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Digest of Socio-Ecological Union International for October 13, 2021. №35
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Опубликовано Святослав Забелин - 13.10.21
The human right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment.
The global interactive map "Rights of Rivers".
A new agrobiodiversity zone in Peru.
Dear friends and co-fighters,
Welcome to the next issue of Positive News.
Sviatoslav Zabelin, SEU coordinator
Digest of Socio-Ecological Union International for October 13, 2021. №35
Human Rights Council. Forty-eighth session. 13 September–8 October 2021.
48/... The human right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable
environment. The Human Rights Council,
1. Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, ….
Recognizes the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a
human right that is important for the enjoyment of human rights;
2. Notes that the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment is
related to other rights that are in accordance with existing international law;
The Peruvian government established a new agrobiodiversity zone a tenth the size of its capital, Lima, high in the Andes. Here, in the Marcapata Ccollana community, the 22,679-hectare (55,800-acre) zone is home to 99 varieties of potato that flourish alongside dozens of other root vegetables and a mélange of protein-rich and pest-resistant grains. This Quechua-speaking Indigenous community of 814 people is the fourth to be recognized as an agrobiodiversity reserve by the government of Peru as part of a strategy to preserve the genetic variety of useful plants and their wild relatives where they occur.
A family from Marcapata Ccollana display their potato harvest. Image courtesy of Anahí Oroz/ACCA.
The newly protected area is the result of a joint effort by the Marcapata Ccollana community, environmental nonprofits
President Biden will restore full protection today to three
Bears Ears National Monument in Utah. T Schofield / iStock / Getty Images Plus
The decision to restore the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments will also protect the sites' stunning physical beauty and fossil record, as well as substantial Native American history.
A large swathe of the Scottish Highlands stretching between the west coast and Loch Ness is to be rewilded as part of a 30-year project to restore nature. The Affric Highlands initiative aims to increase connected habitats and species diversity over an area of 200,000 hectares (500,000 acres), incorporating Kintail mountain range, and glens Cannich, Moriston and Shiel. Plans include planting trees, enhancing river corridors, restoring peat bogs and creating nature-friendly farming practices. The project has been launched after two years of conversations and meetings between local communities and conservationists from rewilding charity Trees for Life. Similar to the
The idea of doing it at scale is that you get a much bigger natural response’ – Alan McDonnell, Trees for Life.Photograph: Chris Aldridge/Trees for Life
“This was once a much more peopled landscape that was rich with wildlife and we think we can find new ways to establish that connection again, today,” said Alan McDonnell, a conservation manager at Trees for Life, and the project leader. “The idea of doing it at scale is that you get a much bigger natural response because you’ve got room for change and dynamism in that landscape.”
Countries of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine) are taking bold action with the commitment to restore more than 4 million ha of land by 2030 under the Global Bonn Challenge. This was announced today at the
The Brazilian president
Bolsonaro is a former paratrooper who has presided over what critics call a historic onslaught against the Amazon and its indigenous inhabitants. Photograph: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters
In a
A British startup’s innovation to tackle plastic pollution by decomposing the material into a wax that’s digested by nature is making inroads in Asia.
Polymateria’s biodegradable cups. Source: Polymateria
The company has also inked a deal worth as much as $100 million to license its technology to Taiwan’s
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