{"id":920,"date":"2018-01-23T13:22:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T13:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lostspeciesday.org\/?p=920"},"modified":"2018-10-16T21:41:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T21:41:55","slug":"lost-species-day-2017-some-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lostspeciesday.org\/?p=920","title":{"rendered":"Lost Species Day 2017 – some events"},"content":{"rendered":"

November 30th 2017 saw a range of participatory events happening across the UK, USA and other parts of the world. Here are the ones we know of:<\/p>\n

Pembrokeshire, Wales: <\/strong>Permaculturist\u00a0Debbie Rees<\/a> and artist Emily Laurens hosted a pollinator procession through the polytunnels at Blaenffos Permaculture\u00a0<\/strong>Market Garden.<\/p>\n

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Glasgow, Scotland:\u00a0Galgael<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>held a sharing circle at the weekly community meal, focusing on the meaning of remembrance for lost species and on the decline of pollinators with poetry, reflections and commitments. Organiser Svenja Meyerricks said, “At the end I chucked my tobacco on the table to publicly announce my intention to quit smoking for good, because of the adverse effects pesticide-heavy monocultures like tobacco crops have on pollinators. Wish me luck!”<\/p>\n

Svenja also wrote about the RDLS on the Bella Caledonia blog here,\u00a0<\/a>and thanks to her awareness raising, a group of Glasgow school children learned about pollinators and will be planting pollinator friendly seeds in the spring.<\/p>\n

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Georgia, USA: <\/strong>A small group of homeschoolers focused their attention on RDLS for the whole week. Organiser Kim Cornelia Banton, writer and content manager at Solutions Spotlight <\/a>explained: “At the start of the week, I introduced the meaning of the day and how different people have participated in the past. Then each day leading up to RDLS, we discussed how different kinds of extinctions are caused by human activity and spent some time each day learning about animals from different places across the globe that have become extinct within the last hundred years. In line with this year’s theme, we also spent some time exploring pollinators. The kids fell in love with the Xerces blue butterfly of the San Francisco peninsula and opted to memorialize this particular species with their art.”<\/p>\n

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Oakland, California, USA:<\/b> Extinction Witness<\/a>, Pollinator Posse<\/a> and Giant Puppets Save the World<\/a> collaborated to host the\u00a0Lake Merritt Regenerative Memorial and Pollinator Procession.\u00a0<\/b><\/span>Lucille\u2019s Regenerative Memorials are publicly accessible green spaces ranging from small plots in community gardens to verges, fields and groves in parks or forests. Their intention is to support the human grieving process within the context of life\u2019s complete cycle of birth, decay, death, and birth.<\/p>\n