Holistic Nature Protection Projects: Extraordinary Engagement for Nature
More and more people are realizing, that they can’t watch nature is being destroyed, but have to take action themselves. For this reason, there are more and more Holistic Nature Protection Projects and Private Organizations, which help restoring nature and rescue animals, mostly financed by donations, but also with public money.
Many of them work with local authorities or international institutions, who prosecute criminal activities against nature and animals. These activities show, that we live in a time, where humanity is getting more conscious, which allow cooperation between different countries and cultures with a uniting effect. This is how NEW EARTH is created.
Holistic Nature Protection Projects: The amazing Sea Shepards
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is an international, non-profit and independent organization dedicated to protect biodiversity and marine ecosystems. Based in Friday Harbor, Washington, the organization focuses on protecting the oceans, combating illegal fishing, preventing the killing of marine mammals, turtles and wild salmon, and fighting against marine pollution.
Sea Shepherd was founded in 1977 by Paul Watson, who had previously co-founded the environmental organization Greenpeace, but left after a dispute. In 1978, the organization acquired its first ship, which cared for baby seals and sprayed their fur with insoluble ecological colors.
This organization, who are having real Holistic Nature Protection Projects, regularly uncovers illegal whale fishing activities and driftnet fishing and also helps the animals, when petroleum leaks from damaged oil tankers or pipelines. Now there are already 20 country groups. To coordinate this, the international marine conservation organization Sea Shepherd Global was founded.
Since 2016, Sea Shepherd Global has worked with national authorities and regional partners to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and fisheries crime in African waters. Successful campaigns have already been carried out in collaboration with authorities in Gabon, São Tomé and Príncipe, Liberia, Benin, Gambia, Namibia, Sierra Leone and Tanzania.
With their „Direct Actions“, they only take action against illegal activities, in order to ensure the maintenance of marine protection laws, if state executive forces do not take action due to a lack of political will or insufficient economic resources. On the high seas, far away from the eyes of international authorities, protective laws often only exist on paper. Poachers plunder our seas with impunity, disregard marine protected areas and evade any control regarding catch quotas, by-catches or violations of species protection.
Sea Shepherd observe closely, what is going on in the oceans and work together with law enforcement agencies like INTERPOL and governments around the world, to stop crimes against the ocean and its inhabitants and bring poachers to justice.
There are also very generous donors, who provide the organization with material, like a ship, for example. This present came from the company Dr. Bronner’s in 2017. Founded in 1948, the family business Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps is a well-known American manufacturer of certified organic and fair trade cosmetic products based in California. Dr. Bronner is German and is considered a pioneer of natural cosmetics. By the way, it is the largest American manufacturer of natural soaps. This is how Holistic Nature Protection Projects should look like.
Holistic Nature Protection Projects: Ocean cleaning with Silicone
Microplastics contaminate our planet, especially our oceans. According to scientists there are at least 14 millions tons of microplastic along with other plastic waste from clothes, toys, bottles, household goods, decoration items or beauty products in our oceans. The Good News is, that there are many innovative technologies to clean our planet from plastic particles of any size. On of them has been invented by a German company called Wasser 3.0, who developed a hybrid silica gel, which sticks to he microplastic particles.
The gel is from silicone-based chemicals called Organosilanes, which bind the plastic and forms clusters big as snowballs. The polluted water flows into small pools, which contain propellers and create a vortex. The whirling of the water allows the Organosilanes to remove microplastic in a few minutes.
It seems that Wasser 3.0 established a simple and quite cheap method to clean the oceans. Dr. Katrin Schuhen, the founder of Wasser 3.0 from Landau-Mörlheim in Germany, explained, that the process is non-toxic and can be used in any kind of water, from freshwater and seawater to industrial and waste water. Other methods for microplastics removal such as membrane filtration are more expensive. The company is a not for-profit institution and reinvest into research. “Our mission is to keep the world’s water supply safe,” says Schuhen.
Holistic Nature Protection Projects: Sadhana Forest
Sadhana Forest is a sustainable reforestation and nature care project, founded in 2003 by Aviram Rozin and his family in Auroville, India. In addition to Auroville, there are other locations in India, Haiti and Kenya. The main goal of this organization is the reforestation and replanting in different regions of the world. Thousands of trees and plants will be planted to restore local biodiversity in areas, which have suffered from extreme climate and human intervention. This way the quality of the soil improves and rainwater can be stored better, which raises the groundwater level and ultimately provides more pure drinking water.
Holistic Nature Care as practiced by the Sadhana Forest Project, includes leaving the smallest possible ecological footprint with their activities with a natural vegan diet or the use of natural products and materials in daily life and for buildings. Sadhana Forest is primarily made up of volunteers, mostly young people from all over the world, who want to experience Holistic Nature Care and living in community of like minded people.
Their work is about cultivating the soil, planting trees and plants, setting up water irrigation systems and participate in activities, which are strengthening the community. There is hardly a better example of what Holistic Nature Care practically means. The philosophy in Sadhana Forest’s is to share everything with each other. Everyone is seen as equal and works for the community. Life takes place in harmony with nature. They sleep in selfmade huts, made of branches and leaves, and the nutrition is plant based, some of the food has been grown by themselves.
The Sadhana Forest organization is funded primarily by donation from individuals but also from various international organizations. People and institutions from the neighborhood are involved by using the existing infrastructure like roads, transport facilities, shops and markets. The organization also offers workshops, training courses and programs on sustainable agriculture, ecological building and holistic living in a community for the local population, for new members and for guests.
With all their educational programs, job creation and activities, Sadhana Forest improves the quality of life at all locations. This great environmental project for Holistic Nature Protection has a model character and even the organizational structures can be adopted by other organizations worldwide.
Holistic Nature Protection Projects: Sadhana Forest Locations:
India (Auroville):
The first and largest site focused on reforestation of the dry forests of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Haiti:
Another project started in 2010 to improve food security with permaculture gardens and reforestation in an earthquake-affected region.
Kenya:
A project in the semi-arid Samburu region, focusing on reforestation and access to clean drinking water.
