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The African Manatee is a member of the Trichechidae; a sirenian, mermaid-like sea cow that can grow up to 3 meters and weigh 500 kilograms. Wetlands International is calling for tougher protection measures to ensure the survival of this endangered species.
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This video presents the work of Wetlands International Africa in the Sustainable Coastal Zone Management in Sierra Leone, where together with the government and communities is focused on the Establishment of Marine Protected Area in the Yawri Bay and developed sustainable, alternative livelihood options to reduce over-fishing.
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This video tells the story how biodiversity, livelihoods and wetland management are interlinked in the North Bihar, India. Endikements, roads and other development do not take water management into account and damage this fragile balance. Wetlands International and Cordaid call for integrated management of water, wetlands to sustain and restore the ecological balance, benefitting people's livelihoods and protect them from floods.
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This video tells the story of how mangrove dependent communities in Guinea Bissau are affected by climate change and how Wetlands International Africa's work helps them to adapt to these changes.
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Les Communautés Confrontees aux Changements Climatiques en Guinée-Bissau est un video sur la problematique des Changements Climatiques dans les zones cotieres et du mangrove en Guinée-Bissau, produit par Wetlands International Afrique.
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This video tells the story how Tierra del Fuego's peatlands in Argentina function, are degraded due to peat mining and how this all relates to global climate change. The video includes beautiful sceneries, local experts and much more.
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These are videos of the two modules on Manatee Monitoring Training Module that provide a training on how to do manatee monitoring. Documented at the Saloum Delta Workshop on Manatee Monitoring in May 2010 in Senegal by Sander Carpay, Communications Officer, Wetlands International Africa.
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This video shows how Wetlands International and partners in Zambia and Malawi have improved the management of seasonal wetlands or Dambos and thereby have improved livelihood conditions of local communities living in them.
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This video tells the story how peatlands are drained and turned into oil palm plantations in Southeast Asia. Palm oil is used in many products, from shampoo to cookies. But their production causes peatland draining, peat fires, and the loss of habitats for many endangered species, such as the Orangutan and Sumatran Rhino.
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These videos (English & Bahasa indonesia) tell the story how we restored the drained and degraded peat swamp forest of Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia together with communities. These areas are causing huge CO2 emissions from oxidation of peat. Our work with partners under the Central Kalimantan Peatland Project (CKPP) has found an effective approach on restoring these peatlands and improving the people's livelihoods. Watch the video online.
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This video shows images from the Inner Niger Delta in Mali, Africa and interviews with local farmers and fishermen and women on how the water of the Niger River can be better used and how climate change has an impact on their livelihoods.
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Melting glaciers and more extreme precipitation are some of the predicted impacts of climate change. Areas around the Himalayas strongly depend on the stable water flows from these ice covered mountains. The film explains the issue and the role of wetlands in these mountain areas in regulating water flows; mitigating the impacts of climate change.
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This video shows how collective water management can prevent conflict and improve water availability, use for agriculture and other aims in the Kimana wetlands at the foot of the Kilimanjaro in Kenya, Africa.
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Short movie in which Wetlands International alerts that the destruction of the world's peatlands leads to huge CO2 emissions and that it is therefore a crucial problem to be addressed for climate change mitigation. More information on this topic is found here.
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En el año 2007, se llevó a cabo la producción de un documental en español e inglés de 43 minutos que ilustra la diversidad de los humedales que existen en la Argentina, así como los beneficios que estos ambientes brindan al hombre.
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