Author: wbtd

Scholar and activist, working on anthropology, ecology and Buddhism. Long-term research in ethnobiology of Asian mountain communities and culturally signficant landscapes (e.g. sacred sites, protected areas) and anthropogenic bidoversity (biocultural diversity). Visiting fellow at University of Hamburg.

  • Stewardship, IPCC, and Indigenous Knowledge

    Stewardship? In the run-up to COP26, a high-profile team of climate and biodiversity specialists published an opinion piece in PNAS Rockström et al 2021 in which they called for ‘biosphere...

    By Org2Blog, WordPress

  • A certain kind of joke.

    I learned another joke from my son Hugh this morning, and it seems to me structurally similar to one of my favourite jokes. In this short post, I will give...

    By Anthropology, fieldwork

  • Checking out

    The amazing dog Hakunica took her last walk almost a year ago now, in May of 2020. She was stiff and sore, still joyful and absolutely up for her days,...

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  • Ethnic nationalism and extinction

    Ethnic nationalism leads to extinctions. This is a specific example of the destructive interactions between different processes within the ecological, economic and political crisis, and it is important because it...

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  • Nine headed birds

    There are some places you visit and remember, and there are other places that you get tangled up with. Wuhan is such a place for me. In 2015, I accepted...

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