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Emily O’Gorman

Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-than-human histories of Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin by Emily O’Gorman

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October 2024, no. 469
Harrison Croft reviews ‘Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-than-human histories of Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin’ by Emily O’Gorman

The Iranian city of Ramsar, overlooking the Caspian Sea, was the site of a meeting that brought together delegates from around the world at the beginning of 1971. The meeting was held to determine the future global management of the world’s few remaining wetlands, vital habitats for transnational migratory bird species such as Latham’s Snipe (Gallinago hardwickii), which fly annually between Australia and Japan.

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Flood Country: An Environmental History of the Murray–Darling Basin by Emily O’Gorman

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April 2013, no. 350
Paul Humphries reviews 'Flood Country' by Emily O’Gorman

A friend and colleague from Europe visited in October 2010 for the first time in almost a decade. I had peppered him in the intervening years with emails bemoaning the long drought, the record heat, the lack of rain, the bushfires, the water restrictions, the young and old trees dying, the rivers ceasing to flow and finally drying altogether. I had described the har ...