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2020 m. spalio 7 d., trečiadienis

Example, how we could start living a stabile life style in our forests

 "On the eve of European contact in 1491, the Amazon region supported at least eight million people, some of whom lived in large towns of 1,000 or more. 
These people shaped the region. Soils were modified and their fertility increased, expanding the distribution of nutrient-demanding plants. Plant species with greater utility were selected, dispersed and propagated while unwanted plants were filtered out. Indigenous peoples domesticated to some degree hundreds of species, including crops that remain important today such as Brazil nut, acai palm, manioc, maize, hot peppers, rice and cacao trees. This “virgin rainforest” would be very different without the presence of Indigenous peoples.

The big question is: How has the Amazon supported such diverse forests after thousands of years of human land use?
 
Clues may be found in the circular villages of the Xingu Indigenous National Park, and others like them. These villages, composed of central plazas linked by roads that line up with the movement of the sun, were discovered by local Indians and researchers led by the archaeologist Michael Heckenberger. Between 250 and 1,000 Xingu peoples lived in these places, surrounded by a mosaic of gardens, orchards and managed forests.
In an article in the journal Science, Dr. Heckenberger and colleagues described how these people developed an urban system adapted to the forested environment more than 500 years before a very similar model was proposed by Sir Ebenezer Howard, the English urban planner who founded the garden city movement."

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