El Jardín del Wawki
The land, held for what comes after.
The conservation side of Qinty. A place for native plants, habitat and the work of keeping forest standing.
This page exists so the conservation work has its own home rather than sitting as a paragraph at the bottom of a retreat site.
What it will hold: the area under care, the native species planted and how they are doing, wildlife recorded on the land, the streams and springs, and whatever is done with neighbours and local people.
None of that is written yet, and we are not going to write it speculatively. The meaning of the name itself is not published here either, because it should come from Qinty rather than from a dictionary.
About the name
We have not translated Wawki on this page. A word taken out of its language and printed on a website by people who do not speak it tends to lose the thing that made it worth using. The meaning that belongs here is the one Qinty gives it.
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The meaning Qinty uses, in their words
[VERIFIED MEANING OF WAWKI]
The work this page is built to hold
Habitat
The forest around the retreat, what stands in it, and what is being kept standing.
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Animals and plants actually observed here, each with a date and an observer.
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Native species planted, where, and how they are doing since.
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The streams and springs the land depends on, and how they are protected.
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Work shared with neighbours and local people, named only with their permission.
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Any partnership with biologists, universities or conservation organisations.
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A conservation page with no numbers on it is unusual. It is also the only honest version until the first survey is done, the first planting is counted and the first observation is recorded by someone who can identify what they saw.