Respect nature, follow nature, protect nature -- the inspiration from nature
By TIAN Yuzhao
Abstract：Mountains, waters, forest, farmland, lakes, grasslands, sand and ice is a community of life. How do we view issues such as wildfires, nature reserves, ecological restoration, ecological connectivity, environmental governance and so on from the systematic perspective of "the community of life on Earth"? How “hard” should we work on ecological governance? Is the more input, the better? Nature has an inherent, evergreen vitality, and nature-based solutions often give us a surprise. The author of this paper presents his observations and reflections on nature with unique perspectives and vivid cases, such as the self-restoration of degraded sandy land ecosystems, the high-nosed antelope (the recovery of migratory species population brought by effective protection law) and the 38th parallel in North Korea (the natural rewilding due to no human activities in more than half a century). These cases make people feel the life force of nature in the historical review, and have important reference significance and inspiration.
Keywords: Life community, respect nature, green development
TIAN Yuzhao. Respect nature, follow nature, protect nature -- the inspiration from nature. Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development. Volume 1, Issue 12. November 2022. ISSN2749-9065
Puchino Nature Reserve
Current situation of burnt land in the Puchino Nature Reserve on the banks of the Oka River
Two test sites that started 70 years ago cannot be distinguished from each other now
The desertified land after "wide planting that yields little harvest" in Xiangshan town, Zhalout Banner, Inner Mongolia
The situation of once desertified land after three years of returning cultivated land to wildland
No one has set foot in the 38th Parallel that divides North and South Korea for more than half a century.
"38th Parallel", 4 km wide narrow mountain
38th Parallel on Korean Peninsula
The sky above the 38th parallel on the Korean Peninsula, pictured in 2016