Once a staple of the Ukrainian landscape, Carpathian water buffalo populations in southern Europe dwindled over the last century. In this final instalment of our second season of audio shorts, Kitty Horlick tracks down Michel Jacobi - a self-sustaining farmer coaxing the species back to life - to find out more about his extraordinary vision.

Lebanon’s political landscape is dominated by sects of many colours – all vying to expand their power bases. In this article, Ibrahim Kombarji looks at the way that these sects have championed environmental projects as a guise for reinforcing loyalty, establishing extractive economic monopolies and to further increase their geographic influence. In the process, he argues, Lebanon’s landscape has been fragmented into a series of increasingly degraded ‘sectarian ecologies.’

Alexander Harris explores the piazza-fication of our urban areas, finding solace in a little-known branch of green activism.