Illustration © BAFU | Pierre Dubois, collectif Marie-Louise
Whether connecting schools to farms in France, daylighting rivers in Mexico, or rewilding grasslands in Patagonia, we’re learning how to ‘do’ biodiversity well. Fifteen minute read.
This text was commissioned by the Swiss Ministry of the Environment, FOEN. It is also available online in these other languages:
German Biodiversität nach dem Bottom-up-Prinzip
Italian Biodiversità dal basso verso l’alto
French Biodiversité : une politique de terrain https://umwelt-schweiz.ch/fr/innovations/john-thackara
Chinese wuidub
“The world has failed to arrest the steep decline of nature. The world must act fast to avert catastrophe”.
These recent headlines have been dispiriting – but they are also misleading.
High Level Meetings and international summits may indeed be an imperfect model of change – but at ground level, a million positive projects tell a different story.
Whether connecting schools to farms in France, daylighting rivers in Mexico, or rewilding grasslands in Patagonia, we’re learning how to ‘do’ biodiversity well.
Ecological Restoration Camps are a notable example. More than 26,000
