Podcasts about biosphere reserve

Episode 35 of the podcast takes us to Shiga Kogen Highlands in Nagano Prefecture. Declared a UNESCO Biopshere Reserve in 1980, Shiga Kogen is an alpine landscape which includes major peaks such as Mount Shiga and Mount Kusatsu-Shirane – one of Japan's most active volcanoes – renowned for its biodiversity, wetlands and distinct seasonal beauty. In this episode I speak with Yokota Shinji – a talented landscape and nature photographer who regularly accompanies guests into the alpine landscape of Shiga Kogen. He provides nature tours, photography tours and workshops for both Japanese and English-speaking guests and as such is an ideal person to accompany us to Shiga in this episode. Shiga Kogen Highlands sit within Joshinetsu Kogen National Park and will of course be familiar to many listeners as the ski resort of that name – Shiga Kogen Mountain Resort – is the largest ski resort in Japan – something we covered in Episode 13 of the pod while nearby Shiga Kogen Brewery – something we covered in Episode 6 of the pod - takes its name for this area of the mountains. Today's chat is however all about the Biosphere Reserve. Shiga Kogen Highlands is one of ten UNESCO Biosphere Reserves in Japan, a global system of reserves awarded that status in recognition of their biological diversity and as models of mutual beneficial relationships between people and nature.  For more information and to view Shinji's beautiful photography, please visit his website and follow him on Instagram and his YouTube channel. You can also find more information, including how to get there, at the official Shiga Kogen Highlands website along with Shinji's images on the episode page of the Snow Country Stories Japan website. Snow Country Stories Japan is a bi-weekly podcast about life and travel in Japan's legendary 'yukiguni'. For more information about the show and your host, visit our website - www.snowcountrystories.com - and make sure to subscribe, rate and review the podcast and follow us on Instagram and Facebook.

Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines// 7.10am Mutang Yurud from Bruno Manser Fonds spoke about the demand for the Magoh Biosphere Reserve in the East Malaysian state of Sarawak by the Indigenous Penan.www.bmf.ch, https://bmf.ch/upload/Kampagnen/Magoh/Magoh_declaration_2024_signed.pdf 7.30am Lee Crockford (Pride by Side) and Ashish Chopra (Good Data Project) on how data is being used to help empower LGBTIQA+ organisations. To find out more, there is an event on Wed 21st August at 6pm:https://events.humanitix.com/how-data-empowers-not-for-profit-organisations 8am Ramia Abdo Sultan from APAN spoke about a report on anti-Palestinian and anti-Muslim racismhttps://apan.org.au/wp-content/uploads/AMAN-APAN-Anti-Racism-Report.pdf 7.45am/8.15am Transition Mining in Nigeria from Indigenous Rights Radiohttps://rights.culturalsurvival.org/transition-minerals-nigeria Songs// Things are slow - Barbara DaneHijau - Zainal AbidinWrite down that I am an Arab  - Zeinab Shaath

Organizations: The Big Thicket Biosphere Reserve and the Sabine-Neches Chapter of Texas Master Naturalists Guests: Mary Benard w/ The Big Thicket Natural Reserve and Dennis Durkee w/ the Sabine-Neches Chapter of Texas Master Naturalists For more information visit: https://btbiospherereserve.org/ N-F-P is a weekly feature highlighting a local not-for-profit organization in Southeast Texas, hosted and produced by Jason M. Miller Tune in each Thursday at 7:50 a.m. CT during Morning Edition on 91.3 FM KVLU in Beaumont, Texas or online at kvlu.org.

On this episode of OptOutcast, our Climate Editor, Amanda Magnani, sits down with Nick Cunningham, Gas Outlook's North American correspondent, to talk about Howe Sound, a UNESCO biosphere reserve in British Columbia that is being threatened by a liquified natural gas (LNG) initiative.  Nick spent months investigating the Woodfibre LNG project and how it is affecting Squamish, a community that was once a mining and logging town but which recently managed to restore the local environment, bringing back herrings and even whales. Now, Woodfibre may set the efforts back. The project that hopes to export gas to Asia is years behind schedule, its costs have ballooned, and its fate remains up in the air—bringing health, safety, and environmental risks.  Nick is the North American correspondent for Gas Outlook, where he covers the gas industry, energy and climate policy, and the energy transition. He has reported on the oil and gas industry for more than ten years, reporting from Washington, D.C., Appalachia, the U.S. Gulf Coast, the Pacific Northwest, Canada, and Argentina. Gas Outlook is an OptOut News participant that provides insightful and incisive content about the energy transition of oil and gas companies and countries globally. It seeks to bridge the gap between climate news and the fossil fuel industry, and serve as a resource for companies, policymakers, and all those invested in the energy transition.

Roni Ben-AharonIf you've ever visited a dive show in the last few years you may have seen this lady representing Atlantis on stands or even on stage providing presentations about the amazing diving on offer in the Philippines. Roni is super vibrant and just as passionate about our sport and what she doesn't know about diving in the Philippines could probably be written on the back of a postage stamp with an oversized marker. Talking with me during this episode we take an audible trip through the various locations on offer and what makes them so unique. So, take a seat, strap yourself in, and let Roni put your imagination into overdrive! Nomadic Scuba (me in my other role) I'm pleased to say that I represent Atlantis through my scuba booking agency Nomadic Scuba, so if this episode whets your appetite and you would like more info or simply want a seamless and easy booking process... get in touch, and let's get planning your adventure.  (info@nomadicscuba.com or Whatsapp +61499021920)Puerto GaleraSituated amidst the scenic hills of Sabang Beach, Atlantis Puerto Galera is a magnificent resort that provides easy access to over forty captivating dive spots. Nestled within lush vegetation, our dedicated beachfront resort boasts 40 well-appointed rooms and a comprehensive range of amenities, promising an unforgettable diving vacation.Puerto Galera is widely recognized for its abundance of scuba diving sites and has gained UNESCO recognition as a Man and Biosphere Reserve since 1973. Positioned at the heart of the "Coral Triangle," it boasts some of Asia's most diverse coral reef diving experiences.DumagueteDauin (pronounced Da-win), adorned with its distinctive black volcanic sand, is renowned as the Frogfish capital of the Philippines, offering a unique haven for critter diving enthusiasts. Atlantis Dumaguete, strategically positioned just minutes away from over 20 local dive spots, the majority of which are protected marine areas, also provides day trips to nearby attractions such as Apo Island, and Siquijor.Azores LiveaboardFrom January to early March, the itinerary includes exploring the captivating wrecks of Coron, coupled with the vibrant and colorful walls of Apo Reef along the way. Guests embark and disembark from the resort in Puerto Galera.The Tubbataha season runs from mid-March to early June.For information about Atlantis including dive sites information www.atlantishotel.comFor videos on the incredible diving with AtThe Underwater Club with Nicolas Remy 10% discount on the annual subscription to The Underwater Club with promo code SCUBAGOATDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showNomadic Adventures is a registered Australian business and consists of the Scuba GOAT podcast and Nomadic Scuba, a travel booking agency specifically focused on scuba diving.Are you a dive operation wishing to promote your business on the Scuba GOAT podcast and via Nomadic Scuba? If the answer is YES! then get in touch today via any of the media streams, email (info@nomadicscuba.com), or WhatsApp at +61499021920, and let's start getting creative and tell the world about your services. Nomadic Scuba not only promotes operators but provides an online concierge service to divers wishing to travel. With our expansive network, we have the knowledge and know-how to organize your dream vacation so let's get planning!

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The intrepid team at the Gouritz Cluster Biosphere Reserve (GCBR) in the Western Cape in South Africa joins Marlies Quirino and Scott Stone of Lookfar Conservation for an in-person discussion about community-level conservation work done at a landscape scale. The 3.2 million hectares of the GCBR, declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 2015, is a living laboratory for complex conservation and restoration initiatives in a region where three global biodiversity converge: the Fynbos, the Succulent Karoo, and the Maputoland-Tongoland-Albany. It's no substitute for an authentic South African braai, but a fascinating and inspiring discussion nonetheless!

The Selva Maya represents the largest continuous forest in Central America. Encompassing parts of Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala, it includes Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve, where a government campaign to target illegal ranching is reversing years of destructive deforestation. Wild Audio checked in with WCS Guatemala Country Director Gabriela Ponce Santizo to find out what that means for the people of the region and the wildlife that lives there.

Today, we visit another Biosphere Reserve, this time in the Maldives. At Finolhu Baa Atoll, Marine Biologist Filipa might have the best job in the world. Here she discusses life below the waves and in particular the endangered Manta Ray. Plus, Brain Trustee Rosa shares her love of the sea.

Recorded while kayaking at sunrise in Jalpan de Serra's water damn, that hosts more than 150 species of birds throughout the year. Jalpan de Serra is part of the Biosphere Reserve of the Sierra Gorda. Our Sound Journey series seeks to inspire curiosity about our planet and its diverse environments through sound. wewalktheearth.org composed and recorded by Sergio Isauro @tejedor__ a @nodalab_ original

Jeff Bectell is the Coordinator of the Carnivores and Communities Program at the Waterton Biosphere Reserve Association. In this episode, we discuss some of the methods they've tested for preventing conflicts with Grizzly bears and other carnivores.   For more information about the Waterton Biosphere, check out their website here: https://www.watertonbiosphere.com/ The Blackfoot Challenge can be found here: https://blackfootchallenge.org/ The Carnivores & Communities Program is here: https://www.watertonbiosphere.com/projects/carnivores-communities/  People & Carnivores: https://peopleandcarnivores.org/ Alberta Landholder's Guide to Wildlife Friendly Fencing https://www.ab-conservation.com/downloads Western Landowner's Alliance Reducing Conflict with Grizzly Bears Wolves & Elk: https://westernlandowners.org/lp/reducing-conflict-with-grizzly-bears-wolves-elk/   For more info on Peace Country Beef & Forage Association check out our website here: https://www.peacecountrybeef.ca   Music for our Intro & Outro is Redwood Highway by Jason Shaw. Learn more at https://audionautix.com  

In this episode of Handpicked: Stories from the Field, Mandy Bayha, Director for Culture, Language, and Spirituality for the Délįnę Got'įnę Government, talks with Dr. Andrew Spring about the importance of traditional knowledge and language for community wellbeing and resilience Délįnę, NWT. Beginning with a conversation about community resilience in the face of major crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic Mandy traces connections between colonialism, traditional economies, and food security and explains how Elder knowledge and youth engagement inform all the work taking place in the community.  Contributors  Guests: Mandy Bayha & Andrew Spring  Co-Producers & Hosts: Amanda Di Battista & Laine Young  Sound Design & Editing: Adedotun Babajide   Support & Funding Wilfrid Laurier University The Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems Voicing Change: Co-creating Knowledge and Capacity for Sustainable Food Systems (SSHRC Funded) Balsillie School for International Affairs  CIGI   Music Credits  Keenan Reimer-Watts  Sounds  Neala McLeod  Resources Délįnę Got'įnę Government  Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action Moving Beyond Acknowledgments- LSPIRG Whose Land Connect with Us: Email: Handpickedpodcast@WLU.ca Twitter: @Handpickedpodc Facebook: Handpicked Podcast  Discussion Questions:  How has the community of Délįnę respond to the pandemic? How is connection to the land fundamental to the way that the Sahtúot'įnę deal with crises?  In this episode, Mandy says that the Sahtúot'įnę people must “walk in the footsteps of our grandfathers and our ancestors who've come before us, who have been here for hundreds of thousands of years, since time immemorial.” What does this mean to Mandy? How do the Sahtúot'įnę see their Elders and ancestors? How is the community of Délįnę engaging with the youth? Why? What is the Délįnę Youth Council and why is it important? What is a traditional economy? Why is a thriving traditional economy important to the livelihoods of the Sahtúot'įnę? Délı̨nę is part of a comprehensive land claim, is a self-governed community, and has been recognized by UNESCO as a Biosphere Reserve. How to these governance structures impact the community's vision for resilience and self-determination?  Glossary:  Climate Change Adaptation  “Climate change adaptation refers to actions that reduce the negative impact of climate change, while taking advantage of potential new opportunities. It involves adjusting policies and actions because of observed or expected changes in climate. Adaptation can be reactive, occurring in response to climate impacts, or anticipatory, occurring before impacts of climate change are observed. In most circumstances, anticipatory adaptations will result in lower long-term costs and be more effective than reactive adaptations.”  https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/environment/resources/publications/impacts-adaptation/reports/municipalities/10081  Elders  “Elders are very important members of First Nation, Métis, and Inuit communities. The term Elder refers to someone who has attained a high degree of understanding of First Nation, Métis, or Inuit history, traditional teachings, ceremonies, and healing practices. Elders have earned the right to pass this knowledge on to others and to give advice and guidance on personal issues, as well as on issues affecting their communities and nations. First Nation, Métis, and Inuit peoples value their Elders and all older people and address them with the utmost respect.”  https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/deepeningknowledge/Teacher_Resources/Curriculum_Resources_(by_subjects)/Social_Sciences_and_Humanities/Elders.html  Food Security   Food security is the ability to access safe, nutritious, culturally appropriate, and sufficient food all year round. A person or community is food insecure when people cannot afford or have limited or no access to the food they need to nourish their bodies. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization state that “food insecurity can affect diet quality in different ways, potentially leading to undernutrition as well as. . . obesity.”  http://www.fao.org/publications/sofi/2020/en/  Food Sovereignty  “Food sovereignty is the peoples', Countries' or State Unions' RIGHT to define their agricultural and food policy.”  https://viacampesina.org/en/food-sovereignty/  Indigenous Food Systems  “Within the context of the work described here, we maintain that Indigenous People are those who retain knowledge of the land and food resources rooted in historical continuity within their region of residence. The local food systems that they are currently using are those we define as “traditional food systems”, which invariably include some foods that may be used by many outside of the indigenous culture (e.g. salmon). In essence, we describe as “traditional foods” those foods that Indigenous Peoples have access to locally, without having to purchase them, and within traditional knowledge and the natural environment from farming or wild harvesting.”  http://www.fao.org/3/i0370e/i0370e01.pdf  Informal Economy of Food  Economies of food that emphasize “personal relationships, trust, and non-market values, which are inherently challenging to define and often impossible to quantify.” Informal economies of food are “spaces for non-traditional forms of innovation as well as opportunities for deep insights into social relationships, cultural meanings, and environmental values...and challenge us to think of economic systems in far more complex ways than mainstream economic theory would propose.”  http://nourishingontario.ca/the-social-economy-of-food/  Land Claim  “In 1973, the federal government recognized two broad classes of claims — comprehensive and specific. Comprehensive Claims: Comprehensive claims are based on the assessment that there may be continuing Aboriginal rights to lands and natural resources. These kinds of claims come up in those parts of Canada where Aboriginal title has not previously been dealt with by treaty and other legal means. While each claim is unique, frequently these claims include such things as land title, fishing, trapping, and resource rights and financial compensation – hence the "comprehensive". Specific Claims: Specific claims declare grievances over Canada's alleged failures to discharge specific obligations to First Nations groups. Land claim agreement: A term used by the federal government to refer to a negotiated settlement with a First Nation on lands, land usage, and other rights.”  https://www.ictinc.ca/indigenous-peoples-a-guide-to-terminology?hsCtaTracking=78222e95-067f-4dbf-b5ab-dcf30327c183%7Cbecdb1c0-7f37-4a84-98e4-b5fb804e47ef  Land Stewardship  “In its broadest sense, stewardship is the recognition of our collective responsibility to retain the quality and abundance of our land, air, water and biodiversity, and to manage this natural capital in a way that conserves all of its values, be they environmental, economic, social or cultural.”  http://www.landstewardship.org/stewardship/  On the Land Camp  “Camps on the land are a strong force for community development, bringing youth and elders together in a non-urban environment where traditional knowledge and skills can be passed on among generations through direct experience.”  https://www.wcscanada.org/Portals/42/media/file/Camps_Report_WCSCanada.pdf  Reconciliation in Action  “The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established in 2008 to document the experiences of residential school Survivors before, during and after their time in residential schools and to lay the foundation for a new relationship based on mutual respect and understanding in Canada.   Throughout the TRC's work, the process of healing and reconciliation evolved. Thousands of Canadians began to understand the depth of harm imposed on Indigenous Peoples and were inspired to take action to right past wrongs. Following the release of the TRC's 94 Calls to Action, governments, organizations, corporations, churches and countless community groups started taking on new policies, projects and plans with the goal of mending the broken relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, communities and organizations.  While there are many achievements to be celebrated, the hard work of reconciliation and structural reform necessary to transition this country into a respectful and safe place for Indigenous Peoples will take years. This presents a deep challenge for this nation — while the big work of changing the nature of our relationship at a structural level continues to evolve, the many forms of crisis experienced within Indigenous communities continues to rage. Children continue to be disproportionately represented in the child welfare system, suicide remains at epidemic levels in certain communities and Indigenous Peoples continue to experience a lesser quality of life than non-Indigenous people.  Given the long history of broken promises and false hope, it remains difficult for many Indigenous communities to trust that meaningful change will occur. Sadly, the past history of Canada is littered with many aspirational ideas but little transformative change.  Reconciliation remains a massively complex exercise for this nation — one with great depths that many are only beginning to understand. Significant reform in the areas of law, legislation and justice must all occur. Likewise, deeply held racist conceptions of Indigenous Peoples must also be eliminated from society. All Canadians have been called upon to embrace this work, and each is asked to contribute to the overall work of reconciliation.”  https://indigenouspeoplesatlasofcanada.ca/article/the-road-to-reconciliation/  Self-Determination / Self-Government  “The promise of self-government and the spirit behind that movement was that we were going to be self-determining, that it was going to give us our right to make decisions about our own future back to us where it belonged, where it should have never been taken to begin with.  And so, the idea behind self-governance as it relates to education is that we're going to teach our own children what's important to us, what the value, what our values are. And it's really important that, you know, we are teaching our children their way of life, who they are, their identity.”  Mandy Bayha, discussing Délįnę Got'įnę Government in “We walk in the footsteps of our ancestors”: Traditional knowledge, youth engagement, and resilience in Délįnę  Sustainable Food System  Food systems that are “socially just, support local economies; are ecologically regenerative, and foster citizen engagement.”  https://fledgeresearch.ca/  Traditional Food  Traditional food, also called country food, describes traditional Indigenous food, including game meats, migratory birds, fish and foraged foods. In addition to providing nourishment, traditional food is an integral part of Indigenous identity and culture and contributes to self-sustainable communities. Environmental and socioeconomic changes have threatened food security, making traditional food more expensive and difficult to harvest. Despite these challenges, Indigenous communities, in partnership with various levels of government and non-profit organizations, continue to work towards improving access to traditional food.  https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/country-food-inuit-food-in-canada  Traditional Knowledge  “Although there is no universally accepted definition of “traditional knowledge,” the term is commonly understood to refer to collective knowledge of traditions used by Indigenous groups to sustain and adapt themselves to their environment over time. . . . Traditional Knowledge is usually shared among Elders, healers, or hunters and gatherers, and is passed on to the next generation through ceremonies, stories or teachings.”  https://www.afn.ca/uploads/fi

Today in botanical history, we celebrate an old English poet, a Mexican botanist, and a British gardener and survivalist who was way ahead of his time. We'll hear an excerpt from a beautiful Jack Gilbert poem We Grow That Garden Library™ with a garden classic of our time from a contemporary garden expert. And then we'll wrap things up with a fun movie that featured a botanist. It debuted six years ago today in England.   Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart To listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to “Play the latest episode of The Daily Gardener Podcast.” And she will. It's just that easy.   The Daily Gardener Friday Newsletter Sign up for the FREE Friday Newsletter featuring: A personal update from me Garden-related items for your calendar The Grow That Garden Library™ featured books for the week Gardener gift ideas Garden-inspired recipes Exclusive updates regarding the show Plus, each week, one lucky subscriber wins a book from the Grow That Garden Library™ bookshelf.   Gardener Greetings Send your garden pics, stories, birthday wishes, and so forth to Jennifer@theDailyGardener.org   Facebook Group If you'd like to check out my curated news articles and original blog posts for yourself, you're in luck. I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. So, there's no need to take notes or search for links. The next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community, where you'd search for a friend... and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.   Curated News Is a coconut a fruit, nut, or seed? | Library of Congress   Important Events September 30, 1669  Death of Henry King, English poet. He served as Bishop of Chichester and was close friends with John Donne. He wrote, Brave flowers - that I could gallant it like you,  And be as little vain!  You come abroad, and make a harmless show,  And to your beds again.  You are not proud: you know your birth:  For your embroidered garments are from earth.   September 30, 1901 Birth of Helia Bravo Hollis, Mexican botanist. She was the first woman to graduate with a degree in biology in Mexico. By 29, she was curator of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico City) herbarium, where she studied cacti. Her work brought notoriety, and she became known as The Queen of the Cacti. She co-wrote her masterpiece, Las Cactaceas de México, with Hernando Sánchez-Mejorada. In 1951, she cofounded the Mexican Cactus Society, which planned to celebrate her 100th birthday in 2001, but she died four days shy of the century mark. In 1980, Monaco's Princess Grace Kelly, who was also fond of cacti, presented Helia with the second-ever Golden Cactus Award. Helia helped found the Botanical Gardens at UNAM, where she served as the director throughout the 1960s. Once, when a strike occurred at the gardens, she offset her workers' lost wages with her own savings. In 2018, Google commemorated Helia's 117th birthday with a Google Doodle. Online, there is a memorable image of  Helia dressed in a skirt and blazer - with a knife in her hand - and standing next to an enormous Echinocactus platyacanthus, aka the giant barrel cactus. In Mexico, where the cactus is a native, the hairs are harvested for weaving, and a traditional candy is made from boiling the pith. Today, the Helia Bravo Hollis Botanical Garden, with more than 80 species of Cactaceae, is found at the Biosphere Reserve of Tehuacán. Helia once wrote, My reason for living is biology and cacti.   September 30,  1910 Birth of Edward Solomon Hyams, British gardener, French scholar, historian, anarchist, and writer. He was a gardening correspondent for the Illustrated London News and The Spectator and various horticultural journals. After WWII, he lived a self-sufficient lifestyle at Nut Tree Cottages in Molash in Kent. He planted a small vineyard and later wrote The Grape Vine in England (1949). The following year, he wrote From the Waste Land (1950), which describes the transformation of three acres at Nut Tree Cottages into a market garden that generated food and income. In The Gardener's Bedside Book (1968), he wrote, I have never been interested in and am incapable of writing about the great hybrid garden tulips. I do not mean to condemn them or anything foolish like that; but one cannot be interested in every kind of garden plant, and that particular kind has never made any real appeal to me whatsoever. But the botanical species tulips are quite another matter.   Unearthed Words Love is like a garden in the heart, he said. They asked him what he meant by garden. He explained about gardens. "In the cities," he said, "there are places walled off where color and decorum are magnified into a civilization. Like a beautiful woman," he said. How like a woman, they asked. He remembered their wives and said garden was just a figure of speech, then called for drinks all around. Two rounds later he was crying.  ― Jack Gilbert, Ovid in Tears, The Dance Most of All: Poems   Grow That Garden Library Windcliff by Daniel J. Hinkley This book came out in 2020, and the subtitle is A Story of People, Plants, and Gardens. In this book, we learn about Windcliff - one of two magnificent gardens created by the plantsman, nurseryman, and plant hunter Dan Hinkley. (Dan also created Heronswood.) “These iconic gardens, and the story of how one gave rise to the other, are celebrated in Hinkley's deeply personal Windcliff. In a lively style that mingles audacious opinions on garden design with cautionary tales of planting missteps, Hinkley shares his infectious passion for plants.” In these pages, you will fall in love with Windcliff thanks to the gorgeous photography and fall even deeper in love hearing about the careful way Dan created Windcliff, from the exceptional plants he selected to his pragmatic garden advice. This book is 280 pages of creating a garden with a modern master who loves plants and is delighted to share his stunning garden with us. You can get a copy of Windcliff by Daniel J. Hinkley and support the show using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for around $22.   Today's Botanic Spark Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart September 30, 2015  On this day, The Martian, featuring Matt Damon as botanist Mark Watney premiered in England. In the movie, Mark is accidentally left on Mars and is forced to grow potatoes to stay alive until he is rescued.   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener. And remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

A small country in Western Africa, which was previously called Portuguese Guinea, is now called Guinea Bissau. A place which has a UNESCO Man and Biosphere Reserve, which has over 1000 bats living there. Listen in to know why  the flag of this country reminds us of the flag of Ghana. www.chimesradio.com  http://onelink.to/8uzr4g  https://www.facebook.com/chimesradio/  https://www.instagram.com/vrchimesradio/   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

All over Australia land is being developed at an astonishing rate - that in itself is not surprising as we are a country in a national building mode - but what is shocking, and disappointing, is that in 2021 we, the trophy holders for most mammal extinctions, want to extend our extinction rates into other species, and continue to utterly destroy vital habitat, especially large trees, in our efforts to build human homes and facilities.Councils, Cities and Shires will approve these developments; saying they are just a small habitat removal; not a significant size; but what they are failing to see is the big picture - all these small removals are cumulative.We are most blessed in Australia to be home to an amazing array of stunning parrots, and one of these  is the Glossy black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus lathami) our smallest black cockatoo that now days is mostly living in eastern Australia. The Glossy was once widespread across the whole of the south-eastern part of Australia, but it has become locally extinct in South Australia and only remains on SA's Kangaroo Island.  You would think we would learn from this event.Up in Queensland, in a most beautiful part of the world, in the domains of the Shire of Noosa, lies the beautiful beach side community of Sunshine Beach.  (Seriously Google the place and see the phots for yourself!).  Sunshine Beach has been developing (like the rest of Australia) and the area is in demand for obvious reasons, everyone who is anyone wants to have a piece of Sunshine Beach.  So habitat for the indigenous animals of this Biosphere Reserve is reducing significantly and no "offset" planting is going to cut it for the animals that have more particular diets or those requiring old growth trees. The Glossy black cockatoo is one of those particular animals.The glossy black cockatoo feeds off a particular tree, in fact almost solely on the seeds of casuarina trees in the genus Allocasuarina - in Sunshine Beach they eat A. littoralis.  And to make their diet even more specialised, the seeds they eat only come from female Allocasurina littoralis trees!And these are the exact trees that grow on a 5 hectare virgin bush block at Grasstree Court at Sunshine Beach - a block of land that has been purchased by the Uniting Church of Queensland to develop into an aged care facility and the land development was approved by a prior amalgamated Shire of Noosa.Enter Spencer Hitchen - a 10 year old Wildlife Warrior supported by his mum, Maxine and the Glossy Team Sunrise, who as local down to earth citizens are trying desperately to negotiate a land swap that will be facilitated through the new Shire of Noosa and be between the Uniting Church and the Shire of Noosa.  The hiccup is the Uniting Church of Queensland has to approach the new Shire of Noosa, and this is Spencer's aim; to get the Uniting Church to see his, and other Glossy lover's point of view, that this 5 hectare property that the church owns is indeed precious, important and essential to the long term survival of the local Sunrise Beach glossy cockatoo flock.Petition:https://www.change.org/p/uniting-church-help-spencer-to-stop-the-church-to-save-our-glossiesFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/maxine.hitchen.98https://www.facebook.com/groups/glossyteamInstasavesunriseglossiesemail:savesunriseglossies@gmail.com

Miguel Ángel de la Cueva is a profoundly thoughtful photographer who focuses on Mexico's natural beauty, wildlife, and remote ranch-dwelling people. National Geographic, Geo magazine, Mexico Desconocido, and environmental organizations like The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, Wildcoast, and Niparajá-WWF have published his images. He has photographed two books: Oasis de Piedra, which won a Silver Medal Award at BookExpo America NY 2006 in the Nature Category, and La Giganta y Guadalupe, which advanced the creation of a Biosphere Reserve in Baja California Sur, México. He is an Associate Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers. “It is in the desert that we can find meaning in the simplest things of life. It is in the desert that we can rediscover our sense of awe. And, it is in the deserts of Baja California Sur that geography and hope become one.” -Miguel Ángel de la Cueva Enjoy the conversation with photographer Miguel Ángel de la Cueva Visit Miguel Ángel de la Cueva's Instagram Visit Miguel Ángel de la Cueva's Facebook Buy his book Oasis in Stone from Sunbelt Publications

A projecting western spur of Mount Lebanon adjacent to the Ibrahim or Adonis river, the Jabal Moussa Biosphere Reserve possesses a rich natural and cultural heritage. Given its relative inaccessibility and difficult terrain, what is perhaps most remarkable is the long continuity of human adaptation and occupation of this mountain landscape.  This talk presents the results of an ongoing collaborative project (2018-onwards) between the Association for the Protection of Jabal Moussa (APJM), a Lebanese non-governmental and non-profit organisation, and a team of landscape archaeologists, who have come together to explore the archaeology and heritage of this region, from prehistory to the present day. The discussions will cover some of the main archaeological findings from the past few years of survey and highlight the ways in which these stories and narratives can be integrated with ongoing conservation, heritage protection and promotion efforts in Lebanon. About the speakers: Pierre Doumet is a founding member and currently the president of APJM. Although a volunteer position, Pierre dedicates more time and effort in managing APJM than he does on managing three other companies which he directs. Renowned for his pioneer work in the private sector, Pierre brought the professionalism and focus of the private sector to the not-for-profit domain of APJM. Under his management, Jabal Moussa, designated a Biosphere Reserve in 2009, became one of the most important ecotourism destinations in Lebanon, receiving an exponentially growing number of visitors every year. Joelle Barakat is Conservation Manager at AJPM. Born and raised in Yahchouch, one of the villages of the Biosphere Reserve, Joelle has been working for APJM for 8 years, competently overseeing projects pertaining to the conservation of natural and cultural heritage as well as sustainable development and local outreach. Jennie Bradbury is an Assistant Professor at Bryn Mawr College, USA. A former CBRL committee member, her main research interests focus on social complexity; the role of ‘non-optimal’ zones; burial traditions and mortuary practices; landscape archaeology, GIS and archaeological survey techniques; and cultural heritage. An active field archaeologist, she has worked in Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman and Syria, and since 2018 has been working in collaboration with the APJM on an archaeological and heritage field survey. Stephen McPhillips is a landscape archaeologist whose research interests focus on rural society and hydro-agricultural and ceramic technologies of medieval and Ottoman periods. He has worked on projects in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and the Arabian Gulf and was an Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen, a fellow at the University of Bonn, and an independent consultant. He has been working as a consultant in collaboration with the APJM on an archaeological and heritage field survey since 2018.

Topic: Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, 161st Commonwealth Point of Light Special Guest: Mrs. Telca Wallace (Brenda Wallace) Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, has recognized Mrs. Telca Wallace as the 161st Commonwealth Point of Light, for her exceptional voluntary service in coordinating the COVID-19 response for the St. Kitts-Nevis Red Cross Society. Mrs. Wallace is the disaster coordinator for the Red Cross Society and has led their COVID-19 response in St. Kitts & Nevis including the donation of PPE to Frontline workers. She is also a volunteer manager for Saint Mary's Biosphere Reserve, working to preserve the island's biological diversity, and chair of the local chapter of Caribbean Women in Leadership Institute which aims to increase women's political participation and leadership --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/iamladybbless/message

According to UNESCO, biosphere reserves provide local solutions to global challenges. Biosphere reserves include terrestrial, marine and coastal ecosystems. There are 701 biosphere reserves in 124 countries across the globe. Africa is home to 86 biosphere reserves which are found in 31 countries. There are 10 biosphere reserves in South Africa. Vhembe Biosphere Reserve (VBR) is found in the Vhembe District of Limpopo province.

* Hurricane "Nana" will not touch Mexican coasts * In August, the presence of sargassum decreased considerably on the coasts of the Mexican Caribbean compared to what has been observed in recent year * The Ministry of Health reported that as of 12 noon on September 2, 6,673 people have been recovered * Semar assures almost three tons of alleged drugs, in Mahahual, there are 3 detainees * They manage to secure a large amount of drugs of different doses during a search carried out by agents of the State Attorney General's Office * PLAYA DEL CARMEN: The prices of the different hospital establishments that are part of the services offered by medical tourism * The Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve in Felipe Carrillo Puerto is devoured by an atypical forest fire that has so far affected around 3,500 hectares * Without a doubt, for the Mexican actress Salma Hayek, age is just a number #Instagram : @_espo_mx "Daily #Podcast from the #Mexican #Caribbean " http://cjrradio.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cjr-news/support

Tosh chats today with Jennifer Dingman Leger, Executive Director of the Fundy Biosphere Reserve. "The Bay of Fundy and its adjacent landscapes form a unique region in its geological formations, terrestrial and marine ecosystems, and cultural heritage, as well as its variety of rural communities and urban areas. It compares with more than 600 unique landscapes in over 100 countries in the world that have been recognized as World UNESCO biosphere sites. The Fundy Biosphere Reserve designation by UNESCO provides not only international recognition for the uniqueness of the Bay of Fundy, its culture and history, but also emphasizes the importance of conservation and sustainability in the region. The Fundy Biosphere Reserve includes an area of over 430,000 hectares of the upper Bay of Fundy coast, stretching from St. Martins to the Tantramar Marsh near Sackville and inland to Moncton." http://www.fundy-biosphere.ca/en/

Welcome to Biocitizen Banter, a podcast dedicated to environmental philosophy featuring lively discussions between people active in the effort to bring biotic health to our communities and commonwealth. Our first podcast features an interview of Ricardo Rozzi by Kurt Heidinger.

No doubt, fireworks are something exciting for a sound enthusiast. The impact, however to the natural world, pets and people with no interest in extremely loud detonations or certain traumas are devastating - just to talk about the acoustic aspect. In the past few years there have been many studies on the health effects of fireworks made in urban areas, but surprisingly little in rural areas or in nature reserves. What happens in such a nature reserve during at several hours of massive noise production in medium or large distances around that particular spot? In 2012 I made sound recordings during the New Year's Eve fireworks at the same spot called Flachwasserzone Mannhausen located in the Drömling Biosphere Reserve, Saxony Anhalt. For a better spatial location of the events, I have made sound recordings again - but now in a 360 ° format. So this track is a binaural version of an Ambisonics recording. Caution! There are naturally very loud peaks in the recording that could damage your hearing.

I was reading in Facebook yesterday, a friend had planted all of these autumn crocus, colchicums, in her garden. Like any bulb, it takes lots of dedication to get them planted and then you have all of the anticipation - waiting to see if they come up and if they meet your expectations. Anyway, she'd invited some friends over to come and check them out. Instead of being amazed by the beautiful autumn crocus, her friends were completely taken her gorgeous hydrangea. Isn't that the way it goes? We toil in our gardens and then we invite people over to come and see it. Yet, the plants we expect others to be amazed by, the plants that have stolen our hearts, are not always the plants that are the most popular with our visitors.  So, my piece of advice, if you have an affinity for autumn crocus, is don't plant hydrangea. If you do have hydrangea, only invite other gardeners over.  Only gardeners will appreciate the dedication that it takes to plant colchicum. Only gardeners are sensitive to the fact that if they've been invited over to "see the colchicum", they will ooh and aah only for the autumn crocus, and offer merely a passing nod to the show-stealing hydrangea.      Brevities #OTD  Today is the birthday of the botanist Sarah Hynes who was born on this day in 1859,  Hynes was born in Danzig, Prussia and she immigrated to Australia in the mid 1800's. After graduating from the University of Sydney, she and Georgina King brought in fresh flowers for a botanical display at the Sydney Technological Museum. This is how Haynes came to know the director of the Museum, Joseph Henry Maiden. Maiden hired Haynes as a botanical assistant and when he was promoted to be the director of the Sydney Botanic Garden, he hired Hynes to be in charge of the herbarium. Once Hynes arrived at the botanic garden, she ran into difficulties with her male bosses. She was pointing out disparities between herself and her male counterparts; she had requested better pay. In 1905, Hynes was suspended and cited for 39 counts of insubordination including the use of "unladylike" phrase "lowdown, dirty larrikin trick." Hynes stood her ground and denied the charges, which were ultimately dismissed. But, five years later, it happened again. After this suspension, Haynes had had enough; she transferred to the Department of Public Instruction. After this position, Haynes spent the rest of her professional life teaching science to high schoolers.   William Fitzgerald named the (Acacia hynesiana) for her, in recognition of her work with Joseph Henry Maiden on his book Forest Flora.         #OTD   Today is the birthday of the botanical artist Faith Fyles who was born on this day in 1875. Fyles was trained as a botanist, but her natural artistic talent became apparent early in her career. She was the first female hired by the Canadian Department of Agriculture. In 1920, she transferred to the horticulture division where she began producing colored illustrations of plant specimens; especially   fruits and ornamentals.   Fyles is remembered for her work on the 1920 bulletin, Principal Poison Plants of Canada. The bulletin was prepared for farmers so that they could discern the problematic plants on their properties and avoid pasturing animals  with poisonous plants. The book was offered free through the Ottawa Department of Agriculture. Over her career, Fyles had the opportunity to study art with Stanhope Forbes in England and with Rene Menard and Lucien Simon in Paris.     #OTD   Today is the birthday of the Mexican botanist Helia Bravo Hollis who was born on this day in 1901. Bravo Hollis was the first woman to graduate with the title of Biologist in Mexico. By the age of 29, she was named curator of the University's herbarium where she was assigned the job of studying the cactus. In 1937, Bravo   Hollispublished "Las cactáceas de México", making her a leader of global cactus research.  Bravo Hollis focused on cactus in and in 1951, she cofounded the Mexican Cactus Society. Six cacti species are named in her honor. In 2001, the Cactus  Society had planned to celebrate her 100th birthday, but she died four days shy of the century mark. Bravo Hollis also helped found the Botanical Gardens at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She served as the director of the Gardens throughout the 1960s. When a strike occurred, Bravo-Hollis offset the pay owed her workers with money out of her own pocket. Last year, Google commemorated the 117th birthday of Bravo Hollis with a Doodle. If you search for her online, you'll see a memorable image of Bravo Hollis, in a skirt and blazer with a knife in her hand, standing next to an Echinocactus platyacanthus, also known as the giant barrel cactus, that appears to be over 5 ft tall and just as wide; a very impressive specimen. This species is the largest barrel cacti. In Mexico, where the cactus is a native, the hairs are harvested for weaving and a traditional candy is made from boiling the pith. Today, the Helia Bravo HollisBotanical Garden, with more than 80 species of cactaceae, is found at the Biosphere Reserve of Tehuacán.         Unearthed Words  Today is the birthday of the American poet WS Merwin, who always went by William, and who was born on this day in 1927. In 2010, Merwin and his wife, Paula, co-founded the Merwin Conservancy at his home in Haiku, Maui. Merwin used the 19 protected acres surrounding his home to cultivate 400 different species of tropical trees; and many of the world's rarest palm trees. Merwin bought the property in 1977, and every day, he planted one tree. Merwin's story is outlined in an excellent opinion piece about Merwin that was featured in the New York Times earlier this year.   “come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain” “Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its composition, it’s appearance, to human design and effort, human conventions and convenience, and the human pursuit of that elusive, indefinable harmony that we call beauty. It has a life of its own, an intricate, willful, secret life, as any gardener knows. It is only the humans in it who think of it as a garden. But a garden is a relationship, which is one of the countless reasons why it is never finished.”      “On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree.”      Today's book recommendation: Planting in a Post-Wild World by Thomas Rainer and Claudia West  This book came out in 2015 and the subtitle is Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes. Right from the start, one can tell that this book has a different philosophical underpinning than other books on landscape design. And, I love that they incorporate the use of the word community; Rainer and West are trying to get us to think about our gardens as communities.  If we could begin to see our gardens and the plants in them in the way that Rainer and West do, we would be much more sensitive to concepts like density and diversity in our plantings. But, don't let those terms throw you; Rainer and West are all about extracting design principals that help gardeners focus on wise selections and year-round interest; all through the lens of community. If we could all do a better job of understanding the way plants behave in the wild, our gardens would benefit greatly.  I love what they write in the beginning of their book because I think it sets the tone for what they are trying to accomplish: "The way plants grow in the wild and the way they grow in our gardens is starkly different. In nature, plants thrive even in inhospitable environments; in our gardens, plants often lack the vigor of their wild counterparts, even when we lavish them with rich soils and frequent water. In nature, plants richly cover the ground; in too many of our gardens, plants are placed far apart and mulched heavily to keep out weeds. In nature, plants have an order individual harmony resulting from their adaptation to a site; our gardens are often arbitrary assortments from various habitats, related only by our personal preferences....   In fact, the very activities that define gardening – weeding, watering, fertilizing, and mulching – all imply a dependency of plants on the gardener for survival. Gardeners are often frustrated when some plants spread beyond their predetermined location and surprised     while others struggle to get established....   Further complication is the availability of plants from every corner of the globe...   So how do we  shift the paradigm, making desirable plantings that look and function sympathetically with how they evolve in nature? By observing and embracing the wisdom of natural plant communities."         Today's Garden Chore Add some color to your garden with chrysanthemums.  On this day in 2000, Stuart Robinson offered this advice about mums in his weekly column in the Montreal Gazette: "Before shutting things down for the winter, there are a few ways to make the fall garden look a bit nicer. Brighten up your fall flower beds with some colorful chrysanthemums. If you didn't plant any in the spring, so what. Markets and garden supply stores usually have lots of them on special at this time of the year. Buy a few of the larger pots, dig holes in the flower bed (removing a few poor-performing annuals if you have to) and just drop them in and water them well. If you do it when nobody's looking, your neighbors will never know."       Something Sweet  Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart As I was researching the poet William Merwin, I came across an interview with him done by Joel Whitney back in 2010. During the interview, Merwin revealed that his mother used to read him poetry and one of his early favorites was Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses.  When asked about Stevenson, Merwin recalled that Stevenson had spent a great deal of time in Hawaii: "and played cards with King Kalakaua... Kalakaua cheated at cards... They obviously got along very well together, Stevenson and Kalakaua. They were playing cards one day, and Stevenson said, 'I’ll beat him this time: four aces.' And Kalakaua said, 'Five kings beats it all.'"     Thanks for listening to the daily gardener, and remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

Emily Was A Good Girl by Kayla Snow - 00:47How Some Children Played at Slaughtering - 16:09The Singing Bone - 18:04The Flayed Woman - 26:01Donkey Skin - 35:35Fitcher's Bird - 52:23Get 20% your first purchase of Native deodorant! Just go to nativedeodorant.com (https://www.nativecos.com/?utm_source=podcast) and enter code SCAREYOUFor bonus episodes become a Patron (https://www.patreon.com/scareyoutosleep) ! For as little as $1 a month you get full access to bonus episodes!Music:"Evening Fall (Harp)", "Medusa", "Opium", "Past the Edge", "Quinn's Song:  A New Man", "Ritual", "The Other Side of the Door", "The Pyre", "Vanishing", "Welcome to HorrorLand"Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Grotesque Fantasia", "Stronger Together", "Phantom (Horror Soundscape)", "Living in the Dark", "Bad Encounter", "Countdown", "Edge of Life", "Wasted Wonderland"Myuu http://www.thedarkpiano.com/Sound Effects:All sound effects are a combination of my own and the following by FreeSound.org (https://freesound.org/) :Girl Crying (https://freesound.org/people/MadamVicious/sounds/218184/) by MadamViciou (https://freesound.org/people/MadamVicious/)Halloween - Graveyard At Night Howling Wind.mp3 (https://freesound.org/people/mistersherlock/sounds/159509/#) by mistersherlock (https://freesound.org/people/mistersherlock/)Dark Cave Drone (https://freesound.org/people/Kinoton/sounds/421826/) by Kinoton (https://freesound.org/people/Kinoton/)Owl Hoot (https://freesound.org/people/Breviceps/sounds/465697/) by Breviceps (https://freesound.org/people/Breviceps/)Forest at night, crickets, cicadas and insects in the Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve (https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/328293/#) by felix.blume (https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/)owl.wav (https://freesound.org/people/Anthousai/sounds/398734/) by Anthousai (https://freesound.org/people/Anthousai/)horror ambience LONG 190624_0042.ogg (https://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/475619/#) by klankbeeld (https://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/)knifesha3.wav (https://freesound.org/people/aboe/sounds/69479/) by aboe (https://freesound.org/people/aboe/)Creak Wood Floor 14 (https://freesound.org/people/f4kf4ce/sounds/261356/) by f4kf4ce (https://freesound.org/people/f4kf4ce/)Large Swede Stab with Whoosh.wav (https://freesound.org/people/minituffy/sounds/385966/#) by minituffy (https://freesound.org/people/minituffy/)Stumble and Fall.wav (https://freesound.org/people/danhelbling/sounds/272390/) by danhelbling (https://freesound.org/people/danhelbling/)Body fall.wav (https://freesound.org/people/Suburbanwizard/sounds/417994/) by Suburbanwizard (https://freesound.org/people/Suburbanwizard/) Metal Knife Drop- Short.wav (https://freesound.org/people/akennedybrewer/sounds/389185/) by akennedybrewer (https://freesound.org/people/akennedybrewer/)Sci-Fi Horror Ambience (https://freesound.org/people/RoganDerrick/sounds/260440/) by RoganDerrick (https://freesound.org/people/RoganDerrick/)Opening Door 1 (https://freesound.org/people/SeanSecret/sounds/440645/) by SeanSecret (https://freesound.org/people/SeanSecret/)01161 boar oink 3.wav (https://freesound.org/people/Robinhood76/sounds/76796/) by Robinhood76 (https://freesound.org/people/Robinhood76/)Nasty Knife Stab.wav (https://freesound.org/people/Aris621/sounds/435238/) by Aris621 (https://freesound.org/people/Aris621/)wild boar squeak field recording with tascam dr-70d & Rode NTG4+ (https://freesound.org/people/Garuda1982/sounds/425241/#) by Garuda1982 (https://freesound.org/people/Garuda1982/)My Tavern 1.wav (https://freesound.org/people/ralexpdx/sounds/321220/) by ralexpdx (https://freesound.org/people/ralexpdx/)Brook1.wav (https://freesound.org/people/orion1001/sounds/344381/) by orion1001 (https://freesound.org/people/orion1001/)First person face punch 2 (https://freesound.org/people/jorickhoofd/sounds/189158/) by jorick--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scareyoutosleep/message Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sound artist Félix Blume’s extensive library helps to create this collage of sound from either side of the Mexican/American border. Oil pumps in California and samples of a Pemex protest in Mexico City are woven together with the sounds of the Nearctic desert and Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve to pay homage to the depth of our global interconnection.

Chapter 9 of the Raymond Blakney translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion. Intro chime credit: theveryrealhorst, Solfeggio Wind Chimes, MI 528 Hz Single Cut #2, freesound.org Ending credits: Felix Blume, Chacalas Birds Screaming at Dawn in the Forest in the Sian-ka-an Biosphere Reserve, freesound.org

Forest at dawn in the Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve with some birds (Chachalacas, colibris, woodpecker, parrot passing by...), a squirrel and some insects, crickets and mosquitos. Recorded during the Biosphere Soundscapes Residency http://www.biospheresoundscapes.org/ Recorder: Sound Devices 788T Microphone: Bruel & Kjaer 4006 Stereo AB Setup (omnidirectional) with Cinela Leonard Windscreen Original recording in 96khz 24bit Sound Reference: BIO151028T03-AB Recorded on 28th of October of 2015 More sounds on Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/packs/18408/

Hello and welcome to rememberinghistory.com where we are remembering history and we’re making it. I’m Robin, the founder and host of this great and groundbreaking podcast show. I would also say that this is an historic show—yes, I know it’s about history—but it is historic because we are discussing, learning and being inspired by people who have been forgotten by history. In this series, we’re focusing on Black explorers.   Remember in the first show of this series, we discussed William Sheppard who was born a poor boy in the southern United States but became one of the greatest explorers in the Congo, learned the Kuba language, gained the respect of the Bakuba people and became one of the world’s first human rights activists. He alerted the world to the horrible treatment and atrocities (remember the severed hands?) suffered by the Congolese resulting from the Belgian rubber trade. William Sheppard also became one of the first collectors of African art. In the second podcast show, we discussed Black women explorers and met Barbara Hillary who skied to both the North and South poles—oh, did I forget to mention that she did these amazing feats when she was in her 70s?! And we cannot forget Saray Khumalo who has already summited Mount Kilimanjaro (the highest peak in Africa) and Mount Elbrus in Russia. She has her sights set on Mount Everest but was stopped twice by natural disasters, both of which she was lucky to survive. But she so wisely noted that “We all have our everests.” And that’s why this podcast series is so important. We all do have our own everests to face. What is your Everest?   The explorers in today’s podcast also had their everests—though it wasn’t going high in the sky, it was going deep into the earth. But, of course, I know that you that Everest is not high or low, near or far. It’s within us. Within each an every one of us.   Still, today’s show is slightly different in the explorer series. Okay, I admit that each show is unique. We will still focus on Black explorers but in this podcast show, we will focus on Black explorers and guides at one place: Mammoth Caves in Kentucky. Why am I making this change? Why am I focusing only on Mammoth caves?   There are good reasons for this. I promise.       The Mammoth Caves are a very special place on this planet. The Mammoth caves are the longest known cave system in the world. There are more than 400 miles of vast chambers and complex passages. And it is twice as long as the second longest cave system, which is found in Mexico. New discoveries and connections add several miles to the cave system every year. The Mammoth Caves in the Mammoth Cave National Park are a World Heritage Site and an international Biosphere Reserve. You will see that much of the discoveries there are due to the work of the courageous and determined Black explorers and guides in the caves , which were described by Stephen Bishop (whom we’ll meet very soon) as a “grand, gloomy and peculiar” place.   The Mammoth Caves are important for another, perhaps surprising reason. The stories of the African Americans (both enslaved and free) who came to live and work at the Mammoth Caves showed a lot about the society and times in which they lived. It showed the difficulties, the struggles and the discrimination. But it also showed the triumphs, the courage and the great skills of both the enslaved and free people at the Caves. You’ll get more details about this, and get the heartwarming stories and the frustrating stories at the Mammoth caves throughout this podcast. The caves really were a microcosm of the society and racial conditions at the time.   So, I would like to get started with this third and final show this month about Black explorers, this time in the Mammoth Caves in Kentucky.   Of course, though, we have a bit of housekeeping to do. I’ll make it quick so we can get straight to the show. At the end of the show, I’ll tell you about the exciting and inspirational podcast shows for next month.             I’ll just remind you that you can get additional information about the explorers in this podcast series at the Remembering History Podcast page on Facebook. You’ll find a fun and friendly group of historians who love to be inspired and who love to discuss history. So, join the conversation. And feel free to discuss whatever interests you. This is an open forum for discussion and everyone is welcome. Also, you can find great books, DVDs and other educational resources about these great explorers at rememberinghistory.com website, at the Books & Stuff store. I have personally vetted all these resources so you can trust them. Or you can complain directly to me. I believe in accountability. You can’t find it in many places on the Internet, but you can find it here. I’m gonna stop here because I’m anxious to get to the real deal of this final podcast show on Black explorers. Remember that there is important information at the end of the show about next month’s wiki history podcast series.   Without further ado…   Let’s begin with arguably the greatest explorer of the Mammoth Caves: Stephen Bishop! Because of his great work, skill, and dedication, Stephen Bishop is without question one of the greatest explorers of the grand, gloomy and peculiar Mammoth Caves. And you’re gonna see why!   Bishop came to the Mammoth caves in 1838. He was African American, 17 years old and enslaved. Slavery was still legal in Kentucky and many other states. Remember slavery wasn’t abolished until 1865, some 27 years later. Yet because of his great exploration and guiding skills, he did enjoy some freedoms and privileges in the Mammoth caves—and avoided the grueling physical work and suffering endured by other slaves. In fact, he was first introduced to the Mammoth caves by a white explorer. This developed Bishop’s love of exploration—and he spent the next two decades exploring the Mammoth caves.   Although he was introduced to the caves by other explorers, Stephen Bishop went far beyond those explored and toured areas. Bishop discovered miles of new routes that no human eye had ever seen. And he opened the gateway for modern exploration of these vast and incredible caves.   Yes, he made history: Stephen Bishop was the first to cross the “Bottomless Pit” which was a series of deep vertical shafts. Other explorers had stopped at the Bottomless Pit, refusing to cross over that dangerous abyss. Quite understandable but Bishop was not scared or stopped. He continued past the Bottomless Pit and into areas that had been completely unexplored. And he later safely guided others over the Bottomless Pit and into new regions of the caves. Bishop also explored and guided others into areas of the Mammoth Caves called Fat Man’s Misery (I can only guess why it was given that name!), Cleveland Avenue and the Mammoth Domes. Those are some of the most famous areas of the caves, made famous and popular by Stephen Bishop.   He absolutely loved the Mammoth caves and had a real drive for exploration. Still it was hard work and he crawled through tight winding passageways, discovered an underground river, scaled huge rocks, and dared to walk on a rickety nature-made ladder across the "Bottomless Pit."   In 1856, Stephen Bishop received his freedom but unfortunately died the following year at the young age of 37. He left behind his wife, Charlotte, and son, Thomas. His cause of death remains a mystery but he is buried in the Old Guides’ Cemetery at Mammoth Caves National Park. Personally, I love visiting cemeteries because there is so much history and so many personal stories found there. So, if you visit the Mammoth caves, I think that visiting the Old Guides’ Cemetery would be an interesting and moving “exploration” and a great way to honor this great explorer.   And, by the way, I do want to mention that Stephen Bishop had many other talents that enhanced his abilities as an explorer and guide. He was also widely known as a great speaker, an excellent orator, a gifted singer and a natural showman. He brought his love of the caves to each visitor and brought the caves to life for everyone who dared to enter them.   Stephen Bishop might have been born into slavery, but he was never a slave. He was an explorer! And today he is a legend!       Another Black explorer who came to the Mammoth caves in 1838 was Nick Bransford. However, Bransford didn’t become a full-time explorer for nearly 20 years after moving to the caves. He started full-time guiding in 1857, after the death of Stephen Bishop.   Nick Bransford was an enslaved person (born during the period of slavery). Like Bishop, he was leased out and sent to the Mammoth caves to work. And interestingly there were records showing that he was valued at $800, which was substantially more than for other enslaved persons. This was most likely because of his skills as an explorer and guide.   Nick Bransford was a different kind of guide and explorer than Stephen Bishop. And he was also highly respected and trusted to lead people into the deep and dark caverns and the areas explored by Bishop. One visitor to the Mammoth Caves described him by saying, “He seemed thoroughly imbued with the spirit of the place in which he had spent the greater portion of his time for 17 years. He was as grave and taciturn as some cave-keeping hermit. During our inward progress, he had carefully pointed out every place and object of interest. If I paused or made a misstep, he instantly looked around.”   Bransford later purchased his freedom by selling eyeless fish from the caves. Yes, there were fish in the underground rivers who didn’t have eyes. And visitors were keen to buy them. Bransford was also known as a caring and giving man. He donated the land for the Mammoth Cave School where many Black children (including his grandchildren) learned to read and write. And he was one of the first deacons of the Pleasant Union Baptist church, which was located in the park.   Nick Bransford continued to work as an explorer and guide at the Mammoth caves until his death in 1895. He had devoted more than 50 years of his life to guiding and exploring. Unfortunately, his exact gravesite remains unknown today.   Many of slaves or former slaves came to Mammoth caves for similar reasons and had similar experiences. Yet everyone also had a unique experience.         Take Ed Bishop for example. No relation to Stephen Bishop. He came to the Mammoth caves in 1886. The slave period was over so he was free, he had not been leased to the cave owners like Nick Bransford and Stephen Bishop. But he quickly became a well-known and respected explorer as well as an integral part of the guiding force.   Among his greatest achievements was to guide the German cartographer, Max Kamper, into the Mammoth Caves. For 8 months, he and Kamper remained at the cave, visiting all the known sections. But Ed Bishop also discovered new sections that he presented to Max Kamper. One such newly discovered point (located on the Violet City Lantern route) was named Bishop’s Pit in 1908, in honor of Ed Bishop. Together Bishop and Kamper produced a map representing more than 35 miles of passages in the cave. Ed Bishop was widely recognized for his knowledge of the cave and as a teacher for the guides. Someone wrote: “The real guide was Ed Bishop. He instructed Hunt how to reach the New Discovery from the Cathedral Dome route and Hunt instructed Bob Lively. But during 1916 and 1917, it was always necessary to wait for Bishop to make the trip.”   Ed Bishop and his wife, Josie, later moved to Indiana where he died. Today, Ed and Josie Bishop (as well as their baby girl Chancey) are buried beneath a large cedar tree near the cave. Yes, there is a headstone (which was donated recently by cave guides). It would be wonderful to locate this headstone and see where this great guide and explorer was finally laid to rest.   Another explorer and guide who came to the caves after slavery was Ed Hawkins. No, not Ed Bishop whom we just discussed but Ed Hawkins. And he has a unique and interesting story too.   Although he was an explorer and guide, he didn’t take on this role exclusively like many of the others. Ed Hawkins also worked as a laborer on the privately owned Mammoth cave estates. In addition to exploring and guiding, he also did structural repairs, chopping wood and plucking chickens. But guiding and exploring were definitely his first loves and his greatest skills. Unfortunately, those skills were not valued by the owners of the caves.       Yes, slavery had been abolished but African Americans were still in a difficult position and treated as lower class citizens. Jobs and other opportunities were quite limited for Black people, particularly in the southern U.S. states like Kentucky. In those states, Blacks could have jobs as porters or waiters. In contrast, whites could have higher paying and more prestigious jobs like clerks or managers. And this severely limited Ed Hawkins’s opportunities at the Mammoth caves.   There was a story that Ed Hawkins had arranged and organized an exploration for himself and as a guide for a group. However, the manager at the cave forced him to cancel and abandon the exploration because he needed Hawkins stay at work and peel potatoes that day! One can only imagine how Ed Hawkins felt, how devastated that must have been for him.   Despite the difficulties, Ed Hawkins discovered a monumental series of vertical shafts. The passage leading up to these incredible shafts was later named Hawkins Pass. A great honor to this great explorer. And, yes, visitors can still see these shafts. Just take the Wild Caves Tour!   Ed Hawkins died in 1936. He is buried at Western State Hospital cemetery in Kentucky. Unfortunately, he was buried in an unmarked grave. But anyone who wants to show honor and respect for Ed Hawkins can visit the Mammoth caves and take the Wild Caves tour to see Hawkins Pass.   I just want to mention one unique characteristic of Ed Hawkins, which is actually more personal. He was known always to secure his clothes with large blanket pins. They actually look like giant clothespins. And they make Ed Hawkins very distinguishable in pictures. You can find a picture of him on the Remembering History Podcast Page. Please go there and take a look to see this great explorer!               Another Black explorer and guide at the Mammoth caves was also a multi-skilled, multi-talented person. Before coming to the Mammoth caves, Will Garvin was a private in the army, serving in a Colored Troop during the Civil War. Will Garvin was never an enslaved person. Following the war, he began exploring and guiding in Mammoth caves where he made his mark for discovering an area later call the Corkscrew. This was actually a maze through collapsed rubble that linked the upper levels of the cave system to the lower levels near the water table. This area also provided an exit from the cave so visitors wouldn’t have to retrace their steps.   Some people say that Will Garvin also discovered the Colossal Caverns. This area was so treacherous that it even wasn’t opened to the public until 1972 (some 70 years after its discovery). It is one of the caves still protected within Mammoth Cave National Park.   But Will Garvin also made another important discovery—or had an important experience. This is really interesting.   He was the first person to experience the optical illusion called the Statue of Martha Washington. As he was exiting the cave, he saw a spectral silhouette of a woman who looked just like Martha Washington! I know strange things can be seen in the caves but this was one of the strangest! And it is still occasionally seen on certain tours in the historic section!   Will Garvin died in the early 1900s, survived by his wife Hannah. The place of his burial remains unknown.   Stay tuned for more information on this optical illusion.   Finally, we come to Matt Bransford, who was neither an explorer nor a guide into the Mammoth caves. But he was an exceptional businessman who filled a niche that supported the work of the black explorers and guides. His work and vision puts him right up there with those history makers; he was truly a legend and an important part of the guiding and exploration work. And his story gives us more insight into the life and experiences of Blacks in the southern United States.     You might remember from Ed Hawkins’ experience, segregation in jobs and housing existed after the abolition of slavery. (Of course, we know that it continued until the 1950s and 1960s.) However, among guides, segregation wasn’t practiced. But outside the caves, black visitors did face segregation. Blacks were not allowed to be on the same tours with whites or stay in the same hotels as white visitors. Matt Bransford (who was the grandson of one of the original guides and explorers, Materson Bransford, who was an enslaved person) had travelled around the country, encouraging Blacks to visit the world famous Mammoth caves. But when Black visitors did come to the caves, they were faced with the problem of segregation.   What did Matt Bransford do?   He started special tours for African Americans into the Mammoth caves. Matt and his wife, Zemmie provided lodging and meals at their home for Black visitors. They later started a hotel called the Bransford Resort. It was the first place and time in Mammoth cave history that the African American community could experience the same comforts and fascination of the cave that white visitors had experienced for more than a century!   The Black community started visiting and enjoying Mammoth caves in large numbers. And they heard and kept alive stories of the Black explorers and guides like Stephen Bishop, Nick Bransford, Ed Hawkins and many others. These explorers became legends around the world!   So, Matts Bransford was not an explorer but his vision and contribution were essential to the African American experience and discoveries at the Mammoth caves.   This really shows that everyone has something to contribute. Everyone can make a difference. Whether it is by exploring the caves, providing tours in the caves or providing housing and food for people at the caves—everyone can make a difference!           So, this wraps up our great and groundbreaking podcast series on Black explorers. I hope that you have enjoyed it as much as I have. And I also hope that you have also felt inspired by their courage, their determination and their never-give-up attitude. They faced their everests—sometimes with fear, sometimes without it—but they faced their inner Everest and emerged victorious. They emerged as legends.   Are you ready to face your Everest?   By the way, the optical illusion experienced by * (and still experienced by visitors to the cave) was actually caused by the reflection of light from an approaching tour casting its lights upon the bends of the cave avenue.   As promised, I’ll give you a sneak peek into the next podcast series. Remember that we actually have two podcast series going right now. In our long-term podcast series, we focus on the Black educators. In the next podcast show, we will focus exclusively on Black educators who are men. I decided that it was time to show that women are not the only great educators, but that men have been and still are serving as teachers, mentors, coaches and role models for children of all backgrounds. They should be recognized and they will be in the next podcast show on Black educators. Stay tuned. In the second podcast show, we will honor and recognize African Americans in the military. The Black men and women who have served their country and are continuing to serve their country are often overlooked, even forgotten. But we will recognize them and I know that their stories will inspire us all. Stay tuned for that show. Both are coming soon.   Lot’s of great stuff coming so I look forward to seeing you at rememberinghistory.com where we are remembering history and we’re making it.   Bye for now.

Imagine this idyllic island close to Auckland... with pristine sandy beaches, green rolling hills, native trees and birdlife, and a dynamic creative community that is near totally sustainable, aligned with nature and in harmony with themselves.Well, this could be the island of tomorrow, here in the Hauraki Gulf, in our fast coming future.Question? Have you the audacity to envision Waiheke Island as a Biosphere Reserve?When we realise what is possible and recognise that it can happen, the synergy of a dynamic community can empower the island neighborhood to be a part of something that will make us proud as a society as well as a nation. There are 109 countries that have ‘Biosphere Reserves’, yet ‘clean green New Zealand’ does not.Note that many differing groups of individuals throughout the Island already support this notion.What is evolving out of this is more people becoming involved as a community of leaders, strong, cohesive and resilient.Waiheke already is a global leader with 198 volunteer organizations from a population of 8000 people. It is a ‘wayshower’ to what a caring, creative and dynamic neighborhood can aspire to, to  envision what is needed and take action.So what is the glue that makes Waiheke people what they are?http://waihekebr.infohttp://colinbeardon.org

I made this podcast around Easter on a 1500KM road trip from Barcelona to the Basque Country (País Vasco), then on to the beautiful Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park in the Spanish Pyrenees. The trip takes in various locations including San Sebastian, Bilbao, Mundaka, Biarritz (in France), Torla, the Cola de Caballo trek and Cañón de Añisclo. Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park (in Spanish Parque Nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido) has been included since 1997 by UNESCO in the Biosphere Reserve of Ordesa-Viñamala. It is also part of the cross-border Pyrénées – Mont Perdu World Heritage Site.

MSW student Diana Chaves talks about her work to build sustainable communities with several indigenous groups in Latin America. Trained in architecture and environmental management, Diana has been sponsored by the St. Louis Zoo to consult with the Biosphere Reserve of BOSAWAS in Nicaragua on exploring ways the ecotourism can yield sustainable development for the country’s Mayagna and Miskito communities. Parallel to her studies, Diana has worked in environmental education for undergraduate students in Architecture and other programs, coordinating field trips around Colombia to raise conscience in tropical biodiversity and natural resources. She also kept her position as director of special projects for an engineer enterprise, developing advisory in environmental management, quality coordinator, auditory and administrative management. She has participated as well, in a few consultant projects related with the design of ecological trails in different natural reserves. In addition, Diana had written more than 500 educative articles in the past 7 years, for a magazine for children in Colombia. The topics are related to Environmental Issues, Ecology, Biology, Geography, Conservation, History, Health, Cultures and Human Diversity, among others.

Documentary film illustrating UNESCO's activities and ordinary people initiatives in the field of protecting biodiversity and promoting sustainable development in Waterton Biosphere Reserve, Canada. ***************** Français: Réserve de la Biosphère de Waterton - Canada Documentaire présentant les activités de l'UNESCO et les initiatives populaires pour la protection de la biodiversité et le développement durable dans la réserve de biosphère de Waterton au Canada.

Documentary film illustrating UNESCO's activities and ordinary people initiatives in the field of protecting biodiversity and promoting sustainable development in Brazil.

Documentary film illustrating UNESCO's activities and ordinary people initiatives in the field of protecting biodiversity and promoting sustainable development in Glacier Biosphere Reserve, USA. ******************** Français: Réserve de la Biosphère du Parc Naturel Glacier, Etats-Unis Documentaire présentant les activités de l'UNESCO et des gens ordinaires pour la protection de la biodiversité et le développement durable dans la réserve de biosphère du Glacier aux Etats-Unis.

The Mount Kuwol Biosphere Reserve, situated on the west coast of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and 100 kilometres south-east of Pyongyang, consists of a 954 meter-high mountain, adjacent coastal wetlands, lagoons and river estuaries, and agricultural areas. Both the core area and the buffer zone are part of the Mount Kuwol Nature Reserve, which was designated in 1976. The main objective of the core area is to protect the old typical forest ecosystem of Korea, which survived the damages of the Korea War. The presence of both pristine and rehabilitated forests makes Mount Kuwol an important area to study the ecological changes and effects of forest rehabilitation as well as the associated biodiversity. Ginseng (Panax ginseng), Forsythia ovata and other native plants are protected here. The only human activities in the core area are sightseeing and visits to the Woljong Temple, an old historic relic. There are limited human activities in the buffer zone, and the transition area, which includes forests, plain areas, wetlands and many rivers, is where most economic activities take place. The wetland, which includes the coastal Unryul Migratory Birds Reserve, play an important conservation role as habitats for shore birds and critical areas for many migratory bird species of north-east Asia such as black-faced spoonbill (Platalea minor), Chinese egret (Egretta eulophotes) and red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis).