{"id":50384801,"date":"2023-11-28T10:45:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T10:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dialogochino.net\/?p=384801"},"modified":"2024-07-25T15:32:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T14:32:58","slug":"384801-songs-for-plants-meet-the-groups-using-art-to-protect-argentinas-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/forests\/384801-songs-for-plants-meet-the-groups-using-art-to-protect-argentinas-forests\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs for plants: Meet the groups using art to protect Argentina\u2019s forests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a bar in the city of C\u00f3rdoba, a hundred people are chanting the names of native plant species found in the provincial forests, to the rhythm of ska music. People dance along to the music, though it describes something rather bleak: the <a href=\"https:\/\/revistas.unc.edu.ar\/index.php\/FCEFyN\/article\/view\/11502\/12676\">loss<\/a> of more than 10 million hectares of forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the beginning of the 20th century, the native forest of C\u00f3rdoba \u2013 the second most populous province in Argentina \u2013 covered 12 million hectares, but is now <a href=\"https:\/\/revistas.unc.edu.ar\/index.php\/FCEFyN\/article\/view\/11502\/12676\">estimated<\/a> to occupy some 594,000 hectares. Less than 5% of the forest has been well conserved, with causes of its drastic disappearance ranging from the advance of the agricultural frontier to urban encroachment, devastating fires and the spread of <a href=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/actividades-extractivas-es\/361928-61928-chinese-privet-the-invasive-tree-putting-argentinas-native-forests-at-risk\/\">invasive plant species<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2009, Argentina\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.argentina.gob.ar\/normativa\/nacional\/ley-26331-136125\">Forest Law<\/a> has required provinces to generate native forest land-use plans every five years, to establish the uses to which forests can be put and the conservation value of different areas. But the province of C\u00f3rdoba \u2013 whose own provincial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cba.gov.ar\/wp-content\/4p96humuzp\/2013\/05\/LEY-N%C2%BA-9814.pdf\">law<\/a> on forests dates back to 2010 \u2013 is still awaiting its first update.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through access to real-time satellite images, academics have carried out <a href=\"https:\/\/revistas.unc.edu.ar\/index.php\/BSAB\/article\/view\/34924\">monitoring<\/a> to ascertain the current state of C\u00f3rdoba\u2019s native forests. However, this information has not been enough to help promote their protection, says Sara Boccolini, a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/flo.uri.sh\/visualisation\/15652027\/embed\" title=\"Interactive or visual content\" class=\"flourish-embed-iframe\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:100%;aspect-ratio:1.25;\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-forms allow-scripts allow-downloads allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Boccolini says this store of satellite images is available \u201cfor anyone who knows how to use them\u201d. In order for such work to better inform decision-making, she adds that there is a need to improve land-use planning and knowledge of the criteria used by the province to determine conservation categories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not just experts that are calling for better protections. The concert in the city, an immersive experience of light and sound, is an example of the citizen action that is keeping the preservation of C\u00f3rdoba\u2019s native forest on the agenda. Across the city, other initiatives are also fighting for the cause, including projects to create urban forest on degraded lands, and a grassroots group that reforests pathways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-sing-for-the-trees\">Sing for the trees<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In a courtyard that meets the native forest in Agua de Oro, a town at the foot of the Sierras Chicas mountain range, 44 kilometres north of C\u00f3rdoba, Juan Pablo \u201cJuanpaio\u201d Toch and his bandmates sat improvising lyrics based on what they could see: a diversity of plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The result was \u201cPlantas\u201d, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RL6P5bh_UFQ\">song<\/a> that Toch, the C\u00f3rdoba-based band formed by Juanpaio, Andr\u00e9s Toch and Mart\u00edn Ellena, have been playing since 2022. It stirs up audiences, who dance and sing along, recognising and repeating the names of the different species that are its focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cd-map-embed block--map-embed\"><div class=\"block--map-embed__column\"><div class=\"block--map-embed__embed aspect-ratio--16-9\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RL6P5bh_UFQ?si=iU5vcOYp23HQydto\"><\/iframe><\/div><div class=\"block--map-embed__content\"><div itemprop=\"caption\" class=\"block--map-embed__caption\">Video by Toch, used here with permission<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe kept surprising ourselves, when the song came up it was just naming plants and that\u2019s all,\u201d says Juanpaio, bassist and vocalist of the band. \u201cAs it reached the people, we discovered the immense power of those words.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like most of Toch\u2019s songs, \u201cPlantas\u201d describes a landscape. It lists 43 species that inhabit the Sierras Chicas, 32 of which are native to the mountain forest ecoregion typical of the C\u00f3rdoba bush. Among those that are named are: the <em>cha\u00f1ar<\/em>, a small deciduous tree; the <em>algarrobo<\/em> (or carob) tree; and spiny, fruit-bearing <em>mistol<\/em> trees. The white mouth dayflower, known locally as the Santa Luc\u00eda flower, whose blue petals dot the mountains from September to March each year, also features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song begins with a flavour of huayno, a central Andean rhythm popular in the north-west of Argentina, before the beat drops and a bandoneon \u2013 the accordion-like instrument typical of a tango \u2013 accelerates the tempo, driving the song into a high-energy ska. Wind instruments also join in, and the whole band start to play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re just names [of plants], but they awaken something in everyone: a memory\u2026 a grandmother, or some knowledge of the bush and the use of plants,\u201d says Juanpaio. \u201cThere is also something visual: the image of green, yellow. The colours are there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Art connects people and nature <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in C\u00f3rdoba, close to the bar where people dance and sing by night, Jimena Nores is waiting in the city\u2019s Botanical Museum for the first batch of primary school students who will enter <a href=\"https:\/\/museobotanico.unc.edu.ar\/article\/nuestro-proyacto-biodiversa-fue-seleccionado-en-la-convocatoria-ensayar-museos-2023\">Biodiversa<\/a>, an immersive experience recreating a walk through the bush using lights and sounds. It\u2019s another activity that promotes native plants, and allows city dwellers to get to know their region\u2019s ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cd-article-image aligncenter block--article-image block--article-image--article\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><div class=\"block--article-image__column\"><div class=\"hide-expand block--article-image__image\"><img class=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/immersive-installlation_Simon-Ibanez-Duran_1-Biodiversa.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/immersive-installlation_Simon-Ibanez-Duran_1-Biodiversa-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/immersive-installlation_Simon-Ibanez-Duran_1-Biodiversa-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/immersive-installlation_Simon-Ibanez-Duran_1-Biodiversa.jpg 2560w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 768px, (max-width: 1024px) 1024px, 2560px\" alt=\"People looking at a piece of metal artwork \"\/><\/div><div class=\"block--article-image__content\"><div itemprop=\"caption\" class=\"block--article-image__caption\">A piece by metalwork artist Sim\u00f3n Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez Dur\u00e1n, on show at the Biodiversa exhibition at C\u00f3rdoba\u2019s Botanical Museum, invites visitors to enter an immersive sculpture representing a seed (Image: Biodiversa)<\/div><\/div><\/div><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/immersive-installlation_Simon-Ibanez-Duran_1-Biodiversa.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"2 MB\"\/><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"1707\"\/><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"2560\"\/><meta itemprop=\"author\"\/><meta itemprop=\"representativeOfPage\" content=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrom the museum and with the team, we had to talk about the native forest and show it, show the problems, the diversity and all its components,\u201d says Nores, a researcher at the Multidisciplinary Institute of Plant Biology (IMBIV) and general producer of the exhibition. \u201cAs a scientific institution that produces knowledge, we also have the responsibility take this issue to the public.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through a multisensory immersive experience, Nores\u2019 team, made up of artists and scientists from different institutions, recreated the rivers, vegetation and fauna of the forest. Using voices and images, they also bring a sense of human presence to the experience, not only to recognise the people who inhabit these places, but also to reflect on human actions such as deforestation and real estate development that are often responsible for the loss of biodiversity in this landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe talk about the bush because [its destruction] is an environmental problem in our region of which it is important to raise awareness,\u201d says Silvana Montecchiesi, the museum\u2019s illustrator and a member of Biodiversa\u2019s production and curation team. She adds that an aim of the experience was to \u201cseek citizen action\u201d on mitigating bush loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cd-article-image alignleft block--article-image block--article-image--article\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><div class=\"block--article-image__column\"><div class=\"hide-expand block--article-image__image\"><img class=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/art-installation_Cordoba_Argentina_4-Biodiversa.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/art-installation_Cordoba_Argentina_4-Biodiversa-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/art-installation_Cordoba_Argentina_4-Biodiversa-819x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/art-installation_Cordoba_Argentina_4-Biodiversa.jpg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 768px, (max-width: 1024px) 1024px, 2048px\" alt=\"An immersive experience of lights and artworks\"\/><\/div><div class=\"block--article-image__content\"><div itemprop=\"caption\" class=\"block--article-image__caption\">The immersive experience of Biodiversa also brings a sense of human presence into the C\u00f3rdoba landscape, reflecting on actions such as deforestation and urban development (Image: Biodiversa)<\/div><\/div><\/div><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/art-installation_Cordoba_Argentina_4-Biodiversa.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"2 MB\"\/><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"2560\"\/><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"2048\"\/><meta itemprop=\"author\"\/><meta itemprop=\"representativeOfPage\" content=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The team says the idea was to showcase the diversity of the forest that has persevered despite the profound problems affecting it, to convey the message that there is still much that can be done to protect this place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t want to approach the subject from a strong and harsh point of view and come out demoralised, but to come out wanting to do something about it all \u2013 showing biodiversity, not only of plants, but of microorganisms, flora, fauna and landscapes,\u201d says Nores. The exhibition, held between 6 and 29 June 2023 at the Botanical Museum, attracted more than 5,000 people of all ages. Many who missed out were left wanting to see it, say the organisers, which is why they are working to repeat the experience in 2024. They also hope to take it to different parts of the city in future, and dream of a touring exhibition that will travel around Argentina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Restoration and learning<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>While Biodiversa was a temporary exhibition, other initiatives focused on C\u00f3rdoba\u2019s forests run year-round. Some have now been present for a long time, such as Ramona, an open-air classroom at the National University of C\u00f3rdoba. A space among trees, bushes, grass and insects, it is a native forest ecosystem in an urban landscape within university grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The space was <a href=\"https:\/\/digesto.unc.edu.ar\/bitstream\/handle\/123456789\/361360\/RHCS_417_2021.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y\">renamed<\/a> this year in honour of <a href=\"https:\/\/elresaltador.com.ar\/ramona-bustamante-se-fue-pero-que-forma-de-quedarse\/\">Ramona Bustamante<\/a>, an activist from C\u00f3rdoba who stood up to private sector companies that had cleared her land for the expansion of agriculture. She died at the age of 95 in 2021, and spent much of her later life defending the forest that, though disappeared, lives on in the memory of the people of C\u00f3rdoba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The university\u2019s Ramona is part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/fcefyn.unc.edu.ar\/facultad\/secretarias\/investigacion-y-desarrollo\/centros\/centro-ecologia-y-recursos-naturales-renovables-cernar\/el-cernar-y-la-comunidad\/el-bosque-nativo-vuelve\/\">project<\/a> established in 2009 by researchers, scholarship holders and students of its school of physical and natural sciences that seeks to restore native forests in a degraded landscape of the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBefore there was a city, there was a forest, so the city has transformed the space,\u201d says Pablo Goldner, a doctoral fellow and member of the working group of the project. He explains that the city\u2019s buildings were built on the natural landscape of the forest, so the restoration process they are proposing tries to simulate a space similar to the original forest, as reflected in the project\u2019s name, \u201c<em>El bosque nativo vuelve<\/em>\u201d \u2013 the native forest returns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cd-article-image aligncenter block--article-image block--article-image--article\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><div class=\"block--article-image__column\"><div class=\"hide-expand block--article-image__image\"><img class=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Ramona-space_National-University-Cordoba-3-BosqueNativoVuelve.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Ramona-space_National-University-Cordoba-3-BosqueNativoVuelve-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Ramona-space_National-University-Cordoba-3-BosqueNativoVuelve-1024x691.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Ramona-space_National-University-Cordoba-3-BosqueNativoVuelve.jpg 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 768px, (max-width: 1024px) 1024px, 2000px\" alt=\"An open-air classroom in the woods\"\/><\/div><div class=\"block--article-image__content\"><div itemprop=\"caption\" class=\"block--article-image__caption\">Ramona, the open-air classroom of the National University of C\u00f3rdoba, offers a space among trees, bushes, grass and insects, and a patch of native forest ecosystem within an urban landscape (Image: El Bosque Nativo Vuelve)<\/div><\/div><\/div><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Ramona-space_National-University-Cordoba-3-BosqueNativoVuelve.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"2 MB\"\/><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"1350\"\/><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"2000\"\/><meta itemprop=\"author\"\/><meta itemprop=\"representativeOfPage\" content=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis bush in the city is different from other urban green spaces, like a square or a park, where you have an open visual space,\u201d explains Goldner, who researches environmental processes in public spaces to improve urban planning. \u201cYou can catch a whole square or a whole park in your field of vision, see from one end to the other, but here, you don\u2019t have that feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project has incorporated between 800 and 1,000 species of trees, shrubs, herbaceous plants, vines and succulents, and has trained over 100 students in conservation ecology, citizen participation and care for the environment through the university\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unc.edu.ar\/programa-compromiso-social-estudiantil\/%C2%BFqu%C3%A9-es-compromiso-social-estudiantil\">student social commitment<\/a> programme. This seeks to involve students in projects that link the university with society\u2019s problems, such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/fcefyn.unc.edu.ar\/facultad\/secretarias\/extension\/prosecretaria-de-vinculacion-social\/programa-compromiso-social-estudiantil\/proyectos-de-compromiso-social-estudiantil-fcefyn\/proyecto-educativo-adopto-un-cuerpo-de-agua-como-mi-mascota\/\">preservation<\/a> of bodies of water or awareness of <a href=\"https:\/\/fcefyn.unc.edu.ar\/facultad\/secretarias\/extension\/prosecretaria-de-vinculacion-social\/programa-compromiso-social-estudiantil\/proyectos-de-compromiso-social-estudiantil-fcefyn\/cara-y-contracara-del-trafico-ilegal-de-fauna-silvestre\/\">wildlife trafficking<\/a>, among other issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPart of the work is to offer the people we interact with a different view of the forest, one that is not so romantic,\u201d Goldner says. \u201cWe don\u2019t see [this space] as something untouchable but as something that is also inhabited, that somehow the forest needs people who understand that you can live in the forest, <em>with<\/em> the forest and that we are actually dependent on it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Beyond the city<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In the north-west of Cordoba there is an old road, a dirt path that during colonial times made its way through dense vegetation to connect the capital of the Viceroyalty of Peru, today the city of Lima, with the R\u00edo de La Plata in Argentina. In some of these stretches, the <em>postas<\/em>, adobe buildings located every 10 or 15 kilometres that served as resting places for messengers, royal officials, merchants and travellers, are still standing. This is also where horses were exchanged to continue the journey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the original vegetation has also survived, and on the roads that cross the province of C\u00f3rdoba, for example, carob trees are still standing. This is what is happening in the town of Sinsacate, in the centre-north of the province, where a group of residents have placed the names of different native species identified on the side of the colonial road. The aim is to encourage care and conservation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cd-article-image aligncenter block--article-image block--article-image--article\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><div class=\"block--article-image__column\"><div class=\"hide-expand block--article-image__image\"><img class=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/species-recognition_ReforestandoSinsacate-residents-2-Sinsacate.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/species-recognition_ReforestandoSinsacate-residents-2-Sinsacate-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/species-recognition_ReforestandoSinsacate-residents-2-Sinsacate-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/species-recognition_ReforestandoSinsacate-residents-2-Sinsacate.jpg 2560w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 768px, (max-width: 1024px) 1024px, 2560px\" alt=\"People trying to identify native forest species \"\/><\/div><div class=\"block--article-image__content\"><div itemprop=\"caption\" class=\"block--article-image__caption\">Ana Carolina Garc\u00eda (left) of environmental group Forestando stands with other residents of Sinsacate, C\u00f3rdoba province, during an activity to identify native forest species (Image: Daniela L\u00f3pez)<\/div><\/div><\/div><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/species-recognition_ReforestandoSinsacate-residents-2-Sinsacate.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"2 MB\"\/><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"1707\"\/><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"2560\"\/><meta itemprop=\"author\"\/><meta itemprop=\"representativeOfPage\" content=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Having noted that it is a popular walking route, \u201cwe did a survey of native plant species and put up signs with their names to identify them,\u201d explains Ana Carolina Garc\u00eda, a member of <a href=\"https:\/\/m.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100093433271418&amp;_rdr\">Forestando Sinsacate<\/a>, a group which works to address local environmental issues. \u201cThen we saw that people stopped to read the signs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Garc\u00eda, who works in livestock farming, observed that though she is an agronomist by trade, it was through her own experience of \u2013 and proximity to \u2013 the landscape that she acquired the knowledge that helped her understand and work with the bush. \u201cBecause of my work in livestock farming, I did a lot of walking in the bush, and that\u2019s when I started to do my own research through books to find out more about native species,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a class=\"wp-block-cd-related-news alignright block--related-news loading\" data-post-id=\"50363019\"><div class=\"block--related-news__image\"><\/div><div class=\"block--related-news__content\"><span class=\"block--related-news__heading\">Recommended<\/span><span class=\"block--related-news__title\"><\/span><\/div><\/a>\n\n\n\n<p>Forestando Sinsacate\u2019s main work is in species identification and conducting educational activities on caring for the forest. They collaborate with schools and work both in the classroom and the forest. \u201cWith the children, we visit sites and they like it because there are a lot of plant species there,\u201d says Garc\u00eda. \u201cOne of the activities is to tell them about a tree and show them, for example, what its leaf looks like so they can get to know and then draw it so they can keep a record of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All these activities make visible an ecosystem that is facing an emergency, and what their creators describe as a lack of official efforts around forests and their management. They are projects in artistic, academic and educational spaces, and in the streets of the city, all motivated by collective organisation, and characterised by a deep commitment amongst their members to share knowledge about the forest \u2013 because it is only possible to take care of what is known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After decades of forest loss, artists and community projects in C\u00f3rdoba are promoting conservation and awareness of native species and 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