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A prescription for our sick planet

September 16, 2020November 11, 2021 / mike shanahan / 1 Comment
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A rare encounter between man and beast

February 23, 2012February 24, 2012 / mike shanahan / 2 Comments

What happened when a cop met a deer on a crowded street in New York City? Click on the image to find out (you’ll need sound on) then come back here and let me know what you think of the message and how it has been communicated.

(Hat tip to Suzanne Fisher for finding this)

Postcard from Qatar: A rainbow of rabbits and soft fluffy chicks

August 18, 2011April 21, 2015 / mike shanahan / 3 Comments

We don’t need to paint our way to paradise — it is outside, waiting to be found or forgotten. Continue reading →

Ask not what you can do for nature… Ask what nature can do for you

July 19, 2011July 19, 2011 / mike shanahan / 7 Comments

In 1997 a British barrister uttered three words that left my sister and me speechless and gave us a glimpse of the future. Continue reading →

If we keep on biting the hand that feeds us, it will slap us in the face

October 18, 2010February 10, 2012 / mike shanahan / Leave a comment

Why is the UN’s big biodiversity meeting in Japan so important? Because the environment and human wellbeing are two sides of the same coin. Continue reading →

Is it time to kill off ‘biodiversity’?

September 28, 2010September 28, 2010 / mike shanahan / 19 Comments

Data from Google, graffiti on Wikipedia and a phone call with my Dad all suggest that biodiversity is not the best term to use to raise public awareness of a growing threat to our wellbeing. Continue reading →

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I am the author of 'Ladders To Heaven: How fig trees shaped our history, fed our imaginations and can enrich our future' (Unbound, 2016). My book was published in the US and Canada as 'Gods, Wasps, and Stranglers: The Secret History and Redemptive Future of Fig Trees' (Chelsea Green, 2016).
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