PROTECTION OF BIODIVERSITY ONE GARDEN AT A TIME
with DEBORA DIDONE from PicaFlora
ANIMAL & PLANT PROTECTION
Débora Didonê
Debora is from Sao Paolo, Brazil. She is a journalist by profession but has extensive experience in Permaculture and gardening and currently her work and vocation is to teach the communities this wonderful, important and necessary discipline.
PICA FLORA
ABOUT THE Organisation
Picaflora is an interdisciplinary and diverse network that wants to inspire communities to plant pollinating gardens and also educate people about this very important topic.
Pollinators play a crucial role in creating and maintaining healthy, viable landscapes.
Bees, flies, butterflies, beetles, hummingbirds and others are nature’s means of propagating many if not most of the world’s flowering plants. Without them, biodiversity, and the web of life itself, is existentially threatened.
Climate change, deforestation, disproportionate use of pesticides, change in land use, loss of habitats, growth of urban areas and other environmental problems are the causes of the loss of pollinator populations.
PicaFlora now leads workshops, seminars, and courses around Brasil educating children and adults about the beauty, utility, and importance of pollinators, and create a trail of pollinator gardens in their wake that add beauty, fresh air, and health to urban and industrial landscapes.
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ABOUT THE PROJECT
PicaFlora
Flowering plants depend on pollinators for their reproduction, and at the same time, humans depend on both the animals and plants to survive and thrive.
In many places – including the ever-more-developed eastern half of Brazil – pollinators have been having a tough time thanks to a toxic combination of pesticides, deforestation, overdevelopment, landscape fragmentation, and habitat destruction. In many places, their numbers are half or less of what they once were.