During the mid-1980s, when Sanctuary Forest began, the most urgent threat to our forests was the rapid liquidation of the remaining old growth. Today, the emerging threat to the integrity of our forest and river ecosystems is forest fragmentation. As the threats to the health of our forest and river ecosystems change, so does the ways that Sanctuary Forest responds to them. (read more)
Sanctuary Forest: Long Journey to Permanent Protection for the 3V's
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Sanctuary Forest
In our shared conservation work, there seem to be three dimensions: Activism, Advocacy, and Education. These dimensions are defined by what role an organization plays in a particular campaign, issue, or cause. Involvement in the challenges of environmental protection requires the use of all three of these elements. If we take each one of these individually, we see that each can be extremely useful, relative to its timing. Activism, which takes an immediate approach, indeed will create an immediate effect. Advocacy, in written or spoken support of a desired effect, takes more time but may create longer-term results. Education links activism and advocacy together to create an immediate approach with lasting, long-term results. It is this third dimension that can give great depth and meaning to the important and essential work of protection and preservation of clean water and temperate rain forests. Many environmental organizations just assume that education will be one of the results of Activism and Advocacy, leaving experience to be the teacher. But, think what today would look like if we had spent as much time in our lives as educators as we did as activists and advocates. (read more)