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| Where's the best place to mediate? The forest. But be protected: practice metta first. |
Why does this forest look like a fingerprint?
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| They're just trees. What's the big deal? |
From the ground, it's not particularly notable. But from above, from a bird or drone's eye view (and particularly on Google Earth), the view is mind-boggling:
Hundreds of trees are arranged in perfect concentric arcs, all spiraling toward the center. Together, they look remarkably like a human fingerprint.
When the team first saw this forest in a Reddit post, it was fascinated.
- Why had the trees been arranged in this shape?
- Who planted them there?
- And why — when one zooms out on satellite view — was the entire country of Uruguay covered in similar-looking forests?
To answer that question, the team went straight to the source: interviewing locals, experts, and people whose lives have been shaped by a transformed landscape and economy.
Further reading
- Read the text of the original “forestry law”: impo.com.uy/bases/leyes/1...
- Read some of Alexandra’s work on afforestation and wildlife: sciencedirect.com/science...
- Eilís O’Neill has a great feature in the Nation on Uruguay’s forestry industry: thenation.com/article/arc...
- More stories about residents affected by the railway construction: yle.fi/a/3-11756418
- Subscribe to channel: goo.gl/0bsAjO
- Vox.com, May 9, 2024; Xochitl, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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