Community Conservation in Mexico
MonarchLIVE webcast and broadcast from Alternare, a community training center that promotes conservation and sustainable livelihoods for small farmers living in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve.
The 60-minute program was hosted by Rossana Landa with the Fund for the Conservation of Nature based in Mexico City. She was joined by Guadalupe (Lupita) del Rio, co-founder of Alternare. The program explains the concept of sustainability, ejido system of land management in Mexico, and some of the activities promoted by Alternare including:
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growing food organically
-- creating biofertilizer
-- growing trees for
-- conserving soil and water
-- making adobe bricks for houses and outbuildings, and
-- training local small farmers.
