BY
SIMON MUSTOE
Expert Ecologist, Consultant & Author
I’ve been racking my brain to think whether I’ve ever laughed in a wildlife doco before. I don’t think I have. Could Prime’s Octopus (Jigsaw Productions) be the world’s first comedy wildlife film? I do believe so. In a world that’s got so serious it’s pure pleasure learning from the …
BLOG – LESSONS FROM NATURE – by Simon Mustoe
Wildlife has a huge and immeasurable impact on the stability, health and functioning of ecosystems. For this reason, humanity cannot survive without wildlife. Wild animals turn dust into soil, carbon into food and the weather into a fair climate for living.
These are the stories untold – the reason why conservation is essential for our survival. The orangutan doesn’t simply depend on rainforest canopy structure, it creates the structure. We humans don’t simply depend on forests or coral reefs, we live among the animals that make those places habitable. In this blog I explore the many and varied ways we connect with nature. This reveals the link between the way we think, behave and act, and the very basis for our existence and survival as a species on Earth. But only as long as we are surrounded by a colourful and diverse abundance of other animals.
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I’ve been racking my brain to think whether I’ve ever laughed in a wildlife doco before. I don’t think I have. Could Prime’s Octopus (Jigsaw Productions) be the world’s first comedy wildlife film? I do believe so. In a world that’s got so serious it’s pure pleasure learning from the …
