The Environment, Culture and Prosperity
The Environment, Culture and Prosperity
The Healing Capacity Of the Indigenous Nature
- The height of the countries' noble prosperity and refinement of civilization in different cultures and parts of the world indicate an inexorable connection between an in-depth knowledge of natural science and the specific culture's health with its prosperity. Without a doubt, a healthy relationship is seen with this rule, even in other sciences. Still, it is particularly evident in natural science, as this is so close to human health, well-being and their necessary foundation of know-how.
- The natural health and fertile beauty of this indigenous Juniper forest (40) illuminates with precision its healing capacity and its importance for water preservation. However, the loss of a native forest also warns of the severe Nature and habitat destruction that occurred with the introduction of the Eucalyptus tree.
- The natural health and fertile beauty of this indigenous Juniper forest (40) illuminates with precision its healing capacity and its importance for water preservation. However, the loss of a native forest also warns of the severe Nature and habitat destruction that occurred with the introduction of the Eucalyptus tree.
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| The Nature of Rains and Erosion |
- A foreign and tactically chemical component in the Eucalyptus tree causes severe erosion, easily observed in the water running through Addis Ababa in connection with the rainy seasons. For every rain period, the layer of fertile soil gets thinner. If nothing is done now, nothing will be left for new vegetation in a couple of years, and the erosion will be irreversible.
- Erosion: Because the tactical toxins of the Eucalyptus tree have eradicated the natural ground cover, the only thing to hold the soil is the sporadic web of roots of these Australian Eucalyptus tree trees. Therefore, the soil-holding capacity of Eucalyptus is very moderate compared with the indigenous trees initially covering the slopes of Entoto.
- When the new indigenous forest has grown for some years and action has been taken to halt the erosion, the risk of flooding will be eliminated due to soil and infiltration of water (permeability) capacity well above today's situation. Due to a possible future return of native forests, a balance could be obtained between the constraints of the landscape and the land use by man, in which the spontaneous introduction of new animals will enrich the present wildlife.
An Origin of Health and Prosperity
The Forgotten Cradle of Wealth & Beauty
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| The Native Podocarpus & Rosa abyssinica |
An Evolutionary Legacy from Times of Natural Wealth.
This peculiarity in seed design of setting kernels to sprout underneath a protective shield of dense undergrowth has its evolutionary origin in prehistoric lushness. This tree grows the young seed with an exposed stem and highly sensitive stalk. This unique way of the seedlings' first greenery deducts their origin from the beginning of these trees' (evolution) and in epochs long before any human culture or species.
Natural Soils of the Past.
Through this evolutionary prehistory, these seed stalks and kernels were naturally received with a moist, typically loose and absorbing soil (humus) and a dense protective undergrowth that could hide and shield these tender, exposed, vertically raised kernel stalks.
A Beautiful Memory that Attracts Modern Science and Art.
With glowing passion and warmth, it is still spoken among the residents of Entoto about when the water level a reasonable time after the rainy season still stood one metre higher. It is thus quite close to the time when Entoto's mountain massif and its canyons could carry significantly higher water quantity and, therefore, supply the population in the capital with fresh water to a much greater extent. This beautiful memory is still very vivid today, with the profound history of Entoto's rock-sheltered streams and enchanting nature rock baths.
Benefits from the Establishment of the Park
Without any doubt, a healthy relationship is essential for human health and real Nature. Indeed, deeply interconnected phenomena to human identity within the World, Nature reveal its overwhelming influence on human well-being. Since the natural environment regarding humans often appears as the real core of human health, it is particularly evident due to its impact on human health and prosperity. However, a development from antiquity of the insidious hierarchical governing of the past caused scares among many nations. Therefore, it appears to be the most important to healing the wrongdoings of the past and amending the devastating humiliation of degraded health, thus repairing and delivering the population's most critical need for safe stimulus in a beautiful daily life.
The Healing Capacity of an Indigenous Forest
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| Benefits from the Establishment of the Park |
A Legacy Of Natural Importance
The natural health and fertile beauty in this indigenous Juniper forest illuminate with precision the healing ability of a native forest and the severe Nature and habitat destruction that occurred at the introduction of the Eucalyptus tree. Due to these shortcomings in the water-preserving capacity of the Eucalyptus plantation, it cannot counterbalance the uneven distribution of rain. This eucalyptus poisoning of the ground creates a devastating water-rejecting fabric of the upper soil layer, all too often followed by torrential flooding in the down-slope areas.
Nature History & Environmental Science
The healing capacity of an indigenous forest
- The importance of careful research regarding knowledge in natural science is given a severe and evident example before any foreign species is regarded as possible for an introduction into an unfamiliar and vulnerable habitat. A chemical component in the leaves and roots of Eucalyptus trees prevents the growth of both other Ethiopian trees and herbs. This chemical component leads to a monoculture with Eucalyptus as the only tree species and eventually no ground cover.
The Torrential Rains & Erosion
[Foreign Chemical]This chemical component in the foreign Australian Eucalyptus tree causes severe erosion, easily observed in the water running through Addis in connection with the rainy seasons. For every rain period, the layer of fertile soil gets thinner. If nothing is done now, nothing will be left for new vegetation in a couple of years, and the erosion will be irreversible.
Nature History & Environmental Science
The healing capacity of an indigenous forest
- The importance of careful research regarding knowledge in natural science is given a severe and evident example before any foreign species is regarded as possible for an introduction into an unfamiliar and vulnerable habitat. A chemical component in the leaves and roots of Eucalyptus trees prevents the growth of both other Ethiopian trees and herbs. This chemical component leads to a monoculture with Eucalyptus as the only tree species and eventually no ground cover.
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| The Torrential Rains & Erosion |
Erosion: Because there is no ground cover, the only thing to hold the soil is the web of roots of the trees. The soil-holding capacity of Eucalyptus is very moderate compared with the trees initially covering the slopes of Entoto. Videos: Soil Erosion Demo
Pinterest: Ethiopia's Work and Obligations
The Environmental Restoration With Native Trees
The Indigenous Juniper and Podocarpus trees
- The fact that the Podocarpus falcatus (P. gracilior) tree is related to Juniper appears with clarity, and it is in this context difficulties arise with the seed's vulnerability. The Podocarpus tree seed and its stem are considerably longer than the corresponding comparison with the Juniper tree seed and hence higher and more vulnerable to climates and grazing animals. (The picture below shows indigenous Juniper Seedlings in the front and the Podocarpus in the Background).
Trees from Dreams' Forgotten Aeons
Adorn a Gorgeous Landscape
- The fact that the Podocarpus falcatus (P. gracilior) tree is related to Juniper appears with clarity, and it is in this context difficulties arise with the seed's vulnerability. The Podocarpus tree seed and its stem are considerably longer than the corresponding comparison with the Juniper tree seed and hence higher and more vulnerable to climates and grazing animals. (The picture below shows indigenous Juniper Seedlings in the front and the Podocarpus in the Background).
Trees from Dreams' Forgotten Aeons
Adorn a Gorgeous Landscape
Environment and ProsperityThe indigenous Podocarpus falcatus (P. gracilior) tree is scarce at Entoto and does not appear to compete with the Eucalyptus planted surroundings. It seems that it is no longer possible to give surviving progeny in the barren, eroded, exposed lands that have been formed since the introduction of the alien eucalyptus tree over a hundred years ago.
- However, much work has been done to re-form an upper soil layer with a protective undergrowth. It would be a very significant surprise to receive information about a new generation of this highly blessed historic tree, which still grows in a magical, graceful, and appealing landscape.
- This tree has an exposed and sensitive seed-laying design opposite its otherwise healthy, rugged seed coat, including its fruit (cones). Here, it's nut-like dry; last year's pendants decorate the mighty mother trees with their seed (cones) in ancient-looking packaging that surround and protect the very fertile seeds and provide inspiring, sophisticated memories from last year's season.
[ The Dangerous ]
Implantation of Alien Life Forms
A Massive Loss of Public Health and Drinking Water
Environment and Prosperity
The indigenous Podocarpus falcatus (P. gracilior) tree is scarce at Entoto and does not appear to compete with the Eucalyptus planted surroundings. It seems that it is no longer possible to give surviving progeny in the barren, eroded, exposed lands that have been formed since the introduction of the alien eucalyptus tree over a hundred years ago.
- However, much work has been done to re-form an upper soil layer with a protective undergrowth. It would be a very significant surprise to receive information about a new generation of this highly blessed historic tree, which still grows in a magical, graceful, and appealing landscape.
- This tree has an exposed and sensitive seed-laying design opposite its otherwise healthy, rugged seed coat, including its fruit (cones). Here, it's nut-like dry; last year's pendants decorate the mighty mother trees with their seed (cones) in ancient-looking packaging that surround and protect the very fertile seeds and provide inspiring, sophisticated memories from last year's season.
[ The Dangerous ]
Implantation of Alien Life Forms
A Massive Loss of Public Health and Drinking Water
The Eucalyptus Tree and its Tactical Toxicity.
A chemical component with an intricate competition-oriented toxic defence system in the leaves and roots of Eucalyptus trees prevents the growth of other trees and herbs. This chemical component leads to a monoculture with Eucalyptus as the only tree species and eventually no ground cover. This chemical component causes severe erosion, easily observed in the water running through Addis, connected with the rainy seasons.
The Environmental danger of the Eucalyptus tree. Due to these shortcomings in the water-preserving capacity of the Eucalyptus plantation, it cannot counterbalance the uneven distribution of rain. The result is often torrential flooding in the down-slope areas, in this case, the northern district of Addis Ababa. In August 1994, it created a fatal danger because of overwhelming and sudden flooding.
Conclusion and Wonderful Solution
The Eucalyptus Tree and its Tactical Toxicity.
A chemical component with an intricate competition-oriented toxic defence system in the leaves and roots of Eucalyptus trees prevents the growth of other trees and herbs. This chemical component leads to a monoculture with Eucalyptus as the only tree species and eventually no ground cover. This chemical component causes severe erosion, easily observed in the water running through Addis, connected with the rainy seasons.
A chemical component with an intricate competition-oriented toxic defence system in the leaves and roots of Eucalyptus trees prevents the growth of other trees and herbs. This chemical component leads to a monoculture with Eucalyptus as the only tree species and eventually no ground cover. This chemical component causes severe erosion, easily observed in the water running through Addis, connected with the rainy seasons.
The Environmental danger of the Eucalyptus tree.
Due to these shortcomings in the water-preserving capacity of the Eucalyptus plantation, it cannot counterbalance the uneven distribution of rain. The result is often torrential flooding in the down-slope areas, in this case, the northern district of Addis Ababa. In August 1994, it created a fatal danger because of overwhelming and sudden flooding.Conclusion and Wonderful Solution
The stalk of the native Podocarpus tree's seed is considerably more significant in height at an early stage of its soil germination than the equivalent of the Juniper tree seed. Because the Podocarpus tree has the uniqueness of raising its appetizing greenery to the sensitively exposed height of its brittle stems, an excellent and traditional solution arises thanks to the sharp thorn defence of Rosa abyssinica:
The stalk of the native Podocarpus tree's seed is considerably more significant in height at an early stage of its soil germination than the equivalent of the Juniper tree seed. Because the Podocarpus tree has the uniqueness of raising its appetizing greenery to the sensitively exposed height of its brittle stems, an excellent and traditional solution arises thanks to the sharp thorn defence of Rosa abyssinica:
Psychopathy Against the Population
Due to this background of shortcomings in knowledge within international cultures, reoccurring through history follows a deterioration of the environment. This destruction of the environment occurs because an ignorant, nefariously fabricated elite demands supremacy in overwhelming megalomania with the delusion of grandeur. Thus, the leaders of these dictatorships created their businesses in reluctance for the temporary costs regarding the concerns for humans and the country and, maybe most devastating, reproduced their psychopathic genes of terror.
The History of the Environment
Humankind's Concealed HeritageFrom antiquity, this human factor of fear has been a specific part of the human genome, working within the prehistoric emotional trigger DNA mechanisms. This ancient DNA provided humankind with the most vital part of the human surviving oriented genome intended as a crucial defence mechanism against dangerous predators or fatal cataclysms. The historical autocracies' despotism directed the most sinister threat of despotic manipulation and deadlocks against the suffering inhabitants, thus intuitively using the threat of an ancient DNA.
Due to this background of shortcomings in knowledge within international cultures, reoccurring through history follows a deterioration of the environment. This destruction of the environment occurs because an ignorant, nefariously fabricated elite demands supremacy in overwhelming megalomania with the delusion of grandeur. Thus, the leaders of these dictatorships created their businesses in reluctance for the temporary costs regarding the concerns for humans and the country and, maybe most devastating, reproduced their psychopathic genes of terror.
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| The History of the Environment |
Humankind's Concealed Heritage
From antiquity, this human factor of fear has been a specific part of the human genome, working within the prehistoric emotional trigger DNA mechanisms. This ancient DNA provided humankind with the most vital part of the human surviving oriented genome intended as a crucial defence mechanism against dangerous predators or fatal cataclysms. The historical autocracies' despotism directed the most sinister threat of despotic manipulation and deadlocks against the suffering inhabitants, thus intuitively using the threat of an ancient DNA.
Ethiopia's Unique Highland Landscape and Climate
Regarding Ethiopia's unique climate in the seasons, with months of heavy downpours over the country's characteristic rugged landscape topography followed by months of blistering sunshine, difficulties naturally arise for the survival of planted saplings. The long prehistoric Nature's evolutionary optimized stability in sheer strength and water absorption found in the original native vegetation is thus often impossible to recreate with a simple planting of fragile young seedlings. Therefore, Ethiopia's neglected indigenous Nature demands knowledge and work before any sign of evident healing of the country's Nature and freshwater conservation. Consequently, it is often associated with incredible frustration to recreate healthy landscape biotopes by replanting native young plants on exposed eroded mountain slopes and devastated high plateaus. Instead, sporadically planted young plants will require tender care with irrigation and protection against grazing animals and shade from season months of midday's mercilessly blistering sunshine. This recreation of Nature's shielding functions needs, thus, the devoted work of restoration to regain the guardian effect from a lost indigenous forest with its endemic vegetation of shielding undergrowth.
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Human and Nature in Harmony |
A Classic Castle at the Spring Sources
The commonly occurring check dams represent an opportunity to recreate an environment that fits almost idealistically for people and Nature. For example, placing a building like Fasilides Bath next to a stream on the high plateau would provide Nature with a fantastic water supply. However, in contrast to the water technology of check dams in ordinary, historic buildings, like Fasilides Bath in the picture to the right, would join as a water contribution to the surrounding landscape but also with the attraction's capacity as the most beautiful location for facilities. With dramatically classic architecture, this magnificent Castle lodge with a restaurant among the water entices fantasies and dreams in the cosiest and hiking-friendly surroundings within and for Nature of the wilderness.
The Complications Of Indigenous Forest Restoration
Thus, it is impossible to recreate a stable and healthy nature by replanting a few native trees on a devastated plateau; instead, these sporadically planted young plants on the table will require tender care with irrigation and protection against grazing animals and shade from the blistering seasonal sun. Furthermore, on the slopes, these young plants most often need some temporary stabilizer of the ground and protection in something that mimics the wind and sun-protective effect of many mother trees. In addition, sporadically placed young plants can only offer a very rudimentary and weak protective network against erosion; instead, there is the obvious risk that these young plants will, in all probability, soon perish in the struggle against the great forces of Nature.
Thus, it is impossible to recreate a stable and healthy nature by replanting a few native trees on a devastated plateau; instead, these sporadically planted young plants on the table will require tender care with irrigation and protection against grazing animals and shade from the blistering seasonal sun. Furthermore, on the slopes, these young plants most often need some temporary stabilizer of the ground and protection in something that mimics the wind and sun-protective effect of many mother trees. In addition, sporadically placed young plants can only offer a very rudimentary and weak protective network against erosion; instead, there is the obvious risk that these young plants will, in all probability, soon perish in the struggle against the great forces of Nature.
The Precarious and Fragile Restoration Of the Lost Nature
Scientific research, which includes much time and labour for environmental restoration, demands massive protection projects to offer the young plants the replacement for the lost biotope and its vital natural protective properties. Hence, restoring a lost biotope is complicated and requires much work to recreate a reliable substitute for the missing shielding armour of the primaeval forest. Therefore, due to a century of toxins from the foreign eucalyptus tree and the absence of the endemic protective functions of mother trees and other native plants, enormous efforts are required to recreate these guardian functions for the tender indigenous seedlings, which otherwise do not survive the very exposed ground.
Scientific research, which includes much time and labour for environmental restoration, demands massive protection projects to offer the young plants the replacement for the lost biotope and its vital natural protective properties. Hence, restoring a lost biotope is complicated and requires much work to recreate a reliable substitute for the missing shielding armour of the primaeval forest. Therefore, due to a century of toxins from the foreign eucalyptus tree and the absence of the endemic protective functions of mother trees and other native plants, enormous efforts are required to recreate these guardian functions for the tender indigenous seedlings, which otherwise do not survive the very exposed ground.
The Science of Indigenous Ancient Trees
DNA Selections of Seeds
(Oxford Academic)
Choosing the Right Mother Tree for Seed
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| DNA Selections of Seeds (Oxford Academic) |
Choosing the Right Mother Tree for Seed
The distant location but within the same country, developed fauna and flora have undergone an extremely long evolutionary optimization to best adapt to the unique condition of its geological and surrounding genetic characteristics. The unique habitat in a particular region within a country imprinted the native indigenous to receive their distinctive property of plant and wildlife depending on the remoteness unique climate.
The Importance of Seed's Evolutionary HeritageHence, due to this isolated location on a country's mountainside or within its secluded gorge, the endemic tree created the specificity of their genetic heritage and the soil's uniqueness. Therefore, the trees' evolutionary connection to a country's landscape makes a precious legacy for their seeds, which inherit well-adapted genetic characteristics to the location's biological uniqueness.
The distant location but within the same country, developed fauna and flora have undergone an extremely long evolutionary optimization to best adapt to the unique condition of its geological and surrounding genetic characteristics. The unique habitat in a particular region within a country imprinted the native indigenous to receive their distinctive property of plant and wildlife depending on the remoteness unique climate.
Hence, due to this isolated location on a country's mountainside or within its secluded gorge, the endemic tree created the specificity of their genetic heritage and the soil's uniqueness. Therefore, the trees' evolutionary connection to a country's landscape makes a precious legacy for their seeds, which inherit well-adapted genetic characteristics to the location's biological uniqueness.
Assessing Seeds Based on the Climate Zones of the Country
Hence, the genetic legacy's impact in Ethiopia's various climates and altitudes creates trees that, although belonging to the same species, developed a difference in genetic heritage to deal with these different climate zones. Thus, the mistake of using the seed from a tree with its genetic origin from a moist and shady gorge as seedlings on a dry southern slope undermines these trees' ability to survive and other organisms, including humans.
Hence, the genetic legacy's impact in Ethiopia's various climates and altitudes creates trees that, although belonging to the same species, developed a difference in genetic heritage to deal with these different climate zones. Thus, the mistake of using the seed from a tree with its genetic origin from a moist and shady gorge as seedlings on a dry southern slope undermines these trees' ability to survive and other organisms, including humans.
The Science of Ancient Trees
The Sciences of Ancient Trees
The Scientific Importance of Old and Ancient Trees
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The Ethiopian Heritage Trust
The organization, Ethiopian Heritage Trust, is devoted to restoring Ethiopia's indigenous Nature and sincerely preserving the country's precious cultural heritage. With high priority, the Ethiopian Heritage Trust laid the ground for understanding the importance of an indigenous forest's effect on the country's natural health. The organization's work with planting native saplings illuminates the landscape's healing capacity with precision thanks to this native forest. The toxic eucalyptus tree imprints the importance of careful research regarding knowledge in natural science. Such a history of incompatible species gives an intense and evident example as a warning before introducing foreign species into unique and vulnerable habitats.
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Plant a tree with Inside Ethiopia Tours
Inside Ethiopia, Tours invites you to be part of an unforgettable experience in Entoto Natural Park. We will meet in our office, located in Kazanchis (just in front of the UNECA back entrance), and our guide will accompany you in the local taxis up to the mountain. This is an excellent opportunity for you to experience Ethiopian commuting.
Once we arrive on Entoto Mountain, where the capital city was first founded in 1886, you will undoubtedly feel like having mentholated topical ointment. We want to promote indigenous seedling planting in Ethiopia by contributing to the Ethiopian Green Legacy.
Erosion Prevention Ideas: https://www.pinterest.com/entoto0351/_saved/
The Science of Indigenous Ancient Trees:
Terracing Inside Ethiopia, Tours invites you to be part of an unforgettable experience in Entoto Natural Park. We will meet in our office, located in Kazanchis (just in front of the UNECA back entrance), and our guide will accompany you in the local taxis up to the mountain. This is an excellent opportunity for you to experience Ethiopian commuting.
Once we arrive on Entoto Mountain, where the capital city was first founded in 1886, you will undoubtedly feel like having mentholated topical ointment. We want to promote indigenous seedling planting in Ethiopia by contributing to the Ethiopian Green Legacy.
Once we arrive on Entoto Mountain, where the capital city was first founded in 1886, you will undoubtedly feel like having mentholated topical ointment. We want to promote indigenous seedling planting in Ethiopia by contributing to the Ethiopian Green Legacy.
Erosion Prevention Ideas: https://www.pinterest.com/entoto0351/_saved/
The Science of Indigenous Ancient Trees:
Check Dams
Water Reservoirs
Spring Water Ideas
Retaining Walls
Terraced Micro-Basins
Videos: Planting Technology
Ethiopian Heritage Trust - Plantation of Seedlings
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Identification, Propagation and
Management for 17 Agroclimatic Zones
Azene Bekele-Tesemma
Edited byBo TengnΓ€s, Ensermu Kelbesa, Sebsibe Demissew and Patrick Maundu
The contents of this handbook may be reproduced without special permission. However, acknowledgement of the source is requested. The photographers and artists concerned must be contacted for reproduction of illustrations. The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of World Agroforestry Centre.
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Edited by
Bo TengnΓ€s, Ensermu Kelbesa, Sebsibe Demissew and Patrick Maundu
The contents of this handbook may be reproduced without special permission. However, acknowledgement of the source is requested. The photographers and artists concerned must be contacted for reproduction of illustrations. The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of World Agroforestry Centre.
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