Whispers of the Forest. What the Pala wan of Palawan Teach Us About Natures Deep Wisdom

  Whispers of the Forest. What the Pala'wan of Palawan Teach Us About Natures Deep Wisdom       Introduction People still talk about walking through an old forest where each big tree and twisting vine holds some kind of story. For the Pala wan folks down in southern Palawan, that is not just some fancy idea. It is how they live every day. Way back before all the current talk about saving nature, these people were already protecting huge water areas. They managed their woods and fields with a quiet kind of smarts that lots of us in the so called modern world are only starting to catch on to again.  UNESCO +2 Mongabay +2        Traditional Knowledge and Practices The Pala wan work as hill farmers and fishers who also look after the forests. Their ways come from years and years of really knowing the land up close.  NCCA +1       Swidden farming, fallow cycles, and forest respect The Pala wan do not wipe out whole woods to pla...