If nature drew a map of the world
We've become accustomed to seeing the world divided into countries, states, and provinces, but there is another way to see and better understand the planet we call home. One Earth presents a new biogeographic framework called Bioregions 2023, which delineates 185 separate bioregions organized within the world's major biogeographical realms. The bioregions, and the iconic species associated with each, can be explored via One Earth's Interactive Navigator.
Bioregional regeneration is about re-adapting human patterns to bio-geophysical patterns so that life creates conditions that are conducive to life.
Not so long ago, most of our rivers potable .
But not anymore.
We are working to make our rivers drinkable again. While growing up in a densely populated suburb of Rotterdam, Li An Phoa marveled at the wilderness in the neighborhood, the moss between the pavement and the herons in the ditches. In her twenties, she went into the real wilderness for the first time.
During a canoe trip through the Canadian Arctic, she discovers that she can drink from the river. But when she returns three years later, that's no longer possible: the river is poisoned, the ecosystem disrupted. That experience won't let go of her. Since then, Phoa has been drawing attention to drinkable rivers and urges people to take action.