Brendan Montague

Brendan Montague is editor of The Ecologist, founder of Request Initiative and co-author of Impact of Market Forces on Addictive Substances and Behaviours: The web of influence of addictive industries (Oxford University Press). He tweets at @EcoMontague.

  • No British apology for 1769 Maori massacre

    Brendan Montague
    Padraig Collins
     | 2nd October 2019
    Laura Clarke, the British High Commissioner to New Zealand, is meeting Maori tribal leaders in the town of Gisborne in New Zealand today.
  • Indonesian songbird

    Indonesian songbird crisis

    Brendan Montague
     | 2nd October 2019
    Researchers find 75 million birds are kept in Indonesian homes, risking extinction for some species.

  • Jackdaws of the world unite!

    Brendan Montague
    Nina Massey
     | 2nd October 2019
    Jackdaws know there is safety in numbers - coming together to ward off predators.
  • Forts of the Saxon Shore

    Severe threat to historic British landscapes

    Brendan Montague
     | 27th September 2019
    Climate crisis impacts such as sea-level rise, coastal erosion and flooding pose a serious threat to archaeology and heritage, according to new research.
  • Wind farms

    Delivering net zero

    Brendan Montague
     | 26th September 2019
    New £1.25m study will explore how to deliver a fair and just Net Zero transition.
  • Birds in formation

    The nature of Aristotle's dialectic

    Brendan Montague
     | 26th September 2019
    To change the world we must understand it, and the foundations of this understanding are the definitions we use.
  • Brexit protest

    Brexit threatens EU climate action

    Brendan Montague
     | 18th September 2019
    The UK has been a key player in securing stronger EU climate regulations. Brexit could give climate deniers more influence.

  • Feel the fear of climate breakdown

    Brendan Montague
     | 16th September 2019
    Former chief scientist Sir David King says situation so grave UK should cut emissions of greenhouse gases to almost zero by 2040.

  • Brexit threatens food regulations

    Brendan Montague
     | 11th September 2019
    New analysis by legal experts at the University of Sussex-based UK TPO warns that vital regulation could be stripped away.
  • Houses

    Local authorities 'on notice'

    Brendan Montague
     | 3rd September 2019
    ClientEarth lawyers have put 100 local authorities across England on notice over climate inaction.
  • James Thornton

    Learning from lawyers

    Brendan Montague
     | 19th August 2019
    Brendan Montague of the Ecologist interviews environment lawyer and founder of ClientEarth, James Thornton.
  • School climate strike placards

    'No jobs on a dead planet'

    Brendan Montague
     | 23rd July 2019
    UK Student Climate Network aims to mobilise the largest ever global climate strike, with children and workers side by side.
  • Lion King

    Disney's 'paltry' conservation support

    Brendan Montague
     | 17th July 2019
    Sir David Attenborough calls for conservation funding from firms that profit from animal imagery - but Lion King maker's support is paw.
  • Logging and agribusiness projects have contributed to Sabah's high rates of forest loss and degradation. Photo: Sophie Chao.

    Poland must obey UNESCO logging warning

    Brendan Montague
     | 5th July 2019
    Logging in Europe’s last remaining primeval woodlands, the Białowieża Forest in Poland, will endanger its World Heritage Status.

  • Philosophy and science of change

    Brendan Montague
     | 3rd July 2019
    Philosophical tools have an urgent practical application as we develop a theory of change appropriate to the scale of climate crisis.
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