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Premier Jason Kenney and Environment and Parks Minister Jason Nixon announced, from Edmonton on Thursday, February 11, 2021, a project to protect boreal ecosystems in northeast Alberta.
Alberta’s government is planning a massive expansion of protected forest in the the Kitaskino Nuwenëné Wildland.
The expansion will add about 143,800 hectares of land to the protected area in northeastern Alberta – almost three times the size of Waterton Lakes National Park.
The expansion aligns with the Alberta Crown Land Vision, which guides our management of Alberta’s rich, natural heritage of Crown lands. Expanding the Kitaskino Nuwenëné Wildland will:
-Help protect the landscape, watersheds and wildlife in the area, including bison and woodland caribou.
-Support Indigenous Peoples’ traditional activities, including the exercise of treaty rights.
-Create recreation opportunities for Albertans
Backcountry recreation opportunities will be available in the area and the landscape would keep its wild, undeveloped character.
Recreation opportunities would be wilderness-oriented, such as remote backcountry experiences, hunting and fishing, and connecting with nature. In the future, trails and backcountry campsites may be provided to support safe and sustainable recreation opportunities.
“Alberta’s northern boreal forests are an important wildlife habitat. Today’s announcement creates the largest protected forest area in Alberta history. This will protect an important ecosystem for generations to come, allowing for backcountry recreation and Indigenous communities to practice traditional activities, like hunting, trapping and fishing. This is a classic Alberta partnership between industry, First Nations and government.” said Premier Kenney.
“Alberta’s government is committed to a common-sense approach to conservation planning that recognizes the importance of collaboration between government, Indigenous communities and industry. The proposed expansion of Kitaskino Nuwenëné Wildland is yet another example of that commitment – and will add to the largest contiguous area of boreal protected land in the world once completed. I look forward to working closely with industry partners, land users and Indigenous communities to make this fantastic project a reality.” said Minister Nixon,
“The expansion of Kitaskino Nuwenëné Wildland Park is part of our vision for protecting the Peace Athabasca Delta and important resources like caribou and wood bison. We applaud the collaborative effort that brought us to this point, including the broad support from our partners in the energy and forestry sectors, the provincial and federal governments and other Indigenous nations. This is a big, shared achievement.” said Chief Peter Powder, Mikisew Cree First Nation. (photography by Chris Schwarz/Government of Alberta)
Students made posters of forest, lake, desert, ocean, swamp, river, mountain, or coastline ecosystem's living and non-living organisms.
In 1493 Christopher Columbus possibly mistook these gentle giants for mermaids. But, they are actually a large plant-eating slow moving aquatic mammal.
Short front flippers help them steer or even crawl through shallow waters and strong paddle-shaped tails propel them. A distant relative of the elephant they have thick, wrinkled skin that is grey or brown in color. An average adult is about 10 feet long and weighs between 1,500 and 2,200 pounds with a life expectancy of about 50-60 years.
The major threats to manatee survival are human activities: boat-related injuries and deaths, habitat loss or degradation, and in some countries, hunting.
USGS works in partnership with other Federal and State agencies and private organizations to study manatee life history, behavior, ecology, and population biology.
For more information on USGS studies on manatees, including the West Indian manatee and the Florida manatee, see: fl.biology.usgs.gov/Manatees/manatees.html and fl.biology.usgs.gov/pdf/crystal_river_handout.pdf
Photo credit: Robert Bonde, USGS
This project is building climate resilience of local communities in the cities of Vientiane, Paksan, Savannakhet and Pakse through the implementation of an integrated approach to flood management to reduce the impacts of urban flooding and to help manage climate change induced floods in a long-term. The project activities include strengthening technical capacity and knowledge management for Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA), developing city-level flood management strategies, and implementing urban EbA solutions, including protecting and restoring wetlands and urban streams along the Mekong River.
Learn more about UNEP's work on adaptation: www.unep.org/explore-topics/climate-change/what-we-do/cli...
Photo credit: EbA Lao project team
•Wang Shuo, Managing Editor, Caixin Media, People's Republic of China; Young Global Leader, •Morris Li Ming Shieh, President, China Guangfa Bank (CGB), People's Republic of China, •Hong Qi, President and Chief Executive Officer, China Minsheng Banking Corporation, People's Republic of China, •William R. Rhodes, Senior Adviser, Citi, USA, •Lord Turner, Senior Fellow, The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), United Kingdom
•Zhu Ning, Deputy Director and Professor of Finance, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, People's Republic of China; Global Agenda Council on Fiscal Sustainability at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2013 in Dalian, China 11 September 2013. Photo by World Economic Forum
A firefighter uses a drip torch, a can of fuel with a flame-carrying torch head at the spout, to ignite the fire.
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Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant firefighters recently completed a prescribed fire, or controlled burn, of an 18-acre prairie at the site, two weeks ahead of a regulatory deadline.
“Burning the prairie in a controlled manner stimulates the germination of prairie grasses and reduces the invasion of woody plants to maintain a healthy prairie ecosystem,” said DOE Site Director Vince Adams.
The prairie ecosystem was the result of remediation of former lime sludge lagoons that settled out waste lime from the plant’s water treatment plant.
Seagrass ecosystems provide a wide variety of services that support human well-being around the world. Seagrasses play a significant global role in supporting food security, mitigating climate change, enriching biodiversity, purifying water, protecting the coastline and controlling diseases.
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This photo has been graciously provided to be used in the GRID-Arendal resources library by: Hisham Ashkar
How IES works in watersheds (adapted from Smith et al., 2013).
IES incentives are intended to support the livelihoods of those who manage or maintain these ecosystem services. However, if approached solely as a financial mechanism, numerous unintended and negative consequences for both communities and ecosystems can occur. Therefore, a well-designed IES system 1) accounts for benefits to both ecosystems and livelihoods, 2) has a structure for inclusion of and dialogue among all participants, 3) provides explicit monitoring for unintended consequences, and 4) includes system improvement over time.
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This photo has been graciously provided to be used in the GRID-Arendal resources library by: Nieves Lopez Izquierdo
Farmers are learning new techniques to stop more landslides and preserve soils in Kenya's Tana River watershed. The Tana River watershed is Kenya's life blood. CIAT and partners are exploring ecosystems trade-offs to benefit both the environment and improve farmer incomes and livelihoods. Read the full story here: bit.ly/11xEk3F
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If you look closely, you can see a deer head hanging on the tree – curing. (yuk!)
Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris) is fire successional, with a deep taproot and a definite grass stage. It is a valued species for lumber and pulpwood and was once important for naval stores (e.g., turpentine, pine oil, tar, pitch). It is fast disappearing over much of its natural range, partly through overharvesting partly because of difficulties in adapting it to current plantation and management techniques, but mostly due to reluctance of man to burn.
The thick, reddish-brown, scaly bark of mature trees helps insulate the tree from the heat of fires, providing some fire resistance, as do the thick, silver-white hairs found on buds when longleaf pine is in its grass-stage.
The grass-stage is the immature phase of longleaf pines. The thick silver-white buds, 1 ½ inches to 2 inches long, characterize longleaf pine.
A wide variety of wildlife depends on the Longleaf Pine ecosystem. Fire plays a major role in the development of this community, and is essential to the survival of certain wildlife species, too. Gopher tortoises, Florida mice, gopher frogs, and eastern diamond-back rattlesnakes are among the native animals in the ecosystem. Endangered species such as red-cockaded woodpeckers and indigo snakes are threatened by the loss of the longleaf pine habitat. The seeds are an excellent food source for squirrels, turkey, quail, and brown-headed nuthatches.
Unlike most conifers, the first 3 to 7 years of longleaf pine growth do not involve stem elongation. Rather, it remains a fire resistant, stemless, dense cluster of needles resembling tufts of grass. During this stage, seedlings are developing a deep taproot system below the ground and are capable of sprouting from the root collar if the top is damaged.
Once the root system is thoroughly established, the tree begins normal stem elongation and its sprouting ability sharply decreases. The taproot is usually 8' to 12' long upon maturity. In early growth up to 8 ft high, the seedlings become susceptible to fire damage. Once longleaf pines reach 8 feet in height, it is again fire resistant. Longleaf pine is one of many species that thrive when periodic low-intensity fires burn through stands.
See my other photos and learn more about the Longleaf pine! Or visit
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Ray, Janisse. Wild Card Quilt; Taking a Chance on Home. Minnesota: Milkweed Editions, 2003.
Stevenson, Dirk J., Karen J. Dyer, and Beth A. Willis-Stevenson. 2003. Survey and Monitoring of the Eastern Indigo Snake in Georgia . Southeastern Naturalist 2(3):393-408.
On the dunes of Ladispoli, near Rome. What remains of a massive humid zone. All around is an abused land, the only safe sight is to look up at the sky.
•Wang Shuo, Managing Editor, Caixin Media, People's Republic of China; Young Global Leader, •Morris Li Ming Shieh, President, China Guangfa Bank (CGB), People's Republic of China, •Hong Qi, President and Chief Executive Officer, China Minsheng Banking Corporation, People's Republic of China, •William R. Rhodes, Senior Adviser, Citi, USA, •Lord Turner, Senior Fellow, The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), United Kingdom
•Zhu Ning, Deputy Director and Professor of Finance, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, People's Republic of China; Global Agenda Council on Fiscal Sustainability at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2013 in Dalian, China 11 September 2013. Photo by World Economic Forum
Study on above-ground and below-ground biomass in mangrove ecosystems part of Sustainable Wetlands Adaptation and Mitigation Program (SWAMP). Kubu Raya, West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Photo by Kate Evans/CIFOR
Related research publication on mangrove:
Mangroves among the most carbon-rich forests in the tropics
www.cifor.org/online-library/browse/view-publication/publ...
Carbon storage in mangrove and peatland ecosystems
www.cifor.org/online-library/browse/view-publication/publ...
For more information about CIFOR’s wetlands research visit: cifor.org/swamp
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This project is building climate resilience of local communities in the cities of Vientiane, Paksan, Savannakhet and Pakse through the implementation of an integrated approach to flood management to reduce the impacts of urban flooding and to help manage climate change induced floods in a long-term. The project activities include strengthening technical capacity and knowledge management for Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA), developing city-level flood management strategies, and implementing urban EbA solutions, including protecting and restoring wetlands and urban streams along the Mekong River.
Learn more about UNEP's work on adaptation: www.unep.org/explore-topics/climate-change/what-we-do/cli...
Photo credit: EbA Lao project team
An Eagle's nest (She's now feeding her young) .... situated securely in the midst of a large swamp (engineered by Beavers, at least partly in order to trap fish, which the eagles also love to dine on) .... in which a cow moose is grazing on succulent water plants. Beautiful, isn't it , the way all of Nature's elements complement each other?
Near Beaver Creek, Yukon, June 10. ( Best Enlarged somewhat)
Firefighters fight fire at night. Outside Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan.
Photo by Aulia Erlangga/CIFOR
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A critically endangered Eastern Mountain Gorilla forages on a hillside just outside of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. A large deforested buffer zone of inedible tea plants has been created in order to keep the gorillas from leaving the park and disrupting local farms. However the gorillas still recognize this area as part of their grazing territory and are bypassing the tea crops to access the remaining patches of wild foliage beyond.
The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.
The ITU Regional Seminar for CIS & Europe was held in St. Petersburg from 6 to 8 June to discuss the latest technologies and trends in the development of modern radiocommunication ecosystems. Co-organized by ITU and Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), the seminar addressed the appropriate solutions for the sustainable use of the radio frequency spectrum as a scarce resource in enabling the development of the digital economy through mobile, transport, navigation and space systems.
Ecosystem infographic shows where your users are active online. Really cool infographic from Zabisco