00:00La idée, un peu, c'est faire une montre botanique de la flora nativa qui croise principalement en la zone conterre.
00:10La idée est d'avoir cette montre comme une forme d'éducir et d'enseigner, surtout aux enfants,
00:19pour qu'ils apprennent à cuider et à reconnaître la flora nativa de ce lieu.
00:24Fins, flowers and forest shrubs, this is Matanzas,
00:34a small fishing village two and a half hours away from the Chilean capital of Santiago.
00:39It's home to some of the country's most diverse collections of native plants.
00:44It was also in this region where the English naturalist Charles Darwin explored in the 1800s
00:50that would help build the foundations of his famous theory of evolution.
00:58This was the very coastline that Darwin navigated some centuries ago.
01:03But the native plants that line Matanzas have been fortifying the cliffs long before his voyage.
01:09And today, Ignatia Echeverria is leading a group of volunteers to repopulate those indigenous shrubs.
01:17La idea un poco es hacer una muestra botánica de la flora nativa que crece principalmente en la zona conterre.
01:28La idea es poder tener esta muestra como una forma de educar y enseñar,
01:35sobre todo a los niños, para que aprendan a cuidar y a reconocer la flora nativa de este lugar.
01:41The workshop is focusing on replenishing native plants with two main objectives,
01:49to create a biological corridor by attracting insects, birds and other animals,
01:54and to strengthen the soil along the coast.
01:57Ignatia and her team are joined by volunteers from Qatar Museum's Years of Culture Initiative,
01:58who are ready to get their hands dirty, knowing it's for a great pleasure.
02:00Ignatia and her team are joined by volunteers from Qatar Museum's Years of Culture Initiative,
02:02who are ready to get their hands dirty knowing it's for a greater cause.
02:17Ignatia and her team are joined by volunteers from Qatar Museum's Years of Culture Initiative,
02:23who are ready to get their hands dirty knowing it's for a greater cause.
02:29I think we can learn a lot from this community in observing their relationship with the land
02:33and the way they treat it and the way they interact with it.
02:36There's a lot of respect and love and feeling of, you know, like it's a two-sided relationship
02:40the land gives us so we give it back with so much love and respect.
02:44And that's a value I want to take back home with me.
02:47In the background of the tree planting workshop is another hands-on initiative.
02:52But instead of plants, volunteers are using paint.
02:56Street art has been a canvas for self-expression in Chile since the 1970s.
03:01Everywhere you turn, it's hard not to spot vibrant artwork like these.
03:05And today, volunteers from Qatar are leaving their mark on these walls.
03:10But beyond the art, you'll find that they reflect something much deeper.
03:15We try to find elements from the culture of Chile.
03:22We have here the seaweed and some of the creatures that are available here in the nature.
03:30And also from Qatar, we have the oryx, we have the palm tree, we have the boat, and we have the falcon, the camel, and other elements.
03:40Soha and her peers have found that despite being thousands of kilometers apart and separated by oceans and land masses,
03:47there are more similarities than differences between Qatar and Chile.
03:52Actually, we have in Qatar culture the sadhu, the sadhu fabric, which is really a remarkable fabric in Qatar.
04:00And we found the same, similar fabric here in Chile, which is, looks like the same like sadhu.
04:08Humans are connected all over the world.
04:11Let's focus on the similarities and not the differences because we are human.
04:18Every stroke of Soha's brush will now become enshrined and remembered as a lasting legacy of this cultural exchange.
04:26Just like the shrubs and trees being planted by her fellow volunteers that will hopefully grow more roots of shared knowledge.
04:34Nearly 200 years since Darwin's voyage to South America, the plants he documented are being kept alive through initiatives that repopulate the species in the wild.
04:45And while it's taken root amongst the local population, partnerships with the international community allow the seeds of knowledge to be planted around the world, one tree at a time.
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