Vol 1 No 1 through to the latest release, Vol 9 No 2, were produced between 2017 and 2026. Our 10th anniversary issue, which is in development and coincides with the journal’s migration to a new platform, will feature a primarily text-based layout.
Contents
- Landscape meditations: Native versus colonist
Editorial
Crist E - ‘Dr Jane’: A personal tribute to Jane Goodall
In memoriam
Leadbeater S - A reflection on indigeneity
Reflection
Curry P - American progress: US assault on conservation is turning back the clock
Opinion
Hiss T - The elusive feeling of the real
Long article
Mathews F - Wilderness, Indigenous land zones and regionality in North American forests
Long article
Faison EK, Cachat-Schilling NR - Culture and meat-eating: A critique of anthropocentrism in animal ethics
Long article
Afshari A - The Terran badger: Telling the right story
Long article
Clarke I - Serpents, raptors and other liminal beings: The symbolic decentring of anthropocentrism
Long article
Petroselli FR - Indigeneity and the ambivalence of eco-cultural imageries: A critical review of Sebastião Salgado’s Genesis
Long article
Küpers W - Poetry section from The Ecological Citizen Vol 9 No 1
Poetry section
Postnikov V (Editor) - Fiction section from The Ecological Citizen Vol 9 No 1
Fiction section
Gray J, Hood T (Co-editors)
Contents
- Ian Whyte (1941–2025): An appreciation
Editorial
Curry P - Reflections on humanity’s perverse priorities in the wake of the DC air crash
Opinion
Santiesteban M - An ecocentric case for an ecological consumption tax
Opinion
Verasdonck P - A condemned cathedral: Thoughts on Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire
Reflection
Kellgreen A - Killing barred owls to save spotted owls is a moral atrocity
Long article
Lynn WS - Can the introduction of ‘sustainability necessary work’ promote security for all?
Long article
Yang J, Hwang J - Rewilding as reparative and restitutive justice
Long article
Feltrin AN - Witnessing other times: An ecological calendar and a practice of ecological attention
Long article
Ward N, Broughton A - The gifts of fiction at the time of climate emergency
Long article
Oziewicz M - How solarpunk can help us rewild our lives
Long article
Sun A, Quinn SK - The things that tether us to Earth: A review of Byung-Chul Han’s Non-things
Book review
Hood T - Extending justice considerations to insects, crustaceans, cephalopods and other invertebrates
Book review
Gray J - Poetry section from The Ecological Citizen Vol 8 No 2
Poetry section
Postnikov V (Editor) - Fiction section from The Ecological Citizen Vol 8 No 2
Fiction section
Gray J (Editor)
Contents
- Natural history as defiance of the technological takeover
Editorial
Gray J - Friends of Sax-Zim Bog: Protecting North America’s southernmost boreal forest for biodiversity
Snapshot
Erikson D - Love of nature in the Trinidad and Tobago Field Naturalists’ Club: A legacy of 130 years and counting
Snapshot
Arneaud L - Unlearning
Reflection
Zaino S - Beautiful, ugly fields
Reflection
Myers D - Fighting back for the Earth
Reflection
Irvine S - The enduring and elemental importance of natural history
Long article
Fleischner TL - Interspecies healing through natural history: On Thomas Lowe Fleischner’s ‘spiral of offering’
Long article
Nieuwland J - Reptiles: Misunderstood, maligned and mistreated
Long article
Font E - Killing barred owls to save spotted owls is the lesser of two evils
Long article
DellaSala DA - Our rivers need help
Photo feature
MacNaughton R - Poetry section from The Ecological Citizen Vol 8 No 1
Poetry section
Postnikov V (Editor) - Fiction section from The Ecological Citizen Vol 8 No 1
Fiction section
Gray J (Editor)
Contents
- My ecocentric decisions
Editorial
Whyte I - We are who eats us: A cultural argument to protect large carnivores
Reflection
Feltrin AN - Unsustainable development goals
Long article
Cardini A - Bold vision needed to save forests
Long article
Kellett MJ - Could militarized conservation ever be ecologically just?
Long article
Simpson FO - Towards ecological citizenship: Institutional violence and the social contract
Long article
Allen A - Aligning with Law: A review of Freya Mathews’s The Dao of Civilization
Book review
Crist E - Poetry section from The Ecological Citizen Vol 7 No 2
Poetry section
Postnikov V (Editor) - Fiction section from The Ecological Citizen Vol 7 No 2
Fiction section
Gray J (Editor)
Contents
- Education and the great transition?
Reflection
Orr D - Greening education: A multidimensional power struggle
Long article
Allen A - The climate literacy revolution
Long article
Oziewicz M - Knowing more and acknowledging others
Long article
Shockley K - Enchanted minds, empowered hands: Reflections from an urban food garden
Long article
Dutta D - End the insanity: For nuclear disarmament and global demilitarization
Long article
Crist E, Lipton J, Barash D - Light on the Dark Mountain: An essay–review
Long article
Curry P - Covenant with the wild: A critique of the ‘right to roam’ movement
Long article
Leadbeater S - The end
Excerpt
Jensen D - Poetry section from The Ecological Citizen Vol 7 No 1
Poetry section
Postnikov V (Editor) - Fiction section from The Ecological Citizen Vol 7 No 1
Fiction section
Gray J (Editor)
Contents
- Earth at the crossroads
Reflection
Barnard P - Someone was here before us: Deep-greenness and Arnold Toynbee
Reflection
Ramsay C - WITNESS: A garden without sparrows – from population to ecosystem collapse, and beyond
Witness
Cardini A - What can we learn from indigenous ecological knowledge?
Long article
Unuigbe N - An ecocentric case against satellite constellations
Long article
McFarland K - On algorithms and assassin bugs: Challenging the uncritical promotion of nature identification apps
Experiencing nature
Gray J - All that breathes: An exploration of inter-species intimacy
Film review
Dutta D - A life of deep connection: A tribute to Haydn Washington (1955–2022)
In memoriam
Kopnina H - Poetry section from The Ecological Citizen Vol 6 No 2
Poetry section
Postnikov V (Editor)
Contents
- From darkness back into the light: Humanity’s rewilding imperative
Editorial
Gray J, Crist E - The price of wildlife: Trophy hunting and conservation in Africa
Opinion
Sapp M - Rewilding the skeleton: A vision for nature’s rebounding on a crowded island
Reflection
Gibson C - Gold Creek
Reflection
Manning R - Bringing wildest Africa back to life
Snapshot
Greeff-Villet LM - Saving Puttenahalli Lake (Bengaluru, India)
Snapshot
Rajagopalan U - Rewilding: The many-faceted movement that demands a resounding Yes
Long article
Veltrop S - Living in truth in a time of ecological ‘emergency’ and emergence: Vaclav Havel as eco-guru
Long article
Read R - Is there moral justification to eat meat?
Long article
Tague GF - Rewriting civilization for the ecological citizen: How and why storytelling can empower and mobilize sustained ecological actions
Long article
Lewis A - Remembering a father tree: A tribute to Dave Foreman (1946–2022)
In memoriam
Davis J - Intricacy and infinity: A tribute to EO Wilson (1929–2021)
In memoriam
Hiss T - Poetry and prose section from The Ecological Citizen Vol 6 No 1
Poetry section
Postnikov V (Editor) - Fiction section from The Ecological Citizen Vol 6 No 1
Fiction section
Gray J (Editor)
Contents
- What can art do for ecological thinking?
Editorial
Moran S - Connecting people with landscape
Reflection
Jones R - Rosling’s fallacy: Conservation, biodiversity and the anthropocentrism of Hans Rosling’s Factfulness
Reflection
Cardini A - Protecting our protectors: The need for improved ranger welfare
Reflection
Wyatt A, Singh R, Belecky M, Misra TK - Developing an ecocentric mind-set through exploration and role-play within online virtual worlds
Reflection
Hood T - Organic art
Profile
Medina-Schechter M - Making imprints
Profile
Morstang H - Deep discernment: A conversation between John Cussans and Joe Walsh
Exchange
Cussans J, Walsh J - A portrait of the artist as an old man: Wes Jackson in conversation with Robert Jensen
Exchange
Jackson W, Jensen R - Interview with Sara Inés Lara of Women for Conservation
Interview
Lara SI - WITNESS: Loss of biodiversity linked to dead or decaying wood (the fading of the saproxylic rainbow)
Witness
Gray J - Art as ecology: A mutual nod
Long article
Burrill RR - The art of sympoiethics
Long article
Fabre Lewin M, Gathorne-Hardy F - The life and science of Suzanne Simard: Review of Finding the Mother Tree
Book review
Leadbeater S - Sentience in invertebrates: A report on a two-part webinar
Meeting report
Gray J - Not for oneself, but for others: A tribute to Thomas E Lovejoy (1941–2021)
In memoriam
Rinker HB - Poetry section from The Ecological Citizen Vol 5 No 2
Poetry section
Postnikov V (Editor) - Fiction section from The Ecological Citizen Vol 5 No 2
Fiction section
Gray J (Editor)
Contents
- Got nitrogen? On the links between nitrogen pollution and overpopulation
Editorial
Crist E - The most ethical gift: Towards a sustainable demographic future
Opinion
Bish J - The pangolin is not the culprit and species do not mount invasions
Opinion
Cardini A - Overpopulation denial syndrome
Reflection
Maynard R - Don’t confuse a symptom with the problem: Overpopulation, not climate change, is the real emergency
Reflection
Weld M - WITNESS: Order Sirenia
Witness
Crist E - The moral imperative to reduce global population
Long article
Hedberg T - Just population policies for an overpopulated world
Long article
Cafaro P - Criticizing Muir and misunderstanding the foundation of American nature conservation
Long article
Byers BA - Continuous dissent and the limits of reason: Ecocentric decision-making for resistance
Long article
Feather P - Poetry section from The Ecological Citizen Vol 5 No 1
Poetry section
Postnikov V (Editor) - Fiction section from The Ecological Citizen Vol 5 No 1
Fiction section
Gray J (Editor)
Contents
- Suffer the animals
Editorial
Crist E - #STOPEATINGWILDLIFE: Reducing urban wildlife consumption in Cambodia
Opinion
Roberts O, Ball A - Eco-social justice in an anthropocentric world
Opinion
Attfield N, Reed J - A small farm future
Opinion
Smaje C - Sympoiethics: For the Love of a Field
Opinion
Fabre Lewin M, Gathorne-Hardy F - Beavers are still facing an uncertain future in Scotland
Reflection
Watson Featherstone A - Understanding and solving the South-East Asian snaring crisis
Long article
Gray TNE, Belecky M, O’Kelly HJ, Rao M, Roberts O, Tilker A, Signs M, Yoganand K - Born free or life behind bars: The subtleties of African large carnivore conservation
Long article
Bodasing T - The post-COVID landscape: A chance to end the use of threatened wild animals in traditional Chinese medicine?
Long article
White A - Sounding out other species
Long article
Challenger M - Twelve acres
Experiencing nature
Cook Mania C - Poetry section from The Ecological Citizen Vol 4 No 2
Poetry section
Postnikov V (Editor)
Contents
- Unlearning human-centrism: A bumpy road
Reflection
Grancitelli L, Himpens J, Smeers I, Snick A - Of wolves, George Floyd, and the limits of human empathy
Reflection
Werner M - Fantasy in transhumanism and Tolkien
Snapshot
Curry P - Interview with Doug Peacock
Interview
Peacock D - Politics is not enough: Individual action and the limits of institutions
Long article
Plotica LP - Ecocentric languaging: Persons, art and education
Long article
Burrill RR - Who is we?
Long article
Jensen R - The capitalist passive environmental revolution
Long article
Spash C - Courage, memory and voice: A review of Monica Gagliano’s Thus Spoke the Plant
Book review
McEvoy P - Reply to Troy Vettese’s ‘Against steady-state economics’
Response
Daly H - Poetry section from The Ecological Citizen Vol 4 No 1
Poetry section
Postnikov V (Editor)
Contents
- Introduction to the ‘Global Charter for Rewilding the Earth’
Editorial
Martin V - Global Charter for Rewilding the Earth
Charter
Rewilding Charter Working Group
Contents
- Ecocentrism and our possible futures
Editorial
Curry P - Small cetaceans, big problems
Opinion
Hodgins N - Do current conservation plans to protect vital marine ecosystems need to do more?
Opinion
Bender M - De-centring humans from environmental valuation: Introducing the Life Framework of Values
Opinion
O’Connor S - Ecological citizen!?
Reflection
Rolston H III - Towards an ecocentric movement?
Long article
Johns D - Religion and environmental behaviour (part two): Dark-green nature spiritualities and the fate of the Earth
Long article
Taylor B - Ecospheric care work
Long article
Streit Krug A - This civilization is finished: Time to build an ecological civilization
Long article
Read R - Ecodemocracy: Operationalizing ecocentrism through political representation for non-humans
Long article
Gray J, Wienhues A, Kopnina H, DeMoss J - Life in others – a review of Frog Pond Philosophy: Essays on the relationship between humans and nature
Book review
Lubarsky S - Landscapes of defiance: A review of Benjamin Vogt’s A New Garden Ethic
Book review
Vitek B - Poetry section from The Ecological Citizen Vol 3 No 2
Poetry section
Postnikov V (Editor)
Contents
- The significance of ecocentric vision
Editorial
Curry P, Crist E - What is eco-anarchism?
Long article
Clark J - Envisioning a Nietzschean land ethic
Long article
Creasy K - For cosmopolitan bioregionalism
Long article
Crist E - Eco-republicanism
Long article
Curry P - Towards a half wild Earth
Long article
Davis J - Ecological civilization: A premise, a promise and perhaps a prospect
Long article
Mathews F
Contents
- Ecocentrism, economics and commensurability
Editorial
Dickerson A - Post-capitalism by design not disaster
Long article
Alexander S - Green growth: Restorative economics for a post-carbon planet
Long article
Farley J - Against steady-state economics
Long article
Vettese T - Elon Musk’s electric planet-suicide vehicle: Automobiles, emissions and degrowth
Long article
Smith R - Understanding what sustainability is not – and what it is
Long article
Lynch T, Khan T - Green republican political economy: Towards the liberation from economic growth and work as disutility
Long article
Barry J
Contents
- The biodiversity crisis must be placed front and centre
Editorial
Gray J, Crist E - The silence of the humpback whale
Long article
Moore KD - The green world
Long article
Hogan T - Addressing global insect meltdown
Snapshot
Samways MJ - Restoring the living ocean: The time is now
Long article
Crist E - ‘Making hay’: A conditional defence on ecocentric grounds of various co-created habitats
Long article
Gray J - Sensory pollution and the biodiversity crisis
Snapshot
Parris KM - The thin green line: Scientists must do more to limit the toll of burgeoning infrastructure on nature and society
Special feature
Laurance W - Beyond the North American Wildlife Conservation Model and towards Earth rights
Long article
Heister A - How biodiversity is both impacted by and a solution for climate change
Snapshot
Lovejoy TE - The unnoticed collapse of big freshwater animals
Snapshot
Keim B - The endangered phenomenon of animal migration, and the dissonance between doing science and achieving conservation
Long article
Berger J - Nature needs half: Implications for population, consumption and inequality in the ‘other half’
Long article
Mikkelson GM - Excerpted chapters from On Beauty: Douglas R. Tompkins—aesthetics and activism
Excerpt
Butler T, Lubarsky S - In defence of tears
Reflection
Leadbeater S - Thinking and walking with The Sonoran Desert: A literary field guide
Book review
Boscacci L
Contents
- Religion and the natural world
Editorial
Curry P - Alignment
Reflection
McLoughlin LA - The Catholic Church and human relationships with nature
Snapshot
Blay J - The potential of Buddhist environmentalism
Snapshot
Darlington SM - Against piety: The planet, the Pope and Laudato Si’
Snapshot
Keenoy R - A bestowed trust: The perception of nature and animals in Islam
Snapshot
Özdemir İ - Ecocentric Paganism
Snapshot
York M - Judaism responds to the environmental crisis
Snapshot
Tirosh-Samuelson H - The Anglican Communion and the natural world – an interview with David Shreeve
Interview
Shreeve D - Buddhism and the natural world – an interview with Ringu Tulku Rinpoche
Interview
Rinpoche RT - Christianity and nature
Exchange
Cooper N, Curry P - Religion and environmental behaviour (part one): World religions and the fate of the Earth
Long article
Taylor B - Animism and ecology: Participating in the world community
Long article
Harvey G - How should ecological citizens think about immigration?
Long article
Cafaro P, O’Sullivan J - Deborah Bird Rose (1946–2018): A personal reflection
In memoriam
Mathews F - Poetry section from The Ecological Citizen Vol 3 No 1
Poetry section
Postnikov V (Editor)
Contents
- More stories of deep connection
Editorial
Curry P - An ecocentric journey
Personal story
Taylor B - Stoppings on my path to ecocentrism
Personal story
Postnikov V - A responsive world: Personal reflections
Personal story
Mathews F - Coming to ecocentrism
Personal story
Lubarsky S - Another route to ecocentrism
Personal story
Irvine S - Becoming ecocentric: An ongoing journey of becoming human
Personal story
Hosken L - Protecting our Earth
Personal story
Higgins P - Who has seen the wind?
Personal story
de Jong F - Ecocentrism: My road less travelled
Personal story
Curry P
Contents
- Water – a free-flowing subject that reveals the urgent need for humanity to change its course
Editorial
Gray J, Whyte I - The Anthropocene: Where on Earth are we going?
Opinion
Steffen W - Fighting the disappearance of Balkan rivers
Opinion
Wieser C - Holistic versus individualistic non-anthropocentrism
Opinion
Mikkelson GM - Addressing the decline in wetland biodiversity
Opinion
Finlayson CM - Ecuador endangered: A call to action
Opinion
Seed J - Limited civilization based on beauty (a vision)
Reflection
Postnikov V - Decoupling the global population problem from immigration issues
Reflection
Crist E - Neptune’s Navy: A global initiative
Special feature
Watson P - Photo feature – The devastating scale of waste in the oceans
Photo feature
Power C - Against enlightened inaction: Edification from Thoreau
Long article
Plotica LP - Future rivers, dams and ecocentrism
Long article
Piccolo JJ, Durtsche RD, Watz J, Österling M, Calles O - Rights of rivers enter the mainstream
Long article
Wilson G, Lee DM - Dandelions are divine
Long article
Vitek B - Damaging thinking: A review of Timothy Morton’s Being Ecological
Book review
Dickerson A - Looking beyond the past to give African wildlife a future: A critical review of The Big Conservation Lie
Book review
Bodasing T - Poetry section from The Ecological Citizen Vol 2 No 2
Poetry section
Postnikov V (Editor)
Contents
- Life’s catastrophe: An angry editorial
Editorial
Whyte I - How the deep-snow caribou’s plunge towards extinction reveals Canada’s conservation hypocrisy
Opinion
Sherrod A, Goward T - Can edible insects really reduce our ecological footprint and save wild species?
Opinion
Payne CL - Why I’m vegan
Opinion
Anderson M - Ethical responsibilities in invasion biology
Reflection
Parke EC, Russell JC - On dying ecologically in the Anthropocene
Long article
Barnett JT - Eating animals: An ecocentric perspective
Long article
Percival R - Transforming human life on our home planet, perennially
Long article
Jackson W, Streit Krug A, Vitek B, Jensen R - Immigration and population: The interlinked ecological crisis that dares not speak its name
Long article
Hines C - The insanity of endless growth
Long article
Washington H, Kopnina H - The economic legacy of the Holocene
Long article
Krall L - Lies, misconceptions and global agriculture
Long article
Tudge C - The pricing of everything
Long article
Monbiot G - Book review – Being Salmon, Being Human: Encountering the wild in us and us in the wild
Book review
Piccolo JJ - Poetry section from The Ecological Citizen Vol 2 No 1
Poetry section
Postnikov V (Editor)
Contents
- Green fidelity and the grand finesse: Stepping stones to the ‘Pacocene’
Editorial
Gray J - Ecocentrism: What it means and what it implies
Opinion
Gray J, Whyte I, Curry P - A vision for an ecocentric society and how to get there
Opinion
Turnbull S - Armchair ecotourism: A tribute to Edward Abbey
Reflection
Gray J - Interview with Captain Paul Watson
Interview
Watson P - Interview with Paul Ehrlich
Interview
Ehrlich PR - Anthropocene boosters and the attack on wilderness conservation
Long article
Wuerthner G - Learning for biosphere security in a crowded, warming world
Long article
Lautensach A - ‘Any size population will do?’: The fallacy of aiming for stabilization of human numbers
Long article
Kuhlemann K - From wilderness to plastic plants: How might we get back to wildness?
Long article
Kopnina H - Harmony – not ‘theory’
Long article
Washington H - Becoming indigenous: A review of The Ends of the World
Book review
Curry P - Poetry and prose section from The Ecological Citizen Vol 1 No 2
Poetry section
Postnikov V (Editor)
Contents
- Sharing stories of deep connection
Editorial
Washington H - How I came to ecocentrism: A sense of wonder
Personal story
Washington H - The importance of Earth jurisprudence, compassionate conservation and personal rewilding
Personal story
Bekoff M - Ecocentrism: A personal story
Personal story
Kopnina H - Loving Earth: How I came to ecocentrism
Personal story
Piccolo JJ - Ecocentrism: Playing beyond boundaries
Personal story
Spannring R - On the road to ecocentrism
Personal story
Vucetich JA - Becoming ecocentric
Personal story
Noss RF - My path to ecocentrism
Personal story
Whyte I - All is one
Personal story
Crist E - A journey to Earth-centredness
Personal story
Gray J - Eucalyptus-flavoured ecofeminism and other ecocentric adventures
Personal story
Maloney M
Contents
- The Ecological Citizen: An impulse of life, for life
Editorial
Curry P - Why a new ecological forum?
Opinion
Davis J - Life’s defeat is imminent: We must become effective
Opinion
Whyte I - Reasons for a reduction of humans’ impact on the ecosphere
Opinion
Gray J - The Harmony with Nature initiative: Why it matters and what it might achieve
Opinion
Maloney M - A positive future for beavers in Scotland
Opinion
Watson Featherstone A - Rethinking the United Nations’ concept of sustainability
Opinion
Waters R - Why ecocentrism is the key pathway to sustainability
Long article
Washington H, Taylor B, Kopnina H, Cryer P, Piccolo JJ - Wild democracy: A biodiversity of resistance and renewal
Long article
Alexander S, Burdon P - Enacting the wisdom of Chief Seattle today in Latin America
Long article
Ruz Buenfil A - The affliction of human supremacy
Long article
Crist E - Noting some effects of fabricating ‘nature’ as ‘natural capital’
Long article
Sullivan S - The twilight of anthropocentrism
Long article
Greer JM - Environmental humanities: A report on a seminar in Spain
Meeting report
Carretero-González M - Environmental humanities: A report on a symposium in the UK
Meeting report
Curry P - Rights of nature: A report on a conference in Switzerland
Meeting report
Schläppy M-L, Gray J - Towards a new paradigm for nature in the EU: A report on a meeting in Belgium
Meeting report
Ito M - Book review – Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life
Book review
Whyte I - Poetry section from The Ecological Citizen Vol 1 No 1
Poetry section
Postnikov V (Editor)























