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The Wildlife Trust calls for every child to have one-hour in nature each day. The Trust recently constructed a report on how nature nurtures children. The study focused on over 450 primary school children and how nature activities affected their well being. It revealed that children’s well being increased after spending time connecting with nature. Statistics showed that after their activities…
- 79% of children felt more confident in themselves after spending time in nature
- 81% of students thought they had better relationships with their teachers
- 90% of children felt they learned something new about the natural world
- 79% felt that their experience could help their school work
- 79% reported better relationships with their classmates
- 84% of children felt that they were capable of doing new things when they tried
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Conserving Traditional Seed Crops Diversity
Over the last two decades, 75% of the genetic diversity of agricultural crops has been lost; 100 to 1000-fold decrease overtime. This phenomenon results in the decrease of ecosystem abilities to provide food for people & decrease the function of other ecosystem services.
Meanwhile the crop diversity has been decreasing, the World Bank estimates that about one billion of world’s population will still live in extreme poverty in 2015. 70% of world’s poor people are living in rural areas and they are relying on the agriculture sector, particularly on traditional agricultural systems.
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An heirloom plan is an old cultivar of a plant used for food that is grown and maintained by gardeners and farmers, particularly in isolated or ethnic minority communities of the Western world. These were commonly grown during earlier periods in human history, but are not used in modern large-scale agriculture. In some parts of the world, it is illegal to sell seeds of cultivars that are not listed as approved for sale.
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"Even in one single leaf on a tree, or in one blade of grass, the awesome Deity presents itself." - Shinto Saying
