsee Biosphere Reserve’, an article he admits it made no sense for him to start writing but which became a ‘letter to the sublime and beautiful weirdness of the … More Germany’s Feral Rheas: Colonialism, Rewilding, and Deep History in the Schaalsee Biosphere Reserve