작은 실천이 생물 다양성 보존에 미치는 영향

### 생물다양성 보전을 위한 작은 실천의 힘
* 🌍 우르술라 푸토는 대수롭지 않게 여겨지는 작은 행동이 **생물다양성 보존에 엄청난 긍정적인 영향**을 미칠 수 있다고 강조합니다.
* 💔 그녀는 생물 다양성 손실에 대해 처음에는 무력감을 느꼈고, 이를 **자신이 통제할 수 없는 중대한 문제**로 인식했습니다.
* 🙏 그러나 그녀는 신분에 관계없이 누구나 변화에 기여할 수 있다는 믿음에서 희망을 찾습니다. **하나님께서 겸손한 자를 사용하신 성경의 이야기**에서 볼 수 있듯이 말입니다.
* 🌳 로차 케냐의 스탠리 바야는 **소코크 소쩍새와 같은 독특한 종의 서식지인 다카차 삼림지대의 토지 보존의 시급성**을 강조합니다.
* 💰 압도적인 도전에 직면한 아로차 팀은 기도와 행동을 통해 **4,600에이커의 토지를 매입**하여 불법 활동으로 인한 토지 파괴를 막았습니다.
* 🚀 Baya는 그들의 작은 시작이 어떻게 **커뮤니티와 다양한 이해관계자가 참여하는 더 큰 운동**으로 성장했는지 되돌아봅니다.
* ❤ 그는 환경 문제의 규모에도 불구하고 **작은 행동이라도 다른 사람들에게 영감을 주고 집단적인 영향력을 발휘할 수 있다**는 강력한 메시지로 마무리합니다.

작은 실천이 생물다양성 보존과 지역사회 참여에 큰 변화를 불러일으킬 수 있습니다.

My name is Ursula Peutot. I live in Switzerland. I am the National Director for A Rocha Switzerland. So when we think about something small, it's often very negative. We think about something which is insignificant, which is powerless, which can't make a difference, which you're not going to notice. But in fact, there is a completely different story behind there. Because small things can have a really incredible, enormous impact. I think that for me, for a long time, I didn't realize how badly biodiversity was doing. Biodiversity loss is such an enormous problem. And I didn't actually feel like I could do anything about it to start with. It just felt like something completely outside of my reach. I think realizing that we can still do something about it is really a big thing. Often we think that we have to wait for politicians to make the changes or the big guys to do the stuff, and that's what's going to create the impact. I think it's really encouraging to see that God can use anybody

and often he will actually use our weaknesses to do something great. There are so many good signs of that in the Bible as well. God doesn't choose big guys to do stuff. He goes and gets the Davids and the small people. We find our hope in God. My name is Stanley Baya, and I work with A Rocha Kenya. My main work at the moment is land purchase for conservation in an area called Dakatcha Woodland. Dakatcha Woodland is the only other ecosystem where you find the Sokoke Scops Owl and the Clarke's Weaver, apart from Arabuko-Sokoke Forest. Because we are a small organization, we were really overwhelmed by the rate the forest was getting lost. So our director marshaled the whole team of A Rocha. We went to Dakatcha Woodland, and we thought all we need to do is pray about it. You could just feel the breeze as you look at the ecosystem; you really felt like, no way, this cannot just go up in smoke.

Then we came back and we said, okay, let God do his miracle. Around 2012, one of our employees came to me and told me that my father wants to sell 200 acres of his land, and we know if he sells it to any other person, it will be destroyed. There was no land use plan, so anybody who gets a title deed, they can do whatever they want with the land. So eventually, Collin and I decided, let's look for money to buy it. It was really a race against time because lots of people were coming from all over Kenya with lots of money to buy land. Fortunately, we managed to generate a lot of interest from many supporters, and up to now, we have more than 4,600 acres of land that we have purchased. If we hadn't bought the 4,600 acres that we bought, then certainly more than 3/4 of it would have gone up in smoke. It was really a step of faith because we felt so small.

and the amount of money that individuals were deriving from the illegal trade of charcoal production, it was huge. But we did it out of faith. And from those very small beginnings, we have grown. Now it is not only us that we are talking of—a whole community and other stakeholders as well. So what made a really big difference with me was to really, really realize how much God loves all of his creation. He is going to heal the land. He is going to restore. He is going to bring his Kingdom. Which is also why I like small things because when you look at every single little detail of what God has created, you can see how much creativity and love there is in it. My encouragement is despite how big the problem is, you cannot wish it away; the thing is to take action. Do something about it, however small it is. You don't know how many people you are going to inspire by taking that small step. Because you can end up with a whole army behind you in what you're doing.

Am I too small to make a difference?

A Rocha International

생물다양성 보전을 위한 작은 실천의 힘

아 로차 스위스의 국가 디렉터인 우르술라 푸토는 작은 실천이 생물다양성 보존에 얼마나 큰 영향을 미칠 수 있는지 강조합니다.

그녀는 생물다양성 손실의 시급성과 변화를 위한 개인의 노력의 중요성을 깨닫게 된 여정을 공유합니다.

케냐 아 로차의 스탠리 바야는 다카차 삼림지대를 보존하기 위한 토지 매입을 위한 단체의 노력을 강조하며 환경 문제를 해결하는 데 있어 기도와 집단 행동의 힘을 강조합니다.

2012년, 연사의 아버지는 토지 이용 계획이 부족해 파괴될 위기에 처한 200에이커의 땅을 팔려고 했습니다.

연사와 콜린은 다른 사람들도 관심을 보이자 시간을 다투며 토지 매입을 위한 모금을 진행하기로 결정했습니다.

그들은 성공적으로 지원을 이끌어냈고 결국 4,600에이커가 넘는 땅을 매입하여 땅이 파괴되는 것을 막았습니다.

숯 생산의 불법 거래는 수익성이 높았지만, 연사의 동기는 신앙에서 비롯되었습니다.

그들의 작은 시작은 이제 지역사회 전체와 다른 이해관계자들에게 영향을 미칠 정도로 성장했습니다.

연사는 큰 문제를 해결하기 위한 작은 실천이 다른 사람들에게 영감을 주고 더 큰 운동을 일으킬 수 있다는 점을 강조합니다.