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(Photo: Tarkeshwar Sacred Grove, North India, 2007)

 

ACTIVE R.E.M.E.D.Y is initiating a program of linking old and new Sacred Groves around the world. This is a conservation project to save the ecological systems on Earth.

 

 

Around the world, people of most Spiritual faiths invest a lot of time and resources into the building and preservation of temples. This energy applied to preserve the sacred, could be hugely beneficial for global environmental conservation in these troubled times. In ancient times, before temples were built, this same preservation tendency meant that people conserved particular areas of nature. These were organic temples; natural places of homage, otherwise known as Sacred Groves.

 

 

Sacred Groves are an ancient tradition, which have been invaluable in environmental conservation around the world since antiquity. They are often the remnants of the primary forest which have been cared for and protected by the local communities. They have been an authentic way of sanctifying the Divinity within nature and remind us that nature is sacred.

This tradition has meant that a respect for nature was encouraged and preserved amongst the ancestors.

 

 

(Photo: Tarkeshwar Sacred Grove, North India, 2007)

 

 

Sacred Groves still exist in many countries around the world but nowadays many things have changed and the majority of them have been demolished or forgotten. However there are still many thousands existing throughout India and the Himalayan regions, where the tradition still thrives. Throughout India, designating areas of forest as Sacred Groves/Forest Temples has been the predominant traditional method of environmental conservation. Well preserved Sacred Groves are often storehouses of valuable medicinal plants which have high land restorative value. They serve as a refuge to threatened species and many are homes to species no longer existing anywhere else on Earth.

 

 

(Photo: Tarkeshwar Sacred Grove, North India, 2007)

 

 

The combination of the trees and the various medicinal plants found in them, have been shown to improve soil stability, prevent topsoil erosion and provide irrigation for agriculture in dry, arid climates; as well as providing healing sanctuaries and medicines.

 

 

They provide us with a reminder that human cultures and biodiversity have evolved together and that the encouragement of such a link is likely to be a key element in an ecologically and socially secure long-term sustainable future.

 

 

As a way of conservation of Nature it has proved to be a well tried and tested method over thousands of years. It provides us with valuable traditional wisdom, which could be utilized for saving and restoring Earth’s natural environments and biodiversity and potentially save life on Earth.

 

 

A scientific understanding of them could be significantly important for designing strategies for the rehabilitation of degraded landscapes, involving local people’s participation.

The creation of numerous interconnected small groves and the preservation and restoration of existing ones could be a surprisingly effective way for conserving and increasing biodiversity.

 

The fact that the tradition of Sacred Groves has been global, gives it the capacity to potentially fit with many different cultures, landscapes and situations. It could provide a way of linking communities across the world. In these critical times it is very important that the connecting of different areas of land, communities, cultures and knowledge systems takes place.

 

 

It would be hugely beneficial for people of all faiths to recognize the nature of planet Earth as the primary temple; the temple which is not limited to one religion or school of thought.

 

 

If people of different faiths and ethnic origins were to be linked by a common cause to preserve the threatened temple of nature, much could still be achieved.

 

 

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