Just like in case of degradation of culture, the environmental crisis in Indonesia results directly out of the same root reasons: it follows crisis of country's religion.

Q: What exactly happens?

A: Indonesian people follow example of technically advanced nations. Every day we observe that they give less and less importance to their natural wealth, such as healthy environment, including naturally flowing water, forests, serenity, purity, biodiversity etc., and - at the same time - get immersed deeper and deeper into pursuing of mere physical pleasures and money. If you want understand why and how this happens, please, read our summary about religion and culture, because mechanism is same, as in case of cultural crisis.

In fact, mutual connection between spirituality and environment, as well as between spirituality and culture is found all around the globe. As for Indonesia, we don’t want the natural wealth of this country to fade away. Therefore:

1. We clean polluted coral reefs, beaches and other natural places from plastic and other dangerous waste;

2. We develop methods of re-using or re-cycling broken things, which people waste in Bali (without building all these smoky and noisy factories);

3. In Bali: we do rehabilitation of captive wild birds. Millions of birds, which formerly decorated Indonesian trees and skies, are now kept in dirty little cages. Every bird is usually kept alone – without even any chance to reproduce and leave a progeny. As result, not only there is a huge amount of suffering that these beautiful animals needlessly undergo, but also many their species are disappearing from wild. Typically, after spending long time in their small jails, birds can neither properly fly nor find natural food. So we give them necessary pre-release- training. We’ve built a little rehabilitation (i.e. pre-release-) Center for birds in Bali, and we free them periodically (see sample video). Our motto: “Work slowly, but with good quality”. No any material compensation is given to former owners of birds. Instead, we try re-program their minds - by teaching them to love Nature, which is in fact the very God, whom they worship daily. We also explain them that so many cages in every Bali corner indicate possible future disappearance of many species. But, we say: “Your children and grandchildren deserve to see all Indonesian birds. Wild birds always look and sing better in their natural surroundings”. A basic inventory of local bird species is a wonderful part of this work (may be you want join as a bird-watcher – either novice or advanced?).

Besides birds, we also free other captive animals, including even snakes. Some of illustrating videos can be found here. However, due to habitat degradation, thousands of animals must still wait in their cages. Many original (local) trees in Indonesia are either destroyed or replaced by palms and other fast-growing species from other countries. Local birds aren’t familiar with seeds and fruits of these trees. It would be stupid to free them all in the given circumstances: left without their historical food, they’ll die slowly. Thus, we do one more exciting thing:

3. Planting indigenous Indonesian trees. Study and inventory of Indonesian trees is part of this work and is apparently one of the most pleasant and healthy tasks one can be involved ever. This is our growing database of Balinese trees.

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