Graslandschaften sind bedroht, wenig erforscht – und vor allem unterschätzt. Doch einige wenige Menschen wie James Olson setzen sich für ihren Schutz ein. Mein Text jetzt auf @riffreporter; @riffklima, @KlimaWandeln

https://www.riffreporter.de/de/umwelt/gras-graslandschaft-praerie-kanada-viehzucht-kuehe-bedroht-baeume-waelder

P.S.: don't obviously get to make threads :)

3/3 But Martin's story is about oppression and poverty, strife among ethnic groups and the struggle for self-determination that continues to this day.
You can read the whole story now at Energiewinde: https://energiewinde.orsted.de/klimawandel-umwelt/indigene-voelker-naturschutz-weltnaturgipfel-vancouver-island
This is part of #tracesofnaturecrisis - a short photo documentation of people who are affected by environmental / climate change or the efforts to save it. Thanks a lot, Böll Foundation for the funding of the research. #transatlanticmediafellowship.

2/3 "Today we are on the brink of self-destruction," Martin's father says at that time.
When I met the tribal elder on Vancouver Island, the 81-year-old Martin told me this story.
Also that he only remembered the words decades later, after he himself had worked in the timber industry - when he had to decide to cut down one of Canada's last remaining rainforests.
Indigenous people, it is often said, are enormously important for the protection of biodiversity...
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Some sentences frighten, touch, and immediately lead to a change in thinking. Others need time to unfold their impact. Like the one heard by ten-year-old Moses Martin in the early 1950s. He is rowing with his father in a canoe along an island in western Canada when chainsaws howl and trees fall in the rainforest. The two belong to the Tla-o-qui-aht, an indigenous people group that has cared for nature in the Pacific for generations. Until the loggers arrived...
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@riffreporter herzlichen Glückwunsch an alle! :)

#tracesofthenaturecrisis is short photo documentation of people who are affected by environmental / climate change or the efforts to save it.

The first part of the series #tracesofthenaturecrisis: For him, it’s a „magical moment with mother nature”: On some days in summer Mike Kelly leaves the harbor with 20 other boats. 44km/h, wood cracks, and the boat hits the flat water. Then the engine turns silent. Kids, grandmothers, or businessmen throw their fishing rods into the water. For Mike Kelly, the area around Vancouver Island is a treasure. But a treasure about which #COP15 now decided. Full story: https://bit.ly/3hF7la7 @NZZ