Dear Friends,
May brought the start of winter and we were all very excited with the announcement of Dan and Kristina’s engagement!
The photos in the slide-show below sum up the month.
Wishing all our friends in the Northern Hemisphere a great summer, as well as a kind winter in the South.
All the best for June and greetings from Kachana!
Photos of the Month
Quote of the Month
“You, who cannot promise yourself a single day, who are only a pilgrim here below, does it belong to you to decide such affairs? You are the master neither of your property nor of yourself: you and your estate, all these things, belong to your family; that is to say, to your ancestors and your posterity.”
Plato
Link of the Month
Back to Nature: Making money while restoring the land
Going against the grain has paid off for these beef producers and even encouraged other conventional farmers to change course.
News & Views
Our Kimberley landscapes (as well as most [if not all] seasonally dry landscapes on the planet) are a product shaped by nature responding to human inputs compounding over time.
The most significant influences being:
- The way we knowingly or inadvertently influence the behaviour of large animals
- The choice to use or not to use fire
- The way in which humans use fire or how they respond to it
The Kachana Millennium Project (which still has 981 years to run 😊) has been designed to tease out the long-term effect of favouring particular tools in a landscape.
==> “Rest”
==> High Animal Impact
==> Fire