Books: Environmental

Rural Revolt: In Defence of Coromandel's Wild Kingdom

Available from:
Amazon
Carson’s Bookshop
Auckland University Bookshop

Rural Revolt: In Defence of Coromandel's Wild Kingdom tells the story of environmental struggles. Where big money and bureaucratic self-interest tear at the fabric of traditional rural communities and their threatened way of life. This book is the companion to The Killing Nation: New Zealand's State-Sponsored Addiction to Poison 1080 and is divided into four parts. First They Came for the Wild Goats tells of the government's "Wall of Death" pogrom against the feral goats. Don't Fence Us In describes the attempt to enclose farming families and others behind a divisive "predator-proof" steel barrier. Save Our Wild Pigs exposes the stealth attack by local government to take wild pigs off the local menu. Coromandel Voices: Poison Peninsula presents the struggle for humane wild animal conservation policies. The book is set on the northern Coromandel peninsula of Aotearoa/New Zealand. The struggles are ongoing.

THE KILLING NATION: New Zealand's State-Sponsored Addiction to Poison 1080

Available from:
Amazon
Carson's Bookshop Thames
Unity Bookshop Wellington
Paper Plus Whitianga

Living as I do for most of the year in a remote part of the Coromandel, Aotearoa New Zealand, I am involved with environmental research, in particular New Zealand's controversial use of aerial poisoning of wild animals. I work in organic farming and sustainable land use as well as a range of land issues at regional and local level.

The Killing Nation: New Zealand's State-Sponsored Addiction to Poison 1080 is the final part of a series exposing the urban/rural divide. At present this volume is available on Amazon and at select bookstores in NZ. The earlier volumes are in production and are available as one book under the collective title Rural Revolt: In Defence of Coromandel's Wild Kingdom.