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Consider: how fun it is when your coursework is aesthetically pleasing for once

#bryophytes #ecosystem management #moss #botanical drawing #no I can’t draw but I can pretend #for the bit #desk setup #studyblr #roberts island #mine

CHIKOMBE BEACH, Malawi — Dressed in a red T-shirt, a yellow-and-blue wrapper tied from the chest, and flip-flops, Zainab Kassim looks like a

Lake Malawi accounts for more than 90% of landlocked Malawi’s total fish catch, and a key fishing ground is the water around Mbenje Island.

The community here has since the 1950s practiced, and enforced, a fisheries management regime that continues to benefit both fishers and local fish stocks.

Even as fish stocks dwindle and average fish sizes shrink elsewhere across Lake Malawi, around Mbenje Island the fish are bigger and fishers are “assured [of] a good haul.”

The success of the management scheme is credited to the fact that it’s embedded within the community’s existing power structures, giving it “legitimacy among fishers as it has not been imposed from outside,” according to a researcher.

#solarpunk #solar punk #indigenous knowledge #community #africa #jua kali solarpunk #informal economy #fish #ecosystem management #malawi

Did a reptile survey for work last week and met so many friends!

Featuring a Bougainville’s Skink (Lerista bougainvillii), Jacky Dragon (Amphibolurus muricatus) and Common Blue-Tongued Skink (Tiliqua scincoides)

#conservation #CEM #Ecosystem management #reptiles #reptile surveys #Australia #INat #I love my job #look at their little hands hehehehe #they’re so cute #I love reptiles

Terra preta wedding

Midafternoon ~☆~ mutually enhancing theme, 3pm to 7pm, equatorial winter, the Amazon basin. Soil blackening is a technique to charcoal-enrich, and thereby enhance, forest garden output. While the majority of the biochar was added to the topsoil layers a long time ago, it is still sustaining a highly productive ecosystem as it was meant to, and the results are visible abundance and richness, which is what you want in your marriage. To subtly absorb some of the effects of the applied wisdom of the ages, go to the Amazon and have your ceremony quietly, there on the forest floor. Local produce and goods should be your wedding picnic atop the enriched earth. If you have a guide, ask to burn the organic waste to a char and then bury it, adding to the black soil (your antibiotic filled travel-immunized poops are less useful jsyk).

The Amazon and the techniques that made and sustain her to this day are vital to global atmospheric maintainance; as you live and breathe and love and marry, give thanks humbly to the Amazon and the people who made her, in as many ways as you can. This wedding gives thanks for its own deepest circumstances.