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Mangroves are one of the few tree species that can grow in sea water. They are important for coastal ecosystems, as their roots stabilize coastlines and reduce erosion from waves and storms. Mangroves also sequester large amounts of carbon, making them important for both local and global ecosystems.
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A young girl clings to a barbed wire fence in Karagita village during a visit from Western's Ecosystem Health - Africa Initiative.
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Lake Naivasha. Kenya. May 2011.
ecosystem (ē'kō-sĭs'təm)
A community of organisms together with their physical environment, viewed as a system of interacting and interdependent relationships and including such processes as the flow of energy through trophic levels and the cycling of chemical elements and compounds through living and nonliving components of the system. (www.dictionary.com)
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The Serengeti ecosystem is a geographical region in Africa. It is located in north Tanzania and extends to south-western Kenya. It spans some 30,000 km2. The Kenyan part of the Serengeti is known as Maasai (Masai) Mara.
The Serengeti hosts the largest terrestrial mammal migration in the world, which helps secure it as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa and one of the ten natural travel wonders of the world.The Serengeti is also renowned for its large lion population and is one of the best places to observe prides in their natural environment.
The region contains the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania and several game reserves.
The Paseo de las Iglesias Phase 1 project has 3 main goals per the Bond: River Park, Ecosystem Restoration and Erosion Protection. Below is a summary of each of the final amenities in each category to be constructed onsite.
The project will provide river park pathway and amenities including 2.7 miles of paved pathway (16’ wide), 2.2 miles of DG pathway (8’ wide) and 10,305 new trees, shrubs and cacti irrigated using permanent irrigation, temporary irrigation and Dri-water irrigation methods. The water sources will be reclaimed water. With the construction of Paseo de las Iglesias the Loop will have an 8 mile continuous section on the Santa Cruz River. Amenities will also include 3 parking areas; the west side paved parking area with restroom, ramada and seating, east side paved parking and ramada, and west side equestrian staging area with dirt parking and mounting block.
The project will provide ecosystem restoration element including a plant pallet comprised of native species local to this part of the Santa Cruz but also sustainable for current conditions, water harvesting basins, preserve in place areas for vegetation and habitat, and special habitat structures like lizard habitat and raptor perches. Additionally, Lizard and amphibian salvage to be performed by RFCD though subcontract to Dr. Rosen at U of A. RFCD contracted with Dr. Rosen to collect and monitor lizards in a fenced off area off Cottonwood Lane south of the Community Garden. The fence has been constructed by Dr. Rosen and lizard catching is in progress. Other amphibians will also be salvaged for later release. This will be treated as a do not disturb area during construction. The focus of the restoration work will be improvement to Mesquite Circle Pond which is home to 9 unique and special interest native species and one of the jewels of urban Tucson herpetological community.
The project will provide erosion protection including 1.4 miles of new soil cement bank protection, 0.4 miles of gabion bank protection, and additional methods such as rip rap, rock plating and terracing.
In addition to the decorative elements designed by the landscape architect there will be Public Art elements. With the assistance of the Tucson Pima Arts Council, we selected public artist Andy Dufford. He has been working on an entry monument and ramada for the project site. We have also been working with Las Artes, a local Arts and Education center, on a tile mural at the restroom.
During the design process our individual Section 404 permit was obtained from the Army Corps of Engineers, cultural resources mitigation was performed and letter of clearance issued from SHPO, Intergovernmental Agreement obtained with from the City of Tucson regarding property within the project area and permits with ADOT applied for. A cultural resources/archeological Phase I, Class III study was completed. The study was conducted to the current standard and determined the extent of archeological resources on site. Based on the results from the study a mitigation plan was created to determine and plan for the extent of the impacts of the project and the necessary remediation. Additionally, a goal of the project is to create signage for a segment the proposed pathway to represent the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail along the west bank of the Santa Cruz River that commemorates the 1775-1776 expedition and the historic Paseo de las Iglesias Trail.
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Let's not forget that ecosystems provide an important 'provisioning service' (P) in providing the wood to design the musical instruments which creates the sounds that bring a lot of good vibes to our lives. So naturally, there is an added cultural service (C) here: this guitar provides the foundation for the songwriter (i.e. Xavier Rudd) to inspire others with his music. And in this case, you also have the nature('land')-inspired Aboriginal art giving the instrument a sacred touch...
Read our blog about conservation in Antarctica. Karl drilling the ice to study inland aquatic ecosystems.
The vulnerable ecosystem recovery programme towards climate change resilience program aims to increase the resilience of island and wetland ecosystems to climate change as well as improve the livelihoods of communities around the ecosystems.
The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.
SIDE EVENT, Healthy Ecosystems UNEA-2. UN (United Nation Headquarter), Nairobi, Kenya, May 26, 2016.
Lions the Serengeti Masai Mara ecosystem.
Back in the 1960's there were over 200,000 lions in Africa. Today there are less than 15.000 a decline of approaching 90%. Of those 15.000 remaining lions, only around 2.500 are adult males - the target of lion trophy hunters.
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A section of the Cape Fear River that would normally house animal activity is disrupted by human waste. We can see here that someone carelessly through their garbage into the water.
For me this was the definition of sin. The absolute of what we can do to destroy carelessly. There is a decent eco-system in this part of the river, but it is easily disrupted.
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES ESTIMATION EXPERIMENT
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Exhibition at Le 3bisF, Aix en Provence.
Chroniques Festival 2020-2021
500 Startups Geeks on A Plane Middle East Trip 2015 - Day 6 & 7: Visiting Amman, Learning Ecosystem of Jordan, Cooking & Mentoring Session of Jordianian Startups Founders, Accelerator Visit & AMA with Founders hosted by Oasis500, Community Pitch Event, hosted by Zain.
18 abril 2023
Conference Artificial Intelligence and Ecosystems Management
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Palencia, Spain
Photo by Pilar Valbuena/iuFOR
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With support from ETS Ingenierías Agrarias, CESEFOR, Parque Científico UVa, IUFRO
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The ‘Ecosystem-based Adaptation South’ project seeks to help the Seychelles, Nepal and Mauritania to adapt to climate change, in part by restoring natural habitats across all types of ecosystems. In the Seychelles, on-the-ground ecological restoration will rehabilitate 29 hectares of mangrove and wetland forests, thus providing natural flood barriers. Learn more about UNEP's work on adaptation: www.unep.org/explore-topics/climate-change/what-we-do/cli...
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Wetlands are biodiversity rich sensitive ecosystems that harbor hundreds of plants, insects, birds and other animals uniquely adapted to their wetland mode of life.They are crucial to maintain the regional water balance through ground water recharge and absorption of flood waters and also serve as the rice bowl of developing countries. Nevertheless, wetlands play immense role in the socio-economic and livelihood aspects of local communities living around the wetland. In India, rural communities depend wetland for livelihood through farming, mat making etc; for food through fishing and hunting; for roof thatching by collection of reeds and palm leaf ; for firewood; for fodder etc. However, these wetlands are now under a threat of conversion for big industrial and real estate projects, change in lifestyle of local community, over extraction of resources by increased population, pollution,waste dumping, eutrophication and pesticide farming. There are three important wetlands in the Puducherry region namely Oussudu, Bahour and Kaliveli that provide important resources for local communities and also are a home to tens of thousands of migratory birds that visit the Puducherry region in winter. These wetlands have been acknowledged as Important Bird Areas(IBAs) by IBCN, since many of these birds are represented in more than 1% of their global population.
The recent threat on wetlands of Puducherry is more due to the change in life style of local community living around these wetlands. The younger generation is not much dependent on wetland resources, The younger and modern generation has lost the compassion and bonding to the wetland which their forefathers maintained through sustainable livelihood practices. This has resulted in a change in attitude and perception of the community towards unsustainable farming and resource extraction, game hunting, intensive fishing and reclamation, ultimately resulting in shrinking of wetland area and loss of biodiversity at an alarming pace. Local community is leaving the traditional farming practices for more fertilizer and pesticide based farming; fish stock is depleted using invasive Gill nets. Since Puducherry is fast developing region with rapidly growing commercial tourism and industrial establishments, these wetlands are under the threat of reclamation for resort construction and other commercial establishments. Poaching for a sport as well as open selling of birds including the threatened species is common. School drop-out are noticed to get attracted to such practices to make easy money as well as hunting for a sport with peers. With time, they may grow into expert hunters who will depend on poaching as the main source of income for the family. There are many wetland awareness programs organized by Forest Department as well as NGOs targeting school kids and educated community through workshops. School drop-outs are often not specially targeted by any of such programs and often not brought under the ambit of such programs. This gap needs to be addressed for local conservation efforts to be fully effective. We have chosen birds as the umbrella species whose conservation will in turn protect the lake and biodiversity as a whole. Birds are attractive and beautiful; ,which may easily get compassion from drop-out kids if guided appropriately. With proper efforts, the poachers can be turned to protectors and expert tour guides to facilitate ecotourism.
Ambyvalley road,Lonavala,Mah.India
Bark of the Tree!....starts flowering from january...tiny rose-like white flowers initially!
Ambyvalley road,Lonavala,Mah.,India
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District Commander, Col. Trey Jordan hosted a special tour of the Paul S. Sarbanes Ecosystem Restoration Project at Poplar Island for partners and invited guests, Oct. 11. Included were representatives from the Baltimore District, the Maryland Port Administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region III, the Maryland Geological Society, the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, US Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers North Atlantic Division. Learn more about Poplar Island: bit.ly/poplarisland
ESP10 - 10 years advancing ecosystem services science, policy and practice for a sustainable future.
25 October 2019, Hannover Congress Centre
This photo was taken during a site visit for the GEF Blue Forest project www.gefblueforests.org.
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19 abril 2023
Conference Artificial Intelligence and Ecosystems Management
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Palencia, Spain
Photo by Pilar Valbuena/iuFOR
ORGANIZED by SMART Smart Global Ecosystems Universidad de Valladolid-SNGULAR
FUNDED by Diputación de Palencia, iuFOR, SNGULAR, UVa-Campus de Palencia, JCyL and FEDER (iuFOR Escalera Excelencia projects)
With support from ETS Ingenierías Agrarias, CESEFOR, Parque Científico UVa, IUFRO
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