‘Intrinsically connected’: how human neurodiversity could help save nature | Biodiversity

WHen Joe Harkness received a message from a friend about the adventure moth bellies to control the genital organs to identify species, giving an idea about a new book about wild life obsessions. In time, however, this turned into a completely different book: a call for a Clarion to embrace the neuro in the struggle against the crisis of extinction.

15% of people throughout the UK are thought to be neurodergender. In the writing process Neurodivent, due to its natureHarkness discovered that 30% of the protection employees were neurodergenda. From where?

“People like me, especially those who have not been diagnosed, probably found that nature has balsams from the mental health perspective, Hak says Harkness, when we met under a wonderful peaceful ancient oak close to her home in Rural Norfolk. “Another thing is that we define it as neurotypical people. Therefore, we love more strange things. Private interests. Nature lends to different people.”

Micro-night-most special interest-squeezing to our country again and repeatedly detecting its own answers interrupting. “Did you see this? Is it a yellow shell? No, another of them The mother of pearl moths. I am sad. They’re everywhere. “

Harkness’s full -time work is to teach it to autistic and other neurodivers children, but he did not suspect that he was ADHD until he said he thought he was a teacher. It found six years more useful to obtain an official diagnosis and access to medication.

Natural scientists such as publisher Chris Packham and writer Dara Mcanulty have blown the flag of the neuro -dwarf in the environmental industry, but Harkness interviews are interviewing to leading protectors from UN climatic talks to the leading protectionists, from the Climate to the Seycheller Black Parrotu and to restore pin yellow populations.

Harkness, his first book, is a bird therapy, explains why neurotless people, a self -published surprise hit, can be successful in ecological jobs.

But at the same time, it is a strong situation that needs a neurodiverse human cohort for the natural world. Besides the ancient oak we talk about, there is a small, dirty meadow full of wild herbs, insects and birds. “There is a biological diversity in front of you, H Harkness says, pointing to the meadow. “You look at him somehow, I look at him in another way. Therefore, if we are trying to help him, we can bring him different things.

“As long as you use all the different skills of the people you work with, you cannot make creative and change and do good things. If you don’t have human diversity, you don’t have biological diversity.

More specifically, Harkness demonstrates how neurodiverse protectionists can make them uniquely effective with skills such as lateral thinking, hyperfocus, memory skills and empathy of their “superpowers”.

Autistic ecologist Naomi Davis He told Harkness to find and categorize the types of favorite aspects of the business. Both Davis and Counselor Ornithologist Colin Everett talks about sensory superpowers that help their research: to identify Kuşsong pieces that everyone misses; Even when hearing the bats, they are often very high-act calls, as the adults cannot hear them.

Obviously, the neurodiverse people can be vital champions for biological diversity, but Harkness is clearly honest about his ADHD. Orum I do not think that the symptoms I live are helpful or favorable for prosperity and the highest performance in the workplace, or he writes.

And some people are still careful with the disclosure of neuro. He interviewed Emma Marsh, General Manager of RSPB and did not explain the diagnosis of autism in life for a while, but he was encouraged with such a positive response when he finally did.

As Harkness explained, using the skills of neurodiverse employees usually requires changes in business applications. Field work-Barışçıl is a center of attraction for many neurodivens protectionists in natural environments, but office-based workers may require adaptations. A senior protection was allowed to execute meetings outdoors.

Does the protection sector meet the needs of neurodiverse employees? “Neuro-conservative approaches throughout the protection sector, at best, do not need to be met with some fields of extraordinary practices and some terrible discrimination tales and not to be met,” Harkness says.

“Most of the things I found in the industry looked really great,” he says, “Everyone with a little digging [in conservation organisations] He was still open to the fact that he had a lot of work. However, neuroditergents is a relatively new concept. I don’t expect them to dance with all of them. “

The protection sector has been criticized for being so white many times, and Harkness says that any assessment of its efforts to meet the neurodaturia should examine how well interacted everyone with a protected feature ”.

Harkness does not want the neurodatorship to be an outgoing and outgoing “dei trend .. For a significant change, he says that there should be more ways to protect not only degrees, but to protect through apprenticeship.

Harkness, who works as a senior teacher at a “extraordinary” complex needs school, strongly criticizes the mainstream British education and especially the multi -chain academy system because it cannot meet the needs of nature. Many neurodivens young, without further natural-oxane education, says that you cannot discover the balm or good deeds available in the natural world.

“If you need something different, you won’t take it,” the academy writes the school system.

His personal education experience was gloomy. Harkness, which was not diagnosed with ADHD as a young, was written as a naughty child of a single parent from social housing.

When he got a delayed diagnosis, was he upset about how long he took? “It was my experience in secondary school,” he says. “The drug has changed my life better. It did not work for everyone, but it worked for me. Or if I was in the 11th year?