Do It For Forest: Is there anyone interested in nature conservation? Please, let me know!

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bluudz (48) 8 years ago

Recycling will be the thing I will focus on in the future massively.

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everittdmickey (73) 8 years ago

there's more forest on N America now than when Columbus landed.
oh...and those pesky 'earth resource sattelites"..the other day they discovered five or ten MILLION square miles of forest..that they didn't know existed.
odd that.

kedjom-keku (58) 8 years ago

you are right, even in Europe there is more forest than probably never before. But which type of forest. There are just monocultures. We are trying to save tropical rain forest which is disappearing really fast.

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everittdmickey (73) 8 years ago (edited)

ah gwasshappah..you should read... 1491 Americas before Columbus

1491 is not so much the story of a year, as of what that year stands for: the long-debated (and often-dismissed) question of what human civilization in the Americas was like before the Europeans crashed the party. The history books most Americans were (and still are) raised on describe the continents before Columbus as a vast, underused territory, sparsely populated by primitives whose cultures would inevitably bow before the advanced technologies of the Europeans. For decades, though, among the archaeologists, anthropologists, paleolinguists, and others whose discoveries Charles C. Mann brings together in 1491, different stories have been emerging. Among the revelations: the first Americans may not have come over the Bering land bridge around 12,000 B.C. but by boat along the Pacific coast 10 or even 20 thousand years earlier; the Americas were a far more urban, more populated, and more technologically advanced region than generally assumed; and the Indians, rather than living in static harmony with nature, radically engineered the landscape across the continents, to the point that even "timeless" natural features like the Amazon rainforest can be seen as products of human intervention.

Mann is well aware that much of the history he relates is necessarily speculative, the product of pot-shard interpretation and precise scientific measurements that often end up being radically revised in later decades. But the most compelling of his eye-opening revisionist stories are among the best-founded: the stories of early American-European contact. To many of those who were there, the earliest encounters felt more like a meeting of equals than one of natural domination. And those who came later and found an emptied landscape that seemed ripe for the taking, Mann argues convincingly, encountered not the natural and unchanging state of the native American, but the evidence of a sudden calamity: the ravages of what was likely the greatest epidemic in human history, the smallpox and other diseases introduced inadvertently by Europeans to a population without immunity, which swept through the Americas faster than the explorers who brought it, and left behind for their discovery a land that held only a shadow of the thriving cultures that it had sustained for centuries before. --Tom Nissley

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kate-m (52) 7 years ago

Yes! We need to drastically re-evaluate our view of "wild nature" and the trope of humans as "dirty contamination" within the system.

oleg326756 (65) 8 years ago

I’m a big fan of reforestation projects and I have donated to them in the past. I wish you the best of luck with funding this next project and I encourage you to enter Steemit Charity Contest to raise more funds and get a chance of winning one of the main prizes (10 to 25 SBD).

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kedjom-keku (58) 8 years ago

Hello, Yes! Thanks a lot. I am going to check it now. If you want to help us more, please check this out: We are launching Conservation Champions league to raise awareness about the necessity to save Abongphen Highland Forest. Thanks again. Have a great day.

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mergesort (47) 7 years ago

@oleg326756 then you might wanna read this: https://steemit.com/life/@mergesort/my-proposal-invite-charity-organizations-to-steemit-to-increase-their-donations

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kate-m (52) 7 years ago

Hi - I'm passionate about conservation approached from the social sciences perspective. I truly feel very strongly about the damage that some of the polarised views within conservation can inflict (boo to fortress conservation!). I studied ecology, worked as a botanist, got frustrated with the arrogant and overtly eco-centric view of the majority of ecologists I came across and so threw it all in and went off and did a Masters in Rural Development and Conservation, where I learnt a lot about anthropology and ethnobotany and completely changed my vision. For my Masters project I went to Gabon and studied the use of forest products by the Baka forest peoples. I was impressed by the deeply spiritual and respectful relationship that they have with the forest and with nature. I'm now doing a project about the wild food plant scene in Brazil, and trying to map out the significance of this activity in people's lives and the motivations that people have for getting invovled (guess what - money isn't that important!). I feel that conservationists have gotten a bit stuck on the economic valuation of nature that is associated with the rather bureaucratic view that came along with the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment and the Rainforest Crunch-type Non-Timber Forest Product obsession that started in the 80s. I'd like to contribute to a broader appreciation of the broader and more complex nature of the human-nature relationship spectrum. It feels like a critical issue in the face of the Global Ecological Crisis we face. Bottom line: Conservation is essentially all about people.

I just made my first post on Steemit today and I was thinking I might blog about my research. I'd love to see the conservation research community coalesce here on steemit and start to transmit our ideas to a broader audience via this platform (what percentage of humanity actually reads peer-reviewed papers??). Peace and Love!

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