SSI and the Emerald Ash Borer in Asia

SSI works from the premise that Indigenous people across North America have been intimately involved in the management of forests for millennia. As Richard and Gabe both expressed, there isn't a clear separation between human culture and wilderness. Areas under Indigenous management today are recognized as some of the most biodiverse areas remaining on the planet. The primary cause of declining biodiversity, at least in recent times, is the appropriation, colonization, and intensifying use of lands already inhabited, used, and reshaped by current and prior societies.