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Leonidas Cantarero Bautista 49, who lives in Los Naranjos, San Juan Intibucá, Honduras, shows coffee milling process “honey waters” (aguas mieles) waste water he is treating to use as fertilizer and stop water contamination as part of the project Blue Harvest, coordinated by Catholic Relief Services. Coffee milling is decentralized in much of Honduras, with most producers carrying out washing and de-pulping activities at small scale nearby their farms and homes. While this small scale processing is generally less harmful than large scale mills, the aggregate impact can be much worse as few farmers apply any kind of treatment to wastewater. Streams and rivers throughout this region are severely contaminated during the harvest season. Leonidas now knows he can prevent contamination of underground waters by doing this process. His community water councils are protecting watersheds lands in order to maintain the water sources alive. The areas have been declared protected zones.
Conservation is the philosophy that natural resources should be used cautiously so that they will remain available for future generations of people. In practice, conservation is the act of protecting, managing, and restoring shared earth resources such as soil, air, forests, minerals, petroleum, wildlife, and water—one of humans’ most essential resources.
A recent report by UNEP and GRID Arendal, Protecting Arctic Biodiversity, highlights the four major areas relating the Arctic region and biodiversity that need strengthening and further funding. The primary arising issue is climate change and its effect on wildlife and ecosystems.
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Jharna
A painting of Hauzi-i-Shamsi feeding a Jharna for the garden with two pavilions
Jharna pavilion built by Akbar Shah II
A Jharna or water fall emanating from the Hauz-i-Shamsi is located close to the Jahaz Mahal. It is identified as a significant water structure that had been developed by Nawab Ghaziuddin around 1700 AD as a pleasure garden during the Mughal rule. An underground pipe (still visible in ruins) supplied the runoff to the Jharna from Hauz-i–Shamshi. This was in addition to an open channel close by that carried the overflow of the tank to Tughlaqabad fort to enhance the drinking water supply.[6] The Jharna structure was built in three parts (pictured – painting from Metcalfe’s album). The first part consisted of the reservoir or the tank, the second part was the water fall and the last part consisted of the fountains. Akbar Shah II built the pavilion on the side and his son Bahadur Shah II added the central pavilion, more in the style of hayat hakhsh pool in the Red Fort.[2] The Jharna, which was once the Mughal retreat and the highlight of the three day festival of the Phool Walon Ki Sair, is seen now partly in ruins and the surroundings have been encroached upon (25 families are reported to be living here now). The water fall is seen more in the form of a drain in need of urgent restoration measures
Festival on Extreme Water Tourism, National Nature Park Pripyat - Stokhid, Ukraine,
Effective policies, trained and united staff contribute to sustainable financing of Ukraine’s
protected areas.
The
Ukrainian Association of Protected Areas has
been established, uniting 24 out of 45 national
parks to strengthen coordinated action and
enable exchange of experience among their
staff, thereby increasing their capacity to raise
funds to support their protected areas.
The project has prepared a strategy for the overall financial sustainability of the protected area system, which is being submitted to the Cabinet of Ministers for approval, along with other legal amendments and a new regulation on assessment of management effectiveness of protected areas.
Photo by Vitaliy Karanda
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St Mary
Church of England
Churches Conservation Trust
A small church consisting of nave, chancel, and a south aisle.
Mainly C13, with an early Norman chancel arch.
The church was made redundant in the 1970s and is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
St Peter, Deene, Northamptonshire, C13.
Restored & chancel rebuilt 1868-69 by Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt (1820-1877).
Churches Conservation Trust.
Grade ll* listed.
JRA teams up with Virginia Commonwealth University on Watershed Education by Students (WEBS), where high school students become teachers for a day, running their own watershed education field day for middle schoolers. The 2009 WEBS program was conducted at Richmond's Reedy Creek.
Bryan Phipps, landowner, and Sue Fitzgerald, NRCS district conservationist, discuss the Phipps ranch conservation plan. Garfield County. June 2017. The Phipps participate in both the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) and the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP).
Thanks to Danielle Brooks for these pictures from the Fiji Marine Conservation & Diving project. To find out more visit www.frontiergap.com
Tony Rockell, Paintings Conservator, FAMSF, posing in front of 'Madonna and Child with painted frame' (circa 1500, oil on panel) attributed to Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian, 1449-1494
Bathing a discolored print using a slant board and capillary action of directional polyester fabric.
Thanks to Natalie Sangster for the photos. For more information please visit the Madagascar Marine Conservation page of the website www.frontier.ac.uk
LEFT SIDE, CLOSE-UP VIEW OF A PROTOTYPE MODEL.
THIS MODULAR UNIT RECIRCULATES WATER FROM THE HOT WATER TAP BACK INTO THE COLD WATER TAP UNTIL IT REACHES THE DESIRED TEMPERATURE FROM THE HOT WATER HEATER, THUS SAVING WATER.
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Abel Méndez Bejarano, 40, is a small farmer, his farm El Durazno of 2 and a half “manzanas” is located at San Juan Intibucá, Honduras, he lost many coffee plants because of leaf rust. He is already planting leaf rust resistant varieties. CRS is giving technical support to him through the Blue Harvest project.