Global Wildings

Militaries are amongst the biggest global environmental players. Militaries are major environmental abusers. All militaries, everywhere, wreak environmental havoc — sometimes by accident, sometimes as “collateral damage,” and often as predetermined strategy. Anywhere in the world, a military presence is virtually the singlemost reliable predictor of environmental damage: wherever there is a military presence (whether a base, a war zone, a storage facility, or a testing facility), one will almost inevitably find environmental damage. From Subic Bay to Goose Bay, from the mountains of Afghanistan to the deserts of Kuwait, from Gagetown New Brunswick, to the South Pacific atoll of Kwajelein, the evidence of a largely unfettered environmental “wilding” by the world’s militaries is overwhelming and inescapable. If every military-blighted site around the world were marked on a map with red tack-pins, the earth would look as though it had measles

Death by Degrees: Taking a Feminist Hard Look at the 2° Climate Policy

International policy-makers are forging a consensus that a 2° rise in global temperature represents an acceptable level of danger to the planet. This is not based on climate science. This article explores how feminist analysis and perspectives on climate change can help to reveal the gendered political and ideological underpinnings of this approach to climate change

Murders of women by intimate partners

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Where are the women? Towards gender equality in the ranger workforce

The ranger workforce is currently characterized by an extreme gender skew. Exact data—or even reliable estimates—are scarce, but the general understanding is that only 3–11% of the global ranger workforce is female, with considerable local variation (Belecky et al. 2019). Although consideration of the gender context for a workforce often starts with numbers, achieving greater gender balance requires a much more comprehensive understanding of the problems and a wide-net approach to solutions. Bringing women into the ranger workforce is an important human rights and equality goal in itself. Further, there is evidence that women bring skill sets and strengths to the ranger workforce that are different from those of men. Bringing gender equality into the workforce can improve conservation, relationships with communities, park management, and wildlife management. The Chitwan Declaration (World Ranger Congress 2019) commits to broad gender-related goals: gender-equal opportunities in hiring, pay, and promotion in the ranger workforce, as well as appropriate measures to provide safety and support for female rangers. This paper, based in part on interviews with men and women in the current ranger workforce, analyzes the state of the gender imbalance in the ranger workforce, provides a contextual assessment, and advances recommendations for moving towards these Chitwan goals