Words by Zoe Rasbash Yesterday, the first images of the suspected PetroAmazonas oil pipeline were released. Satellite images reveal the pipeline snaking across one of the oldest and most bio-diverse areas of the Amazon rainforest, the Yasunî National Park in Ecuador, arguably the most contentious oil drilling sites of the last decade. But there is…
Category: Environment
A Summer of Snakes and Sea Turtles
Known for their montane cloud forests and tropical rainforests, the Neotropics is home to biodiversity that’s very different to what I’m familiar with back home in South East Asia, in the Paleotropics. It was for this reason that I chose to spend my summer in parts of Central and South America – to experience a…
The ‘Cirque de Gavarnie’, perception, representations and meaning(s) of a landscape
Adélie Magne discusses the role representations can play in the shaping and meaning of particular landscapes. More specifically, she explores how this has been implemented upon the French landscape in the Pyrenees called ‘Le Cirque de Gavarnie’. The Cirque de Gavarnie, situated in the central Pyrenees, is known for its landscapes that granted it the…
The Bloomsbury Geographer 