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Tamera Community in Portugal to host 3rd International Water Symposium

I’m very glad to say that I’ll be returning to the Tamera Community in Portugal as they host the 3rd International Water Symposium from June 6th – 9th 2013 in Tamera. Replenishing water cycles, healing landscapes, learning from water: retention landscapes as a pathway towards regional sovereignty.

Water Rentention Landscape
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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Update on Kaa Iya National Park

Rodrigo is filming nature, traditions and threats inside the protected area of the Kaa Iya National Park. Created only in 1992, this fragile ecosystem holds one of the biggest biodiversity inside Bolivian soil and is also one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world.

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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.

'Bring back the Conch'

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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