Two things plucked from yesterday; A video of life in a Mayan village, following the principles of Permaculture. When you know such words as swales, guilds of trees, forest garden and zoning of plants, then you will know what is happening here in Quixaya Heart of Water.
In an idyllic valley these people who have inherited the land from the plantation owner (who went bust) now grow their food on the sides of the valley, accompanied by the musicial sound of water as it cascades down the valley. But there is a viper in this paradise, and that is plastic rubbish from the outside world. No answer yet as it also tumbles down the hillside, I am not sure how we in our world will address the problem either, the recycling lorry has been and just taken our rubbish but where does it go?
Interesting article on Wild Justice and Chris Packham, and most important of all the great Corvid flocks that dominate our landscape. We have all been there the arguments between those that will save all animal life and the farmers and gamekeepers who kill to preserve different landscapes.
There are some who rate certain birds as rats, fill in your space here, from wood pigeons to seagulls, they need exterminating is the cry. Crows and the whole corvid class are clever birds, and as an aside so are octupus, but they eat our crops, cause nuisances at the seaside, mess up our grouse moors, where is the right argument??
2 comments:
There is no answer really Thelma is there? I love rooks and crows - they are such intelligent birds and I am saddened by the need to kill them.
Sorry about the way you appear on my blog list - don't know how to remove it but my son will do it for me when he comes.
Don't worry, always get the experts in. Though how clever our male relatives are I wonder about. My son phoned at the weekend, 'Happy Mother's Day' says he. I gently pointed out that it was the American M/D the English one had sailed past weeks ago.
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