The cries of the forests and air, water, land, and the poor
Promotio Iustiatiae - Ecojesuits2022
The cries of the forests and air, water, land, and the poor are the focus of the latest…
Documentation centre
The Silene Documentation Center contains resources and documents about the spiritual and intangible cultural heritage linked to nature and natural heritage, from the local to the international level. Summaries are offered in four languages: English, Spanish, French, and Catalan, although the documents are in the original languages, accompanied by translations, when available.
It is the reference documentation center of the Group Specialist in Cultural and Spiritual Values of the World Commission for Natural Protected Areas, of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
- Information and sensitization
Tools for information, awareness and reflection on the cultural and spiritual values of nature and landscape in various traditions and worldviews. Pedagogical, didactic and training resources that help integrate spiritual values in the conservation of nature, including myths, tales, and legends. - International declarations
Declarations of spiritual, scientific, political or social authorities in relation to the spiritual values of nature and the need to acknowledge them. - Legal documents
Conventions, treaties, laws, regulations of any administrative, national or international scope. - Management documents
Actions that reinforce the preservation and enjoyment of the values of the intangible heritage of nature, in an integrated way with conservation, in all fields, including the evaluation of their effectiveness. Traditional systems of governance of territories and resources. - Planning documents
Plans and programs aimed at the conservation of nature, protected areas, habitats or species, that incorporate the spiritual and cultural dimensions. - Reflections on nature and spirituality
Contributions on the relationship between nature and spirituality, in any of the concepts and the meanings that both may have and in all its manifestations. - Reflections on science and spirituality
Contributions on the relationship between modern science and spirituality, or with the traditional sciences of nature and / or traditional ecological knowledge. - Strategical documents
Guidelines, strategies, recommendations or proposals, from congresses, symposia, seminars, workshops, etc. either international or national - Videographers
Movies, documentaries and interviews - Wisdom quotes
Quotes, aphorisms and advices about Nature from the spiritual Traditions of humankind.
Nicole Échivard
God is the first ecologist. When he once again inhabits the hearts of human beings and brings them…
Jean-Yves Leloup
Un art de vivre et d'aimer par temps de catastrophe2020
To meditate is to live this eternal instant at the heart of present time, to open our finite…
Muhammed Taleb
Sciences et archétypes2002
Western capitalist civilization is the first in human history whose raison d’être is to blind human beings to…
Kilian Jornet interviewed Josep Maria Mallarach about the immaterial values of Nature
Kilian Jornet Foundation2022
With the aim of contributing to raising awareness of children’s education, the Kilian Jornet Foundation is proposing to…
Connectedness as a Core Conservation Concern: An Interdisciplinary Review of Theory and a Call for Practice
Zylstra, M.W. • Andrew T. Knight • Karen J. Esler • Lesley L. L. Le Grange2014
Calls for society to ‘reconnect with nature’ are commonplace in the scientific literature and popular environmental discourse. However,…
Ecomimicry in Indigenous resource management: optimizing ecosystem services to achieve resource abundance, with examples from Hawaiʻ
Winter, K. B. et al.2020
Here, we expand on the term “ecomimicry” to be an umbrella concept for an approach to adaptive ecosystem-based…
New book on the sacred natural sites of the Mediterranean
SwitzerlandAugust 2022
The organization DiversEarth has just published “Protected by Prayer. Sacred Natural Sites of the Mediterranean” a work by…
Dark Green Religion: a Decade Later
Bron Taylor2020
The article presents a collection of reminiscences and reflections that the author wrote in the hope that they…
The significance of geotourism through the lens of Geoethics
Silvia Peppoloni 2022
Geoheritage and geodiversity visually and symbolically express the link between the physical and biological environment and cultural world….