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'Activist and writer Shrishtee Bajpai on working alongside Indigenous peoples from a pristine river in Ladakh to an urban forest in Mumbai. From our latest issue ARK

Second post in our new year archive series is a forest encounter with the ancestors by Danish mythteller Andrea Hejlskov, chosen by Dark Mountain artist and maker Caroline Ross. From Issue 9.

Nathanael Bonnell re-examines the role of maps in the context of place, culture, colonialism and future-history and asks what will the new maps look like, and how will we create them?

Cayte Bosler retraces the roads taken by pioneer US motorist Alice Ramsey, seeking what remains of the natural world in 'this strange age of technocratic fever dreams'

From our new Dark Mountain collection: two poems of return by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland and Ben Weaver. With deer drawing by Rebecca Clark

From our new issue, REFUGE Samantha M Harvey stands at a New York City window, holding her daughter, and looks back and forwards in deep time. With ancestral painting by Kate Walters.

An essay by Dave Pritchett on wilderness, the rhetoric of progress and liberation ecology.