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Exposure to diverse microbes boosts our immunity, while spending time in nature restores wellbeing. And COVID reminds us of the risks of new viruses when we intrude on and degrade natural habitats.
Wilderness gives our mental health a real boost. But growing private interests in national parks are stopping those less well off from free nature therapy.
Japanese people had to rely totally on materials already present within the country.
Spending time in nature is an essential resource for mental wellbeing, but lockdown increased existing inequalities in the way our green spaces are used - and who is able to benefit from them.
We know that spending time in nature is good for physical and mental well-being, but social inequality means not everyone has easy access to parks, gardens and woodland.
Not all of the solutions to the climate and ecological crisis have to be painful.
Studies that look at the effect of nature on patients recovering from surgery have shown that it can enhance recovery. Now, some doctors are beginning to prescribe doses of nature to prevent illness.
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