Nature is in our DNA

At Wild Magic, our focus on wildlife rewilding & education helps highlight how biodiversity reflects the health of an ecosystem.

A healthy person or animal is like a little ecosystem, containing a huge variety of genes, and we saw clearly from the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt how too much close interbreeding leads to terrible birth defects, continuous health problems and a short life.

A healthy forest or piece of land, like any ecosystem, contains many species of plants, insects, animals – almost every kind of life form is supported by that biodiversity.

The whole planet is a giant ecosystem, containing within it many smaller ecosystems, down to absolutely tiny ones.  And what human beings are doing is removing all the biodiversity on the planet, bit by bit.  We are gradually taking all the land for ourselves, planting a few monoculture (single species) crops, using chemicals to clean entire tracts of land from other species (we call them ‘pests’ or ‘weeds’). 

This is why wildlife rewilding & education is essential to repairing damaged habitats and rebuilding the natural balance., so the health of each one depends on the health of all the others.  Killing off entire species, as we are doing, by removing their habitat, will eventually kill us.  We are already starting to see ‘climate refugees’.  These numbers will grow as larger and larger areas of a sick planet can no longer support life.

So anything dedicated to helping wildlife and biodiversity is really helping humans, because it is restoring the health of all the other ecosystems, on which we depend.

It’s the opposite of what rewilding & education seeks to achieve.:

• We kill the pests
• We kill the weeds
• We plant monocultures
• We plough.     And so on

• We are losing Topsoil fast due to erosion
• Waterways and rivers are polluted, and there are dead zones in the ocean
• an estimated 10 to 30 species go extinct every single day

And that’s just the start.

We are only now beginning to realize how dependent we are on nature functioning properly.  Now that we’ve actually destroyed…..errr….a lot of it.