Imaginal Cells

Giraffe Hero Chris Malins Chris is an educator and researcher in sustainability issues with a special interest in how today’s separation of people from nature is affecting their ability to cope with conflict, this especially with a view to younger generations. And he has developed methods to remedy this situation by reengaging us with nature. With the help of our ongoing crowd-financing campaign Giraffes fighting for Climate Adaptation, Chris would like to prepare a series of online lectures so as to share his knowledge and experience with a wider audience thus attracting them to actually engage practically for positive change. Furthermore, Chris has profound knowledge about growing and protecting trees, something which will help greatly with the creation of our Bee and Wild Bee Reserve, which is planned to be created high up at the National Park Sierra Nevada. **Keywords:** Climate change, Trees Caterpillar , Holistic Education, Imaginal Cells Education, Kids, students, nature Bees. beekeeping, bee colonies “Giraffes fighting for Climate Adaptation” Giraffes for Ecology and Climate Adaptation Bees & Trees Initiative 2020 – Resilience against Viruses and Similar Hazards The Giraffe Heroes Project is soon to become 40 years old. Its mission is to commend and support personalities sticking their necks out and fighting for the social issues that matter: justice, freedom and our environment. For two years the Giraffe Heroes Foundation (GHF), devoted to European and Swiss Giraffes who stick their necks out for the common good, has been active from Basel. Together with the crowd funding platform wemakeit and the Impact Fund 2020/Climate, we are presenting our newest Initiative Giraffes Fighting for Climate Adaptation Bees and Tres Initiative. Giraffe Heroes Foundation Basel 2020 Featuring and supporting the Work of Five Heroes Environment. Bees, Trees Spain, Belgium, Switzerland Education, Activism People, Network A concrete way to make a difference Using Film to Inspire and Secure support for Climate action Reforesting Bringing the power of nature to reduce Global warming Join us, be part of it - Working, learning and contributing wherever you are Who are these Heroes? Louis de Cordier (COSCO), La Alpujarra, Spain Cosco has rediscovered the believed lost Labyrinth of Egypt and realized the unbelievable project Biblioteca del Sol, high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains where knowledge is to be stored for a future full of uncertainties. Now he is working to transform that area into a refugium for bees and humans alike. Giraffe Heroes Europe wants to help him with his work for the establishment of the first European Bee Conservatory which will create a refuge for endangered bees as well as for humans working with them. André Wermelinger, Fribourg, Switzerland The conventional way of keeping bees deprives the bees completely of their ability to adapt to environmental changes. As a result, very few natural populations exist anymore. André Wermelinger saw this problem, recognized its global implications, and set up a plan to solve the bee mortality crisis at its roots. Conventional bee-keepers wanted to have nothing of this and tried to ostracize André and his work. That has not stopped him. With his expertise, Cosco will be able to realise his vision for the European Bee Conservatory which will set new standards for healthy bee keeping and demonstrate its efficiency. Hendrik Haers, Bassevelde, Belgium In a team with Cosco and André, Hendrik will give strategy workshops to reach out to the population at large. He has given up his career as a veterinarian doctor to study bees and trees. Subsequently, he started on an activist planting spree to help create healthy environments for bees and humans alike. While transforming the village where he lives he gained substantial professional experience and is now engaging in community education.