"How can you tell a dung beetle or an earth worm what to do?" B.M.

MANAGEMENT

* In the context of environments, "MANAGEMENT" CANNOT EQUAL "CONTROL".

* In the context of environments, “MANAGEMENT” is about influencing all biological activity in a way that all species (including humans) develop their potential in a manner that is in tune with the greater scheme of things.

* Given that BIODIVERSITY is the engine that drives our ecosystem and that the fuel it uses is SUNSHINE: whether we produce meat, milk, cereals, honey, natural medicines, bush tucker or whatever, our job as primary producers should be to tap solar energy using green leaves and then package it in the form of a primary product (plant or animal). (The process is called harvesting sunlight; the only way known to man to create true wealth.)

"Our job as primary producers should be to tap solar energy using green leaves and then package it in the form of a primary product."

(Biodiversity = a diversity of species + a diversity of age and genetics within each group of a species + the way in which groups of species are distributed and the mass, volume or numbers involved.)

* “Management” for the primary producer is therefore all about energy-capture and energy-budgeting. (Working towards a healthy "solar economy".)

UPPER LEVEL MANAGEMENT: As humans we are the custodians of the planet. Being at the top end of the food chain, we hold the key to managing the eco-system. (We influence all biological activity on the planet.)

MIDDLE LEVEL MANAGEMENT: The large animals (most of our vertebrates and others). By the way in which these animals behave, they can dramatically impact biodiversity in either an enhancing or in a destructive manner.

LOWER LEVEL MANAGEMENT: Plants control what happens under the ground by the way in which they release energy. They also do a whole lot more.

THE WORKERS: The little beasties above and below the ground and in the water. (The information age tells us there should be over 600 million organisms representing over 15'000 different species in one gram of healthy soil alone. No land manager will know what they all do. However we do not need science degrees to know that if they are not there, they cannot do their job.) (This simplification may help get the picture across.)

A job well done (It took the dungbeetles 3 days to transfer 95% of the dungpat into the ground through a 5 cm mat of mulch.)

*At this stage we are still developing our biological infrastructure.
Our current emphasis is on "Solar Powered Landscape Revitalization"
A method we commonly use can be described as "Pulsed Mosaic Grazing"

OVERVIEW

HOMEPAGE