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Can you see the ferns growing on these old limbs?

Can you see the ferns growing on these old limbs? A rainforest is one where plants have enough moisture in the air to grow away from soil. Ireland used to be covered in rainforest. Now sadly only tiny tiny remnants left. 0.01%. However, It is from these remnants that we can restore hope. This tree is an Ark. Protect what remains and restore what was lost.

What Can One Person Do To Make A Difference? For t

What Can One Person Do To Make A Difference?
For those of us that care about the living world around us and are aware of the challenges we all face, this is a painful and desperate time – but there is hope. We have waited too long for changes to come from our leaders and politicians. We cannot wait any longer. They have let us down. The change will come from the ground up – it will come from us.
This is a call to step up and re assess our management of every individual tiny patch of the earth possible. It’s a call to the guardians of the earth to step forward and make themselves known, to raise their voices. We need to help the natural world and not hinder it. We have to invite nature and wildness back into our gardens, parks and every tiny patch of this earth we can. To create sanctuary, food and habitat for the creatures we are supposed to share this planet with and who in return will help us survive here within a truly natural and beautiful environment.
It’s up to each of us to re-wild our world, piece by piece until we have a patchwork quilt of sanctuaries that wraps its way around the globe.
We Are The Ark. We Hold The Seeds For A New Earth.
Things are only hopeless if we do nothing, so let’s do something!
Let’s build an Ark.

How to build an Ark. (From wearetheark.org) Step 4

How to build an Ark. (From wearetheark.org)
Step 4. Embrace the ‘messiness’.
We are losing the magic in the world, in ourselves. We are trained to see wildness in our gardens as ‘messy and lazy’, to see neatness as ‘care’. Neatness in nature means barren. There is very little life in a neat garden. There is no magic in a tidy, wall to wall carpet of lawn. There is no hope in those spaces, no sanctuary. Re-wilding land allows life to thrive once more.

Death is an important part of life.
Standing deadwood supports a huge amount of life. A living mature oak, for example, supports over 500 species of life, but a dead or dying tree supports thousands! Leave the dead leaves, branches and old growth. There is a huge range of support for the living, from the dead and dying elements in nature. At least 40% of woodland creatures depend on dead wood and leaf litter at some point in their lives. Intricate relationships exist between many native plants, fungi, insects and decaying creatures.

Paul Hawken. Hero.

Paul Hawken. Hero.

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