protecting and connecting your favorite wild places
Protecting and Connecting your Favorite Wild Places
What We Do
- Advocate for the connectivity and integrity of Virginia’s lands and waters.
- Influence decision makers by mobilizing citizens like you.
- Empower citizens, landowners, and others to address threats to our wild places.
- Convene stakeholder groups to amplify impact.
- Connect people to the outdoors because we protect the places we know and love.
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If you will be attending the Environment Virginia Symposium this week, make sure to attend the Safe Wildlife Corridors segment tomorrow from 8:30am-9:30am to hear presentations from Jessica Roberts, Alexa Busby, Bridget Donaldson, and Jacalyn Rosenberger on VSWCC accomplishments and wildlife-vehicle conflict mitigation research. Link in stories ⬆️ @environment_virginia
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If you will be attending the Environment Virginia Symposium this week, make sure to attend the Safe Wildlife Corridors segment tomorrow from 8:30am-9:30am to hear presentations from Jessica Roberts, Alexa Busby, Bridget Donaldson, and Jacalyn Rosenberger on VSWCC accomplishments and wildlife-vehicle conflict mitigation research.
Learn more: vmieva.cventevents.com/event/30e64f74-74e0-495a-9ba4-291c10292a13/websitePage:7aa8bf7a-f2d0-4ca3-...
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Learn more about prioritizing your #mentalhealth through #ecotherapy at wildvirginia.org.
As it turns out, our planet’s natural systems are known to provide personal healing, a practice otherwise known as ecotherapy.
Ecotherapy, by definition, is “the ability of interaction with nature to enhance healing and growth” (Summers and Vivian 2018). Ecotherapy is further defined as a “form of active healthcare intervention which attempts to draw on the benefits of nature-based activity to support people with mental health problems” (Hinde, Bojke, and Coventry 2021).
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And in fact, I took a mental health day from work yesterday, and spent most of doing yard projects, including tending to my native plants. And it felt great! 🙂
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Prioritizing Your Mental Health Through Ecotherapy
Have you ever spent a day outside and afterwards noticed how at peace you felt? Gone on a hike or sat outside for a while and noticed a positive change in your mood? Well, this is actually very common, and it is one of many amazing aspects of our planet’s natural world. As it turns… Read more