As a conclusion of these pieces of work, where I gave my opinion and some ideas. We have to consider that we are not more important than other species, the deserve of living should be the same one for all; but most of the times we thing that the world belongs to us and is totally the opposite, we belong to it as any other. We build a deal with a natural resource, and it's unfair because we make benefits from something that is free for everyone, one of the biggest example is the water. Here you have a video about it:
We need to protect our world, our environment, because even though about what we believe after death, it is the only place that we can be sure about and also is our only home. In our way, we have to try to keep this save and in balance, more than for us, for our children, the ones that don't deserve the consequence of our actions.
In conservation not everything is keeping all the species save without any damage, sometimes for the safety of few one need too die or at least get reduced. An are invasive species, one of the single largest threats to our nation's natural resources, as a consequence these are the effects cause if we not reduce the quantity of them:
- Decrease biodiversity
- Put endangered and threatened species at further risk. In fact, invasive species are the second leading cause of animal population decline and extinction worldwide
- Displace native plants that wildlife and fish depend on for food
- Increase soil erosion and can cause major damage to streams and other wetland areas that provide habitat for native fish, plants, and animals
- Increase the frequency and risk of wildfires
- Reduce agricultural production and property values.
Here in Aberdeen we (the conservation society) have been volunteering in an craft of invasive gorse at Scotstown, if we would let this plant continue growing, most of the other plants of this Natural Park would be there. Also, imaging the importance of this that, according to the rangers, right after the finish reducing this plants the have to start again because is already grown at the start point.
We have to produce what we spend, and the jungle is not a wood fabric.
Jane Goodall went to the middle of the jungle for a research, and staying there she realized that chimpanzees were able to build instruments. Until that moment, a definition of human was the only living the with the capacity of building instruments, so we should consider the chimpanzee as another human.
From that moment Jane started a project to protect the chimpanzees and research about of them. The most important one would be the Jane Goodall Institute in Congo. A chain of consequences start from the wood companies that go to the jungles for trees, apart of al the damage that they cause they also make a track which is not fixed after, so this is like an unhealed wound. Poachers use the track to get into the center of the jungle where they can hunt chimpanzees ( apparently the are like caviar for african people). But what happen when this chimpanzee has a baby, well the can even burn them just to rip off them from the dead body of their mum.
This institute look after all of this chimpas whose liberty has been stolen from and little by little introduce them in to the free jungle again. They also have projects to plant new trees in those track to prevent the poachers going again.
Nowadays, even though we don't want to or don't notice it, our education is meant to become us in producers and consumers. Trying t get the best marks, the best job, better future. Although, we forget one of the most important thing in this life: how to be a person, have our ethics, develop our natural skills.
Waldorf pedagogy distinguishes three broad stages in child development. The early years education focuses on providing practical, hands-on activities and environments that encourage creative play. In the elementary school, the emphasis is on developing pupils' artistic expression and social capacities, foresting both creative and analytical modes of understanding. Secondary education focuses on developing both critical and empathetic understandings of the world through the study of maths, arts, sciences, humanities and world languages. Throughout, the approach stresses the role of the imagination in learning and places a strong value on integrating, intellectual, practical, and artistic activities across the curriculum rather than learning each academic discipline as a separate concern.
Apart from the creativity skills in this way of learning, the thing that I'm most interested in is in how they teach, since the pupils are children, to use the basic and natural materials as tools. How to convert simple wool in an scarf, grow your own vegetables from the seeds that you have been given.
Milk doesn't come from the fridge, this is what we must teach to the modern children, to don't lose all these basic stuff that were normal for our grandparents and now look like an exotic thing.
It is amazing all the incredible moments that we miss from the nature not paying attention. Nowadays, people usually ignore what is around them with so many distractions that we have.
The world is full of moments that could be unique and it doesn't have to be in the jungle or a paradise place, you can find any of them right next to you while you are walking, but for the you would have to pay an special attention.
Since I was a child I've been amazed with insects, so tiny and perfect and the same time, their behavior is what I'm most keen.
I use to expend hours and hours looking at an ant farm, do you know what they do if you take one kill it and after put it again? First of all they would get so nervous, but after they would just take the death ant and put it inside of the farm as food. How the bigger ones give orders to the little one with simply movements, or even their strength. It's usually so fun then you put some seeds around them and you see how they change their last orders to the new one, go for them; or they can even get scared and start to runway to everywhere.
One of the most important things that learn from an ant farm is the society structure that they have, a perfect team work. and you also lear that in a community the priority is the group and if one have to die for the save of the rest it would die.
What about spiders?
Most of people is scared of them, but for me they are one of the most incredible insects in the world. The way of building their cobweb is like and art, and even better when the hunt. Here you have two videos that recorded by myself of two spiders hunting.
I really thing the beauty is in the small things, and in the case talking about insects, the fear makes people blinds sometimes. I could prove this with my friends, I took them to take some grasshoppers, at first the where so scared but after a while talking to them explaining them that nothing happen, the realized how beautiful can be a grasshopper's skin because of the camouflage. After all, the recognize that they regret themselves to learn new thing being afraid.
Nature is understood in so many different ways depending where we born, our education, our lifestyle, even the weather can change our perception of nature. From my point of view, this is closely related with our relation with the Mother Earth.
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I come from a city called Almeria in South of Spain, we could considered it as a town. It has a really dry weather almost desert like. So talking about feelings, if you tell me to close my eyes and the about nature the colors of the plants would be yellow and brown, the types of animals would be from that environment. In difference with a person from the north, for example. i pretty sure that in the image of natures there is green everywhere.
The same happens if you life at the city, I think this lifestyle is quite selfish because usually these type of people have a "natural" environment in there mind where everything is around buildings and artificial things. When they think about nature they quite consider it as an exotic thing apart from the natural world. But is important to say that not everybody is the same, this is a general viewing.
Finally, no matter how do we understand it, everybody agree saying that their natural place is peaceful in a way or another. Nature is something that belong to us and we belong to it.
For me, nature would be the place where every living thing life in equilibrium with the rest, this doesn't mean in peace. Also, you are in nature when everything has been created and grow without any type of human or artificial intervention, so the whole development of it has been by itself.
The course Natural World let you wait for a moment and think with patient things that you don't usually realize and you have everyday; the different surroundings when we move from a place to other one, how do you feel with it, the different ways of livings of people and even animal. A mixture between the nowadays society with the natural environment where we leave.
This blog would be a reflection of my own experiences and my point of view of the world that is around me and how each one understand it in his/her own way. Going through the topics from lectures we could have different opinions and also experiences.
Hope you like it.
