Our Future in Nature:: Trees, Spirituality, and Ecology
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This book is about the importance of sacred trees and groves in our stress-filled and increasingly urban world. (Note that over 50 percent of the world is urban.) Sacred trees and sacred groves transcend race, color, and creed. They are found all over our fragile planet. Where there is a tree, there is a sacred tree.
This book will appeal to religious and spiritual traditions as well as to conservation and environmental movements. It will offer its reader means to take better care of our only home—planet Earth. Often undervalued, unrecognized, or disrespected, sacred trees and groves are conserved against mind-boggling pressures. For example, there is a sacred fig tree between two shops in one of the main streets in Hanoi, Vietnam. There is also a one-hectare sacred grove in the center of Kumasi, a city of 2.5 million people in Ghana; the over 150,000 sacred groves in India; and the sacred hill forests of every village in Yunnan, South China.
Sacred trees and groves often conserve unique biodiversity, which can help create or recreate connectivity in the landscape. As such, sacred trees and groves may be relic survivors of bygone ages and are an important resource for restoring degraded natural landscapes. This book offers ways for those involved with religion and spirituality and for those working with conservation and land use to jointly engage in repairing the damage we have done to Earth.
Edmund Barrow
Edmund grew up on an organic farm in Ireland, and went to Trinity College Dublin where he studied natural sciences. He has a Masters degree in development. Edmund has worked for over 40 years, mainly in Africa (but also in Asia, and the Americas), in 20+ countries focusing on how communities conserve and benefit from nature. He emphasizes local learning in terms of governance, empowerment, benefit sharing, natural resource management, and the more spiritual aspects of nature. This includes the importance of local and indigenous knowledge. He has extensive experience with participatory approaches to environmental management, village-level land use planning at landscape levels and forest landscape restoration. Edmund has published widely emphasising practical lessons to enable people benefit from conservation. He lives in Nairobi, Kenya with his wife and two sons.
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