This guide is for starting conversations about the strengths of nature in adapting to challenges of climate change. The guide started with a wish by organisations working in conservation, agriculture, and community adaptation to climate change to help communities understand “naturebased solutions”. The guide reminds facilitators and participants that nature-based solutions are just a modern way of describing how life has always been, how the functioning of nature has always supported us. Some things we have not forgotten, but for other things we need reminding how to remember and reconnect. The thinking and ways of working shown through the images in this guide are starting points in a conversation about remembering the ways older than modern thinking and remembering that communities in the Pacific have always been resilient through their relationships with natural systems. The images are a starting point in conversations to help share these ways between generations in a community, and remembering how essential it is to live in ways that are positive for nature.
