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Surveys conducted in the Cerrado since the 1990s show falling biodiversity as the agricultural frontier advances in the vicinity of Emas National Park. Species with biotechnological potential are dwindling and even disappearing. At night in the Cerrado, Brazil’s savanna and second-largest biome,
Maasai are being evicted from a Tanzanian wildlife paradise to make way for neocolonial land grabs by the Dubai royal family. The reason? The right to hunt unhindered for the next 30 years.
So, after the fire, some of the first things we saw were these amazing fungus that have come up, because with all of the ash, the ph has to change before other things can start to grow. and it's actually one step after another, is the way that nature does it. but that's not the way that humans usually think, you know? we want things to happen and we want them to happen much quicker than nature does. so nature's time is definitely different than people time. watch your head. like elsewhere in australia, plant and animal species on kangaroo island have evolved with fire, and although the intensi...
So, after the fire, some of the first things we saw were these amazing fungus that have come up, because with all of the ash, the ph has to change before other things can start to grow. and it's actually one step after another, is the way that nature does it. but that's not the way that humans usually think, you know? we want things to happen and we want them to happen much quicker than nature does. so nature's time is definitely different than people time. watch your head. like elsewhere in australia, plant and animal species on kangaroo island have evolved with fire, and although the intensi...
Intensity of the black summer bushfires were off the charts, renewal of the environment is already under way. you can see the termite mound is actually covered with a type of soil, and what we found was that the termites will actually mine certain chemicals from the soil, and build that into the top of their mound, and that actually makes their mounds more fire—resistant. so in some places, with the bushfire, the mounds look totally intact. you can see them with everything black and burned around them, and the mound is standing there looking like it wasn't touched. i think if you're a scient...