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reasonsforhope · 10 months

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In 2016, when the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) signed a peace agreement with the Colombian government, scientists realized that the rainforests, mountains, and savannahs, out of which the FARC waged a 50-year guerrilla war, and which were counted among the most biodiverse and least-explored places on earth, were suddenly safe to explore.

In Colombia, a few biologists who longed to journey to the heart of these places also saw them as the perfect way to bring 14,000 former guerrillas back into society in a meaningful way that would benefit not only them, but the country’s stunning biodiversity.

Colombia is often referred to as the world’s most biodiverse country. Although this is a hard thing to designate since many species around the world of all kinds remain undiscovered, she does lay claim to the most bird species anywhere on earth – both endemic and migratory.

Who better to help protect Colombia’s wild spaces than those who know them best, thought Jaime Góngora, a wildlife geneticist at the University of Sydney but who is originally from Colombia.

Góngora now leads a group of researchers from the United Kingdom, Australia, and 10 different Colombian scientific institutions in a program to train ex‑guerrillas to study Colombia’s native plants and animals, which to date has uncovered nearly 100 previously-unknown species.

Peace with Nature

Peace with Nature is the result of these scientists working together with guerillas to help protect Colombia’s biodiversity and aid in the post-conflict situation for thousands of people, 84% of whom, according to Góngora, are interested in pursuing, of all things, river habitat restoration as their post-conflict career path.

Góngora and his colleagues are only too happy to help, and Peace with Nature began hosting citizen scientist workshops to help train eager folks how to find, identify, catalogue, and study wild plants, insects, birds, amphibians, and more.

The preparation work was long and hard – between 15 and 18 months according to Góngora...

“In some of the workshops, we have the presence of the police and military forces along with the ex-combatants,” explains Góngora. “I think what has surprised me most is the opportunity that biodiversity offers for reconciliation and healing after an armed conflict. These workshops have been spaces for a respectful dialogue about biodiversity and nature.”"

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-via World at Large, 7/13/20

Note: Video is half in English, half in Spanish. Spanish subtitles for English parts only.

#older news but still relevant #colombia #farc #civil war #conflicts and war #conflict #nature #biodiversity #inaturalist #citizen science #forestry #amazon #amazon rainforest #good news #hope #hope posting #Youtube

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cimerran-714 · 5 months

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without-ado · 2 years

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"PUT THIS IN THE HISTORY BOOKS FOR 2020-202(2)."

l Will Santino l MichellCClark

#life #pandemic #covid 19 #coronavirus #conflicts and war #natural disasters #cartoon #climate change #global issues #art #cartoons #economic crisis #will santino #family problems

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warcrimerapist · 1 year

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Z soldiers

#war in ukraine #russo ukrainian war #russian war in ukraine #war aesthetic #russia #donbass #ukraine war #conflicts and war #russiaukraine #russia ukraine war #ukraine #soldat russe #armée russe #russian soldier

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glassesonmyeyes · 1 year

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Well... I.... I....can't just....

How can Miller possibly compare two totally different things with each other, like how DEATH can be beautiful and how LOVE can be thrilling?

How are they similar? Is Death is love? Or love is death? Does love brings death? Or Death gives love?

But more importantly how these lines exist, how am I suppose to ever live in the world knowing that no one will ever love me like PATROCLUS LOVED ACHILLES, or ACHILLES BURNED THE WORLD FOR HIM!!!?

How do I act normal??????

(I completed reading this, but with so much of bittersweetness)

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thetalamhclisteach · 7 months

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Getting meta, or maybe simply analytical.

#wrought-rot #joke post #conflicts and war #internal conflict #I don’t think this counts as a meme #Unless it does #Also maybe spoilers?#my poor attempt at a joke

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jaysc0ve · 1 year

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"But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late.”

“Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony--Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?"

- Erich Maria Remarque.

#quotes #quote #conflicts and war #war quotes #all quiet on the western front

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yashenka · 1 year

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#sketch #darkwave #ww2 #war aesthetic #uniform #conflicts and war #wolfenstein

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poeticjunkyard · 1 year

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There comes a time when all your outlets are blocked, as with wax. You sit in your room, feeling the prickling ache in your body which constricts your throat, tightens dangerously in little tear pockets behind your eyes. One word, one gesture, and all that is pent up in you - festered resentments, gangrenous jealousies, superfluous desires unfulfilled - all that will burst out of you in angry impotent tears - in embarrassed sobbing and blubbering to no one in particular. No arms will enfold you, no voice will say, "There, There. Sleep and forget."

-Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

#dark academia #quotes #reading #excerpts #hozier #aesthetic #dark aesthetic #vintage #griefjourney #loneliest #thoughts #conflicts and war #overthinking

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chill-bill76 · 1 year

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#conflicts and war #dream #hamburg

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animalmothereff · 1 year

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Love a good discouraged medic

#whump #whump community #field medicine #medicine #injury #war whump #conflicts and war #gif

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cimerran-714 · 6 months

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Hamas has admitted that they want to kill Jews. That's all it's about. They've admitted it loud and proudly. It's very simple: they hate Israel, and they want to murder civilians. If you refuse to believe the evidence that it's in front of you, that's your problem.

I'll say it again: citizens getting killed are bad on both sides, but Hamas the government is a terrorist organization. They don't deserve any sympathy.

#israel #israel palestine conflict #palestinians #gaza #this is genocide #isreal #anti war #conflicts and war #war crimes #free palestine

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creativitytoexplore · 2 years

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A barrier of fear has been broken in Iran. The regime may be at a point of no return | CNN

CNN — A woman dressed in black raises a framed portrait of her son, Siavash Mahmoudi, in the air as she paces the sidewalk in Iran’s capital, Tehran. “I am not scared of anyone. They told me to be silent. I will not be,” the woman seen in a viral social media video yells, her voice fraught with emotion. “I will carry my son’s picture everywhere. They killed him.” Mahmoudi’s mother is among…