AUB-IBSAR Community Tree Planting to Commence this Month.Summary: 3,000 Lebanese native trees will be brought from AUB's farm in the Beqaa (AREC AREC Agricultural and Resource Economics AREC Alabama Real Estate Commission AREC Amateur Radio Emergency Communications AREC Association of Research Ethics Committees (UK) AREC Agricultural Research & Extension Center ) to a central village location where trees will then be distributed to other nearby villages. Approximately 10 villages in the Al-Shouf region will receive Lebanese natives ranging from wild almonds and apples, to crape myrtles crape myrtle: see loosestrife. crape myrtle Shrub (Lagerstroemia indica) of the loosestrife family, native to China and other tropical and subtropical countries and widely grown in warm regions for its flowers. , oaks, pines, and, of course, cedars. The trees will be planted with the help and cooperation of the municipalities that have agreed to care for them as they establish in their new homes. AUB-IBSAR Community Tree Planting to Commence this Month On Wednesday, 19th of November, AUB-IBSAR will launch its community tree planting for the 2008-2009 planting season starting the Chouf region. 3,000 Lebanese native trees will be brought from AUB's farm in the Beqaa (AREC) to a central village location where trees will then be distributed to other nearby villages. Approximately 10 villages in the Al-Shouf region will receive Lebanese natives ranging from wild almonds and apples, to crape myrtles, oaks, pines, and, of course, cedars. The trees will be planted with the help and cooperation of the municipalities that have agreed to care for them as they establish in their new homes. Team leaders consisting of AUB-IBSAR staff and volunteers will lead small groups of volunteers in planting areas within villages. Local community members from all ages and facets of life are expected to pitch in and plant trees within their own neighborhoods. Community participation is essential for biodiversity biodiversity: see biological diversity. biodiversity Quantity of plant and animal species found in a given environment. Sometimes habitat diversity (the variety of places where organisms live) and genetic diversity (the variety of traits expressed conservation according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. IBSAR's vision, because without local participation, reforestation Reforestation The reestablishment of forest cover either naturally or artificially. Given enough time, natural regeneration will usually occur in areas where temperatures and rainfall are adequate and when grazing and wildfires are not too frequent. initiatives will not be as successful and enduring. The planting of the trees in the Al-Shouf villages was made possible by donations made by Arab Reinsurance The contract made between an insurance company and a third party to protect the insurance company from losses. The contract provides for the third party to pay for the loss sustained by the insurance company when the company makes a payment on the original contract. whose philanthropic chairman showed great interests in promoting community-based conservation Community-based conservation is a response to older conservation movements that emerged in the 1980s through escalating protests and subsequent dialogue with local communities affected by international attempts to protect the biodiversity of the earth. projects. Following the Al-Shouf planting, IBSAR IBSAR Institute of Business Studies and Research (India) will transport another 3,000 trees to the Akkar region to be allocated for planting in about a dozen villages there. This particular region is home to some of the most impoverished and marginalized communities who are in dire need of support. We expect the youth in these villages to turn out in large numbers and participate in the tree planting. IBSAR recently hosted a biodiversity day camp in Akkar late August (http://www.ibsar.org/activities/landscape/Seeds_of_hope/Camp_Akkar.php). The youth from this region were ecstatic with the activities presented to them by IBSAR staff and volunteers. The objective was to prepare them with knowledge regarding identification and various uses of native trees before they begin planting tomorrow's trees. The 'Seeds of Hope, Trees for Tomorrow' campaign is aimed at mobilizing mobilizing, v 1. freeing or making loose and able to move. 2. observing any ongoing movements in a client's body, whether small or large, assisted or not, that identify strengths and weaknesses, as well as the client's physical and local communities to participate in a nationwide municipal reforestation project. Over 100 villages will eventually have 50,000 native trees from over two dozen species by 2010 in order to preserve the seed stock for future long-term community-based reforestation schemes. The next phase (2010 -- 2015) will include constructing cooperative native plant nurseries so that each village will have the ability to take charge of their own site-specific reforestation and land rehabilitation Land rehabilitation is the process of returning the land in a given area to some degree of its former self, after some process (business, industry, natural disaster etc.) has damaged it. program. 2008 Al Bawaba (www.albawaba.com) 2008 Al Bawaba (Albawaba.com) Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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