Nadir for Conservation

03/06/2025

For migrants, reconnecting with familiar plants and practices can offer comfort, continuity, and a renewed sense of belonging

Meaningful encounters between migrants and host communities can also generate reciprocal cultural exchange (D’Ambrosio et al., 2023). As traditions are shared and identities reshaped, TEK becomes a bridge—linking cultures, ecosystems, and generations

By Simona Lippi from NGO Na.Di.R for Conservation Sitting on the Ta’ Ċenc cliffs in Gozo Island (Malta Archipelago) during a moonless spring night, I listened to the haunting calls of the Yelkouan shearwater (Puffinus yelkouan), one of the seabird species listed as ‘threatened’ in the IUCN re...

13/11/2024

“Plants migrate with people.”

🍃🌞 Last July, Simona Lippi, an Italian conservation biologist, led a workshop exploring plants, landscape, and cultural interaction. She introduced the workshop by reminding us that “plants migrate with people.”

Simona facilitated a conversation that led participants to explore the links between plants, memories, landscapes, daily life, and those plants that migrant communities discovered in Malta. This workshop was held at the Archbishop’s Palace Garden in Valletta.

📷 Photo credit: Maria Luisa Liotta-Catrambone

23/10/2024

While the ongoing genocide in Gaza continues unabated, Western countries do nothing but support it and defame those who stand up for human rights. It is incredible how the Western narrative supports the atrocities of the Zionist regime. We stand firmly on the side of human rights, and support the work Francesca Albanese (Acsecnarf Albanese) is doing

15/10/2024

We cannot remain silent and passive in the face of the atrocities and genocide we have been witnessing for more than a year in Gaza, and now also in Lebanon. Here is a documentary by Al Jazeera Investigations that exposes war crimes in Gaza through the medium of photos and videos posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves during the year-long conflict.

Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit exposes Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip through photos and videos posted online by Israeli soldiers during the conflict.

15/10/2024

https://timesofmalta.com/article/how-metsola-missed-point.1099479

The power of protest and why Bella Ciao still resonates in the fight for democracy