Peace in nature, peace with nature and the reconciliation of culture with nature. These are the aims of the First International Sculpture Symposium to be held at the Botanical Garden in Esgravatadouro, Portugal. After the tragedy of 2018, in which enormous amounts of CO2 were released into the atmosphere when more than 280 km² of forest were burned in a …
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Saturday 14th December 2024. According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, the EU’s Earth Observation Programme, this current year is set to be the warmest since records began. I couldn’t look away, for I have always kept a close eye on things, so that I also treat trees if I have to and am allowed to. When the bark beetle …
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Saturday 23rd November 2024. Jeremy Walton is 47 years old and a qualified computer technician. He went to school in Monchique and Portimão and studied in Faro. Jeremy has lived in Monchique for 42 years and has a very special hobby. He gardens and has a thing for trees and plants. Is this because he has developed an understanding of …
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Saturday 16th November 2024. Answer: Firstly, by no longer taking part in ineffective UN climate conferences, such as the one currently taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan (COP 29). On the one hand, we should stop flying*, and, on the other hand, we should systematically plant new, young trees in sensible places. Biologist Sonia Soares from Algoz practised this last Friday: …
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Saturday 9th November 2024. We recently had a very special kind of visitor. One Sunday morning, at ECO123’s botanical forest garden in Caldas de Monchique, we were visited (without being asked) by hunters with their dogs. Then the shooting started. I shouted loud and clear that they should please be considerate and stop their shooting immediately, and I was lucky. …
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Saturday 19th October 2024. Every botanical garden has something magical about it. Whenever I visit a botanical garden, I imagine that I am immersed in a magic world of trees, plants and little hidden animals. Furnas, on the island of São Miguel in the Azores, enchanted me from the very beginning. By chance, I had my swimming trunks and a …
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Saturday 20th April 2024. Do you know the beauty of wild orchids? Have you ever made a tea from lime blossom? Do you know the lavender-scented pillows that help you sleep? Those who love nature move within it carefully and, above all, mindfully. Because two feet can easily trample a valuable plant, a herb or a small, recently-planted tree. In …
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Saturday the 12th of August 2023. Gallows’ humour in our own backyard? ECO123 and the new Botanical Garden at Caldas de Monchique: it’s not that easy to be close to a forest fire and write a story about possible solutions to climate change. Where should this story begin, and where can it end? Baiona, Alentejo. A barbecue triggers this gigantic …
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Saturday the 15th of July 2023. Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the use of fossil fuels has released enormous quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. This is a gas that reduces heat reflection from the Earth, leading to the rise in temperatures on our planet. Every year sees the addition of several billions of tons of carbon …
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Saturday 1st July 2023. This story begins with the loss of woodlands. The error that is committed (not only) in Monchique is probably that the forest, ie nature, is always only viewed as a commercial space. This means that any investment in forests has to yield a profit, for otherwise this investment is not worth our while. Now this refers …
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