A tree may die standing as a snag to crumble and fall piecemeal to the forest floor over decades, or it may fall directly to the forest floor as a whole tree. How a tree dies, is important to the productive sustainability of the forest because its manner of death determines the structura...
The sound of wood chimes, the fluttering of ephemera hung in the branches, hardly visible, set as they are against stillness, brings a moment of suspense. Then the girl returns to her place under the tree. Facing its trunk, she takes up her violin and resumes the lament previously ...
The Northwest Territories has been the homeland of Indigenous people for time immemorial. Here, ways of life and cultures are as old as the land itself. Indigenous experiences are the enduring heart of the Northwest Territories’ timeless land and they make it as unique as the people who call...
To allow comparisonsamong notions of traditional ecological knowledge, evolutionary-ecological sciences, andenvironmental ethics, I focus in two well known metaphors: the "tree of life" and the "web oflife." The analysis of the first metaphor allows us to conclude that both modern...
This is not to say that indigenous people are somehow outside these ways of life; however, they have consistently resisted our attempts at assimilation and resource exploitation. They have maintained and revitalized their own ways of life, and have refused to be incorporated into the fold of ...
ancient pigs.BThe Fstresults between Chinese domestic pigs and other pig populations across Eurasia.CThe Fstresults among different Chinese domestic pig populations.DThe genetic clustering analysis of pigs across Eurasian.EThe phylogenetic tree of Chinese domestic pigs.FThe nucleotide diversity for Chines...
and growth. The Jewish people are an outstanding instance of a group of people who returned to their ancient homeland in order to revive their communal life and renew their biblical language, traditional calendar, and religious rituals. They even gained independence and re-established a Jewish sove...
box, identified as a “directions tree” by the Djab Wurrung, who two years ago set up a protest camp � the Djab Wurrung heritage protection embassy � to save the trees. Placentas were once mixed with seed and buried beneath directions trees, tying them to a child�s life. ...
As you enter the park, you walk down a tree-lined path, past picnic shelters until you get to the visitor center where, upstairs, you’ll find large petroglyph on display.One of these petroglyph is etched in limestone, unlike the rest that are etched in granite. There also has a beautif...
Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research Janet Smylie 399 Accesses Definition Globally, no universal definition of Indigenous peoples has been accepted (World Health Organization [WHO], 2007). Being able to define one’s community on one’s own terms is a central part of self-...