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REVIVING & PROTECTING LIFE – Greece ~ Sanctuary for old, abandoned & abused animals created from scratch out of necessity on a piece of private land. Caring for > 100 animals, incl. donkeys, horses, cats, dogs, chicken, sheep, pigs, goats, cows. International volunteer program for those who deeply appreciate community life, animals & simplicity. Valuing […]
REVIVING & PROTECTING LIFE – New Zealand ~ Recognising & restoring New Zealand’s diverse & unique native plant life by connecting people around plant conservation. Habitat protection, monitoring & restoration. Botanic gardens. Seedbank covering different ecosystems & groups of wild plants incl. flowers, shrubs, trees, garden plants. Emphasis on team work & quality training &
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RECONNECTING WITH NATURE – England, UK ~ Clearing shorelines of plastic pollution with recyclable boats & kayaks made from recycled fishing nets. Volunteer-run, community-centred. Connecting people to the outdoors to improve physical & mental health. All recovered material is up cycled, recycled or used for waste to energy production. Educating about plastic pollution in schools,
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ENVIRONMENTAL & HUMAN RIGHTS – Peru, USA ~ Supporting self-determination, territorial sovereignty, visual arts, music incl. Amazonian hip-hop artists, ethnobotanical research & Shipibo Agroforestry Cooperative Koshicoop of & by Peru’s Shipibo Conibo people. Belief that indigenous identity belongs to a technologically-anchored, sustainable future. Led by 5 artists, filmmakers, activists & anthropologists. Commitment to core values
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REVIVING & PROTECTING LIFE – Netherlands ~ Removing floating plastic from the ocean which would otherwise be trapped in circular currents for decades or longer, impacting hundreds of marine species & carrying toxic substances into our food chains. Concentrates plastic pieces before collection & recycling. Expected to remove 90% of floating ocean plastic by 2040.
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RECONNECTING WITH NATURE – Innu Nation, Labrador, Canada ~ Innu elder, cultural & environmental activist, author of Nitinikiau Innusi: I Keep the Land Alive, based on her diary in Innu-aimun language of daily experiences, reflections on court appearances, interviews with reporters, trad. & modern Innu life. Led Innu campaign against NATO’s low-level flying & bomb
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ENVIRONMENTAL & HUMAN RIGHTS – USA & Malaysian Borneo ~ Supporting locally initiated & community-led campaigns to defend forests, environmental & human rights. Facilitating mapping for ancestral land claims, supporting legal cases, negotiations, paralegal education, mobile legal aid clinics. Helped > 200 longhouse communities hold off destructive logging & industrial palm oil plantations carried out
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RECONNECTING WITH NATURE – “The people’s sacred lands” Navajo Nation, USA ~ Healing people & Earth by supporting Indigenous communities & protecting ancestral lands. Healing is only possible when we are connected with the Earth: its lands & waters. Strengthening ties to ancestral land, practicing nature-embedded Native cultures & languages & mutual respect & support
REVIVING & PROTECTING LIFE – Worldwide ~ Green Gravel method: seeding small rocks with kelp spores and planting them in the ocean, reversing the disappearance of seaweed forests by tapping into nature’s abundance: “If we take an area of 5,000 square kilometers, which represents 0.03% of our global target coastal zone with shallow water, kelp
REVIVING & PROTECTING LIFE – Cameron Nielsen, USA ~ The importance of rewilding honeybees. Film by Cameron Nielsen (see Film & photography [link]). Introducing swarms to habitats that are conducive to the instinctive preferences which are very different from conventional beehives. Reading nature. Visit
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ENVIRONMENTAL & HUMAN RIGHTS – Worldwide ~ Documenting & revitalising endangered languages through grants to individuals, tribes & museums. Work in > 60 countries. Development of indigenous radio programs, recording of last living speakers of indigenous languages, orthographies & literacy materials for endangered language teaching programs, language-sharing workshops involving games & art etc. Bringing together
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ENVIRONMENTAL & HUMAN RIGHTS – UK, Ireland, worldwide ~ Local, decentralised work, forming bonds of affection in the collaborating communities. Securing food & seed sovereignty. Ending extractivism. Helping indigenous communities reestablish their Earth connection previously broken by the loss, destruction & desecration of their lands & culture. Empowering communities by rebuilding confidence necessary to stand
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REVIVING & PROTECTING LIFE – Montana, USA ~ Ending harassment & slaughter of America’s last wild buffalo herds, permanent year-round protection of wild free-roaming bison, the ecosystem they depend on and other native wildlife, honoring the sacredness of wild buffalo in collaboration with First Nations to create a world in which buffalo & all other
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ENVIRONMENTAL & HUMAN RIGHTS – Colorado, USA ~ Connecting & aligning > 8500 NGOs, agencies, indigenous groups & utilities, facilitating collaboration, creating community & increasing impact to protect & restore our waters. Reaffirming our right to affordable, clean water & healthy rivers. One-on-one mentoring, consulting, trainings, conferences, events. Committed to integrity, inclusiveness & openness to
RECONNECTING WITH NATURE – England, UK ~ A natural navigator who deeply knows & teaches how to read the sky, weather, land, sea, plants and animals based on a profound embodiment of nature – his unique books are an invitation to strengthen our connection with and confidence as nature, and remember forgotten knowledge; natural navigation
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RECONNECTING WITH NATURE – Citizen Potawatomi Nation ~ Deep indigenous wisdom about our connection with nature, the role of gifting versus purchasing embodied by everything that is part of nature, a language which includes all of nature, justice of the land and much more; Robin is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, enrolled member of the
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REVIVING & PROTECTING LIFE – Akashinga (Zimbabwe & Mozambique) ~ All-women vegan anti-poaching unit: reducing poaching by > 80% without firing a single shot by empowering marginalised & abused women trained to do what they can do best – protect nature. Rooted & embedded in local communities. Also community programs incl. provision of clean water, infrastructure development, employment opportunities etc.
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REVIVING & PROTECTING LIFE – California, USA ~ Fair wages – empowering local communities: > 700 million trees grown, planted & protected through reforestation projects in Madagascar, Mozambique, Kenya, Brazil, Central America, Haiti, Nepal & Indonesia. Visit
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