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Send us a textWelcome to Episode 48 of A Place to Call Home.This week we chat to Khory Hancock, who will take us on a deep dive into the world of carbon.Throughout this episode we chat about- Carbon, what is it?- ACCU, what does it mean.- What are the different carbon project methods- Why is there such a focus on carbon right now- The part that agriculture can play in changing the world.- What should the next generation of land holders be looking out for. If you are looking for more information about what Khory mentioned, check out the links below.Resource Consulting Services – Professional education, advice and support for regenerative agriculture since 1985A DRY HOPE • Short Film on Regenerative AgricultureDark Emu by Bruce Pascoe | Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture | 9781921248016 | BooktopiaCall of the Reed Warbler by Charles Massy | Revised Edition | 9780702263224 | BooktopiaOfficial Website of Tony Robbins: Personal & Business Results Coach | Tony RobbinsHome | Jay ShettyYou can find out more about Khory Hancock belowwww.khoryhancock.com @khory_hancockhttps://www.facebook.com/Khory.Hancock.Environmental.Scientist/If you enjoy the episode, please share with your friends and family.For more information check out our socialsA Place To Call Home | Hughenden QLD | FacebookA Place To Call Home (@aplacetocallhomepodcast) • Instagram photos and videoshttps://www.linkedin.com/company/a-place-to-call-home-podcast/https://www.aplacetocallhome.com.auThis episode of A Place to Call Home, is brought to you bywww.khoryhancock.com Support the show
Send us a Text Message.In this episode, I take listeners on an acoustic journey through Sweden's autumn landscape with a focus on wild bird acoustics. I will share audio of different bird species ranging from the Firecrest to the European Marsh Harrier, Redwing, Northern Lapwing and more, recorded at different locations like Hällögern and various site around Stockholm. I also provide a glimpse into my recording process and future plans for the podcast, including the potential for bonus episodes and updates. Additionally, I discusses bird behaviors, migratory patterns, and the unique auditory experience of birding in Northern Sweden.00:00 Introduction to Wild Bird Acoustics01:23 Exploring the Sounds of Late Spring01:43 The Journey to Season Two of Wild Bird Acoustics02:11 Diving into the Late Spring Sound Magazine02:28 The Magic of Birding in Sweden07:07 The Excitement of Birding Up North10:48 The Beauty of Autumn Birding12:02 The Thrill of Birding in Stockholm City14:32 The Joy of Birding at Dam Torp15:17 Birding at Norrjärva Fältet20:40 Blyth's Reed Warbler at Näsby Slot36:40 The Future of Wild Bird Acoustics37:18 The Enchantment of Birding in Northern Sweden38:03 Early morning recording at Hallegern47:29 The Allure of Birding at Västerbotten56:05 NocMig in Northern Sweden01:16:05 Conclusion: Call to ActionSupport the Show.Lots more audio related material here at my long running website;https://blogbirder.blogspot.com/
Send us a Text Message. Episode 17 of Wild Bird Acoustics see's me take listeners deep into the world of early Summer soundscapes of Sweden, comprising audio recorded in June 2022. The episode delves into carefully selected audio recorded at various locations, including Stockholm City, Snosätra, Angarn Reserve, Vallentuna, Sandemar Reserve, Landsort, Nacka Reserve, and Hällögern in Northern Sweden. I discuss bird species such as Blyth's Reed Warbler, Collared Flycatcher, Corn Crake, Great Reed Warbler, Icterine Warbler, European Nightjar, and Marsh Warbler. I also share thoughts about the equipment used for field recording, and encourage listeners to venture out at night, in order to field record night singing species. Toward the end, I introduce some fantastic binaural recordings from Halligan in Västerbotten, which I hope will be a fully immersive audio experience for listeners, with some wonderful surround sound recordings shared in the second sound magazine of the episode.00:00 Introduction to Wild Bird Acoustics00:38 Summer Recording experiences in 202202:23 Exploring the Sounds of Summer in Sweden02:41 Mimicry; Blyth's Reed Warbler09:23 Collared Flycatcher12:34 Corn Crake16:00 Great Reed Warbler20:37 A Master Singer; Icterine Warbler29:08 A nocturnal Nightjar Experience35:41 Marsh Warbler at Hagby Eco Park42:45 Binaural Recording at Hallegern45:12 The immersive sounds of Hallegern in July01:00:33 Hobby01:02:18 Little Gull01:09:39 Spotted Redshank01:11:43 Tufted Duck01:14:34 Conclusion and call to actionSupport the Show.Lots more audio related material here at my long running website;https://blogbirder.blogspot.com/
Du schimpfst wie ein Rohrspatz - wahrscheinlich geht diese Redewendung nicht auf Sperlinge zurück, sondern auf den Drosselrohrsänger. Denn sein mechanischer, wunderbarer Gesang kann aus der Ferne so klingen, als würde dort jemand im Schilf pausenlos vor sich hin schimpfen. Und braun, wie Spatzen, ist er eben auch. Der Drosselrohrsänger ist unser größter Rohrsänger und fast so groß wie eine, Überraschung: Drossel. Daher ist er ein guter Anfänger-Rohrsänger, denn diese Gruppe ist oft schwer zu unterscheiden, wegen seiner Größe und des besonders rauhen, tiefen Gesangs gelingt das mit dem Drosselrohrsänger aber ganz gut. Also, Ohren auf, wenn ihr an Seen mit weitläufigen Schilfbeständen unterwegs seid!
In this episode, I take listeners on an auditory journey through the sounds of the bird world in midsummer Sweden. The podcast depicts the vivid acoustics of several bird species in their respective habitats, specifically during the month of June when many scarce species can be unearthed on breeding territory. Summer birding emphasizes the importance of recognizing bird sounds over visibility due to lush vegetation. Here, I explore habitats like wetlands, woodlands, and even urban spaces. Bird species featuring here include Collared Flycatcher, Great Reed Warbler, Marsh Warbler, Blyth's Reed Warbler, Red-breasted Flycatcher, European Nightjar, Spotted Redshank, and Little Gull, among others. I hope the podcast successfully immerses the audience into the tranquil wilderness of Sweden through the audio presented... Following a whistle stop tour of the areas around Stockholm, I will bring you north, to the peaceful island of Hällögern. Here, in July, I have spent hundreds of happy hours recording the soundscape in this remote and pristine landscape. It is a pleasure to record here and be able to share the sounds of Northern Sweden with you all here on Wild Bird Acoustics.Support the Show.Lots more audio related material here at my long running website;https://blogbirder.blogspot.com/
We've both been obsessed with My Father and Other Animals for some time now, so when author and accidental-farmer Sam Vincent said yes to being interviewed we were quietly nervous. He joined us from his family's farm in the Yass Valley that he shares with his partner Lauren and daughter Orlando. This land has traditionally been inhabited by the Ngunnawal and Wiradjuri people. After his dad had a farm accident, Sam and his mum thought it would be wise to get Sam out to the property regularly in a bit of a babysitting capacity, which Sam said gave his weeks structure and his life purpose. Over the years it became an apprenitiship of sorts and gave Sam both a solid understanding of how much of a conservationist and regernative farmer his dad was, and a taste of living on the land. In this discussion we talk about hiding squash in drawers, the idea of turning the whole farm into a garden of sorts, rotational grazing, tagasaste (tree lucern), figs, farming with his daughter and a whole lot more. Before we get into it, Maddie and Emily are drinking....coffee. Yep, just plain white coffee. We're midly disappointed in ourselves but it was 9am and we couldn't face a fig cocktail. We're also talking indoor plants - inspired by our chat with Sophia Kaplan and getting our hands on Plantopedia, friends with green thumbs, compost (when are we not talking about compost!), hakea, brahmi, tagasaste, getting more white on your leeks and more. Recommend: Call of the Reed Warbler by Charles Massy. Find Sam on Instagram here, and get your hands on My Father and Other Animals here
In this episode of the Grazing Grass Podcast, Cal talks with Jake DeWoody - a regenerative farmer from Arkansas - about his journey in grass farming. Jake shares his thoughts on the importance of adapting farming practices to your specific context, the value of using technology and resources available on the internet, and their experiences with the Shade Shanty 600. Jake also provides insights into his methods for making the most out of their cattle herd and how moving towards regenerative farming practices greatly improved his agricultural operations.Famour Four QuestionsFirstly, Jake's favorite grazing grass-related resources are the books 'Call of the Reed Warbler' by Charlie Massey and 'Ranching Like a Twelve-Year-Old' by an author named Tom. He found these books to provide useful insights applicable to his grazing context. Secondly, Jake's go-to farm tool is the Knipex Cobra, a highly versatile and durable hand tool that he uses daily for various tasks. If anyone wants to reach out to him through social media, Jake advises they provide a reason for their contact in their Facebook message. Thirdly, Jake offers advice to newcomers in farming or grazing. He stresses the importance of applying the learned information from different resources in a way that fits the specific context of their farm. Lastly, people can find more about Jake through his Facebook account under the name 'Jake DeWoody' and his YouTube channel 'Terrapinette Creek Farm', although he admits to being inconsistent with his video uploads.YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdbRvHgu5llQqABl6We7vYw Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jake.dewoody.7 Follow us on social media!Website: https://grazinggrass.com/Facebook: Grazing Grass PodcastInstagram: @grazinggrassTwitter: @grazing_grassAffiliate links:Riverside - Create professional-quality podcast episodes with ease using Riverside's seamless recording and editing tools.Podium - Unlock your podcast's potential with Podium, the AI copywriter for show notes, articles, social posts, and more!
Regenerative Agriculture is revolutionising Australia's agriculture industry, and for good reason. Today, The Australian River Restoration's Managing Director Siwan Lovett sits down with Australia's foremost Regenerative Agriculture pioneer, Dr. Charles Massy, to discuss his life's work, his experience implementing Regenerative Agriculture (Regen Ag) on his farm, Severn Park, and some of his recent work on the Snowy River.Dr. Charles Massy is a Monaro woolgrower, scientist, and renowned author. He is a passionate pioneer in, and expert on, regenerative agriculture and is the author of several books on the topic, including 2017's Call of the Reed Warbler, a book which explores the vital connection between our soil and our health, and The Last Dragon, a children's book about the endangered Monaro Grassland Earless Dragon, illustrated by Mandy Foot and featuring an essay on the Dragon written by Charles. Both of these books are discussed in today's episode.Charles has been farming Merino sheep at Severn Park for over 40 years and received the Order of Australia Medal for his service to the wool industry as chair and director of several research organisations and wool boards (2011). He has also been the recipient of the Sydney Power House Museum's Distinguished Service Award for his work on their Wool and Pastoral Collection (2008), and received the Australian Association of Stud Merino Breeders' Silver Medal for his contribution to the Australian Merino and wool industry (1992). He has served on national and international review panels in sheep and wool research and development, and genomics.Show notes: https://arrc.au/podcast-take-me-to-the-river/country-speaks-with-charles-massy-episode-22/Learn more about the Australian River Restoration Centre: https://www.arrc.au/
Intro: One More Night – Can 1. Bittern Booms (0:15) 2. Surfin' Bird – The Trashmen (2:19) 3. Ornithology – Charlie Parker Septet (2:59) 4. Yewefe Ber Abeba (Like a Beautiful Bird) – Ayalèw Mesfin (3:20) 5. Les Oiseaux de Paris – Charles Trenet (3:05) 6. Ice Water – Jack Sparrow (2:07) 7. Skylarking – Horace Andy (2:46) 8. Ostrich Walk – Frank Trumbauer & his Orchestra (3:05) 9. Birdhouse in Your Soul – They Might Be Giants (3:15) 10. Pretty Flamingo – Manfred Mann (2:32) 11. Sparrow – Simon & Garfunkel (2:45) 12. Meadowlark – Fleet Foxes (3:11) 13. The Silver Swan – Orlando Gibbons, arr. Forshaw (4:05) 14. And Your Bird Can Sing – The Beatles (1:58) 15. Hawks and Eagles – Highwoods String Band (2:47) 16. Little Birdie – Ralph Stanley (2:15) 17. Bittern – Bert Jansch (7:42) 18. High Flying Bird – H.P. Lovecraft (3:22) 19. Feresirima – Peacocks International Guitar Band (3:17) 20. Bird on a Wire – Leonard Cohen (3:25) 21. Rossignolet du Bois – Gabriel et Marie Yacoub (3:20) 22. Fekete Madár – Bognár Szilvia, Szalóki Ági, & Herczku Ágnes (4:19) 23. Birdland – Patti Smith (9:13) 24. Blackbird – Brad Mehldau Trio (4:56) 25. Blackbird (0:30) 26. Reed Warbler, acc. Cuckoo (0:35) 27. Dunnock – Gagarin (4:33) 28. Waxwing – Olivia Chaney (3:21) 29. Trippin' with the Birds – Stereolab / Nurse With Wound (21:01) Outro: Pogles Walk – Vernon Elliott Ensemble
Trusting Nature. The Call of the Reed Warbler by Ordinary Mind Zen School
Dr Valerie Brown is a Visiting Professor at the renowned Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University, and an international figure in the field of collective thinking, with a list of awards and accolades as long as your leg. But what brought me to her door was hearing doyen of regenerative agriculture, Charlie Massy, defer to her over the years. Charles was among her first students in the pioneering Human Ecology course in 1974 (a course the university establishment tried to have shut down). And when he returned to do the PhD that became the best-selling book Call of the Reed Warbler, Valerie was his supervisor. She's “one of Australia's greats”, he says. So after visiting the Massy farm earlier this year, Valerie was kind enough to welcome me to her place, up in the road in Canberra, for this conversation. Incidentally, my guest from episode 85, Cathy McGowan, was also a student of Val's – and features here in a great story. But there was another milestone on my way to Val's place too, that also goes back to the 70s. My old mate and mentor Professor Frank Fisher used to talk of the Fenner crew, and gifted me one of the many trailblazing books Val co-wrote, called Tackling Wicked Problems, published back in 2010. Though here, Valerie talks of how her work has progressed far beyond that, drawing on her considerable impact globally, including hundreds of workshops on collective learning as a tool for transformational change. This conversation was recorded in Canberra, 5 April 2022 (a month and a bit before the transformative federal election that resulted in so many more female independent MPs). Title slide image: In the backyard with Valerie Brown, at home in Canberra (pic: Anthony James). Music: Regeneration, composed by Amelia Barden, from the soundtrack of the new film Regenerating Australia, available for community screenings now - https://theregenerators.co/regenerating-australia/ Find more: The ABC Australian Story episode on Charles Massy features Valerie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58G9htz0hTk Valerie's extended bio, on her Collective Thinking website - http://www.collectivethinking.com.au/valerie-a-brown/ And at the Fenner School - https://fennerschool.anu.edu.au/people/visiting/honorary-associate-professor-val-brown Thanks very much to the generous supporters of this podcast, for making this episode possible. If you too value what you hear, please consider joining them to help keep the podcast going. Just head to the website at https://www.regennarration.com/support If you'd like to become a subscriber to the podcast, connect with other listeners and receive other benefits, head to my Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/RegenNarration I've added an offering in The RegenNarration shop too - https://www.regennarration.com/shop You can also support the podcast by sharing an episode with a friend or colleague, or rating or reviewing the podcast. Thanks for helping to keep the podcast going!
Sounds of the earth presents : 1 hour of " Reed birds and frogs spring sounds at the very old pond" sounds, These are trully natural sounds ideal for sleep, meditation, insomnia, study or a study background. You may also consider to see my youtube channel with more earth sounds and nature footage: Sounds of the earth - YouTube. Please share and subscribe. By subscribing my Youtube channel you are helping me to grow this project even further. You are also welcome to subscribe my podcast for more longer sounds and bonuses - click link below: https://anchor.fm/piotr-p66/subscribe #streamsounds #watersounds #streamforsleep #soreststreamforsleep #waterrelaxingsounds Thank you for listening - enjoy and relax --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/piotr-p66/message
On March the 17th, a conference will be converging in Canberra called ‘Making Agriculture Sustainable (https://www.sustainableag.org.au/)'. As we all know, Australian agriculture today is largely unsustainable. Soils are degrading and are in need of regeneration and broad acre farming is delivering food in quantity but not always in quality. So this conference will include an exceptional group of speakers to address the question: Can we feed ourselves and not destroy the Earth? One of the keynote speakers, Charles Massy (https://fennerschool.anu.edu.au/people/visiting/dr-charles-massy), has become a household name in regenerative farming. He has a bestselling book ‘Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture' (https://www.booktopia.com.au/call-of-the-reed-warbler-charles-massy/book/9780702263224.html?source=pla&gclid=CjwKCAiAgvKQBhBbEiwAaPQw3K0TUblCtLdJctqBxgH7r_iQJASqkInyHssfnkQrXq-1w1aEl4BW4RoCC8AQAvD_BwE) and has been the subject of an Australian Story (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58G9htz0hTk)episode. PGAP is delighted to have Charles join us to discuss regenerative agriculture in depth and tell us more about the upcoming Fenner conference. (a sample of the many speakers at the 2022 Feneer conference) To find out more or to register for the 2022 Fenner conference ‘Making Agriculture Sustainable' click here (https://www.sustainableag.org.au/index.php/register/). The Australian Story episode of Charles Massy can be found here. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58G9htz0hTk) To find out more about his book ‘Call of the Reed Warbler,' start here (https://www.booktopia.com.au/call-of-the-reed-warbler-charles-massy/book/9780702263224.html) Rod Taylor, one of the Fenner organisers, has also recently published a book ‘ Ten Journeys on A Fragile Planet.' Agriculture and care for country are both reoccurring themes in this book. You can find out more here (https://www.odysseybooks.com.au/titles/9781925652789/#:~:text=In%20Ten%20Journeys%20on%20a,This%20book%20tells%20their%20stories.). This year's Fenner conference is made possible by the generous support of Sustainable Population Australia (SPA (https://population.org.au/)). SPA are also the main supporters of PGAP. You can read more on their recent discussion paper of ‘Population and Climate Change' here (https://population.org.au/discussion-papers/climate/). If population policy in Australia is a concern for you in the lead up to the election, SPA offers come handy hints on making a difference here (https://population.org.au/how-you-can-make-a-difference/). SPA relies on grass roots donations, supporters and members to ensure that their important message has cut through in a generally unforgiving media environment. To support SPA, find out more here (https://population.org.au/support/). It has been 50 years since that wonderful but intimating book ‘Limits to Growth' was published in 1972. It is as relevant as ever (especially as the worst case projections in the book are all playing out on cue). A great article was recently written on the anniversary which can be read here (https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-02-22/dennis-meadows-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-publication-of-the-limits-to-growth/?fbclid=IwAR09bIlOX7qJQU5k1o2nbwIYwIFIOi2Agfxf_suhYvQsco422udNtWnlNm8). Got feedback? Post-Growth ideas? Or would you like to be a guest on PGAP or contribute your music? Then please say hello on our contact page here. (https://pgap.fireside.fm/contact) Rate and review PGAP on Apple Podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/post-growth-australia-podcast/id1522194099). Share PGAP far and wide – with your kind support PGAP is becoming increasingly known and popular Thank you! The music of choice for this episode is 'Blame It On The Sun' by 'Counting Backwards'. A link to their Bandcamp page can be found here (https://countingbackwards.bandcamp.com/). Want to find out a little more about PGAP's host? Michael's website can be visited here (https://michaelbayliss.org/). Special Guest: Charles Massy.
There's a growing body of evidence that birds can detect magnetic fields like the one around the Earth, possibly by "seeing" them. And this, researchers think, accounts for how migrating birds, like reed warblers, manage to find their way, seemingly unerringly, half way around the planet. But it's more subtle than just using the magnetic field like a compass. What Oxford University's Joe Wynn thinks is happening is that the birds are pre-programmed by their upbringing to fly in a certain direction, but they use the angle - or inclination - of the Earth's field, to work out how far north or... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Welcome to the final conversation for 2021, featuring globally renowned doyen of regenerative agriculture, Charles Massy. This best-selling author of Call of the Reed Warbler has recently written for Paul Hawken's NYT best-seller Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation. And perhaps less predictably, he's also been busy writing a new kids' book. It's called The Last Dragon. It's a beautiful work of art, thanks to illustrator Mandy Foot, and the imagery Charlie conjures of an elusive fellow dweller in the land he calls home. And there's an even bigger story behind how this came to be his next volume, and why we might see more like it. I also introduce this episode with some great news on two key stories we've been following on the podcast – the donkeys at Kachana Station, and efforts to protect Ningaloo Reef and Exmouth Gulf. And I close with some last words from me for 2021. This episode marks what would have been the 78th birthday of the bloke who introduced me to systems thinking and living 21 years ago, the late Professor Frank Fisher. This Aussie legend became a treasured mentor of mine, and a great mate. Last year, we marked the occasion with Allan Savory on the podcast. The year before, another globally influential systems thinker in Hazel Henderson. Continuing the tradition, I'm very happy to be introducing Charlie this year. This conversation was recorded across some very remote Country (mostly without a hitch!) on 19 November 2021 at 6DBY Derby Media Aboriginal Corporation in WA, with Charlie at home at Severn Park in NSW. Title slide image: The Last Dragon himself, illustrated by Mandy Foot (from the book). Music: The System, by The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra The tune accompanying the introduction is by Jeremiah Johnson. Beethoven's Piano Sonata no.15 in D major op.28 "Pastoral" - I. Allegro, by Karine Gilanyan (sourced from the Free Music Archive) - https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Karine_Gilanyan/Beethovens_Sonata_No_15_in_D_Major/Beethoven_-_Piano_Sonata_nr15_in_D_major_op28_Pastoral_-_I_Allegro Get more: You can buy the book here - https://bookshop.nla.gov.au/book/last-dragon.do And you can hear my conversation with Charlie at Severn Park in late 2018 at https://www.regennarration.com/episodes/032-an-underground-insurgency There's also a live conversation event featuring Charlie, with David and Frances Pollock from Wooleen Station, that attracted around 300 people in Melbourne earlier in 2018 - https://www.regennarration.com/episodes/016-grassroots-revolution Thanks very much to the generous supporters of this podcast, for making it possible. If you too value what you hear, please consider joining them by becoming a podcast patron. Just head to the website at https://www.regennarration.com/support, and follow the prompts. Thanks for helping to keep the show going! And thanks for listening.
Welcome to Episode 15 with Randal Breen from Echo Valley Farm in Goomburra, Queensland. Regenerative agriculture, stacked integrated farming models and agroeocology are the Breen family's core values - if you're not sure what these are, just take a listen of this episode! Randal is a very passionate, down-to-earth guy who is working hard with his wife, Juanita, to regenerate their land and provide their local community with high quality food following a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model. Echo Valley Farm follow “The Four Goods” - every action they take must be: Good for the Animals Good for the Land Good for the Farmer Good for You This is our very first phone interview and was loads of fun, we hope you enjoy! -- Thank you for watching. Please Like and Subscribe to Eco Convos with Dan... and be sure to Comment and Share too! You can find us on Spotify & Apple Podcasts, as well as - Facebook: @ecoconvos Instagram: @ecoconvoswithdan Website: www.ecoconvos.com.au #SupportLocal #BuyFreeRange #DemandRealFood Credits: Production by 'MAV marketing' Hosted by Dan Vanderhoek - Eco & Lifestyle Property Specialist Guest was Randal Breen from Echo Valley Farm Music by @DanielRaymxnd -- Mentions: Echo Valley Farm Website: http://www.echovalley.com.au (www.echovalley.com.au) > check out their online store: https://www.echovalley.com.au/buy-online (https://www.echovalley.com.au/buy-online) Belvedere Farm Soma Soma Kandanga Farm Store Farmer and Sun Matt Evans - chef Joel Salatin - Stacked Integrated Farming model Gabe Brown - soil health pioneer (diverse cover-cropping) Colin Seis - pastures cropping Start Andrews of Forage Farms - Natural Sequence Farming Recommended books: Call of the Reed Warbler, by Charles Massy Dark Emu, by Bruce Pascoe Recommended film: Kiss The Ground (Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3-V1j-zMZw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3-V1j-zMZw))
Do you want to become a reviewer for ebird? Which bird is the logo of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology? Do you think sparrow populations are declining? What abour vireos? Can you “rent” land from farmers to help shorebirds? In this fascinating episode, we talk to Christopher Wood, who heads ebird at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Ashwin Viswanathan who is part of Bird Count India and NCF. Over one billion birders use ebird. How did it become this global behemoth? Hint, it wasn't driven by America. How does ebird track and help avian populations, migration and mapping birds. How do different countries use it, and is India really the “global custodian” of so many species including the Common Rosefinch, Bar-headed Geese, or Blythe's Reed Warbler? Christopher Wood is the Managing Director, Center for Avian Population Studies and Director, eBird. Full bio here at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Chris was fascinated by dinosaurs as a child. Now, he says, he has moved to their closest living relatives. Ashwin Vishwanathan is a Research Associate, Education and Public Engagement at the Nature Conservation Foundation or NCF. He is a part of Bird Count India which encourage bird watching using ebird as a tool. Episode Timeline 10:32: Listen for a fascinating explanation of the challenges that ebird faces, especially if the goal is to develop maps for where birds are every single week of the year. How can the methods of analysis of ebird's data correlate with other data such as the breeding birds survey. The bias between how birdwatchers are bird-watching and what they are seeing. 13:00 Patterns of bird movement and population linked to habitat and climate change. Chris talks about the interplay between forests and farms, and why the vireo population is going up. Ashwin talks about how certain species has expanded all over India. Hint: it is India's national bird. In that sense ebird is a great “hypothesis generator” as Chris says. 18:00 different in the migration and arrival dates of the Eastern Phoebe and Orchard Oriole. Ashwin talks about the black-capped kingfisher and how the data helped them realize that it was “entirely a winter migrant.” 23:00: Which are the top countries that supply data to ebird? 25:00 the link between identification and probability. Why are some birders able to glance at a flying bird and immediately identify it? It has to do with filtering data rather than paging through a field guide. 29:00 how a remote community in Mexico called Mayan Jays used ebird to attract nature tourists to their area. The same with Honduras, Guatamala, Columbia. 34:00 how to get indigenous tribal communities to share their knowledge of nature? 37:00 How do you marry specificity and local context with access and global knowledge. Ashwin talks about vernacular languages for bird names. Ebird has 42 different languages that it supports and 68 choices. How to preserve local knowledge and culture? 42:00 Diverse systems are inherently more stable. How does ebird help conservation. Listen for a fascinating new idea adopted by the Nature Conservancy, which typically buys land for conservation. They worked with the farmers of the Central Valley of California where a lot of shorebirds and ducks migrate through. For example, can rice fields and the flooding that farmers do be adjusted to benefit both farmers and their food production and the shorebird habitat. Point Blue used ebird data to “rent” land from rice farmers to keep the water in the rice fields. 47:00 how village panchayats are using ebird data for local policy decisions. How a road in Kerala is named after the orange breasted green pigeon 50:00 Do you want to become a reviewer for ebird? Here's how. 55:00 Are Eastern Yellow Wagtails present in India? How do ebird reviewers preserve the integrity of the data? 56:00 how does ebird figure out if you are a good birder or not? How does ebird model data based on bird calls? 58:00 Do you want to know why your checklists were accepted or rejected? List length is a way to predict how likely it is for a species to be reported. And about the Kerala Bird Atlas. Listen to this fascinating episode Links: ebird, Bird Count India
In part 2 of the short interviews Charlie recorded at the Regionality 'Farm 2 Plate Exchange recently he spoke with the author of 'Call of the Reed Warbler', Charlie Massy, one of Australia most celebrated chefs and 'keeping it local' advocate Christine Manfield, organic dairy farmer extraordinaire Chris Eggert, food writer, farmer, TV personality and chef Matthew Evans, and Shannon Kelly, first generational farmer and a Joel Salatin disciple. The mix of guests ensures all food and farmer tastes and inclinations are satisfied in this epic 2 hour episode. Episode Links : Farm2Plate Exchange 2021 organised by Regionality Interview 1 (00:04:00) | Charles Massy regenerative farmer & author of the 'Call of the Reed Warbler' Interview 2 (00:24:23) | Christine Manfield chef & writer Interview 3 (00:47:45) | Chris Eggert organic dairy farmer Interview 4 (01:10:48) | Matt Evans farmer, TV personality, chef & author Interview 5 (01:37:06) | Shannon Kelly regenerative farmer
Charles Massy is an amazing human being. He is an author. He is a poet. He is a regenerative farmer, with 50 years plus of farming. He discovered regenerative agriculture late in his life, went back at 58 to get his Ph.D., and now he is an author and expert traveling the world and communicating the potential and the possibility of regenerative agriculture. His famous and noteworthy book is called "Call of the Reed Warbler" which has been printed 14 different times. Please enjoy our conversation. Be sure to subscribe and rate our show! Episodes drop every Thursday.
Charles Massy is an amazing human being. He is an author. He is a poet. He is a regenerative farmer, with 50 years plus of farming. He discovered regenerative agriculture late in his life, went back at 58 to get his Ph.D., and now he is an author and expert traveling the world and communicating the potential and the possibility of regenerative agriculture. His famous and noteworthy book is called "Call of the Reed Warbler" which has been printed 14 different times. Please enjoy our conversation. Be sure to subscribe and rate our show! Episodes drop every Thursday.
Charles Massy is one of the most important voices of Australia's regenerative farming movement. A farmer, scientist and author, he experienced the devastating effects of traditional farming methods firsthand on his family farm. For years Charles unwittingly contributed to its decline, using chemicals and pesticides that degraded the soil. After years of drought turned the property into a dustbowl, he turned to other, more holistic, methods. These ideas helped him to carefully nurse the 2000-hectare property back to natural health and led him to share his knowledge of regenerative farming in his ground-breaking book, Call of the Reed Warbler. This Episode of Talking Australia is hosted by Liz Ginis (Managing Editor Digital at Australian Geographic) and produced by Ben Kanthak (www.beachshackpodcasts.com). You can also follow us on Instagram @australiangeographic
Charles Massy is one of the most important voices of Australia's regenerative farming movement. A farmer, scientist and author, he experienced the devastating effects of traditional farming methods firsthand on his family farm. For years Charles unwittingly contributed to its decline, using chemicals and pesticides that degraded the soil. After years of drought turned the property into a dustbowl, he turned to other, more holistic, methods. These ideas helped him to carefully nurse the 2000-hectare property back to natural health and led him to share his knowledge of regenerative farming in his ground-breaking book, Call of the Reed Warbler. This Episode of Talking Australia is hosted by Liz Ginis (Managing Editor Digital at Australian Geographic) and produced by Ben Kanthak (www.beachshackpodcasts.com). You can also follow us on Instagram @australiangeographic See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Author and regenerative farmer Charles Massy joins Amy to discuss the re-release of his acclaimed book, 'Call Of The Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture, A New Earth'. They talk about the environmental, health, and economic benefits of regenerative agriculture (the alternative to industrial agriculture), as well as the connection between soil health and human health. Charles shares why the transition to regenerative farming practices is urgent now more than ever. Broadcast on 2 February 2021.
Amy returns for her first show of 2021! Dr Emma Shortis, Research Fellow at the EU Centre of Excellence, RMIT, delivers the US Politics Wrap talking about the Capital coup and media reporting of it, Joe Biden’s first days and actions as US President, the impending impeachment trial, and more. Author and regenerative farmer Charles Massy joins Amy to discuss the re-release of his acclaimed book, Call Of The Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture, A New Earth. We talk about the extensive environmental, health, and economic benefits of regenerative agriculture (the alternative to industrial agriculture), as well as the connection between soil health and human health. Charles shares why the transition to regenerative farming practices is urgent now more than ever. The Heide Museum of Modern Art's senior curator Kendrah Morgan stops by to discuss their major retrospective exhibition, Joy Hester: Remember Me, which marks the centenary of Hester's birth by exploring the range and depth of Hester's expressionistic and modernist works.
Author and regenerative farmer Charles Massy joins Amy to discuss the re-release of his acclaimed book, Call Of The Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture, A New Earth. We talk about the extensive environmental, health, and economic benefits of regenerative agriculture (the alternative to industrial agriculture), as well as the connection between soil health and human health. Charles shares why the transition to regenerative farming practices is urgent now more than ever.
In this episode Charlie talks to actress & director Rachel Ward. A little under thirty-three years ago Rachel and her husband Bryan Brown bought a small farm in the Nambucca Valley on the NSW coast. Until recently they had been managing the farm conventionally but the 2019 devastating bush fires launched her onto a very different trajectory… In this frank interview Rachel talks about how the bushfires were a catalyst for change and how since then she has jumped boots and all onto the regenerative agricultural train, implementing significant changes to her farming practices & lifestyle on the way. She is currently compiling a documentary focusing on the regenerative agricultural movement. To start a dialogue and converse more about topics raised in this podcast, please visit The Regenerative Journey Podcast Facebook Group. Episode Takeaways I fell in love with the Nambucca valley, NSW, 30 years ago | I grew up on a farm in the Cotswolds in UK | Our farm was managed conventionally and recently we have moved to a more Regenerative approach . It’s not important to me that our children or grandchildren take over and live on the farm, more that they have had exposure to it and can make informed decisions about it in the future. | I am much more excited about farming now that we are managing it regeneratively. | It’s given her a whole new perspective, a holistic perspective on managing her farm, and the more she gets involved, the more rewards there are. | Farmers have a responsibility beyond their own property boundary, especially in regard to the use of chemicals, as it tends to move out of the landscape via water and air to other farms and ecosystems | NMS is a method of propagating native fungi to use to aim the breakdown of wood and lignified grass. | The Call of the Reed Warbler by Charlie Massy changed her life…….it was full of opportunity and hope, and she was completely electrified by it...just seems like a no brainer…| It doesn’t cost a cent to change a paradigm| Matching personal and business values with landscape needs can be challenging | To sell or not to sell my cows, that is the question, as ones emotional attachment to livestock can sometimes stand in the way of the best decisions for the landscape | Rachel is a big fan and appreciates the value of mentors | Rachel’s neighbours have joined forces and put their cattle together to move them around the combined properties to improve grazing management and soil health | Rachels property is in Gumbaynggirr country | Regenerative farmers are enthusiastic and ‘alive’ and ignited to the world and their properties | Farmers have a very serious role to play in the saving of the planet | Rachel supports 'eaters' to source and purchase regeneratively grown food, and in doing so contribute to the growth of these practices | The fires of 2019 were a major 'tension event' that was a catalyst for my regenerative journey | Rachel is a member of the Land to Market co-op which verifies the improvement of landscape through management by annually measuring biological activity and soil composition. Episode Links Rachel Ward Rachel Ward a- IG Allan Savory Ted talk was totally inspiring to Rachel Allan Savory Institute Kym Kruse Regen Ag consultant Call of the Reed Warbler - Charles Massy KLR Marketing Land to Market
Welcome to The Weekend Booktopian, our weekly podcast to kick off your weekend! Our team will give you the low down on all things book news related, and turn you on to the books that we are reading right now! For our sixteenth episode, Mark hosts Nick, Zia and Ben and discusses the latest adaptations for Brave New World, The Underground Railroad and Ada Twist Scientist, and the success of Call of the Reed Warbler. We then give you our latest round of book recommendations, before another edition of Book Fight! Books Mentioned in this podcast: Machete Season - Jean Hatzfeld, Linda Coverdale: https://bit.ly/2GACyc1 Life Laid Bare - Jean Hatzfeld, Linda Coverdale: https://bit.ly/2IbD0y1 Ghosts - Dolly Alderton: https://bit.ly/3i0iSuS Song of the Crocodile - Nardi Simpson: https://bit.ly/33FJldi Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell: https://bit.ly/2GzvfkI Sponsored Books: Stop Living Pay To Pay - Greg Smith: https://bit.ly/3cKafnb Host: Mark Harding Guests: Nick Wasiliev, Ben Hunter & Zia Keirouz Producer: Mark Harding & Nick Wasiliev
In today's episode, I talk with Jon Marro, an extremely talented artist, filmmaker, the author of Keepers of Color and Holden Hugs the World, and the resident creative genius for the Cafe Gratitude, Gracias Madre, and Be Love Farm family. Jon and I recorded this episode live, while I was staying on the Be Love Farm, so you will likely hear some farm noises like tractors, cows mooing, dogs barking, people talking, and children laughing. Topics Covered: The feeling of being in "alignment" with who you are Jon's journey as an artist Giving your entire attention to a task How integrity is transferred into Jon's art Relying on external sources for connection to source Becoming your own "guru" Disconnecting in order to reconnect Ideas as entities Making art in response to darkness Optimism Holding space for others Destruction for destruction's sake Learning how to rest Links: https://www.instagram.com/jonmarro/ (Jon's Instagram) https://jonmarro.com/ (Jon's website) https://jonmarro.com/jmshop/ (Holden Hugs store) https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781501167676 (The Keepers of Color book) https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781734190694 (Holden Hugs the World book) https://www.instagram.com/terces/ (Terces Engelhart Instagram) https://www.belovefarm.com/ (Be Love Farm) https://www.instagram.com/cafegratitude/ (Cafe Gratitude) https://www.instagram.com/graciasmadresocal/ (Gracias Madre) http://bayoakomolafe.net/ (Poet Bayo Akomolafe) https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780698410961 (Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert) https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781603588133 (Call of the Reed Warbler by Charles Massy) https://www.instagram.com/natureismetal/ (Nature is Metal Instagram) https://open.spotify.com/album/1GfVP5px88FUJ2TSW7uWmu (Pop Sutras album by Nadav) As always, thank you to https://www.instagram.com/goodcompanymgmt/ (Maytav Koter) and https://moseycreative.com/ (Spencer Stewart) for the music on my podcast. And to Laura Strohbusch for the podcast graphic.
In this episode we explore the emerging practice of regenerative agriculture, perhaps one of the best ways to drawdown carbon out of our atmosphere and help reduce the impacts of climate change. Under the leadership of Deane Belfield, the Mount Alexander Regenerative Agriculture Group has been running a program for local farmers to learn about the techniques involved in regenerative agriculture and help them implement them and test them. Saltgrass is produced in Castlemaine on the land of the Dja Dja Wurrung people. We pay respects to elders past, present and emerging. Related links: More about the Mount Alexander Regenerative Agriculture Group: http://masg.org.au/projects/regenerative-agriculture/ As mentioned by Deane regarding the degradation of Australian soils after white colonisation: Bruce Pasco Ted Talk about his book Dark Emu Bill Gammage on his book The Great Estate A book on regenerative agriculture mentioned by Deane: Call of the Reed Warbler by Charles Massy Some regenerative agriculture organisations: https://www.4p1000.org/ https://regenerationinternational.org/ 9 Principles of Regenerative Agriculture: https://regenerationinternational.org/the-9-most-important-techniques-in-regenerative-agriculture On regenerative agriculture and climate change: https://rodaleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/rodale-white-paper.pdf
In this episode Charlie chats to award winning film director & change maker Damon Gameau. He delves into his own Regenerative Journey, from his early career as an actor, and the pivotal moments that were the catalyst for his change in direction. They talk Covid-19 and the opportunities the pandemic is providing to reshape redundant mindsets, including the role of regenenerative agriculture has to play in a new paradigm. No chat with Damon is complete without of course, delving into his 2040 film as we learn more about Damon's inspirational fact based dreaming approach. Episode Takeaways | It felt like a noble job to be playing another human being.. but then, you have to juxtapose that with paying the bills | At the time I had really spent a lot of effort cultivating this persona of myself, of this rollie smoking, velvet jacket wearing actor.. who just loved the first 3 months of relationship, who just then ran for the hills | People who are genuinely doing amazing things.. like trying to help the planet, we just don’t have any accolades or awards ceremonies for those people.. this has always been baffling to me | We are so controlled by the story that we tell ourselves | With Covid-19 all those illusionary forms and structures have suddenly dissolved and we have seen how fragile our system is | Off the back of 2040, there has been so much travel with that…I just burnt myself out, traveling every week. It’s been quite a revelation to stop…to be at home | This is a moment - a rare moment, that the door is slightly a jar…This is the moment that we have been waiting for. Suddenly we have pressed stop on the system. In this pause moment, it's the chrysalis, it's the caterpillar going into the cocoon | All these key different elements of our biodiversity, they are so under the pump right now. Going back to normal (post Covid), is a suicide mission | We cant be outsourcing everything overseas anymore, the current system is not robust. It's a 20th century model that's trying to deal with 21st century problems. We have to adapt | Regenerative agriculture is absolutely the most exciting 'bio tech' that is emerging this century | All the magic is under our feet - it's just waiting patiently, calmly | Be kind - don’t over think this, as a race we do actually get on. We do care about each other. Links Whats your 2040 ? - website for Damon's 2040 film (released 2019) Kate Raworth - Uk economist Charles Massy - author of 'Call of the Reed Warbler' Regen Ag course - Southern Cross University Martin Royds - Jillamatong, Braidwood Impossible foods - plant based food co. Sustainable Dish - Diane Rogers. Polyface farms - Joel Salatin Raymond Williams - quote The Intrepid Foundation - improving livelihoods through sustainable travel experiences Tim Flannery - Australian palaeontologist The Living Mountain - book by Nan Shepherd The Future we Choose - book by Christiana Figueres Fantastic Fungi - film The Tim Ferriss show - podcast Landmark Worldwide- transformation course / personal development
Harry Ricketts reviews The Reed Warbler by Ian Wedde, published by Victoria University Press.
Fiction writer, critic, essayist, art curator and former NZ Poet Laureate, Ian Wedde has a new book out. The Reed Warbler is his eighth novel and is being billed as a masterpiece. A work of fiction, it's reminiscent of a family history, and calls into question the reliability of our memories, and the stories we tell about each other.
Charles Massy has a plethora of personal experience and researched knowledge when it comes to regenerative agriculture: Working on his farm in the Snowy Mountain regions of Australia, completing his Ph.D. on Human Ecology and traveling the globe to meet like-minded farmers who have also shifted their farms and lifestyles towards regenerative agriculture methods. He takes you on a mind-altering journey in his recent book “The Call of the Reed Warbler”.In this interview, Charles shares about his own journey of “uncuffing” Mother Nature and learning to read his landscape and to “listen” to what she is telling him. Through the journey of industrial agriculture, having his own mind-altering experiences that birthed what he calls the Emergent Mind, into this new nature aligned way of living.Charles also shares how the Anthropocene Crisis we are in right now, with COVID19 being one of the results of the breakdown of these 9 systems, can all be reversed through Regenerative Agriculture. There is hope and through your own journey towards aligning with Nature, we truly can reverse this situation we find ourselves in. Join me in this interview with Charles Massy, author of the Call of the Reed Warbler.Call of the Reed Warbler: https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/call-of-the-reed-warbler/https://www.uqp.com.au/books/call-of-the-reed-warblerFrom the Ground Up Documentary: https://thrivingwithnature.com/2019/12/07/how-farmers-are-reversing-the-drought-regenerating-their-land-and-better-off-financially/ Join the conversation here: https://thrivingwithnature.com/?p=730Find more on YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCopkUzGtNNffoRA1-LP9tLg Join Instagram: https://instagram.com/thrivingwithnature Follow on Facebook: https://facebook.com/thrivingwithnature
Gerard Lawry can be found at https://eaglerisefarm.com.au/eaglerise-farm/If you're after more information about his permaculture farming course, you can contact him via his website or at info@eaglerisefarm.com.auHe mentions Allan Savoury https://savory.global/ and Charles Massey, best known for his recent book, The Call of the Reed Warbler.
In this episode we start by exploring the reasons that led Simon and Fiona to move from a conventional dairy operation into regenerative and organic dairy farming.When quizzed on who or what resources Simon has been using, he references David Hardwick, an agroecologist who can be located at Soil Land Food , Dick Richardson of Grazing Naturally as well as Charles Massey, author of Call of the Reed Warbler and well known Regenerative Agriculturist. Simon also reference his local Landcare group. Landcare groups exist around Australia, and are a great resource full of local knowledge that can benefit farmers.As the conversation progresses, its apparent that Simon too has questions about regenerative farming: part of the joy of this conversation is seeing the benefit for all when talking about different ways of doing things and the cross pollination of ideas.
What do healthy soils offer us? Inaugural Regenerative Agriculture conference in Perth brought together active farmers including author Charles Massy ("Call of the Reed Warbler - a New Agriculture, a New Earth") and Dianne Haggerty, as well as champions for the movement, such as Alannah MacTiernan MLC - all three here speaking from the podium about food security and practicalities. To view the complete presentations from the [RegenWA](https://www.regenwa.com) conference, they are available on the [Perth NRM](http://www.perthnrm.com) [YouTube page](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6Uf5rTaG7WkUxR3KPOu-AYKqmN8XIHTX) . In Western Australia we have ancient fragile soil structures, and our agriculture since European settlement has caused extensive problems. Now the Regenerative Agriculture movement is looking to practise techniques which are far less dependent on chemical additives and more robustly reliant on other, perhaps gentler, ways of creating food and managing farms. In a world of rapidly changing climate and need for reliable quality food, regenerative agriculture could be an important step into our best future. Regenerative Agriculture aims to conserve and restore topsoil, biodiversity, water, life processes and food production so that we can deal with habitat loss, climate emergency, and support the vitality of the food we eat. Associated programs are from our interviews with Charles Massy at his farm on the Monaro Plain, east of Mount Kosciuszko at https://rtrfm.com.au/story/understorey-call-of-the-regenerative-farmer/ and https://rtrfm.com.au/story/understorey-journey-of-the-regenerative-farmer/
Today, on Ground Cover, Kerry Cochrane speaks to renown author and regenerative farming revolutionary, Dr Charles Massy; a well known grazier from Cooma in the southern Snowies of NSW. A man, who through a paradigm shift in a very tough drought, realised his ignorance as a conventional and industrial farmer, to go on and become a famous author and academic.In this episode Charlie talks about:the time for change being ripe and farmers being intimate with their own landscape and environmentchallenging powerful paradigms and how we have de-stabilised the planet, due to: capitalism, economic rationalism, endless growth and, of course, industrialisationthe anthropocene: the greatest challenge our species has ever confronted and regenerative practices as the solutionthe importance of regenerative agriculture in capturing carbonthe five basic functions of healthy landscapes: solar energy, water, soil, mineral cycles and biodiversity, and humansthe importance of ecological literacy within the education systemCharlie goes on to refer to regenerative agriculture as a revolution. One that can only happen from the bottom up.A little more about Dr Charles Massy:Dr Massy gained a Bachelor of Science (Zoology, Human Ecology) at ANU (1976), before going farming for 35 years, developing the prominent Merino sheep stud 'Severn Park'. Concern at ongoing land degradation and humanity's sustainability challenge led him to return to ANU in 2009 to undertake a PhD in Human Ecology. He was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for his service as Chair and Director of a number of research organisations and statutory wool boards. He has also served on national and international review panels in sheep and wool research and development and genomics.Charles has authored serval books, including Breaking the Sheeps Back and the best selling Call of the Reed Warbler.Charles has managed an almost 2000ha sheep and cattle property; running an average of 8000 - 10000 stock units, for over 40 years. In addition he has managed other properties totally 7000ha for city business interests. In the course of this he has led various local rural organisations plus was a regional bushfire captain.Charles has conducted public speaking, lecturing and education over many years, initially in the fields of transformation and innovation in the Merino sheep and wool industries, and more recently in regenerative landscape management, grazing systems for healthy landscape function and addressing climate change and the current global ecological challenges for our species - including for such organisations as Greening Australia, Regional Landcare groups, and the Federal Governments Carbon Farming Initiative; plus lecture to Human Ecology students at ANU.
Welcome to the introductory episode of Ground Cover – a podcast for farmers by farmers.This podcast is brought you by the Regenerative Agriculture Alliance, in partnership with Southern Cross University.Ground Cover is a uniquely Australian series exploring real-life stories of land managers who have undertaken the transition from conventional farming to regenerative agriculture.Each week the Regenerative Agriculture Alliance will bring you a unique and honest conversation about the challenges and opportunities of regenerative agriculture so you can make informed decisions about how best to manage your land.The Regenerative Agriculture Alliance was founded to address the urgent need to transition from conventional farming to regenerative farming practices.As the Regenerative Agriculture Alliance’s director Lorraine Gordon often says: “The Sustainability ship has sailed”. We need to start fixing what is fundamentally broken and start regenerating landscapes.Enter the regenerative agriculture movement.Regenerative Agriculture is a system of farming principles and practices that increases biodiversity, enriches soils, improves watersheds, and enhances ecosystem services.It is a practice which aims to capture carbon in soil, reversing current global trends of atmospheric accumulation.At the same time, it offers increased yields, resilience to climate instability, and higher health and vitality for farming and livestock communities.Regenerative agriculture draws from decades of scientific and applied research by the global communities of organic farming, agroecology, Holistic Management, and agroforestry – many of these experts can be found at Southern Cross University, world-renowned for its plant and soil labs and environmental science research.Southern Cross University has a track record in driving collaboration on an unprecedented scale. The regional University has the proven capability to deliver national and global results across all primary industry sectors.Each episode of Ground Cover will be introduced by Lorraine Gordon, director of strategic projects at Southern Cross University and founder of the Regenerative Agricultural Alliance.Named Rural Community Leader in the 2018 Farmer of the Year awards and a former NSW ABC Rural Woman of the Year, Lorraine, an Ebor grazier, is the driving force for the alliance.Lorraine is also the director of the Farming Together Program, which delivered a multi-award winning knowledge mobilisation model to 28,500 primary producers nationwide, unlocking the power of collaboration and empowering a generation of primary producers.Lorraine’s story and her mission to transition Australia for a resilient farming future, will feature in our eighth and final episode of this season along with a very exciting announcement which is set to be a game-changer for agricultural education in this country, so be sure to subscribe to Ground Cover and catch the big reveal at the end.In the meantime Ground Cover will feature seven of the leading practitioners in the regenerative agriculture space and is hosted by the veteran voice of Australian ag, Kerry Cochrane.Kerry is a leader in ag education as well as a seasoned rural reporter. As President of the Australian Institute of Ecological Agriculture Cooperative, his passion is one of promoting an ecological approach to life as a key strategy in mitigating against climate change.It is fitting that we launch the series with none other than Dr Charles Massy, self-described ‘underground revolutionary’, farmer, and author of the Best Selling book ‘Call of The Reed Warbler.He shares his personal experience – as an unknowing, chemical-using farmer with dead soils to a radical ecologist farmer carefully regenerating a 2000-hectare property to a state of natural health.Charles is a storyteller who connect the dots between healing the soil, healing the planet, and repairing what it is to be fundamentally human.In this Australia-first podcast you will hear from the leaders and revolutionaries in this space. You will hear them speak about the technical changes in their soil but you will also hear them speak about deeper unexpected changes … in their values, in their connection to land and their connection to community – such is the all-encompassing nature of regenerative farming.Welcome to Ground Cover. We hope you enjoy.
Alana Mann is Chair of Media & Communications at the University of Sydney, Australia, and a key researcher at the University’s Sydney Environment Institute. She is also a Chief Investigator on the project FoodLab Sydney with partners including the City of Sydney and FoodLab Detroit. Her research focuses on the communicative dimensions of citizen engagement, participation, and collection action in food systems, planning and governance. She has written two books, her most recent Voice and Participation in Global Food Politics, published in 2019, and Global Activism in Food Politics: Power Shift, in 2014. During our conversation, we talked about the food sovereignty movement and its emergence in Latin-America, agroecology as a pathway towards sustainable food systems and the importance of politicising our food consumption. References mentioned during the episode include: - Alana Mann, Voice and participation in Global Food Politics - Alana Mann, Global activism in food politics: power shift - Christopher Mayes, Unsettling food politics - Bill Gammage, The biggest estate on Earth: how Aborigines made Australia - Charles Massy, Call of the Reed Warbler: a new agriculture, a new Earth - Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics - Anna Tsing, The mushroom at the end of the world - Rachel Carsen, Silent spring and Under the sea wind - Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu - Antonio Roman Alcala, Looking to food sovereignty movement for post-growth theory - Philipp McMichael, Global development and the corporate food regime
Charles Massy in conversation with Kelly Lee Hickey Radical farmer, scientist and author Charles Massy explores transformative and regenerative agriculture and the vital connection between our soil and our health. Massy always uses personal experience as a touchstone – from an unknowing, chemical-using farmer with dead soils to a radical ecologist farmer carefully regenerating a 2000-hectare property to a state of natural health. Into evocative stories of innovative farmers, he interweaves his own local landscape, its seasons and biological richness, to create a moving and often lyrical story, a powerful and moving paean of hope. This writers' talk took place as part of the 2019 NT Writers' Festival--Alice Springs, Lyapirtneme | Return, brought to you by the NT Writers' Centre.
Farming, agriculture & human involvement in ecology are often vilified and cited as the source of environmental destruction. But is this the whole story? Can farming & agriculture actually be regenerative, holistic and even imperative in restoring the planet to a healthy state? In this episode I sit down with the family behind Parker Pastures to discuss everything from regenerative agriculture and holistic land management to myths around vegetarianism, fake meat & farting cows. The Parker's Book Recommendations: Holistic Management by Allan Savory and Call of the Reed Warbler by Charles Massy Find Parker Pastures at ParkerPastures.com Song featured: "Colorado" by Lotus. How to support the show: Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! Support my work on Patreon and get access to bonus episodes & more! Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe
David Pollock is one of Australia's most prominent regenerative pastoralists, and he's now the author of a new book that's been described as ‘The astonishing story of reviving the oldest land on Earth'. It's called ‘The Wooleen Way: Renewing an Australian Resource'. Many Aussies will have seen David and his wife Frances on ABC TV's Australian Story. They've appeared four times so far, such is the way their story has captivated the country. They've also been guests twice on this podcast. This time, though, is the first time in extended conversation with David, book in hand and on location at Wooleen Station. ‘The Wooleen Way' is hard-hitting, expertly researched, and a great tale, with a compelling and holistic outlook. On the back of Charles Massy's book ‘Call of the Reed Warbler', this may just prove to be the next critical milestone in the shift towards a regenerative culture of caring for country, and the communities that comprise it. Western Australia's Minister for Regional Development, Alannah MacTiernan, has already visited Wooleen in the wake of the book, and distributed numerous copies among departmental staff. Which is all the more fitting, given pastoral leases operate on public land, and on so much of it (nearly half of WA alone). This is arguably our most vital renewable resource - the effective functioning of the vast majority of this country, and other regions like it. And we're losing it. But it doesn't have to be this way. ‘The Wooleen Way' is, on the one hand, the story of David's life and the remarkable regeneration happening at Wooleen Station. And it is about so much more than that. As David sees it, “If we can only get regeneration on Wooleen, then we'll have failed.” Join David as he shows Anthony around the Station to talk about the book, his story, and some of the how and why behind the regeneration of a country. Get more: The new book ‘The Wooleen Way: Renewing an Australian Resource' - https://scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/books/the-wooleen-way Wooleen Station – https://wooleen.com.au Listen to the special extra to podcast #044 with David - https://www.regennarration.com/episodes/044-extra-with-david-pollock Listen to Frances in conversation with Anthony on podcast #009 – https://www.regennarration.com/episodes/009-regenerating-land-food-systems And hear David and Frances in a panel conversation with Charles Massy on podcast #016 - https://www.regennarration.com/episodes/016-grassroots-revolution The upcoming RegenWA conference, featuring Charles Massy, Terry McCosker and more, with Anthony as MC - https://www.regenwa.com/events/regenerative-agriculture-conference/ Music: The System, by the Public Opinion Afro Orchestra The outgoing music is by Jeremiah Johnson Due to licencing restrictions, our guest's nominated music can only be played on radio or similarly licenced broadcasts of this episode. We hope podcast licencing falls into line with this soon. Title pic: Frances and David at Wooleen Station (supplied). Join us at our first live conversation event in Perth, on Monday the 23rd of September at The Platform - www.regennarration.com/events/trebeck2019 Say hello & send us your comments by text or audio - www.regennarration.com/story Thanks to our community of listeners and partners for making the hours of labour that go into each episode possible. Please consider supporting the podcast by donating or becoming a podcast partner at www.regennarration.com/support. Thanks for listening!
Working hard to bring more revenue back to the farm gate for farmers who are delivering ecosystem services. A 10 min summary of the interview with Bert Glover, co-founder of Impact AG Partners. Welcome to Investing in Regenerative Agriculture. Listen to the full interview here: https://soundcloud.com/investinginregenerativeagriculture/episode-50-interview-bert-glover --------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and exclusive benefits here: https://gumroad.com/investinginregenag Other ways to support my work: - Share the podcast - Give a 5-star rating - Or buy me a coffee… or a meal! www.Ko-fi.com/regenerativeagriculture --------------------------------------------- - We're seeing our consumers and our society saying we want ethically produced food and fibre and we have an expectation of you the farmers that you're going to do the right thing. - We see more and more opportunity to bring more revenue back to the farm gate for farmers who are delivering ecosystem services. - We really believe that we only borrow our natural assets from our children and we believe that you know in the production of food and fibre it shouldn't be at the cost of the environment and it shouldn't be at the cost of the human race globally. - And our objective here is to sit between the financial sector and the operating sector which is the farming sector and help both of those participants deliver better than average triple bottom line results - If consumers can recognize that in the past they've bought food and it's been a relatively low financial cost but it's been at the cost of the environment. If we can change their mindset from commodity based food to premium high quality nutrient dense food, clean food, slow food I think that's when we can really start to capture more change. Impact AG website http://www.impactag.com.au UBS Family office report http://www.globalfamilyofficereport.com/ Project Drawdown https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/food More information on Toniic: https://www.toniic.com More on 100% Impact Portfolios: https://www.toniic.com/t100 Cation Exchange Capacity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cation-exchange_capacity Measurements keep coming back as a key point! With Abby Rose we discussed how the farmers can measure their own soil health: https://soundcloud.com/investinginregenerativeagriculture/interview-abby-rose We discussed carbon as a proxy also with Chuck Liedekerke: https://soundcloud.com/investinginregenerativeagriculture/interview-charles-de-liedekerke Seaweed and cow methane emissions https://mentalfloss.com/article/89660/could-feeding-seaweed-cows-help-save-climate Carbon farming credits https://blog.pasturemap.com/issuance-of-the-first-australian-carbon-credit-units-to-a-soil-carbon-grazing-project Nori did a great podcast on the program in Australia https://nori.com/podcast/64-restoring-soil-health-for-resilient-farmswith-louise-edmonds-of-intuit-earth Danone company bond https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaycoengilbert/2018/02/20/every-cfo-should-know-this-the-future-of-banking-ties-verified-esg-performance-to-cheaper-capital/ Slow Food https://www.slowfood.com/ Dirt to Soil Gabe Brown https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/dirt-to-soil/ Call of the Reed Warbler, Charles Massy https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/call-of-the-reed-warbler/ --------------------------------------------- If you want to discover more visit http://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com If you want to receive an email when I upload a new episode, subscribe here eepurl.com/cxU33P. The above references an opinion and is for information and educational purposes only. It is not intended to be investment advice. Seek a duly licensed professional for investment advice.
Working hard to bring more revenue back to the farm gate for farmers who are delivering ecosystem services! Welcome to Investing in Regenerative Agriculture. Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and exclusive benefits here: https://gumroad.com/investinginregenag Other ways to support my work: - Share the podcast - Give a 5-star rating - Or buy me a coffee… or a meal! www.Ko-fi.com/regenerativeagriculture ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This time I had the great pleasure to interview Bert Glover, co-founder of Impact AG Partners. - We're seeing our consumers and our society saying we want ethically produced food and fibre and we have an expectation of you the farmers that you're going to do the right thing. - We see more and more opportunity to bring more revenue back to the farm gate for farmers who are delivering ecosystem services. - We really believe that we only borrow our natural assets from our children and we believe that you know in the production of food and fibre it shouldn't be at the cost of the environment and it shouldn't be at the cost of the human race globally. - And our objective here is to sit between the financial sector and the operating sector which is the farming sector and help both of those participants deliver better than average triple bottom line results - If consumers can recognize that in the past they've bought food and it's been a relatively low financial cost but it's been at the cost of the environment. If we can change their mindset from commodity based food to premium high quality nutrient dense food, clean food, slow food I think that's when we can really start to capture more change. Impact AG website http://www.impactag.com.au UBS Family office report http://www.globalfamilyofficereport.com/ Project Drawdown https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/food More information on Toniic: https://www.toniic.com More on 100% Impact Portfolios: https://www.toniic.com/t100 Cation Exchange Capacity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cation-exchange_capacity Measurements keep coming back as a key point! With Abby Rose we discussed how the farmers can measure their own soil health: https://soundcloud.com/investinginregenerativeagriculture/interview-abby-rose We discussed carbon as a proxy also with Chuck Liedekerke: https://soundcloud.com/investinginregenerativeagriculture/interview-charles-de-liedekerke Seaweed and cow methane emissions https://mentalfloss.com/article/89660/could-feeding-seaweed-cows-help-save-climate Carbon farming credits https://blog.pasturemap.com/issuance-of-the-first-australian-carbon-credit-units-to-a-soil-carbon-grazing-project Nori did a great podcast on the program in Australia https://nori.com/podcast/64-restoring-soil-health-for-resilient-farmswith-louise-edmonds-of-intuit-earth Danone company bond https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaycoengilbert/2018/02/20/every-cfo-should-know-this-the-future-of-banking-ties-verified-esg-performance-to-cheaper-capital/ Slow Food https://www.slowfood.com/ Dirt to Soil Gabe Brown https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/dirt-to-soil/ Call of the Reed Warbler, Charles Massy https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/call-of-the-reed-warbler/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you want to discover more visit www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com If you want to receive an email when I upload a new episode, subscribe here eepurl.com/cxU33P The above references an opinion and is for information and educational purposes only. It is not intended to be investment advice. Seek a duly licensed professional for investment advice.
Woolgrower, historian and author of "Call of the Reed Warbler”, Charles Massy is now an advocate, hear why.
LINKS email: redocean112@gmail.com PODCASTING CHECKLISTS CLICK HERE Transcript HERE Facebook Page: World Organic News Facebook page. WORLD ORGANIC NEWS No Dig Gardening Book: Click here Permaculture Plus http://permacultureplus.com.au/ Topical Talks Call of the Reed Warbler U.S. environment agency says glyphosate weed killer is not a carcinogen https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-epa-glyphosate/epa-says-popular-weed-killer-glyphosate-is-not-a-carcinogen-idUSKCN1S62SU The Human Microbiome Project https://www.nature.com/articles/nature06244 Piltdown hoax UK is 30-40 years away from 'eradication of soil fertility', warns Gove https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/24/uk-30-40-years-away-eradication-soil-fertility-warns-michael-gove
The Blyth's reed warbler (Acrocephalus dumetorum) is one of the top singers of spring. Peaceful tempo of the song is diversificate and full of mimics of other birds. Another singer is garden warbler (Sylvia borin).
Charles Massy is a farmer, author, regenerative farmer and OAM and has a Phd in Agricultural Science. Cyndi interviews this amazing thinker on regenerative agriculture and how this way of farming is the new hero in the climate change debate. Charles book Call of the Reed Warbler, discusses, the historical perspective of Australian Agriculture when Listen In The post UC 315: Agriculture the hero in the Climate Change Debate appeared first on The Wellness Couch.
Charles Massy has become an extraordinary hub of knowledge, wisdom and stories of regeneration. Specifically, in regenerative agriculture, and alongside that, the art of human transformation. His latest book 'Call of the Reed Warbler' continues to make an enormous impact in Australia, and Charles has just embarked on an overseas tour behind the release of an updated international edition. Paul Hawken appears on the inside sleeve, saying this about the book: “Charles Massy has written a definitive masterpiece that takes its place along with the writings of Aldo Leopold, Wendell Berry, Masanobu Fukuoka, Humberto Maturana, and Michael Pollan. No work has more brilliantly defined regenerative agriculture and the breadth of its restorative impact upon human health, biodiversity, climate, and ecological intelligence.” Charles writes and talks about the growing repertory of stories of what are in some cases extraordinary tales of regeneration – including his own. He also takes a look behind that regeneration, at how change happens not just in the land, but in the landscape of our minds. Charles and Anthony pulled up a pew at the farm, Severn Park, a few weeks ago, for this conversation. Music: By Jeremiah Johnson Due to licencing restrictions, our guest's nominated music can only be played on radio or similarly licenced broadcasts of this episode. We hope podcast licencing falls into line with this soon. Get more: Tune into our Special Extra with Charles, #032 Extra: Cultivating Regeneration from Industrial Wastelands - https://www.regennarration.com/episodes/032-extra-cultivating-regeneration-from-industrial-wastelands For more on Charles & Call of the Reed Warbler, see the original Australian edition - https://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/book.aspx/1445/Call%20of%20the%20Reed%20Warbler And the updated Chelsea Green international edition - https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/call-of-the-reed-warbler/ Podcast 25 The New Megafauna, on Kachana Station (one of our most popular podcasts) Podcast 16 Grassroots Revolution, with Charles alongside David & Frances from Wooleen Station at our feature forum back in February 2018 Podcast 14 on Drawdown, with Paul Hawken Thanks to all our supporters for enabling the production of this podcast. If you too value what you hear, please consider joining them by heading to our website at www.regennarration.com/support. Thanks for helping to keep the show going! And thanks for listening.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download () | EmbedSubscribe: Android | Email | RSS | MoreAs large parts of Australia are in drought and some farmers are having to shoot their livestock for lack of feed, how can regenerative agriculture help farms become more resilient?As there is a growing demand for meat and dairy products for export to Asia, will we resist the land clearing and overstocking to protect the global climate?The BZE land use discussion paper found that great emissions reductions could be achieved if we partly reduced the national herd and the land that is constantly cleared for grazing. This show looks at family farms in eastern Australia and the million hectare agribusinesses in the north. What progress are we making? Charles MasseyCHARLES MASSEYCharles Massey’s book “Call of the reed warbler” reports on this century’s pioneers of regenerative farming. He describes the disasters that have jolted some farners out of industrialised agriculture into practices more in line with their love of nature and long term values. As Vandana Shiva said “Monoculture farming creates monocultures of the mind” Charles brings us stories of innovation and diversity. He talks about soil carbon sponges rehydrating the land, how the current drought is affecting his place in the Monaro High Plains and how glyphosate is affecting our gut health. Climate change is only one of the earth systems that has been pushed past the limit,but the thinking emerging from the farmers he meets could pull us back from the brink. Richard EckardPROFESSOR RICHARD ECKARDHe is the director of the Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre at Melbourne University. Vivien asks whether drought assistance should be tied to new methods of farm management and whether mixed farming systems are more resilient to climate shocks. Richard describes the NT and Qld pastoral leases which cover millions of hectares and how they can survive drought.Will climate rusk averse overseas shareholders pressure the companies that run these massive ranches to reduce emissions? Can we reduce the sheer number of livestock on the land when it is so lucrative exporting into the high end market?If the National Energy Guarantee is weak on emissions reductions will farmers do the heavy lifting? The NFF says they have already taken significant steps to reduce their carbon footprint,what more can be expected ?MICHAEL TAYLORHe represents the sixth generation farming The Hill in New England. His parents are famous for their innovations in agroforestry. They had to be creative as the Great New England Eucalyptus Dieback in the 60’s denuded their place and many others. Vivien talks to Michael about how younger farmers are building up more resilience and productivity while still remaining profitable.To give you a taste of “The Call of the Reed Warbler” here is a description of the Taylor’s property by Charles Massey sitting on a hill.” Below me I could barely see open paddocks. The lazy S of contour winding tree breaks composed of mixed species seemed to merge into a forest. Mist rose off the rehydrated lower country but most impressive was a cacophony of birdsong. Flycatchers,fantails,honey eaters, wood swallows and whistlers. Truly here was a whole squadron of unpaid pest controlling, pollinating and fertilising helpers willlingly on the job.”Regeneration, restoration, reversing the mistakes of early white settlers …This is the new narrative we need to hear.Further Reading:https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/five-meat-and-dairy-companies-emit-more-emissions-than-major-oil-companies-study-finds/Petition by John Graham Petersonhttps://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/turnbull-policy-guarantees-nothing-but-the-status-quo-on-power-and-climate-20180722-p4zsx1.htmlhttps://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/technology/science/silence-of-the-lambs-nsw-farmer-to-shoot-starving-flock-because-he-cant-afford-to-feed-themThe Radio Team 23rd July: Andy Britt on production, Roger Vize on podcasts and Vivien Langford -interviews 24 Jul 2018|Categories: Community Show
Two champs together in summer night. Nightingale and Blyth’s reed warbler are absolutely top best singing birds in summer night. Night is at its darkest, which is not that dark this time of year. Full moon makes picture perfect. Let’s just listen.
Getting good things done needs collaboration, collaboration needs communication and communication needs connectivity. That’s why connectivity is the theme of this year’s Australasian Permaculture Convergence. Between 15 – 19 April 2018 we met in southern NSW to improve our connectivity. Community Radio 2XX 98.3FM's Behind the Lines was there and recorded what it could of the talks and workshops for your listening pleasure! These works are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. To give attribution for this work, include the URL of this page, and https://permacultureaustralia.org.au/
Charles took some time to chat about his book Call of the Reed Warbler
Over 250 people filled The Dome at the recent National Sustainable Living Festival for this feature forum hosted by Anthony James, with special guests Frances Jones & David Pollock from Wooleen Station, and regenerative farmer Charles Massy AO. Frances Jones and David Pollock's radical project to remove income-earning livestock from their historic property, in remote Western Australia, shocked their entire district, and has gone on to produce remarkable results. Charles Massy's ground-breaking new book features a range of similar experiments. It is a comprehensive account of how a grassroots revolution is helping to turn climate change around, while building healthy people, communities and landscapes. Get more: Charles Massy's Call of the Reed Warbler - https://www.uqp.com.au/books/call-of-the-reed-warbler Wooleen Station - https://wooleen.com.au And tune into podcast 9 for an in-depth conversation with Frances Jones at Wooleen Station - https://www.regennarration.com/episodes/009-regenerating-land-food-systems Many thanks to our sponsors for this event - Sustain: the Australian Food Network, the William Angliss Institute & the National Sustainable Living Festival. Thanks also to the generous supporters of this podcast, for making it possible. If you too value what you hear, please consider joining them by heading to our website at www.regennarration.com/support. Thanks for helping to keep the show going! And thanks for listening.
Charles Massy gained a Bachelor of Science in the 70s before returning to the family farm near Cooma and the Snowy Mountains. He has been farming since, and in 2009 Charles Massy returned to ANU to complete a PhD in Human Ecology. In his latest book Call of the Reed Warbler he explores regenerative agriculture; an approach to farming that rebuilds topsoil, increases biodiversity, and importantly for Australia, resurrects eroded land and combats climate change. Charles joins us in the studio. Here's Sarah's review of the book.
What is the anthropocene, and could it be anything other than a really bad news story for us humans that created it? This episode is a recording of a session from the 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival, featuring: *Clair Brown, economics professor at the University of California and author of Buddhist Economics - http://buddhisteconomics.net/about/ *Charles Massy, sheep farmer, academic and landscape manager and author of Call of the Reed Warbler -https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2017/07/18/93409/call-of-the-reed-warbler-charles-massy-uqp/ *Clive Hamilton, public ethics professor at Charles Sturt University, writer and author of Defiant Earth - http://clivehamilton.com/books/defiant-earth-the-fate-of-humans-in-the-anthropocene/ Follow host Graham Readfearn twitter.com/readfearn
The Blyth's reed warbler (Acrocephalus dumetorum) sings peacefully in short light summer midnight. It is considered one of the best singers. The song is full of imitations of other birds. Some sounds are familiar but some sounds are strange and excotic. It has learned them from birds of wintering countries India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Nice greetings from far Asia.
MANY instincts are so wonderful that their development will probably appear to the reader a difficulty sufficient to overthrow my whole theory. [page 317]In this episode of Discovering Darwin we covered Darwin's chapter on Instinct and how Chuck attempted to explain how animals exhibit complex behaviors that are not learned. More importantly Darwin was trying to outline how behaviors could evolve in the same way he explained the evolution of physical traits.It is not too difficult to study the evolution of physical traits because we often have fossil evidence of their transformation. Last episode we discussed the evolution of whales and the plethora of fossil evidence that has allowed researchers to reconstruct the evolution of the terrestrial ancestor of whales to the streamlined marine mammals we see today. Behaviors are harder to imagine through the lens of natural selection because we can only see those behaviors that are exhibited by extant (living) organisms and behaviors can evolve much faster than physical traits. Cultural evolution can allow individuals within their lifetime to adopt a new behavior that they learn from others. One of the wonderful examples of this is dolphins using a sponge to protect their rostrum (beak) as they hunt for prey in coral structures. They can pass this idea on to other dolphins and you can track the rapid transmission of this behavior through a population. Picture from http://www.livescience.com/21989-dolphin-sponge-tools-culture.htmlDarwin was not interested in learned behaviors in this chapter but he was interested in behaviors that are known at birth or at specific developmental times in the organism's lifespan. Darwin called these behaviors instinct. In exploring this idea Darwin focused on three major examples of innate/instinctual behaviors:1. Cuckoos and their behavior to dump their eggs in other birds nests.2. "Slave making" ants species which capturing of other ant species to become sources of forced labor in their own colonies.3. Honey bees and their complex, mathematically efficient, honeycomb making behavior. CuckooCuckoos exhibit a behavior known as "brood parasitism" where they lay their eggs in the nest of a host species and leave the eggs to be incubated and hatched by the host. The host also raises the cuckoo baby as their own until it is strong enough to fledge from the nest. Below is a dramatic photo showing the poor host Reed Warbler dutifully feeding the ginormous common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) nestling. "Reed warbler cuckoo" by Per Harald Olsen - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reed_warbler_cuckoo.jpg#/media/File:Reed_warbler_cuckoo.jpgYou may wonder why the Reed warbler does not recognize the cuckoo offspring is not their own offspring? What you are really asking is why has the Reed warbler not evolve the ability to recognize its own offspring from another species? If you were switched at birth in the hospital, do you think your mother would know? What ways do we know our offspring are actually ours? Only through hospital tagging or non-interrupted contact are we to "know" the offspring we have are the ones we gave birth to. Why have we not evolved an ability to recognize our own offspring? Probably because there has not been a selective advantage to recognize our offspring because over evolutionary time it has been rare for humans to be in a situation where we must recognize our newborn from other unrelated newborns. Since that ability is rarely useful, selection has not favored it in our species. In the same manner, birds that nest individually associate those eggs in their nest as being their own. Recognition has not evolved because there is little selective advantage for that ability. However there are birds that do exhibit an amazing ability to discern their own specific offspring among a throng of others. Colonial nesting birds like albatross and penguins have an unerring ability to discern their own chick from maddening crowds because selection has favored that ability.baby penguins awaiting the return of their parents to feed them. Image from Mike Johnson http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2871252/Tourist-s-incredible-photographs-reveal-stunning-beauty-remote-Antarctic-island-teeming-thousands-penguins-seals.htmlIn nesting birds like the Reed warbler it would normally be rare for it to be stuck raising an unrelated offspring so they have not developed the ability to recognize that the over-sized baby is not really their own offspring. Instead the poor Reed warbler probably thinks she has the largest and healthiest reed warbler baby in the world. Feed it some more!Because nesting birds are less discerning in recognizing their young, brood parasitism has the opportunity to evolve and based upon phylogenetic analysis it seems it has. Brood parasitism has evolved independently seven times in the evolution birds resulting in 75 species out of the 8600 known species of birds exhibiting forms of brood parasitism from occasional indiscretions to those species which never raise their own offspring, instead relying totally on other species to incubate and raise their young. This extreme form of brood parasitism intrigued Charles Darwin in that a cuckoo could be born in a Reed warbler nest, be raised by Reed warblers, fledged from the nest and go off to grow up and retain its identity as a cuckoo bird and not a reed warbler or whomever was its host species. The identity of the cuckoo was innate, instinctual and expressed itself in the adult females when they reached reproductive age.Image from https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/mimicry-the-nefarious-cuckoo/Darwin predicted the cuckoo species we see this complex behavior in various stages of complexity, transitions if you will. There are some cuckoos which specialize in parasitizing a single species of birds while other cuckoo species are generalist and parasitize a wide variety of host species. The research suggests it is difficult to discern if the evolution of cuckoo behavior went from specialist (single host species used) to generalist (many potential host species used), or vice versa. In addition, within the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus there are families (gentes) who specialize on parasitizing a single host species and the cuckoo egg color has evolved to better mimic their hosts eggs. In the picture below see the cuckoo egg indicated by the arrow in a variety of host nests while showing the great variation in egg coloration within the single species of cuckoo.By what steps the instinct of F. sanguinea originated I will not pretend to conjecture. But as ants, which are not slave-makers will, as I have seen, carry off the pupæ of other species, if scattered near their nests, it is possible that such pupæ originally stored as food might become developed; and the foreign ants thus unintentionally reared would then follow their proper instincts, and do what work they could. If their presence proved useful to the species which had seized them—if it were more advantageous to this species to capture workers than to procreate them—the habit of collecting pupæ, originally for food, might by natural selection be strengthened and rendered permanent for the very different purpose of raising slaves.[page 338]Polyergus mexicanus workers return from a successful raid with captured pupae of the host species, Formica subsericea. Urbana, Illinois, USA Photo from http://www.alexanderwild.com/AntsSarah discussed the intriguing behavior of slave making ants and how Darwin thought it evolved and how modern science has supported, somewhat, his original view. The biggest hurdle for slave making to evolve is that each ant species relies on species-specific and colon-specific pheromones for individuals within a colony to recognize each other. Individuals from other colonies, and even more so, individuals from other species will smell distinctively different from the slave making ants so how do they suppress aggression towards their newly captured indentured pupae? It was proposed that ants should raid closely related species so that their pheromones are more likely to be similar to reduce aggression between raiders and potential slaves. This is known as the Emery Rule.Interestingly, scientists since Darwin have been studying the evolution of slave making behavior and much is still to be figured out. The closing remarks on a wonderful review paper about the evolution of social parasitism and slave making behavior in ants makes the following observation: "Though slave-making ant species have been studied for more than 150 years, many problems are still open, the most prominent obviously being the evolution of slave raiding itself. Recent investigations have given contradictory results concerning, for example, the mechanisms of chemical integration of slave makers and their hosts in a mixed society, the pattern of sex allocation in slave makers, and coevolution between social parasite and host….Considering that almost all slave-making ant species are listed as threatened by the World Conservation Union (IUCN), investigations on their behavior, population structure, and genetic variability may help us learn more about how endangered they really are and if and how they can better be protected." (D'Ettorre & Heinze 2001) Josh ended the program with a discussion of the perfection of honeycombs and how is that bees make such perfect hexagon shapes?stockphoto from http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2013/05/13/183704091/what-is-it-about-bees-and-hexagonsJosh explained that cell shapes within the colony can range from a circular shape to the beautifully distinct hexagon shape we associate with honey bees. Two major hypothesis, which are not mutually exclusive, have been proposed to explain the hexagon shape. The first is the efficiency hypothesis which argues that wax is expensive to produce so bees would evolve to be the most efficient in building their combs and hexagon shape requires the least amount of material and produces the least amount wasted space. PHOTOS BY KATHY KEATLEY GARVEY, UC, DAVISNotice this circular form above has many gaps between the cells in contrast the compact arrangement in the hexagon com. The second hypothesis Josh brought up was the idea that in the bee hive, the bees body heat melts the wax and the wax then forms a shape that requires less energy to maintain so the straight edges between the cells forms as an outcome of soft wax reaching a low energy resting state. In this model the bees are not intentionally creating a hexagon shape but it emerges from their constant activity and body heat. It is interesting that the questions that Darwin outlined as interesting issues for evolution are still be investigated and we are beginning to understand these instinctual behaviors better because of the evolutionary framework that Darwin gave us over 150 years ago. The opening theme to Discovering Darwin is "May" by Jared C. Balogh. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Balogh/Revitalized_Eyes/MAY Interlude music is Rhapsody In Blue Part 1 by Paul Whiteman and George Gershwin Published 1924 https://archive.org/details/rhapblue11924
Can you guess this piece? Here's a hint: a bird of a different color…
Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: a bird of a different color…
National Gallery of Australia | Collection Video Tour | Nineteenth-century Australian art
John Lewin (Great Britain 1770 – Australia 1819), Reed warbler 1805 in Birds of New South Wales by John Lewin, Sydney: G. Howe (printer), 1813. Purchased 1996.
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