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How One Woman Protected Millions of Acres – RTBC

Pumalín Patagonia The now 71-year-old president of Tompkins Conservation and her late husband Doug Tompkins were attempting a feat of conservation never before done on such a large scale, spending more than $345 million to buy large swaths of land in Chile and Argentina, restore the grasslands, the forests, and the waterways — and then give them back to the people.

In 2018 and 2019, Kris Tompkins finished this chapter of her life’s work by handing over nearly one million hectares to the Chilean government. This was added to the four million hectares of their own land that formed five new national parks and enlarged three existing ones. A contract with the Chilean government assures that Tompkins Conservation stays involved for the next ten years to guide and support the ecosystem restoration. In Argentina, Kris signed over her land under the condition it would remain protected for at least 99 years, thus creating or significantly enlarging six national parks. Her gifts at the time marked the largest private land donation in history and helped conserve a total of 14.7 million acres of land and 30 million marine acres.

Source: How One Woman Protected Millions of Acres – RTBC

The Magnitude of the Challenge

Wibble

With the COP26 climate summit due to kick off in Glasgow on Sunday, here’s a stark warning of what the future holds in store for us all if our global ‘leaders’ fail to come through (as I fully expect them to do).

As Sir David Attenborough said recently:

If we don’t act now, it will be too late.

Sir David Attenborough

Dr Will Steffen from the Australian National University discusses ‘Climate Change: The Magnitude of the Challenge’ at Festival of Ambitious Ideas, May 2016

Dr Will Steffen: OK, now, as Monty Python said, for something completely different: I’m going to talk a bit about climate change, but probably stuff you haven’t seen or heard about before. So, I want to talk about the magnitude of what we have to deal with and the reason that the exciting developments that Laughlin talked about need to be accelerated; they’re not optional…

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COP26 – Call to Action! We all must revise our relationship with nature and reorient our association with consumerism!  

Barbara Crane Navarro

« I do not see a delegation for the Four Footed. I see no seat for the Eagles.

We forget & we consider ourselves superior. But we are after all a mere part of Creation.

We stand somewhere between the mountain & the Ant.»

– Chief Oren Lyons, Seneca Nation, in an address to the Non-Governmental Organizations of the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 1977

«The last 500 years witnessed a ‘swift, ongoing, radical reorganization of life on Earth without geological precedent’ – the arrival of European colonialism, imperialism and the associated expansion of capitalist economic systems leading to the transferral of diseases, plants, animals, forms of land use, and administrative systems to all corners of the world.»

According to the UN, we are entering an «era of pandemics» caused by deforestation, habitat loss, intensive agriculture and wildlife trafficking.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stated that one of themost…

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5 claves para entender qué es la COP 15 de biodiversidad — Ecoamazônia

Barbara Crane Navarro

Esta semana, gobiernos de 195 países se reunieron de forma virtual en la primera parte de la conferencia más importante sobre biodiversidad. ¿El objetivo? establecer nuevas metas para frenar la devastación de la naturaleza y asegurar el bienestar humano. 1. ¿Qué es una COP? Las COP o Conferencia de las Partes, son órganos dedecisión…

5 claves para entender qué es la COP 15 de biodiversidad — Ecoamazônia

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Renvoyons nos enfants dans les arbres — JEREMIKARUS

Barbara Crane Navarro

Ce devrait être une interro obligatoire dans les écoles. Combien d’œufs une poule pond-t-elle par jour ? Les vaches hibernent-t-elle ? À quel endroit le soleil se lève-t-il ? On serait surpris des résultats. Les poules prendrai deux, trois, ou six oeufs par jour, le soleil se lèverait à l’ouest, etc. J’ai fait le tests…[…]

Renvoyons nos enfants dans les arbres — JEREMIKARUS

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Grožđe – Grapes

Myrela

Ne treba smatrati da grožđe ima previše ugljenih hidrata, šećera ili kalorija da bi bilo dobro po zdravlje. Upravo je obrnuto. Kao i banane, grožđe je voće prve klase koje podstiče dobrobit najvišeg mogućeg nivoa. Manje je slatko nego što mislimo, više se odlikuje oporošću, koja je ključna ljekovita odlika. Ta kiselost ukazuje na prisustvo fitohemikalija koje su bitne za funkcionisanje bubrega. Ako ste nekad čuli da imate povišen nivo kreatinina, to znači da vam je bubrezima oslabila sposobnost da uklanjaju i luče štetne proizvode iz krvotoka. Grožđe je najbolji tonik za bubrege – njegove fitohemikalije vezuju se za otpad koji je bubrezima teško da filtriraju.

Mnogi ljudi zabrinuti su i za zdravlje jetre. Kao i trešnje, grožđe je odlična namirnica za čišćenje jetre. Njegove fitohemikalije mogu da uklone naslage, prerađenu hranu i nus-proizvode koji mogu da uzrokuju kongestiju režnjeva jetre. A za one koji traže digestivne koristi, kožica grožđa…

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