You can imagine
Supergirl telling Superman "this constant saving the planet is hard
work!"
We greenies feel that way too, and
sometimes it is overwhelming.
Each time I get to that point where
I wonder about the futility of hoping for global reversal required for human
survival I come across that person who cheers me on, who makes a change I
hadn't expected, or tells me of a great success story.
Bob Beatty at The
Lyndhurst Group and AASLH has saved me a couple times. When my mom
started
recycling even when I wasn't around, it blew me away, and so did this speech
from Mexico’s National Commissioner for Natural Protected Areas,
Alejandro del Mazo Maza. He gave it at the Opening Forum Ceremony of the
International Union for the Conservation of Nature's World Conservation
Congress earlier this month: This last season we received around 84.7
million Monarch butterflies and had a 255% increase from last season. This pair
of small wings have already moved three countries. President Pena Nieto,
President Obama, and Prime Minister Trudeau made a commitment to protect the
Monarch butterfly across our countries. And we are getting there. When there is
will, there is action, and where there is action there are results.
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Del Mazo closed with
this: Today most countries are
measured by their GDP, in a few years from now, countries will also be measured
by the amount and quality of their natural resources. Today
the conservation of nature is see as a public spending, a
luxury; conservation of natures should be a public investment.
We who work at zoos,
gardens, museums, and heritage sites are in the business of public investment.
We educate, inspire, and engage the people who grow up and do this work, the
people who are grown up and still learning - and still voting, and the people
who are grown up and choosing new ways to live and work.
Every day we do this. We
cannot stop, or rest, but we can certainly cheer for each other share our
successes, and keep up the good work.
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