WHAT'S NEXT 2024
MAINTAINING AND BUILDING LIVING ARTWORKS now and into the future, increasing community and nature care benefits
MAINTAINING AND BUILDING LIVING ARTWORKS now and into the future, increasing community and nature care benefits
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For 2024 Geleta Aman, youth and digital trainer, is continuing to work with ROBA to promote the adoption and implementation of future living artworks within Kofele and the local regional area. With Geleta's support there is increased conversations about habitat restoration and the possibility of renewed ecologies as well as social-cultural activities that can stem from this work. In this video clip hear Geleta speak and reflect on what has been achieved to date and how maintenance of the current projects can assist in enabling the living artworks to flourish and remain of benefit to local communities. |
A proposal to increase Nature Care and Community Benefit
Geleta Aman with ROBA are in discussions to possibly increase the conservation efforts in Bale Mountain National Park through the planting of set of living artworks featuring the Ethiopian Black Lion and the endangered simien fox. Of note, the Ethiopian simien fox or wolf, is the rarest canid on earth and is also Africa's most endangered carnivore. The Bale Mountain National park is a vital habitat for the Ethiopian Black Lion and simien foxes.
Given that the park itself is critically a destination for many local, national and international visitors to observe Ethiopian highland wildlife and flora, there is an aspiration that the living artworks can be a site to encourage all to learn more about the diverse ecologies found throughout the park and beyond its borders. By combining art and conservation and raising awareness of resources this proposal is attempting to further habitat restoration, whilst balancing economic and environmental sustainability legacies between local and visitor use and to that of Nature care.
The Bale Mountain National Park's resources and geology also plays a key role in supporting other communities outside of the park including agropastoralists. The parks may rivers, lakes and underground water resources offer vital hydrology that gives life to crops, offers drinking water to communities and helps sustain a wide range of ecosystems many kilometres away.
Current discussions at the park include addressing how communities may be possibly involved in the organization of tree planting activities around the living art installations, symbolizing the importance of reforestation and habitat preservation for the lion and the wild fox. It is truly hoped that by providing locals with direct opportunities to participate with reforestation, a wider sense of engagement, ownership and pride in supporting one's own natural heritage can be even further fostered with communities. Co-ownership and co-stewardship of the land between the park and wider Oromia communities is very much at the heart of this endeavour, since locals and agropastoralists have often in the past been left out of the park's conservation efforts to date.
More news about this project proposal will continue over the next months. Please reach out if you feel you can help with funding or other resources here to help increase opportunities to increase living artworks in Ethiopia.
Given that the park itself is critically a destination for many local, national and international visitors to observe Ethiopian highland wildlife and flora, there is an aspiration that the living artworks can be a site to encourage all to learn more about the diverse ecologies found throughout the park and beyond its borders. By combining art and conservation and raising awareness of resources this proposal is attempting to further habitat restoration, whilst balancing economic and environmental sustainability legacies between local and visitor use and to that of Nature care.
The Bale Mountain National Park's resources and geology also plays a key role in supporting other communities outside of the park including agropastoralists. The parks may rivers, lakes and underground water resources offer vital hydrology that gives life to crops, offers drinking water to communities and helps sustain a wide range of ecosystems many kilometres away.
Current discussions at the park include addressing how communities may be possibly involved in the organization of tree planting activities around the living art installations, symbolizing the importance of reforestation and habitat preservation for the lion and the wild fox. It is truly hoped that by providing locals with direct opportunities to participate with reforestation, a wider sense of engagement, ownership and pride in supporting one's own natural heritage can be even further fostered with communities. Co-ownership and co-stewardship of the land between the park and wider Oromia communities is very much at the heart of this endeavour, since locals and agropastoralists have often in the past been left out of the park's conservation efforts to date.
More news about this project proposal will continue over the next months. Please reach out if you feel you can help with funding or other resources here to help increase opportunities to increase living artworks in Ethiopia.
