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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.
八釐米映像8mm Film／笛Flute
小池照男 Koike Teruo（from 日本Japan）
with
客座舞者群Guest Dancers（from 臺灣Taiwan）
昭霖 Zhao-Lin, DuDu
主題 生態系 Ecosystem
Ambyvalley road,Lonavala,Mah.,India
Asteraceae family
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八釐米映像8mm Film／笛Flute
小池照男 Koike Teruo（from 日本Japan）
with
客座舞者群Guest Dancers（from 臺灣Taiwan）
昭霖 Zhao-Lin, DuDu
主題 生態系 Ecosystem
CGI 2024 Annual Meeting
Greenhouse: Supporting the Social Enterprise Ecosystem
The social enterprise business model is rapidly gaining traction on a global scale. Today, social enterprises make up approximately 3 percent of businesses worldwide, generating over $2 trillion in annual revenue and creating more than 200 million jobs. There is immense economic potential to be realized when governments, corporations, and philanthropic organizations partner with social enterprises that put people and the planet first. From businesses that scale solutions to make health care more equitable to initiatives that improve education access for underserved populations, there is great opportunity to collaborate with social enterprises to collectively advance impact goals and catalyze transformative societal change. This session will bring together impact entrepreneurs as well as public and private sector intrapreneurs to explore collaborative partnerships, funding opportunities, and comprehensive solutions that enable social enterprises, especially those founded by traditionally marginalized entrepreneurs, to scale and thrive. Participants Ragina Arrington, CEO, Clinton Foundation: CGI University David Heath, Co-Founder and CEO, Bombas Gilbert Houngbo, Director General, International Labour Organization Aurora James, Founder, Brother Vellies; 15 Percent Pledge Shelia Johnson, Founder and CEO, Salamander Collection Raj Kumar, President and Editor-in-Chief, Devex Monique Nsanzabaganwa, Deputy Chairperson, African Union Commission Alexandra van der Ploeg, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, SAP
Photo Credit: Erika Kapin for the Clinton Foundation
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Josèfa Ntjam
Metal structure, Plexiglas, clay, neons, 2 screens
Unknown Aquazone draws upon water-related mythologies, from Mami Wata, voodoo figures and fish-woman divinities, to imagine speculative futures.
The work is named after Detroit techno duo Drexciya’s fourth EP (1994), which built upon the musicians’ imagined technological universe comprising an underwater society formed by the offspring of pregnant African women who were thrown overboard from the ships that traversed the Atlantic during the slave trade.Ntjam combines imagery relating to this and other aquatic mythologies with archival materials that depict revolutionaries who fought for Cameroonian independence, creating large photomontages that are printed on the sides of an ‘aquarium’.*
From the exhibition
RE/SISTERS: A Lens on Gender and Ecology
(October 2023 — January 2024)
A major group exhibition that explored the relationship between gender and ecology, and highlighted the systemic links between the oppression of women and the degradation of the planet.
Featuring around 50 international women and gender non-conforming artists, RE/SISTERS featured work from emerging and established artists across photography and film.
Works in the exhibition explored how women’s understanding of our environment has often resisted the logic of capitalist economies which place the exploitation of the planet at its centre. They were presented alongside works of an activist nature that demonstrated how women are regularly at the forefront of advocating and caring for the planet.
Reflecting on a range of themes, from extractive industries to the politics of care, RE/SISTERS viewed environmental and gender justice as indivisible parts of a global struggle. It addressed existing power structures that threaten our increasingly precarious ecosystem.
...RE/SISTERS surveys the relationship between gender and ecology to highlight the systemic links between the oppression of women and Black, trans, and Indigenous communities, and the degradation of the planet. It comes at a time when gendered and racialised bodies are bending and mutating under the stresses and strains of planetary toxicity, rampant deforestation, species extinction, the privatisation of our common wealth, and the colonisation of the deep seas. RE/SISTERS shines a light on these harmful activities and underscores how, since the late 1960s, women and gendernonconforming artists have resisted and protested the destruction of life on earth by recognising their planetary interconnectedness.
Emerging in the 1970s and 1980s, ecofeminism joined the dots between the intertwined oppressions of sexism, racism, colonialism, capitalism, and a relationship with nature shaped by science. Ecofeminist scholars have long critiqued feminised constructions of ‘nature’ while challenging patriarchal and colonial abuses against our planet, women, and marginalised communities. Increasingly, feminist theorists recognise that there can be no gender justice without environmental justice, and ecofeminism is being reclaimed as a unifying platform that all women can rally behind.
Uniting film and photography by over 50 women and gendernonconforming artists from across different decades, geographies, and aesthetic strategies, the exhibition reveals how a woman-centred vision of nature has been replaced by a mechanistic, patriarchal order organised around the exploitation of natural resources, alongside work of an activist nature that underscores how women are often at the forefront of advocating for and maintaining our shared earth.
Exploring the connections between gender and environmental justice as indivisible parts of a global struggle to address the power structures that threaten our ecosphere, the exhibition addresses the violent politics of extraction, creative acts of protest and resistance, the labour of ecological care, the entangled relationship between bodies and land, environmental racism and exclusion, and queerness and fluidity in the face of rigid social structures and hierarchies. Ultimately, RE/SISTERS acknowledges that women and other oppressed communities are at the core of these battlegrounds, not only as victims of dispossession, but also as comrades, as protagonists of the resistance.
[*Barbican Centre]
Taken in Barbican Centre
The B.C. government is protecting vital coastal ecosystems, creating new jobs and advancing sustainable fisheries and economic opportunities in the Northern Shelf Bioregion (also known as the Great Bear Sea) in partnership with First Nations, the federal government and donors.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/29999
Photos taken from the East Texas Renewable Natural Resources Leadership Course. This course is an excellent opportunity for county Extension agents to visit and learn about several very distinctive ecosystems (and their challenges) throughout Texas
2023-04-24: President of the African Development Bank Group, Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina along with an official during the Co-organized Seminar Investment Ecosystem.
The red sign with a white X warns firefighters that in the event of a fire, it's too dangerous for them to enter the building.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District hosts a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the completion of the Unity Island ecosystem restoration project in Buffalo, NY, October 26, 2020.
Student from the Honduran Institute of Radio Education (IHER) in the process of reforestation of the areas surrounding the dam curtain. November 2023. Credit: Gerardo A. Moya / UNDP Honduras
Work around the local nursery involves not just planting trees, but also daily tasks ranging from watering sprouts and cleaning the area to patrolling the limits of the dam. The nursery authorities called for volunteers from surrounding communities to get involved in these tasks, with the intention that this work enhances local environmental awareness and that through this, care of the area becomes part of everyday life.
Many educational institutions take part in these tasks, encouraging environmental stewardship in their students.
In 2023 alone, plants from the local nursery were used to reforest 50 acres in the vicinity of the dam.
Forests are nature's water filters and storage systems. When rain falls, the trees and vegetation capture and absorb it, allowing it to seep into the ground, replenishing aquifers and supplying water to communities for drinking and agriculture. Forests also help regulate the flow of water in rivers and streams. The roots of trees and plants hold the soil together, preventing erosion and ensuring that water flows steadily, reducing the risk of floods and droughts.
Unfortunately Honduras has seen a notable loss of forest cover over the years, with high levels of deforestation driven largely by unsustainable agriculture and illegal logging (both in turn driven by poverty). On top of this, climate-related hazards such as forest fires, pests and disease have also been enormously damaging.
Recognizing the associated threats posed to people, ecosystems and the economy, Honduras has been looking closely at nature-based solutions with a heavy emphasis on social inclusion.
The main objective of the project ‘Ecosystem-Based Adaptation at Communities of the Central Forest Corridor in Tegucigalpa’ (2019-2024)* – also known as the “AdaptarC” project – was to increase the climate resilience of the most vulnerable communities located in the Central Forest Corridor, with an emphasis on sustainable livelihoods and the continuity of the provision of ecosystem goods and services for the city of Tegucigalpa and surroundings. To achieve this, the project focused on strengthening local and community governance; ecosystem-based adaptation measures and technologies to build climate resilience; and strengthening knowledge management, information and adaptive capacity monitoring systems.
Among the key results of the project:
Around 3,660 hectares of forest restored and 90 hectares reforested;
More than 2,800 technicians have been trained in climate change adaptation (more than 60% women);
More than 3,600 people trained and provided with technical assistance in climate-smart agriculture;
All Central Forest Corridor municipalities have climate adaptation plans and micro watershed plans, with consideration for climate risk;
Five studies completed into aspects of climate change adaptation in the Central Forest Corridor, including on weevil pest, forest restoration, etc.)
Around 4,473 families with improved access to water.
Learn more: www.adaptation-undp.org/projects/ecosystem-based-adaptati...
*Implemented by Honduras’ Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MiAmbiente+) with finance from the Adaptation Fund and technical support from the UN Development Programme.
To encourage the revival of ecosystems everywhere, UNEP has published a practical guide to ecosystem restoration. Released at the start of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030, the Ecosystem Restoration Playbook provides an introduction to the range of actions that can slow and halt the degradation of ecosystems and foster their recovery.
unenvironment.widen.net/s/ffjvzcfldw/ecosystem-restoratio...
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