WORLD TREE NEWS

Traditional custodians of sacred sites met to create a guideline to respect and ensure the future of the children of humans and all species on Earth.

To scientists from the universities of Oxford and of Basel started a database project to record Sacred Natural Sites for research and future conservation.

A global programme to protect sacred sites and their biodiversity as well as cultural practices from industrialization, urbanization, and tourism has begun.

The return of the oldest method of habitat protection on Earth: to honour and respect a place or an area as “sacred ground” (= untouchable, taboo).

After prayers of the U'wa tribe in Colombia an entire oil field disappeared and 100 million US dollars of excavation spendings could not bring it back.

For the U'wa, an indigenous people in northeastern Colombia, oil is the blood of the Earth, and to extract it is equivalent to committing matricide.