The Urban Pantheist

E: Earth, The Planet
(I'm writing short pieces for my zine "The Urban Pantheist: Loving Nature While Living in the City," using the alphabet, and the suggestions I get from my LJ friends and posters. I didn't get assigned anything I felt I could use for "E" so I wrote the following:)
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With apologies to the Crow, my favorite Urban Animal.

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The simplest of human desires results in the creation (or destruction) of wildlife habitat.


At the Kapawi Ecolodge and Reserve in the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest, they are proud of their limited impact on local wildlife. The management works alongside the indigenous Achuar people, who serve as nature guides and help to steward the land wisely. The guests' cabins are perched on stilts over the river. The nature paths are regularly abandoned so that the forest can reclaim them. At night, "lights out" is the rule, to avoid disrupting the routines of nocturnal animals.
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cross-posted to invertebrates, pantheists