Planting 10 saplings does not replace a twisted old oak. 'Slow ecology' is the only way to preserve and restore ancient habitatsWe have a slow food movement and a slow travel movement. But we're missing something, and its absence contributes to our escalating crisis. We need a slow ecology movement, and we need it fast.The majority of the world's species cannot withstand any significant disruption of their habitat by humans. Healthy ecosystems depend to a great extent on old and gnarly places, that might take centuries to develop, and are rich in what ecologists call "spatial heterogeneity": complex natural architecture. They need, for example, giant trees, whose knotty entrails are split and rotten; great reefs of coral or oysters or honeycomb worms; braiding, meandering rivers full of snags and beaver dams; undisturbed soils reamed by roots and holes. The loss of these ancient habitats is one of the factors driving the global shift from large, slow-growing creatures to the small, short-lived species able to survive our onslaughts. Slow ecology would protect and create our future ancient habitats. Continue reading...
The gift we should give to the living world? Time, and lots of it | George Monbiot
8. srpna 2021 15:31
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Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/08/living-world-time-saplings-oak-slow-ecology-habitats
Zdroj: The Guardian