Presentation di Projecto
The Preservation of Natural and Cultural Diversity
Concept artist :Osaira Muyale, www.osairamuyale.com
Collaboration: Jimmy Mijer, PR National Parke Arikok,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arikok_National_Park
http://www.aruba.com/whattodo/arikokpark.php
Our Common Future : one earth to one world
Cultural diversity is as necessary for humankind as biodiversity is for nature”; it becomes “one of the roots of development understood not simply in terms of economic growth, but also as a means to achieve a more satisfactory intellectual, emotional, moral and spiritual existence". In this vision, cultural diversity is the fourth policy area of sustainable development.
Key contributions of Our Common Future to the concept of sustainable development include the recognition that the many crises facing the planet are interlocking crises that are elements of a single crisis of the whole and of the vital need for the active participation of all sectors of society in consultation and decisions relating to sustainable development.
In the middle of the 20th century, we saw our planet from space for the first time. Historians may eventually find that this vision had a greater impact on thought than did the Copernican revolution of the 16th century, which upset the human self-image by revealing that the Earth is not the centre of the universe.
From space, we see a small and fragile ball dominated not by human activity and edifice but by a pattern of clouds, oceans, greenery, and soils. Humanity's inability to fit its activities into that pattern is changing planetary systems, fundamentally. Many such changes are accompanied by life-threatening hazards. This new reality, from which there is no escape, must be recognized - and managed.
Fortunately, this new reality coincides with more positive developments new to this century. We can move information and goods faster around the globe than ever before; we can produce more food and more goods with less investment of resources; our technology and science gives us at least, the potential to look deeper into and better understand natural systems. From space, we can see and study the Earth as an organism whose health depends on the health of al its parts. We have the power to reconcile human affairs with natural laws and to thrive in the process. In this our cultural and spiritual heritages can reinforce our economic interests and survival imperatives.
Believe and people can build a future that is more prosperous, more just, and more secure. Our Common Future is not a prediction of ever increasing environmental decay, poverty, and hardship in an ever more polluted world among ever decreasing resources. The possibility for a new era of economic growth, one must be based on policies that sustain and expand the environmental resource base. And believe such growth to be absolutely essential to relieve the great poverty that is deepening in much of the developing world.
Hope for the future is conditional on decisive global action now to begin managing environmental resources to ensure both sustainable human progress and human survival. Not forecasting a future; but serving a notice - an urgent notice based on the latest and best scientific evidence - that the time has come to take the decisions needed to secure the resources to sustain this and coming generations. There is not offered a detailed blueprint for action, but instead a pathway by which the people of the world may enlarge their spheres of cooperation.
Creative conservation and sustainable development strategies attempt to recognize the natural wild life as being integral to our natural and cultural heritage. Almost all cultures have in some way or form recognized the importance that nature, and its biological diversity has had upon the need to maintain biodiversity. Biodiversity is the variation of life forms within the entire Earth. Biodiversity is often used as a measure of the health of biological systems.
The biodiversity found on Earth today consists of many millions of distinct biological species, which is the product of nearly 3.5 billion years of evolution. Biodiversity is important because it actually boosts ecosystem productivity where each species, no matter how small, all have an important role to play and that it is this combination that enables the ecosystem to possess the ability to prevent and recover from a variety of issues. This is obviously useful for mankind as a larger number of species of plants to ensure that the ecosystem is naturally sustained. Steps to approach to conserving biodiversity are: building local capacity for conservation, direct protection of species and habitats, securing land for conservation, bridging the gap between natural and cultural environmental sustainability and economic considerations. For example, a cutting edge treatment plant with extremely high maintenance costs may not be sustainable in regions of the world with fewer financial resources. An environmentally ideal plant that is low in costs in maintenance will also be effective and ideal for preservation of the local flora environmental standpoint. ©OM
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Parke Arikok, borders the north coast of Aruba, and includes approximately 18% of the total land area of the island within it’s 34km2 extent. It has been assigned a national park to protect and preserve the flora, fauna, geology and historical remains present at the site.
The park contains examples of most of the island’s flora and fauna against a backdrop of great geological complexity. The park is being managed by Fundacion Parke national Arikok.
The landscape of Parke Arikok lays a geological variety within the park. The main aspects are: the rough hills of the volcanic Aruba Lava Formation, the mysterious rocks of the batholithic quartz-diorite/tonalities, and the limestone rocks from fossilized coral. Yamanota Aruba’s tallest hill (189) is part of the park and at the eastern side are various grottos and caves, such as at Fontain, Quadirikiri, and Baranca Sunu. The line of permanently wind –and wave-beaten North coast is broken by numerous Boca’s (inlets at the mouths of dry river-beds) sometimes adorned with white beaches and sand dunes, as at Boca Prins and dos playa.
Most of the flora and fauna present on the island is found in the park area. Drought and the strong east trade wind, load with salt, have created harsh conditions that only these dry-conditions specialists can thrive in. Various exotic cacti and Magdalenas and 50 different species of tree, some threatened with extinction, live on the rough hills and volcanic lava formations. Animals in the park entail mostly birds and reptiles. The birds can be seen and heard especially in the windshield, vegetated areas, during the early hours of morning and the sunset. The donkeys trekking through the park are descendants of the packs mules brought to the island by European discoverers .The goats, too, who roam the area, originally were imported from Europe.
The surprisingly varied and distinct landscapes on such a small island offer a unique home to the rarest rattlesnake species in the world, namely the aruban island rattlesnakes or cascabel(crotalus unicolor),which can be found in mostly in Parke Arikok. The park is also home to other endemic animal species, meaning they only occur in Aruba (sometimes assubspecies), like the western Indian Para keet or prikichi (aratingapertinax arubensis), the burrowing Owl or shoco (Athene cunicularia arubensis) and the Aruban whiptail lizard or cododo blau (cnemidiphrus arubensis).
Cultural and historical components; there are a number of sites within the park that attest to the historical and cultural heritage of Aruba. The pre-colobian Amerindian inhabitants left petrogyphs(rock paintings)in cunucu arikok and fontein cave.The park logo is a copy of one of these paintings.old aloe firds can be seen at the park entrance and in Rooi Dwars.Former agricultural fields can be found to the west of the park:so called cunucu’s that were used to grow sorghum and beans. There are two, restored adobe houses. Gold was found in Aruba in the early 19th century, and traces of gold-mining are spread throughout the park region. The shafts and ruins of the largest of gold mine, at Miralamar, have been made accessible and can be visited.
Accessibility; some of the attractions within the park can be reached by car, like cunucu Arikok, Boca Prins, Fontein, and Miralamar. At some of these sites are parking lots, walking trails, and benches. More over, these attractions are connected internally by a 34 kilometer long hiking network. a visitor’s center at the main entrance in San Fuego will be built, with exhibition, education, shopping and restaurant facilities. A second gate will be built at the south-east side of the park, in Vader Piet motorized traffic is allowed on the main roads only and lastly, a set of legal rules is created to ensure an optimum protection of the park area. © FPNA
Title: SOUL
Statement: The Caribbean Soul
The art work symbolizes the flower ‘Catharanthus Roseus’
localy called ‘ Magdalena ’
The soul is thought to incorporate the inner awareness of each living being, and to be the true basis for consciousness to our natural and cultural part of the biological organism ,Our Common Future.
Catharanthus roseus (Madagascar Periwinkle)
Comes in different colors .The most seen color is purple. Leaves are always simple and arranged in pairs. Reproduction is by seeds. In the wild, it is an endangered plant; the main cause of decline is habitat destruction by slash and burn,waste places, and along roadsides.The species has long been cultivated for herbal medicine. extracts from it have been used to treat numerous diseases.As an ornamental plant, it is appreciated for its perserverance in dry and nutritionally deficient conditions, popular in subtropical gardens where temperatures never fall .
Medium: Public Art Installation
Material: 11 meters Neon light, collaboration by Jorge Rojas & Co
Statement: preservation Catharanthus Roseus’ in National Parke Arikok
Concept: Osaira Muyale
The first Art work within the frame work can be seen at
Stadionweg 23, Oranjestad, Aruba. Time: 7-12 at night
http://www.osairamuyale.com/soul/soul1.html
Price Artwork
Indoor and outdoor 70 cm $ 500, 00/ 4 meter $ 3.000,00
11 % commission will be donated to the preservation ‘Catharanthus Roseus’ in National Parke Arikok
