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A short teaser of The Freetown 50, a challenging but not impossible mountain bike race held in Freetown, MA in September. This race features 50, 25, and 11 mile races in Freetown-Fall River State Forest, The Watuppa Reservation, and Copicut Woods which are all part of the Southeastern Massachusetts BioReserve. This rare course mixture of fire roads, tight single-track, rock gardens, and fast double-track. This type of course does not favor any particular type of rider, but it's supposed to be hard.
http://www.freetown50.com/
- published: 15 Nov 2013
- views: 238
Everett Castro of Green Futures, along with Roger Garant, led a group of nine hikers on October 13, 2012 along Copicut Road in the Southeastern Massachusetts Bioreserve and then around the Copicut Reservoir. The hikers left from one of the many fishermen's parking areas along Copicut Road and hike the roughly five miles around the Reservoir. "The area around the Reservoir is normally closed to hikers," noted Castro, "but we got special permission for the walk from the Water Authority." The Reservoir was constructed in the early 1970s by damming the Copicut River to provide an additional water supply for the City of Fall River as well as Freetown, Westport and Tiverton. It has been open to fishing from the shore since 2009. Much of the Reservoir can be seen by walking along Copicut Road. For more information, go to www.GreenFutures.org or to www.HealthyCityFallRiver.org
- published: 14 Oct 2012
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The Maya Biosphere Reserve is a nature reserve in Guatemala managed by Guatemala's National Council of Protected Areas (CONAP). The Maya Biosphere Reserve covers a total area of 21,602 km², which is considerably larger than Yellowstone National Park. The park is home to a large number of species of fauna including the Jaguar, the Puma, the Ocelot, the Margay, spider monkeys, howler monkeys, tapirs, crocodiles, the Red Brocket and the White-tail deers, the Harpy Eagle, several hawk species, the Scarlet Macaw, fresh water turtles, etc. It is also rich in flora including mahogany, Ceiba, cedar, etc. The area ranges from wetlands, to low mountain ranges, and has several bodies of water, including lakes, rivers, streams and cenotes. The Reserve was created in 1990 to protect the largest area of tropical forest remaining in Central America. The biosphere reserve model, implemented by UNESCO, seeks to promote a balance between human activities and the biosphere by including sustainable economic development in conservation planning. The Maya Biosphere Reserve is home to a large concentration of ancient Maya cities, many of which are under excavation. Tikal is the most famous of these, attracting about 120,000 to 180,000 visitors per year. Tens of other sites exist in varying states of excavation.
The Mirador Basin, in the northern part of the Reserve, contains numerous interconnected Maya cities. The area was named by Dr. Richard Hansen, Director of the Mirador Basin Project and archaeologist at El Mirador, the largest of the sites, dating from the preclassic Maya period. Other cities in the region include El Tintal, Nakbe, and Wakna. Ecosystems in Maya Biosphere Reserve face numerous threats from human activities, including illegal logging, farming, and ranching in protected areas, as well as drug trafficking, poaching and looting of Maya artefacts. The forest area of the Reserve has shrunk by 13 percent over the last 21 years according to the non-profit organization Rainforest Alliance, which has several community development projects in the region. Some of the most extreme deforestation has occurred in the Laguna del Tigre and Sierra del Lancandon National Parks. Resources are scarce for the protection of the Reserve by guards and park rangers, and the area is often considered a lawless wilderness. Several local organizations, including ProPetén and ACOFOP have made significant contributions to local management of natural and cultural resources. The Maya Biosphere Reserve is divided into several zones, each with a different protected status. The core zones are formed by several national parks and biotopes (wildlife preserves), in which no human settlement, logging, or extraction of resources are allowed. These include Laguna del Tigre National Park, Sierra del Lacandón National Park, Mirador-Río Azul National Park, Tikal National Park, El Zotz Biotope, Naachtún-Dos Lagunas Biotope, Cerro Cahuí Biotope, Laguna del Tigre Biotope, and El Pilar Natural Monument. The core zones cover an area of 7670 km², which is 36% of the Maya Biosphere Reserve. In multiple-use zones (8484.40 km²; 40%) and the buffer zone (4975 km²; 24%), which comprises the southern portion of the Reserve, certain regulated economic activities are allowed. These include the sustainable harvesting of wood and traditional forest products which include chicle, a sap used in the manufacture of chewing gum, xate, an ornamental palm plant used in floral arrangements, and pimenta or allspice. The Guatemalan government has granted forest concessions to local communities, giving them the right to practice sustainable forestry in delineated areas for 25 years. International monitoring groups such as the Forest Stewardship Council certify logging activities as sustainable. In 2005, 1.1 million acres (4500 km²) were certified. In other parts of the multiple-use zone, farming communities have been granted the right to continue farming in so-called agricultural polygons. On July 16, 2008, Guatemalan president Alvaro Colom announced the Cuatro Balam plan to develop mass ecotourism around archaeological sites in the Maya Biosphere Reserve. Plan objectives include the development of tourist infrastructure, the installation of a small tourist train from the town of Carmelita to El Mirador, and the creation of a new university for the study of regional biodiversity, genetics, and Maya studies.
- published: 27 Jul 2011
- views: 434
A floating paradised Loktak Lake covered with floating Phumdis.
Phumdis are a series of floating islands, exclusive to the Loktak Lake in Manipur state, in northeastern India. They cover a substantial part of the lake area and are heterogeneous masses of vegetation, soil and organic matter, in different stages of decay. The largest single mass of phumdi is in the southeastern part of the lake, covering an area of 40 km2 (15.4 sq mi). This mass constitutes the world's largest floating park, named Keibul Lamjao National Park. The park was formed to preserve the endangered Eld's Deer subspecies, called Sangai in the Manipuri language, indigenous to this area.
Phumdis are used by the local people for constructing their huts for fishing and other livelihood uses, and are inhabited by about 4000 people. Athapums are artificial circular phumdis, built by the villagers as enclosures for fish farming; aquaculture has caused proliferation of the phumdis in the lake.
Loktak Lake, (Manipuri Mayek the largest freshwater (sweet) lake in India, also called the only Floating lake in the world due to the floating phumdis (heterogeneous mass of vegetation, soil, and organic matters at various stages of decomposition) on it, is located near Moirang in Manipur state, India. The etymology of Loktak is Lok "stream" and tak "the end". The Keibul Lamjao National Park, which is the last natural refuge of the endangered sangai or Manipur brow-antlered deer (Cervus eldi eldi), one of three subspecies of Eld's Deer, covering an area of 40 km2 (15 sq mi), is situated in the southeastern shores of this lake and is the largest of all the phumdis in the lake.
This ancient lake plays an important role in the economy of Manipur. It serves as a source of water for hydropower generation, irrigation and drinking water supply. The lake is also a source of livelihood for the rural fisherman who live in the surrounding areas and on phumdis, also known as "phumshongs". Human activity has led to severe pressure on the lake ecosystem. 55 rural and urban hamlets around the lake have a population of about 100,000 people.
Source :- Wikipedia
This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of tens of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM / SR 1080i High Definition, Alexa, SR, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Reach us at rupindang @ gmail . com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.
- published: 17 Dec 2013
- views: 113
Ecuador's Yasuni National Park, a UNESCO world biosphere reserve, is also home to some 846 million barrels of untapped crude. To avoid drilling in the fragile region, President Rafael Correa is asking the international community to pay his country half of the amount they estimate the country would have earned on the oil, some 3.6 billion dollars. With one of the world's most biodiverse places at stake, the project's supporters insist the sum represents a worthwhile investment in the global environmental future. Duration: 02:03
- published: 24 Dec 2010
- views: 308
Thousands of miles of ocean separate the islands that shape the Polynesian Triangle — anchored by New Zealand (Aotearoa) in the west, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) to the southeast, and Hawaii to the north.
In April 2013, representatives from Easter Island and French Polynesia traveled to New Zealand to celebrate their cultural ties and mutual desire for ocean conservation.
Along their journey across Aotearoa's North Island, they met with Maori leaders, scientists, government officials, tour operators and conservationists. They discussed the challenges toward creating marine reserves and protected areas, as well as the benefits that can follow.
Global Ocean Legacy is a project of The Pew Charitable Trusts and its partners.
Target link: www.pewenvironment.org/globaloceanlegacy
- published: 21 Aug 2013
- views: 1002
Mexico's dissident teachers' movement held a one-day national strike and took to the streets in mass protests yesterday against the government's educational reform. The teachers charge that the reform will erode labor rights and promote an educational model geared to satisfying corporate and business interests. In the face of threats by top government officials to fire teachers participating in the protests, the turnout was lower than expected. Clayton Conn reports from Mexico City. teleSUR http://multimedia.telesurtv.net/v/mexico-dissident-teachers-hold-strike/
- published: 13 Oct 2015
- views: 23
The Yucatán Peninsula, in southeastern Mexico, separates the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico, with the northern coastline on the Yucatán Channel. The peninsula lies east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a northwestern geographic partition separating the region of Central America from the rest of North America.
The peninsula comprises the Mexican states of Yucatán, Campeche, and Quintana Roo; the northern part of the nation of Belize; and Guatemala's northern department of El Petén.
The peninsula is the exposed portion of the larger Yucatán Platform, all of which is composed of carbonate and soluble rocks, being mostly limestone although dolomite and evaporites are also present at various depths. The whole of the Yucatán peninsula is an unconfined flat lying karst landscape. Sinkholes, locally called cenotes are widespread in the northern lowlands.
According to the Alvarez hypothesis, the mass extinction of the dinosaurs at the transition from the Cretaceous (K) to the Tertiary (T) Periods (the K-T Boundary) 65 million years ago was caused by an asteroid impact somewhere in the greater Caribbean Basin. The deeply buried Chicxulub Crater is centered off the north coast of the peninsula near the town of Chicxulub. The now-famous "Ring of Cenotes" (visible in NASA imagery) outlines one of the shock-waves from this impact event in the rock of ~65 millions years of age, which lies more than 1 km below the modern ground surface near the centre, with the rock above the impact strata all being younger in age. The presence of the crater has been determined first on the surface from the Ring of Cenotes, but also by geophysical methods, and direct drilling with recovery of the drill cores.
The Yucatán Peninsula comprises a significant proportion of the ancient Maya Lowlands (although the Maya culture extended south of the Yucatán Peninsula, through present Guatemala and into Honduras and highland Chiapas). There are many Maya archaeological sites throughout the peninsula; some of the better-known are Chichen Itza, Tulum and Uxmal.[2] Indigenous Maya and Mestizos of partial Maya descent make up a sizable portion of the region's population, and Mayan languages are widely spoken there.
Riviera Maya, also known as the Mayan Riviera, is a tourism district following the coastal Highway 307 which parallels the Caribbean coastline of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, located on the eastern portion of the Yucatán Peninsula. This district historically started at the city of Playa del Carmen and ended at the village of Tulum, although the towns of Puerto Morelos situated to the north and between Playa del Carmen and Cancun as well as the town of Felipe Carrillo Puerto situated 40 kilometres to the south of Tulum are both currently being promoted as part of the Riviera Maya tourist corridor.
Music used in the Video: LOS TRES REYES - SOMBRAS NADA MAS,Música De Antonio Zepeda -El Sueño- -Zona Arqueológica De Monte Albán,Musica Prehispanica Mexico-Tenochtitlan
- published: 29 Nov 2010
- views: 5554
Mass
In physics, mass is a property of a physical body. It is generally a measure of an object's resistance to changing its state of motion when a force is applied. It is determined by the strength of its mutual gravitational attraction to other bodies, its resistance to being accelerated by a force, and in the theory of relativity gives the mass–energy content of a system. The SI unit of mass is the kilogram (kg).
Mass is not the same as weight, even though we often calculate an object's mass by measuring its weight with a spring scale instead of comparing it to known masses. An object on the Moon would weigh less than it would on Earth because of the lower gravity, but it would still have the same mass.
For everyday objects and energies well-described by Newtonian physics, mass describes the amount of matter in an object. However, at very high speeds or for subatomic particles, special relativity shows that energy is an additional source of mass. Thus, any stationary body having mass has an equivalent amount of energy, and all forms of energy resist acceleration by a force and have gravitational attraction.
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1:07Freetown 50 Trailer
Freetown 50 TrailerFreetown 50 Trailer
A short teaser of The Freetown 50, a challenging but not impossible mountain bike race held in Freetown, MA in September. This race features 50, 25, and 11 mile races in Freetown-Fall River State Forest, The Watuppa Reservation, and Copicut Woods which are all part of the Southeastern Massachusetts BioReserve. This rare course mixture of fire roads, tight single-track, rock gardens, and fast double-track. This type of course does not favor any particular type of rider, but it's supposed to be hard. http://www.freetown50.com/ -
12:20Copicut Reservoir Walk with Green Futures Oct 13 2012
Copicut Reservoir Walk with Green Futures Oct 13 2012Copicut Reservoir Walk with Green Futures Oct 13 2012
Everett Castro of Green Futures, along with Roger Garant, led a group of nine hikers on October 13, 2012 along Copicut Road in the Southeastern Massachusetts Bioreserve and then around the Copicut Reservoir. The hikers left from one of the many fishermen's parking areas along Copicut Road and hike the roughly five miles around the Reservoir. "The area around the Reservoir is normally closed to hikers," noted Castro, "but we got special permission for the walk from the Water Authority." The Reservoir was constructed in the early 1970s by damming the Copicut River to provide an additional water supply for the City of Fall River as well as Freetown, Westport and Tiverton. It has been open to fishing from the shore since 2009. Much of the Reservoir can be seen by walking along Copicut Road. For more information, go to www.GreenFutures.org or to www.HealthyCityFallRiver.org -
0:16Maya Biosphere Reserve, Tikal, Tikal National Park, Guatemala, Central America, North America
Maya Biosphere Reserve, Tikal, Tikal National Park, Guatemala, Central America, North AmericaMaya Biosphere Reserve, Tikal, Tikal National Park, Guatemala, Central America, North America
The Maya Biosphere Reserve is a nature reserve in Guatemala managed by Guatemala's National Council of Protected Areas (CONAP). The Maya Biosphere Reserve covers a total area of 21,602 km², which is considerably larger than Yellowstone National Park. The park is home to a large number of species of fauna including the Jaguar, the Puma, the Ocelot, the Margay, spider monkeys, howler monkeys, tapirs, crocodiles, the Red Brocket and the White-tail deers, the Harpy Eagle, several hawk species, the Scarlet Macaw, fresh water turtles, etc. It is also rich in flora including mahogany, Ceiba, cedar, etc. The area ranges from wetlands, to low mountain ranges, and has several bodies of water, including lakes, rivers, streams and cenotes. The Reserve was created in 1990 to protect the largest area of tropical forest remaining in Central America. The biosphere reserve model, implemented by UNESCO, seeks to promote a balance between human activities and the biosphere by including sustainable economic development in conservation planning. The Maya Biosphere Reserve is home to a large concentration of ancient Maya cities, many of which are under excavation. Tikal is the most famous of these, attracting about 120,000 to 180,000 visitors per year. Tens of other sites exist in varying states of excavation. The Mirador Basin, in the northern part of the Reserve, contains numerous interconnected Maya cities. The area was named by Dr. Richard Hansen, Director of the Mirador Basin Project and archaeologist at El Mirador, the largest of the sites, dating from the preclassic Maya period. Other cities in the region include El Tintal, Nakbe, and Wakna. Ecosystems in Maya Biosphere Reserve face numerous threats from human activities, including illegal logging, farming, and ranching in protected areas, as well as drug trafficking, poaching and looting of Maya artefacts. The forest area of the Reserve has shrunk by 13 percent over the last 21 years according to the non-profit organization Rainforest Alliance, which has several community development projects in the region. Some of the most extreme deforestation has occurred in the Laguna del Tigre and Sierra del Lancandon National Parks. Resources are scarce for the protection of the Reserve by guards and park rangers, and the area is often considered a lawless wilderness. Several local organizations, including ProPetén and ACOFOP have made significant contributions to local management of natural and cultural resources. The Maya Biosphere Reserve is divided into several zones, each with a different protected status. The core zones are formed by several national parks and biotopes (wildlife preserves), in which no human settlement, logging, or extraction of resources are allowed. These include Laguna del Tigre National Park, Sierra del Lacandón National Park, Mirador-Río Azul National Park, Tikal National Park, El Zotz Biotope, Naachtún-Dos Lagunas Biotope, Cerro Cahuí Biotope, Laguna del Tigre Biotope, and El Pilar Natural Monument. The core zones cover an area of 7670 km², which is 36% of the Maya Biosphere Reserve. In multiple-use zones (8484.40 km²; 40%) and the buffer zone (4975 km²; 24%), which comprises the southern portion of the Reserve, certain regulated economic activities are allowed. These include the sustainable harvesting of wood and traditional forest products which include chicle, a sap used in the manufacture of chewing gum, xate, an ornamental palm plant used in floral arrangements, and pimenta or allspice. The Guatemalan government has granted forest concessions to local communities, giving them the right to practice sustainable forestry in delineated areas for 25 years. International monitoring groups such as the Forest Stewardship Council certify logging activities as sustainable. In 2005, 1.1 million acres (4500 km²) were certified. In other parts of the multiple-use zone, farming communities have been granted the right to continue farming in so-called agricultural polygons. On July 16, 2008, Guatemalan president Alvaro Colom announced the Cuatro Balam plan to develop mass ecotourism around archaeological sites in the Maya Biosphere Reserve. Plan objectives include the development of tourist infrastructure, the installation of a small tourist train from the town of Carmelita to El Mirador, and the creation of a new university for the study of regional biodiversity, genetics, and Maya studies. -
1:08Phumdis in the Loktak Lake
Phumdis in the Loktak LakePhumdis in the Loktak Lake
A floating paradised Loktak Lake covered with floating Phumdis. Phumdis are a series of floating islands, exclusive to the Loktak Lake in Manipur state, in northeastern India. They cover a substantial part of the lake area and are heterogeneous masses of vegetation, soil and organic matter, in different stages of decay. The largest single mass of phumdi is in the southeastern part of the lake, covering an area of 40 km2 (15.4 sq mi). This mass constitutes the world's largest floating park, named Keibul Lamjao National Park. The park was formed to preserve the endangered Eld's Deer subspecies, called Sangai in the Manipuri language, indigenous to this area. Phumdis are used by the local people for constructing their huts for fishing and other livelihood uses, and are inhabited by about 4000 people. Athapums are artificial circular phumdis, built by the villagers as enclosures for fish farming; aquaculture has caused proliferation of the phumdis in the lake. Loktak Lake, (Manipuri Mayek the largest freshwater (sweet) lake in India, also called the only Floating lake in the world due to the floating phumdis (heterogeneous mass of vegetation, soil, and organic matters at various stages of decomposition) on it, is located near Moirang in Manipur state, India. The etymology of Loktak is Lok "stream" and tak "the end". The Keibul Lamjao National Park, which is the last natural refuge of the endangered sangai or Manipur brow-antlered deer (Cervus eldi eldi), one of three subspecies of Eld's Deer, covering an area of 40 km2 (15 sq mi), is situated in the southeastern shores of this lake and is the largest of all the phumdis in the lake. This ancient lake plays an important role in the economy of Manipur. It serves as a source of water for hydropower generation, irrigation and drinking water supply. The lake is also a source of livelihood for the rural fisherman who live in the surrounding areas and on phumdis, also known as "phumshongs". Human activity has led to severe pressure on the lake ecosystem. 55 rural and urban hamlets around the lake have a population of about 100,000 people. Source :- Wikipedia This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of tens of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM / SR 1080i High Definition, Alexa, SR, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Reach us at rupindang @ gmail . com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com. -
10:57Arménie 2011 : Haghbat & Sanahin, Patrimoine de l'Unesco
Arménie 2011 : Haghbat & Sanahin, Patrimoine de l'UnescoArménie 2011 : Haghbat & Sanahin, Patrimoine de l'Unesco
au nord du pays, se trouvent ses deux monastères tous deux situés dans un environnement bucolique, Haghbat fut le premier monument classé par l'Unesco "Patrimoine de l'Humanité", Sanahin a suivi, ce sont deux beaux exemples d'art religieux médiéval. -
2:04Ecuador puts a price on an environmental treasure
Ecuador puts a price on an environmental treasureEcuador puts a price on an environmental treasure
Ecuador's Yasuni National Park, a UNESCO world biosphere reserve, is also home to some 846 million barrels of untapped crude. To avoid drilling in the fragile region, President Rafael Correa is asking the international community to pay his country half of the amount they estimate the country would have earned on the oil, some 3.6 billion dollars. With one of the world's most biodiverse places at stake, the project's supporters insist the sum represents a worthwhile investment in the global environmental future. Duration: 02:03 -
8:09From Easter Island to New Zealand: Ocean Conservation across Polynesia | Pew
From Easter Island to New Zealand: Ocean Conservation across Polynesia | PewFrom Easter Island to New Zealand: Ocean Conservation across Polynesia | Pew
Thousands of miles of ocean separate the islands that shape the Polynesian Triangle — anchored by New Zealand (Aotearoa) in the west, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) to the southeast, and Hawaii to the north. In April 2013, representatives from Easter Island and French Polynesia traveled to New Zealand to celebrate their cultural ties and mutual desire for ocean conservation. Along their journey across Aotearoa's North Island, they met with Maori leaders, scientists, government officials, tour operators and conservationists. They discussed the challenges toward creating marine reserves and protected areas, as well as the benefits that can follow. Global Ocean Legacy is a project of The Pew Charitable Trusts and its partners. Target link: www.pewenvironment.org/globaloceanlegacy -
2:32Mexico: Dissident Teachers Hold Strike
Mexico: Dissident Teachers Hold StrikeMexico: Dissident Teachers Hold Strike
Mexico's dissident teachers' movement held a one-day national strike and took to the streets in mass protests yesterday against the government's educational reform. The teachers charge that the reform will erode labor rights and promote an educational model geared to satisfying corporate and business interests. In the face of threats by top government officials to fire teachers participating in the protests, the turnout was lower than expected. Clayton Conn reports from Mexico City. teleSUR http://multimedia.telesurtv.net/v/mexico-dissident-teachers-hold-strike/ -
9:19Reflections of Yucatán
Reflections of YucatánReflections of Yucatán
The Yucatán Peninsula, in southeastern Mexico, separates the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico, with the northern coastline on the Yucatán Channel. The peninsula lies east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a northwestern geographic partition separating the region of Central America from the rest of North America. The peninsula comprises the Mexican states of Yucatán, Campeche, and Quintana Roo; the northern part of the nation of Belize; and Guatemala's northern department of El Petén. The peninsula is the exposed portion of the larger Yucatán Platform, all of which is composed of carbonate and soluble rocks, being mostly limestone although dolomite and evaporites are also present at various depths. The whole of the Yucatán peninsula is an unconfined flat lying karst landscape. Sinkholes, locally called cenotes are widespread in the northern lowlands. According to the Alvarez hypothesis, the mass extinction of the dinosaurs at the transition from the Cretaceous (K) to the Tertiary (T) Periods (the K-T Boundary) 65 million years ago was caused by an asteroid impact somewhere in the greater Caribbean Basin. The deeply buried Chicxulub Crater is centered off the north coast of the peninsula near the town of Chicxulub. The now-famous "Ring of Cenotes" (visible in NASA imagery) outlines one of the shock-waves from this impact event in the rock of ~65 millions years of age, which lies more than 1 km below the modern ground surface near the centre, with the rock above the impact strata all being younger in age. The presence of the crater has been determined first on the surface from the Ring of Cenotes, but also by geophysical methods, and direct drilling with recovery of the drill cores. The Yucatán Peninsula comprises a significant proportion of the ancient Maya Lowlands (although the Maya culture extended south of the Yucatán Peninsula, through present Guatemala and into Honduras and highland Chiapas). There are many Maya archaeological sites throughout the peninsula; some of the better-known are Chichen Itza, Tulum and Uxmal.[2] Indigenous Maya and Mestizos of partial Maya descent make up a sizable portion of the region's population, and Mayan languages are widely spoken there. Riviera Maya, also known as the Mayan Riviera, is a tourism district following the coastal Highway 307 which parallels the Caribbean coastline of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, located on the eastern portion of the Yucatán Peninsula. This district historically started at the city of Playa del Carmen and ended at the village of Tulum, although the towns of Puerto Morelos situated to the north and between Playa del Carmen and Cancun as well as the town of Felipe Carrillo Puerto situated 40 kilometres to the south of Tulum are both currently being promoted as part of the Riviera Maya tourist corridor. Music used in the Video: LOS TRES REYES - SOMBRAS NADA MAS,Música De Antonio Zepeda -El Sueño- -Zona Arqueológica De Monte Albán,Musica Prehispanica Mexico-Tenochtitlan
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Freetown 50 Trailer
A short teaser of The Freetown 50, a challenging but not impossible mountain bike race held in Freetown, MA in September. This race features 50, 25, and 11 mile races in Freetown-Fall River State Forest, The Watuppa Reservation, and Copicut Woods which are all part of the Southeastern Massachusetts BioReserve. This rare course mixture of fire roads, tight single-track, rock gardens, and fast double-track. This type of course does not favor any particular type of rider, but it's supposed to be hard. http://www.freetown50.com/
published: 15 Nov 2013 -
Copicut Reservoir Walk with Green Futures Oct 13 2012
Everett Castro of Green Futures, along with Roger Garant, led a group of nine hikers on October 13, 2012 along Copicut Road in the Southeastern Massachusetts Bioreserve and then around the Copicut Reservoir. The hikers left from one of the many fishermen's parking areas along Copicut Road and hike the roughly five miles around the Reservoir. "The area around the Reservoir is normally closed to hikers," noted Castro, "but we got special permission for the walk from the Water Authority." The Reservoir was constructed in the early 1970s by damming the Copicut River to provide an additional water supply for the City of Fall River as well as Freetown, Westport and Tiverton. It has been open to fishing from the shore since 2009. Much of the Reservoir can be seen by walking along Copicut Road. Fo...
published: 14 Oct 2012 -
Maya Biosphere Reserve, Tikal, Tikal National Park, Guatemala, Central America, North America
The Maya Biosphere Reserve is a nature reserve in Guatemala managed by Guatemala's National Council of Protected Areas (CONAP). The Maya Biosphere Reserve covers a total area of 21,602 km², which is considerably larger than Yellowstone National Park. The park is home to a large number of species of fauna including the Jaguar, the Puma, the Ocelot, the Margay, spider monkeys, howler monkeys, tapirs, crocodiles, the Red Brocket and the White-tail deers, the Harpy Eagle, several hawk species, the Scarlet Macaw, fresh water turtles, etc. It is also rich in flora including mahogany, Ceiba, cedar, etc. The area ranges from wetlands, to low mountain ranges, and has several bodies of water, including lakes, rivers, streams and cenotes. The Reserve was created in 1990 to protect the largest area of...
published: 27 Jul 2011 -
Phumdis in the Loktak Lake
A floating paradised Loktak Lake covered with floating Phumdis. Phumdis are a series of floating islands, exclusive to the Loktak Lake in Manipur state, in northeastern India. They cover a substantial part of the lake area and are heterogeneous masses of vegetation, soil and organic matter, in different stages of decay. The largest single mass of phumdi is in the southeastern part of the lake, covering an area of 40 km2 (15.4 sq mi). This mass constitutes the world's largest floating park, named Keibul Lamjao National Park. The park was formed to preserve the endangered Eld's Deer subspecies, called Sangai in the Manipuri language, indigenous to this area. Phumdis are used by the local people for constructing their huts for fishing and other livelihood uses, and are inhabited by about 40...
published: 17 Dec 2013 -
Arménie 2011 : Haghbat & Sanahin, Patrimoine de l'Unesco
au nord du pays, se trouvent ses deux monastères tous deux situés dans un environnement bucolique, Haghbat fut le premier monument classé par l'Unesco "Patrimoine de l'Humanité", Sanahin a suivi, ce sont deux beaux exemples d'art religieux médiéval.
published: 07 Aug 2011 -
Ecuador puts a price on an environmental treasure
Ecuador's Yasuni National Park, a UNESCO world biosphere reserve, is also home to some 846 million barrels of untapped crude. To avoid drilling in the fragile region, President Rafael Correa is asking the international community to pay his country half of the amount they estimate the country would have earned on the oil, some 3.6 billion dollars. With one of the world's most biodiverse places at stake, the project's supporters insist the sum represents a worthwhile investment in the global environmental future. Duration: 02:03
published: 24 Dec 2010 -
From Easter Island to New Zealand: Ocean Conservation across Polynesia | Pew
Thousands of miles of ocean separate the islands that shape the Polynesian Triangle — anchored by New Zealand (Aotearoa) in the west, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) to the southeast, and Hawaii to the north. In April 2013, representatives from Easter Island and French Polynesia traveled to New Zealand to celebrate their cultural ties and mutual desire for ocean conservation. Along their journey across Aotearoa's North Island, they met with Maori leaders, scientists, government officials, tour operators and conservationists. They discussed the challenges toward creating marine reserves and protected areas, as well as the benefits that can follow. Global Ocean Legacy is a project of The Pew Charitable Trusts and its partners. Target link: www.pewenvironment.org/globaloceanlegacy
published: 21 Aug 2013 -
Mexico: Dissident Teachers Hold Strike
Mexico's dissident teachers' movement held a one-day national strike and took to the streets in mass protests yesterday against the government's educational reform. The teachers charge that the reform will erode labor rights and promote an educational model geared to satisfying corporate and business interests. In the face of threats by top government officials to fire teachers participating in the protests, the turnout was lower than expected. Clayton Conn reports from Mexico City. teleSUR http://multimedia.telesurtv.net/v/mexico-dissident-teachers-hold-strike/
published: 13 Oct 2015 -
Reflections of Yucatán
The Yucatán Peninsula, in southeastern Mexico, separates the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico, with the northern coastline on the Yucatán Channel. The peninsula lies east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a northwestern geographic partition separating the region of Central America from the rest of North America. The peninsula comprises the Mexican states of Yucatán, Campeche, and Quintana Roo; the northern part of the nation of Belize; and Guatemala's northern department of El Petén. The peninsula is the exposed portion of the larger Yucatán Platform, all of which is composed of carbonate and soluble rocks, being mostly limestone although dolomite and evaporites are also present at various depths. The whole of the Yucatán peninsula is an unconfined flat lying karst landscape. Sinkholes...
published: 29 Nov 2010
Secret Stash Trail
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- Duration: 7:59
- Updated: 20 Jan 2015
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Freetown 50 Trailer
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- Duration: 1:07
- Updated: 15 Nov 2013
- views: 238
A short teaser of The Freetown 50, a challenging but not impossible mountain bike race held in Freetown, MA in September. This race features 50, 25, and 11 mil...
A short teaser of The Freetown 50, a challenging but not impossible mountain bike race held in Freetown, MA in September. This race features 50, 25, and 11 mile races in Freetown-Fall River State Forest, The Watuppa Reservation, and Copicut Woods which are all part of the Southeastern Massachusetts BioReserve. This rare course mixture of fire roads, tight single-track, rock gardens, and fast double-track. This type of course does not favor any particular type of rider, but it's supposed to be hard.
http://www.freetown50.com/
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A short teaser of The Freetown 50, a challenging but not impossible mountain bike race held in Freetown, MA in September. This race features 50, 25, and 11 mile races in Freetown-Fall River State Forest, The Watuppa Reservation, and Copicut Woods which are all part of the Southeastern Massachusetts BioReserve. This rare course mixture of fire roads, tight single-track, rock gardens, and fast double-track. This type of course does not favor any particular type of rider, but it's supposed to be hard.
http://www.freetown50.com/
- published: 15 Nov 2013
- views: 238
Copicut Reservoir Walk with Green Futures Oct 13 2012
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- Duration: 12:20
- Updated: 14 Oct 2012
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Everett Castro of Green Futures, along with Roger Garant, led a group of nine hikers on October 13, 2012 along Copicut Road in the Southeastern Massachusetts Bi...
Everett Castro of Green Futures, along with Roger Garant, led a group of nine hikers on October 13, 2012 along Copicut Road in the Southeastern Massachusetts Bioreserve and then around the Copicut Reservoir. The hikers left from one of the many fishermen's parking areas along Copicut Road and hike the roughly five miles around the Reservoir. "The area around the Reservoir is normally closed to hikers," noted Castro, "but we got special permission for the walk from the Water Authority." The Reservoir was constructed in the early 1970s by damming the Copicut River to provide an additional water supply for the City of Fall River as well as Freetown, Westport and Tiverton. It has been open to fishing from the shore since 2009. Much of the Reservoir can be seen by walking along Copicut Road. For more information, go to www.GreenFutures.org or to www.HealthyCityFallRiver.org
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Everett Castro of Green Futures, along with Roger Garant, led a group of nine hikers on October 13, 2012 along Copicut Road in the Southeastern Massachusetts Bioreserve and then around the Copicut Reservoir. The hikers left from one of the many fishermen's parking areas along Copicut Road and hike the roughly five miles around the Reservoir. "The area around the Reservoir is normally closed to hikers," noted Castro, "but we got special permission for the walk from the Water Authority." The Reservoir was constructed in the early 1970s by damming the Copicut River to provide an additional water supply for the City of Fall River as well as Freetown, Westport and Tiverton. It has been open to fishing from the shore since 2009. Much of the Reservoir can be seen by walking along Copicut Road. For more information, go to www.GreenFutures.org or to www.HealthyCityFallRiver.org
- published: 14 Oct 2012
- views: 150
Maya Biosphere Reserve, Tikal, Tikal National Park, Guatemala, Central America, North America
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- Duration: 0:16
- Updated: 27 Jul 2011
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The Maya Biosphere Reserve is a nature reserve in Guatemala managed by Guatemala's National Council of Protected Areas (CONAP). The Maya Biosphere Reserve cover...
The Maya Biosphere Reserve is a nature reserve in Guatemala managed by Guatemala's National Council of Protected Areas (CONAP). The Maya Biosphere Reserve covers a total area of 21,602 km², which is considerably larger than Yellowstone National Park. The park is home to a large number of species of fauna including the Jaguar, the Puma, the Ocelot, the Margay, spider monkeys, howler monkeys, tapirs, crocodiles, the Red Brocket and the White-tail deers, the Harpy Eagle, several hawk species, the Scarlet Macaw, fresh water turtles, etc. It is also rich in flora including mahogany, Ceiba, cedar, etc. The area ranges from wetlands, to low mountain ranges, and has several bodies of water, including lakes, rivers, streams and cenotes. The Reserve was created in 1990 to protect the largest area of tropical forest remaining in Central America. The biosphere reserve model, implemented by UNESCO, seeks to promote a balance between human activities and the biosphere by including sustainable economic development in conservation planning. The Maya Biosphere Reserve is home to a large concentration of ancient Maya cities, many of which are under excavation. Tikal is the most famous of these, attracting about 120,000 to 180,000 visitors per year. Tens of other sites exist in varying states of excavation.
The Mirador Basin, in the northern part of the Reserve, contains numerous interconnected Maya cities. The area was named by Dr. Richard Hansen, Director of the Mirador Basin Project and archaeologist at El Mirador, the largest of the sites, dating from the preclassic Maya period. Other cities in the region include El Tintal, Nakbe, and Wakna. Ecosystems in Maya Biosphere Reserve face numerous threats from human activities, including illegal logging, farming, and ranching in protected areas, as well as drug trafficking, poaching and looting of Maya artefacts. The forest area of the Reserve has shrunk by 13 percent over the last 21 years according to the non-profit organization Rainforest Alliance, which has several community development projects in the region. Some of the most extreme deforestation has occurred in the Laguna del Tigre and Sierra del Lancandon National Parks. Resources are scarce for the protection of the Reserve by guards and park rangers, and the area is often considered a lawless wilderness. Several local organizations, including ProPetén and ACOFOP have made significant contributions to local management of natural and cultural resources. The Maya Biosphere Reserve is divided into several zones, each with a different protected status. The core zones are formed by several national parks and biotopes (wildlife preserves), in which no human settlement, logging, or extraction of resources are allowed. These include Laguna del Tigre National Park, Sierra del Lacandón National Park, Mirador-Río Azul National Park, Tikal National Park, El Zotz Biotope, Naachtún-Dos Lagunas Biotope, Cerro Cahuí Biotope, Laguna del Tigre Biotope, and El Pilar Natural Monument. The core zones cover an area of 7670 km², which is 36% of the Maya Biosphere Reserve. In multiple-use zones (8484.40 km²; 40%) and the buffer zone (4975 km²; 24%), which comprises the southern portion of the Reserve, certain regulated economic activities are allowed. These include the sustainable harvesting of wood and traditional forest products which include chicle, a sap used in the manufacture of chewing gum, xate, an ornamental palm plant used in floral arrangements, and pimenta or allspice. The Guatemalan government has granted forest concessions to local communities, giving them the right to practice sustainable forestry in delineated areas for 25 years. International monitoring groups such as the Forest Stewardship Council certify logging activities as sustainable. In 2005, 1.1 million acres (4500 km²) were certified. In other parts of the multiple-use zone, farming communities have been granted the right to continue farming in so-called agricultural polygons. On July 16, 2008, Guatemalan president Alvaro Colom announced the Cuatro Balam plan to develop mass ecotourism around archaeological sites in the Maya Biosphere Reserve. Plan objectives include the development of tourist infrastructure, the installation of a small tourist train from the town of Carmelita to El Mirador, and the creation of a new university for the study of regional biodiversity, genetics, and Maya studies.
wn.com/Maya Biosphere Reserve, Tikal, Tikal National Park, Guatemala, Central America, North America
The Maya Biosphere Reserve is a nature reserve in Guatemala managed by Guatemala's National Council of Protected Areas (CONAP). The Maya Biosphere Reserve covers a total area of 21,602 km², which is considerably larger than Yellowstone National Park. The park is home to a large number of species of fauna including the Jaguar, the Puma, the Ocelot, the Margay, spider monkeys, howler monkeys, tapirs, crocodiles, the Red Brocket and the White-tail deers, the Harpy Eagle, several hawk species, the Scarlet Macaw, fresh water turtles, etc. It is also rich in flora including mahogany, Ceiba, cedar, etc. The area ranges from wetlands, to low mountain ranges, and has several bodies of water, including lakes, rivers, streams and cenotes. The Reserve was created in 1990 to protect the largest area of tropical forest remaining in Central America. The biosphere reserve model, implemented by UNESCO, seeks to promote a balance between human activities and the biosphere by including sustainable economic development in conservation planning. The Maya Biosphere Reserve is home to a large concentration of ancient Maya cities, many of which are under excavation. Tikal is the most famous of these, attracting about 120,000 to 180,000 visitors per year. Tens of other sites exist in varying states of excavation.
The Mirador Basin, in the northern part of the Reserve, contains numerous interconnected Maya cities. The area was named by Dr. Richard Hansen, Director of the Mirador Basin Project and archaeologist at El Mirador, the largest of the sites, dating from the preclassic Maya period. Other cities in the region include El Tintal, Nakbe, and Wakna. Ecosystems in Maya Biosphere Reserve face numerous threats from human activities, including illegal logging, farming, and ranching in protected areas, as well as drug trafficking, poaching and looting of Maya artefacts. The forest area of the Reserve has shrunk by 13 percent over the last 21 years according to the non-profit organization Rainforest Alliance, which has several community development projects in the region. Some of the most extreme deforestation has occurred in the Laguna del Tigre and Sierra del Lancandon National Parks. Resources are scarce for the protection of the Reserve by guards and park rangers, and the area is often considered a lawless wilderness. Several local organizations, including ProPetén and ACOFOP have made significant contributions to local management of natural and cultural resources. The Maya Biosphere Reserve is divided into several zones, each with a different protected status. The core zones are formed by several national parks and biotopes (wildlife preserves), in which no human settlement, logging, or extraction of resources are allowed. These include Laguna del Tigre National Park, Sierra del Lacandón National Park, Mirador-Río Azul National Park, Tikal National Park, El Zotz Biotope, Naachtún-Dos Lagunas Biotope, Cerro Cahuí Biotope, Laguna del Tigre Biotope, and El Pilar Natural Monument. The core zones cover an area of 7670 km², which is 36% of the Maya Biosphere Reserve. In multiple-use zones (8484.40 km²; 40%) and the buffer zone (4975 km²; 24%), which comprises the southern portion of the Reserve, certain regulated economic activities are allowed. These include the sustainable harvesting of wood and traditional forest products which include chicle, a sap used in the manufacture of chewing gum, xate, an ornamental palm plant used in floral arrangements, and pimenta or allspice. The Guatemalan government has granted forest concessions to local communities, giving them the right to practice sustainable forestry in delineated areas for 25 years. International monitoring groups such as the Forest Stewardship Council certify logging activities as sustainable. In 2005, 1.1 million acres (4500 km²) were certified. In other parts of the multiple-use zone, farming communities have been granted the right to continue farming in so-called agricultural polygons. On July 16, 2008, Guatemalan president Alvaro Colom announced the Cuatro Balam plan to develop mass ecotourism around archaeological sites in the Maya Biosphere Reserve. Plan objectives include the development of tourist infrastructure, the installation of a small tourist train from the town of Carmelita to El Mirador, and the creation of a new university for the study of regional biodiversity, genetics, and Maya studies.
- published: 27 Jul 2011
- views: 434
Phumdis in the Loktak Lake
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- Duration: 1:08
- Updated: 17 Dec 2013
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A floating paradised Loktak Lake covered with floating Phumdis.
Phumdis are a series of floating islands, exclusive to the Loktak Lake in Manipur state, in nor...
A floating paradised Loktak Lake covered with floating Phumdis.
Phumdis are a series of floating islands, exclusive to the Loktak Lake in Manipur state, in northeastern India. They cover a substantial part of the lake area and are heterogeneous masses of vegetation, soil and organic matter, in different stages of decay. The largest single mass of phumdi is in the southeastern part of the lake, covering an area of 40 km2 (15.4 sq mi). This mass constitutes the world's largest floating park, named Keibul Lamjao National Park. The park was formed to preserve the endangered Eld's Deer subspecies, called Sangai in the Manipuri language, indigenous to this area.
Phumdis are used by the local people for constructing their huts for fishing and other livelihood uses, and are inhabited by about 4000 people. Athapums are artificial circular phumdis, built by the villagers as enclosures for fish farming; aquaculture has caused proliferation of the phumdis in the lake.
Loktak Lake, (Manipuri Mayek the largest freshwater (sweet) lake in India, also called the only Floating lake in the world due to the floating phumdis (heterogeneous mass of vegetation, soil, and organic matters at various stages of decomposition) on it, is located near Moirang in Manipur state, India. The etymology of Loktak is Lok "stream" and tak "the end". The Keibul Lamjao National Park, which is the last natural refuge of the endangered sangai or Manipur brow-antlered deer (Cervus eldi eldi), one of three subspecies of Eld's Deer, covering an area of 40 km2 (15 sq mi), is situated in the southeastern shores of this lake and is the largest of all the phumdis in the lake.
This ancient lake plays an important role in the economy of Manipur. It serves as a source of water for hydropower generation, irrigation and drinking water supply. The lake is also a source of livelihood for the rural fisherman who live in the surrounding areas and on phumdis, also known as "phumshongs". Human activity has led to severe pressure on the lake ecosystem. 55 rural and urban hamlets around the lake have a population of about 100,000 people.
Source :- Wikipedia
This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of tens of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM / SR 1080i High Definition, Alexa, SR, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Reach us at rupindang @ gmail . com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.
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A floating paradised Loktak Lake covered with floating Phumdis.
Phumdis are a series of floating islands, exclusive to the Loktak Lake in Manipur state, in northeastern India. They cover a substantial part of the lake area and are heterogeneous masses of vegetation, soil and organic matter, in different stages of decay. The largest single mass of phumdi is in the southeastern part of the lake, covering an area of 40 km2 (15.4 sq mi). This mass constitutes the world's largest floating park, named Keibul Lamjao National Park. The park was formed to preserve the endangered Eld's Deer subspecies, called Sangai in the Manipuri language, indigenous to this area.
Phumdis are used by the local people for constructing their huts for fishing and other livelihood uses, and are inhabited by about 4000 people. Athapums are artificial circular phumdis, built by the villagers as enclosures for fish farming; aquaculture has caused proliferation of the phumdis in the lake.
Loktak Lake, (Manipuri Mayek the largest freshwater (sweet) lake in India, also called the only Floating lake in the world due to the floating phumdis (heterogeneous mass of vegetation, soil, and organic matters at various stages of decomposition) on it, is located near Moirang in Manipur state, India. The etymology of Loktak is Lok "stream" and tak "the end". The Keibul Lamjao National Park, which is the last natural refuge of the endangered sangai or Manipur brow-antlered deer (Cervus eldi eldi), one of three subspecies of Eld's Deer, covering an area of 40 km2 (15 sq mi), is situated in the southeastern shores of this lake and is the largest of all the phumdis in the lake.
This ancient lake plays an important role in the economy of Manipur. It serves as a source of water for hydropower generation, irrigation and drinking water supply. The lake is also a source of livelihood for the rural fisherman who live in the surrounding areas and on phumdis, also known as "phumshongs". Human activity has led to severe pressure on the lake ecosystem. 55 rural and urban hamlets around the lake have a population of about 100,000 people.
Source :- Wikipedia
This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of tens of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM / SR 1080i High Definition, Alexa, SR, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Reach us at rupindang @ gmail . com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.
- published: 17 Dec 2013
- views: 113
Arménie 2011 : Haghbat & Sanahin, Patrimoine de l'Unesco
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- Duration: 10:57
- Updated: 07 Aug 2011
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au nord du pays, se trouvent ses deux monastères tous deux situés dans un environnement bucolique, Haghbat fut le premier monument classé par l'Unesco "Patrimoi...
au nord du pays, se trouvent ses deux monastères tous deux situés dans un environnement bucolique, Haghbat fut le premier monument classé par l'Unesco "Patrimoine de l'Humanité", Sanahin a suivi, ce sont deux beaux exemples d'art religieux médiéval.
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Ecuador puts a price on an environmental treasure
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- Duration: 2:04
- Updated: 24 Dec 2010
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Ecuador's Yasuni National Park, a UNESCO world biosphere reserve, is also home to some 846 million barrels of untapped crude. To avoid drilling in the fragile r...
Ecuador's Yasuni National Park, a UNESCO world biosphere reserve, is also home to some 846 million barrels of untapped crude. To avoid drilling in the fragile region, President Rafael Correa is asking the international community to pay his country half of the amount they estimate the country would have earned on the oil, some 3.6 billion dollars. With one of the world's most biodiverse places at stake, the project's supporters insist the sum represents a worthwhile investment in the global environmental future. Duration: 02:03
wn.com/Ecuador Puts A Price On An Environmental Treasure
Ecuador's Yasuni National Park, a UNESCO world biosphere reserve, is also home to some 846 million barrels of untapped crude. To avoid drilling in the fragile region, President Rafael Correa is asking the international community to pay his country half of the amount they estimate the country would have earned on the oil, some 3.6 billion dollars. With one of the world's most biodiverse places at stake, the project's supporters insist the sum represents a worthwhile investment in the global environmental future. Duration: 02:03
- published: 24 Dec 2010
- views: 308
From Easter Island to New Zealand: Ocean Conservation across Polynesia | Pew
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- Duration: 8:09
- Updated: 21 Aug 2013
- views: 1002
Thousands of miles of ocean separate the islands that shape the Polynesian Triangle — anchored by New Zealand (Aotearoa) in the west, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) t...
Thousands of miles of ocean separate the islands that shape the Polynesian Triangle — anchored by New Zealand (Aotearoa) in the west, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) to the southeast, and Hawaii to the north.
In April 2013, representatives from Easter Island and French Polynesia traveled to New Zealand to celebrate their cultural ties and mutual desire for ocean conservation.
Along their journey across Aotearoa's North Island, they met with Maori leaders, scientists, government officials, tour operators and conservationists. They discussed the challenges toward creating marine reserves and protected areas, as well as the benefits that can follow.
Global Ocean Legacy is a project of The Pew Charitable Trusts and its partners.
Target link: www.pewenvironment.org/globaloceanlegacy
wn.com/From Easter Island To New Zealand Ocean Conservation Across Polynesia | Pew
Thousands of miles of ocean separate the islands that shape the Polynesian Triangle — anchored by New Zealand (Aotearoa) in the west, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) to the southeast, and Hawaii to the north.
In April 2013, representatives from Easter Island and French Polynesia traveled to New Zealand to celebrate their cultural ties and mutual desire for ocean conservation.
Along their journey across Aotearoa's North Island, they met with Maori leaders, scientists, government officials, tour operators and conservationists. They discussed the challenges toward creating marine reserves and protected areas, as well as the benefits that can follow.
Global Ocean Legacy is a project of The Pew Charitable Trusts and its partners.
Target link: www.pewenvironment.org/globaloceanlegacy
- published: 21 Aug 2013
- views: 1002
Mexico: Dissident Teachers Hold Strike
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- Duration: 2:32
- Updated: 13 Oct 2015
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Mexico's dissident teachers' movement held a one-day national strike and took to the streets in mass protests yesterday against the government's educational ref...
Mexico's dissident teachers' movement held a one-day national strike and took to the streets in mass protests yesterday against the government's educational reform. The teachers charge that the reform will erode labor rights and promote an educational model geared to satisfying corporate and business interests. In the face of threats by top government officials to fire teachers participating in the protests, the turnout was lower than expected. Clayton Conn reports from Mexico City. teleSUR http://multimedia.telesurtv.net/v/mexico-dissident-teachers-hold-strike/
wn.com/Mexico Dissident Teachers Hold Strike
Mexico's dissident teachers' movement held a one-day national strike and took to the streets in mass protests yesterday against the government's educational reform. The teachers charge that the reform will erode labor rights and promote an educational model geared to satisfying corporate and business interests. In the face of threats by top government officials to fire teachers participating in the protests, the turnout was lower than expected. Clayton Conn reports from Mexico City. teleSUR http://multimedia.telesurtv.net/v/mexico-dissident-teachers-hold-strike/
- published: 13 Oct 2015
- views: 23
Reflections of Yucatán
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- Duration: 9:19
- Updated: 29 Nov 2010
- views: 5554
The Yucatán Peninsula, in southeastern Mexico, separates the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico, with the northern coastline on the Yucatán Channel. The peni...
The Yucatán Peninsula, in southeastern Mexico, separates the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico, with the northern coastline on the Yucatán Channel. The peninsula lies east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a northwestern geographic partition separating the region of Central America from the rest of North America.
The peninsula comprises the Mexican states of Yucatán, Campeche, and Quintana Roo; the northern part of the nation of Belize; and Guatemala's northern department of El Petén.
The peninsula is the exposed portion of the larger Yucatán Platform, all of which is composed of carbonate and soluble rocks, being mostly limestone although dolomite and evaporites are also present at various depths. The whole of the Yucatán peninsula is an unconfined flat lying karst landscape. Sinkholes, locally called cenotes are widespread in the northern lowlands.
According to the Alvarez hypothesis, the mass extinction of the dinosaurs at the transition from the Cretaceous (K) to the Tertiary (T) Periods (the K-T Boundary) 65 million years ago was caused by an asteroid impact somewhere in the greater Caribbean Basin. The deeply buried Chicxulub Crater is centered off the north coast of the peninsula near the town of Chicxulub. The now-famous "Ring of Cenotes" (visible in NASA imagery) outlines one of the shock-waves from this impact event in the rock of ~65 millions years of age, which lies more than 1 km below the modern ground surface near the centre, with the rock above the impact strata all being younger in age. The presence of the crater has been determined first on the surface from the Ring of Cenotes, but also by geophysical methods, and direct drilling with recovery of the drill cores.
The Yucatán Peninsula comprises a significant proportion of the ancient Maya Lowlands (although the Maya culture extended south of the Yucatán Peninsula, through present Guatemala and into Honduras and highland Chiapas). There are many Maya archaeological sites throughout the peninsula; some of the better-known are Chichen Itza, Tulum and Uxmal.[2] Indigenous Maya and Mestizos of partial Maya descent make up a sizable portion of the region's population, and Mayan languages are widely spoken there.
Riviera Maya, also known as the Mayan Riviera, is a tourism district following the coastal Highway 307 which parallels the Caribbean coastline of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, located on the eastern portion of the Yucatán Peninsula. This district historically started at the city of Playa del Carmen and ended at the village of Tulum, although the towns of Puerto Morelos situated to the north and between Playa del Carmen and Cancun as well as the town of Felipe Carrillo Puerto situated 40 kilometres to the south of Tulum are both currently being promoted as part of the Riviera Maya tourist corridor.
Music used in the Video: LOS TRES REYES - SOMBRAS NADA MAS,Música De Antonio Zepeda -El Sueño- -Zona Arqueológica De Monte Albán,Musica Prehispanica Mexico-Tenochtitlan
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The Yucatán Peninsula, in southeastern Mexico, separates the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico, with the northern coastline on the Yucatán Channel. The peninsula lies east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a northwestern geographic partition separating the region of Central America from the rest of North America.
The peninsula comprises the Mexican states of Yucatán, Campeche, and Quintana Roo; the northern part of the nation of Belize; and Guatemala's northern department of El Petén.
The peninsula is the exposed portion of the larger Yucatán Platform, all of which is composed of carbonate and soluble rocks, being mostly limestone although dolomite and evaporites are also present at various depths. The whole of the Yucatán peninsula is an unconfined flat lying karst landscape. Sinkholes, locally called cenotes are widespread in the northern lowlands.
According to the Alvarez hypothesis, the mass extinction of the dinosaurs at the transition from the Cretaceous (K) to the Tertiary (T) Periods (the K-T Boundary) 65 million years ago was caused by an asteroid impact somewhere in the greater Caribbean Basin. The deeply buried Chicxulub Crater is centered off the north coast of the peninsula near the town of Chicxulub. The now-famous "Ring of Cenotes" (visible in NASA imagery) outlines one of the shock-waves from this impact event in the rock of ~65 millions years of age, which lies more than 1 km below the modern ground surface near the centre, with the rock above the impact strata all being younger in age. The presence of the crater has been determined first on the surface from the Ring of Cenotes, but also by geophysical methods, and direct drilling with recovery of the drill cores.
The Yucatán Peninsula comprises a significant proportion of the ancient Maya Lowlands (although the Maya culture extended south of the Yucatán Peninsula, through present Guatemala and into Honduras and highland Chiapas). There are many Maya archaeological sites throughout the peninsula; some of the better-known are Chichen Itza, Tulum and Uxmal.[2] Indigenous Maya and Mestizos of partial Maya descent make up a sizable portion of the region's population, and Mayan languages are widely spoken there.
Riviera Maya, also known as the Mayan Riviera, is a tourism district following the coastal Highway 307 which parallels the Caribbean coastline of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, located on the eastern portion of the Yucatán Peninsula. This district historically started at the city of Playa del Carmen and ended at the village of Tulum, although the towns of Puerto Morelos situated to the north and between Playa del Carmen and Cancun as well as the town of Felipe Carrillo Puerto situated 40 kilometres to the south of Tulum are both currently being promoted as part of the Riviera Maya tourist corridor.
Music used in the Video: LOS TRES REYES - SOMBRAS NADA MAS,Música De Antonio Zepeda -El Sueño- -Zona Arqueológica De Monte Albán,Musica Prehispanica Mexico-Tenochtitlan
- published: 29 Nov 2010
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Secret Stash Trail
Running between CH7 and CH2 in the SE Mass. Bioreserve.
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Freetown 50 Trailer
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Copicut Reservoir Walk with Green Futures Oct 13 2012
Everett Castro of Green Futures, along with Roger Garant, led a group of nine hikers on Oc...
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Maya Biosphere Reserve, Tikal, Tikal National Park, Guatemala, Central America, North America
The Maya Biosphere Reserve is a nature reserve in Guatemala managed by Guatemala's Nationa...
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Phumdis in the Loktak Lake
A floating paradised Loktak Lake covered with floating Phumdis.
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Arménie 2011 : Haghbat & Sanahin, Patrimoine de l'Unesco
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Ecuador puts a price on an environmental treasure
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From Easter Island to New Zealand: Ocean Conservation across Polynesia | Pew
Thousands of miles of ocean separate the islands that shape the Polynesian Triangle — anch...
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Mexico: Dissident Teachers Hold Strike
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Reflections of Yucatán
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But Did Clinton And Trump Reach The Undecided Voters?
Edit Community news 10 Oct 2016
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. It’s definitely the year of the undecided voter. To be sure, most Democratic and Republican faithful have already made up their minds. . But for the doubt-tolerant voters, those who refuse to cast aside their uneasy thoughts and feelings over two extremely flawed and damaged candidates, they are the ones that will still need to be persuaded. ... Mining the Undecided Voter’s Mind....
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US Navy ship targeted in failed missile attack from Yemen: US
Edit The Himalayan 10 Oct 2016
A US Navy guided missile destroyer was targeted on Sunday in a failed missile attack from territory in Yemen controlled by Iran-aligned Houthi rebels, a US military spokesman told Reuters, saying the two missiles failed to hit the ship. “USS Mason detected two inbound missiles over a 60-minute period while in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen ... The post US Navy ship targeted in failed missile attack from Yemen ... ....
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US Presidential debate: Clinton wins second head-to-head against Trump
Edit Belfast Telegraph 10 Oct 2016
Hillary Clinton has won the second presidential debate according to voters, the first opinion poll has found. Share US Presidential debate. Clinton wins second head-to-head against Trump. Independent.ie. Hillary Clinton has won the second presidential debate according to voters, the first opinion poll has found ... http.//www.independent.ie/incoming/article35084916.ece/bfebc/AUTOCROP/h342/US%20Electio%209%20Read-Only.jpg. Go To ... She said....
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Live: Second US Presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton
Edit The Hindu 10 Oct 2016
The second edition of the three presidential debates to take place in St. Louis will cap one of the most extraordinary weekends in American political history, CNN commented and went on to say that Trump will have 90 minutes Sunday night to save his presidential campaign. Republicans - including vice presidential nominee Mike Pence — are criticising Mr....
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Russia tensions with US 'more dangerous' than during the Cold War
Edit The Independent 09 Oct 2016
Mounting tensions between the US and Russia have led to a global political situation which is “more dangerous” than the Cold War, the German foreign minister has said ... Read more....
SSRIs and Mass Killings: must-see mini-documentary you might have missed
Edit Natural News 10 Oct 2016Mass Effect: Andromeda Release Date Seemingly Given Away
Edit IGN Insider 10 Oct 2016
An Amazon listing for Dark Horse Comics' Art of Mass Effect. Andromeda book appears to have revealed the release date for Bioware's latest sci-fi epic - March 21, 2017. We already knew that this was the book's release date, but the pre-order listing's blurb states "Dark Horse will release The Art of Mass Effect. Andromeda simultaneously with the game!". Continue reading… ... ....
Has a Dark Horse leaked the Mass Effect: Andromeda release date?
Edit Digital Spy 10 Oct 2016
An Amazon listing for the game's art book may have just leaked the Mass Effect ... The reputed comic book publisher Dark Horse Comics is to release The Art of Mass Effect ... "Dark Horse will release The Art of Mass Effect ... which both BioWare and EA have established as a day of Mass Effect celebration....
Mass Effect: Andromeda Actual Release Date Possibly Leaked By Art Book
Edit ThisGenGaming 10 Oct 2016
Dark Horse comics is making the art book for Mass Effect Andromeda, titled The Art of Mass Effect ... The book has a release date of March 21, 2017 and the accompanying text reads, “Dark Horse will release The Art of Mass Effect ... Charlie Oakley ... Business Inquries ... ....
Hurricane Matthew toll in Haiti at 1,000, buries dead in mass graves
Edit Reuters 10 Oct 2016
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti started burying some of its dead in mass graves in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, a government official said on Sunday, as cholera spread in the devastated southwest and the death toll from the storm rose to 1,000 people. ....
Hurricane Matthew Toll in Haiti Rises to 1,000, Dead Buried in Mass Graves
Edit Jakarta Globe 10 Oct 2016
Haiti started burying some of its dead in mass graves in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, a government official said on Sunday (09/10), as cholera spread in the devastated southwest and the death toll from the storm rose to 1,000 people ... ....
The Brutality of Mass Incarceration; Public Housing in America
Edit Sputnik 10 Oct 2016
An alarming prison murder highlights America's mass incarceration crisis; Failure of Public Housing in America ... ....
Hurricane Matthew Toll In Haiti Rises To 1,000, Dead Buried In Mass Grave
Edit NDTV 10 Oct 2016
Haiti started burying some of its dead in mass graves in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, a government official said on Sunday, as cholera spread in the devastated southwest and the death toll from the... ....
PROMAXION MASS SPECTROMETER Proven Accurate and Effective in Determining Flare Gas Heat Values (Ametek Inc)
Edit Public Technologies 10 Oct 2016
PROMAXION MASS SPECTROMETER PROVEN ACCURATE AND EFFECTIVE IN DETERMINING FLARE GAS HEAT VALUES ... Among them is mass spectrometry as utilized by the ProMaxion quadrupole process mass spectrometer from AMETEK Process Instruments ... By modifying the standard process mass spectrometry method of analysis slightly, the ProMaxion provided fast and accurate BTU content measurement even when confronted with a widely changing flare gas stream....
No, Trump, Canadians do not flee en masse for US health care
Edit Vox 10 Oct 2016
Canada made a rare appearance in a US presidential debate Sunday when Donald Trump accused Hillary Clinton of wanting to turn America’s system into a "catastrophic" single-payer health system like Canada’s ... This idea is often floated by critics of single-payer systems like Canada’s on both sides of the border ... Canadians are not fleeing en masse to the US seeking medical care ... Incidental Economist ... ....
Swinney urged to act after pupils punished over mass
Edit Scotsman 10 Oct 2016
Humanist Society Scotland is writing to Education Secretary John Swinney today asking him to intervene personally after reports that up to 50 non-Catholic pupils were punished for refusing to attend a religious service at a Catholic secondary school. The service at Taylor High School in New Stevenston, Motherwell, was a Patron's Day mass with the Bishop of Motherwell, Joseph Toal, as its principal celebrant ... Mr MacRae added ... ....
Swinney asked to step in after school Mass row
Edit Scotsman 10 Oct 2016
Humanist Society Scotland are writing to Education Secretary John Swinney today asking him to intervene personally after reports that up to 50 non-Catholic pupils were punished for refusing to attend a religious service at a Catholic secondary school. The service at Taylor High School in New Stevenston, Motherwell was a Patron's Day Mass with the Bishop of Motherwell, Joseph Toal, as its principal celebrant ... Mr MacRae added ... ....
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