Tag: biodiversity


Indigenous shaman has a warning about the Amazon and all life on Earth by Cyril Christo

Indigenous shaman has a warning about the Amazon and all life on Earth

It is a most vital and perhaps the most urgent singular Indigenous voice Davi Kopenawa brings to the outside world in his book “The Falling Sky” published in 2010: it is the conscience of the rainforest itself unlike anything we have witnessed this century.
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Arctic Ice. PHOTO: ©Christo & Wilkinson Photography

SAVING THE ARCTIC: the wisdom of the Inuit and the future of the North Pole

Melting permafrost and 100-degree weather that just assaulted 3 million acres in Siberia, roughly the size of Belgium.
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Bushman from Kalahari Desert - Cyril Christo

LESSONS FROM THE BUSHMEN | Why We Need the Oldest Consciousness on Earth More than Ever

Lessons from the Bushmen of Africa’s Kalahari Desert.
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Dam threat to elephants - Himba

A Major Dam Project Threatens a Way of Life

A megadam threatens the Ova-Himba, one of the most isolated semi-nomadic tribes in all of Africa who are very vocal in their opposition to the dam and who have, of course, not been consulted.
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Cyril Christo Conservation Blog - Lakota Elder speaks

The pandemic is a time of purification, says a Native elder

Mother Earth is going to shake us real hard. We are all breathing this air, which is a part of nature; every living thing on this Earth has to breathe in this air. We have no business destroying any other life.
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Saving the ghosts of Madagascar, the Lemurs

Saving the Ghosts of Madagascar, the Lemurs

To see the black and white face of the Indri lemur is to look at a specter, at a moment’s notice capable of disappearing into the increasingly tenuous forests of the 4th largest island on Earth.
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Saving the great Apes - Cyril Christo

Saving the Great Apes, Our Closest Living Relatives

The prevalent view among Westerners was that they were killers and would attack humans at the slightest provocation.
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Can the last wild rhinos be saved from extinction? by Cyril Christo

Can the Last Wild Rhinos be Saved from Extinction?

This species, the now very rare Sumatran rhino, number only about eighty. The Javan rhino is at less than 70 and the Indian at about 3,500.
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Grizzly Bears Need Better protection by Cyril Christo

Grizzly bears need better protection now

It was only in 1975 that the grizzly was put on the Endangered Species list, which certain political persuasions and special interests would like to undo, all for the sake of mining, oil, ranching and trophy hunters.
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After devastating fires, Australia needs a new environmental agenda

After Devastating Fires, Australia needs a New Environmental Agenda

The fires should serve as a warning for the rest of us. Its leaders languish with coal in their soul for being in denial of climate realities and the greatest Earth changes Australia has experienced since humans first walked onto the continent.
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