Author: Joe Gray

Joe is a nature lover, an amateur field naturalist, and a conservationist. He lives on a large island in the North Atlantic Ocean that an infinitesimal proportion of the Earth's beings call Great Britain. He also writes eco-fiction under the pen name Dewey Dabbar.
Ecocide, Habitat loss, Local nature, Rewilding, WITNESS

WITNESS: The dissipation of wildness (a personal experience)

It was shortly after the winter solstice, eight years ago, when I did something that I had done nothing quite like before. Triggered by the cresting of a claustrophobia that had been growing for a decade-and-a-half, from the time I left my childhood home below the dark woods of a place named Dancing Green, it began with me shifting a sofa and an armchair tight against my living room wall and sliding an oak dining table across the carpet and into a corner. Continue reading WITNESS: The dissipation of wildness (a personal experience)

Joe Gray
Animal rights, Defaunation

A liberté without freedom, an égalité devoid of fairness, and a fraternité blind to kinship: Life as a bird in France

Despite strong public opposition in France, hunting’s ever-thinning guise of heritage still remains robust enough to satisfy many politicians. Emmanuel Macron, the President, claims to be serious about biodiversity but is an advocate of the suite of barbaric practices that make up this tradition. Continue reading A liberté without freedom, an égalité devoid of fairness, and a fraternité blind to kinship: Life as a bird in France

Joe Gray