Coppicing & pollarding trees could provide us with energy, materials and food — but also with a lot of glow-worms (or fireflies), a research paper argues: [Read more…]
Shifting Baseline Syndrome
December 19, 2019 by Filed Under: Biodiversity
“The biggest problem is that current generations are likely to view what they see around them as completely normal.”
Read more: Young people can’t remember how much more wildlife there used to be, Adam Vaughan, New Scientist. More. Thanks to Vincent Grosjean.
Roads and Electricity? No, Thanks
May 20, 2016 by Filed Under: Biodiversity
To hear Ati Quigua tell it, New York City is a place where people who don’t know each other live stacked inside big buildings, gorging on the “foods of violence,” and where no one can any longer feel the Earth’s beating heart.
Quigua, an indigenous leader whose village in Colombia sits on an isolated mountain range rising 18,700 feet (5,700 meters) before plunging into the sea, is just one of over 1,000 delegates in town for the 15th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues that ends Friday.
“On top of the temples of the goddess and Mother Earth, they are building castles, they are building cities and building churches, but our mother has the capacity to regenerate,” Quigua said. “We are fighting not to have roads or electricity — this vision of self-destruction that’s called development is what we’re trying to avoid.”
Read more: Indigenous grapple with NYC bedlam, bureaucracy at UN forum, AP.
Photographs of American Indians
January 6, 2015 by Filed Under: Biodiversity, History, Random
“First People” hosts a large and wonderful collection of American Indian photographs online, dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Aside from the portraits (which include, among others, the Edward S. Curtis archives), there are picture galleries of tepees, boats, pottery and basketry.
Previously: Walter McClintock’s glass lantern slide collection of the Blackfoot Indians. [Read more…]
