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Forests Keep Drylands Working

70% of the world’s drylands is now degraded, and effects of climate change are especially prominent in dryland countries. Restoration of these, often vast, areas of land is therefore essential. This film shows there are ways to undo the damage we’ve inflicted upon our planet, like the PRESENCE efforts in South Africa’s Baviaanskloof.

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New book “Spiritual Ecology”

Dear Friends: If you’re visiting this site you will be interested the new book “Spiritual Ecology”. Highly recommended for everyone interested in the future of humanity and the future of the Earth. A Collection of Essays: Available Summer 2013 Edited by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee The Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh was asked what we need to [...]

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Town defends Tucavaca Natural Reserve

Rosy Pacheco, the owner of a hotel in Santiago de Chiquitos, explains how people from Santiago defend the Tucavaca Natural Reserve against attempts of mining companies to exploit iron inside the Santiago Sierra.

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New book “Spiritual Ecology”

Dear Friends: If you’re visiting this site you will be interested the new book “Spiritual Ecology”. Highly recommended for everyone interested in the future of humanity and the future of the Earth. A Collection of Essays: Available Summer 2013 Edited by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee The Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh was asked what we need to [...]

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Threats to Natural Reserves

Freddy could only advise them to return to the illegal 5 meter whole they were extracting the stones from and cover it again. He had to get back to the station to inform his superiors about this issue and wait for further and accurate instructions.

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Bio-rights approach implemented in Mali

Part of the What if we change project has been the implementation of the Bio-rights approach in several communities in the Inner Niger Delta. Bio-rights is a financing mechanism for reconciling poverty alleviation and environmental conservation.

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Presentation of the last Conch film coming up!

I sincerely hope that this viewing on friday 17th will be attended by a wide variety of people from the community and that it can contribute in bringing people closer. That seeds can be planted for constructive cooperation, mutual understanding and sharing of knowledge in order to set the parameters for the future of the conch and the future of this island’s unique, awesome and wonderful natural treasures that I have come to love so dearly over the past 15 years.

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STICHTING DOGON ONDERWIJS au Mali

Saturday, May 4, 2013 I was reporting in the Mali “Dogon Country” with Mr Jurriaan Van Stigt, President of the Dogon Education Foundation (Stichting Onderwijs Dogon). Mr Jurriaan Van Stigt is a Dutch architect heavily involved in the development of the Mopti Region, especially the “Dogon Country”.His foundation has done very good work in this part of the Mopti Region like schools construction, well drilling, promotion of improved stoves and solar lights, tree planting, dunes stabilization, etc.

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VIDEO for school

MAKE THE LINK – CLIMATE exCHANGE !

Doet jouw school ook duurzame dingen? Lever jij graag een bijdrage aan een mooiere wereld? Pak dan een camera en doe samen met je klasgenoten mee! Wordt jij de videoambassadeur voor je school?

Video wedstrijd

Center for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation

A short impression of the work done at WTI/IFAW’s Center for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation in Kaziranga, Assam, made from all the material Paul and I have shot there the past 2 years. Click on the picture to see the film:

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Participatory Video in Aretika: TYI

For the past month Megan and I have been working on a participatory video project with the community of Aretika in the South Garo Hills. Kenbilla, Metaji, Pickar, Methmina, Sanibath and Salba have directed, filmed and produced a wonderful film about water, or “tyi” in their native Atong language. They explain how their water source [...]

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