Environmental justice
Welcome to our webquest about Forest Stewardship. Here you can learn about environmental justice and injustice, reciprocal and therefore truly sustainable ways of relating to our natural environments, and the problems caused by unsustainable forest management.
We also invite you to come up with solutions and suggestions to treat forests and their living beings with deep respect.
Alimapu (burned land)
Land acknowledgment: Alimapu is the Mapuche name for the area around Valparaíso, Chile, where we work. The name refers to the hot, semi-arid climate of this region.
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The forests that appear in this webquest are located in Mapuche territory several hundred kilometres South from Alimapu.
We honour the role that indigenous peoples have had in the stewardship of these lands and their forests, past and present. With this webquest, we hope to inspire you to get informed and take action for the forests and all those who have made it their aim to protect them from exploitation and destruction.
Source: https://elporteno.cl/tag/alimapu/
©JardÃn Botánico Nacional, Viña del Mar
©Patricio Novoa, February 2012
Source: https://elporteno.cl/tag/alimapu/
Stewardship
Noun
US /ˈstu·É™rdˌʃɪp/
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Care or management.
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Definition of stewardship from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press
WEBQUEST
This webquest was created for teenage and young adult learners of English, in upper school or higher education settings. It is based on task-based and project-based language learning and aims to integrate literacy work -meaningful reading and writing in English- with environmental literacy aims.
Step 1: See / Read - Think - Wonder
Compare indigenous worldviews with what you can see on the images.
Step 2: Detective Work
Explore some web resources and come up with answers to puzzling questions about forest stewardship in the South of Chile.
Step 3: Take position, take action
Make a proposal to help and protect forests, from where you are now!
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CONTEXT
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The context of this webquest is the growing forestry industry in Chile, and the conflicts between (multi)national forestry companies and Mapuche indigenous groups in the Centre-South of the country.