Yunnan (China)1992: Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden
This video from 1992 shows the cultivation of rubber trees in a plantation and the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden. Yunnan 1992.
The production of forests: Tree cover transitions in Thailand, Laos, and Southern China
A presentation by Jefferson Fox, Coordinator of Environmental Change, Vulnerability and Governance at the East-West Center, University of Hawaii.Part of the University of Chicago Program on the Global Environment's inaugural conference on the Social Life of Forests, held May 30-31, 2008.Literature from across the Southeast Asia regions suggests that national policies are making it increasingly difficult for farmers to maintain traditional swidden agricultural systems and the secondary forests associated them. Simultaneously, markets pressures are encouraging farmers to engage in new and different forms of commercial agriculture. While it has become all too apparent that Montane Mainland Southeast Asia is on the cusp of major changes in tree cover, there is much uncertainty about the direction of change and the impacts it will have both people?s livelihoods and environmental variables such as biodiversity, carbon sequestration, watershed hydrology, and climate. This paper summaries data collected from a project examining land-use and land-cover change along a new North-South highway corridor linking Northern Thailand, Northern Laos, and Southern Yunnan, China. In Xishuangbanna, (the most southern prefecture in Yunnan Province), China, both semi-privatized state farms and minority farmers are planting rubber at rates that threatens to transform the landscape between 300 and 1,000 m into an unbroken carpet of rubber. In northern Thailand, large areas have been set aside as national parks and wildlife sanctuaries, while in other areas rural people are becoming increasingly divorced from farming, with education and consumerism creating a context where rural people are disintensifying, even abandoning their land, in favor of non-farm pursuits. In this paper I examine how an assortment of factors including government policies on issues ranging from forest classification, eradicating opium, stabilizing shifting cultivators, to promoting trade, and developing infrastructure; new markets; and changing aspirations and human agency are affecting tree cover across this transect. I also examine what the different types of tree cover we find developing mean for how forests are defined.
《让我听懂你的语言》 第2集 浩宁对玉波告白失败（主演：邱泽、陆怡璇）| CCTV电视剧
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00:31 徐浩宁百般试探玉波感情状况；
03:25 浩宁走吊桥十分害怕 玉波见状主动牵他过桥；
07:37 浩宁对玉波告白失败；
24:03 尴尬！玉波竟是岩龙女朋友。
徐浩宁来找玉波道谢，并邀请她再给自己做一次导游。游览过程中徐浩宁告诉玉波自己是单身，玉波不信。在过吊桥的时候，徐浩宁因为害怕牵了玉波的手。徐浩宁告诉玉波他打算开发傣家人旅游项目，而且为了玉波他决定开发曼掌村。浩宁顺势对玉波表白，但是玉波觉得她看不到浩宁的真心。
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Visit to a Tea Village in Northern Laos
We are in Tungkualin Noy in Nyot Ou District, Phongsaly Province, Laos. This is one of the villages we're working with as consultants for the CCL (Laos Cooperation Comittee).
They have recently built a small tea processing unit in the village, after a bried introduction, we have a discussion with the mayor about the recent developments and the perspectives and challenges brought by tea cultivation.
The interview is in Chinese, please activate the subtitles...
More information about the project here:
Visit our website: -farmer-leaf.com
Teas from this village will be available later on our website.
Nicholas Menzies: Ancient forest tea: how globalization turned backward minorities into green marke
A presentation by Nicholas Menzies, Wildland Resource Science, UCLA.Part of the University of Chicago Program on the Global Environment's inaugural conference on the Social Life of Forests, held May 30-31, 2008. Over the last fifty years or so, the landscape of Xishuangbanna prefecture in the southwestern borders of China?s Yunnan province has been transformed from a mosaic of tropical forest, paddy rice and swidden cultivation, to extensive tracts of cash crop plantations, mostly rubber and tea. In the history of that transformation, the state has played a major role in advancing a vision of modernity in which large scale plantations of cash crops effect the transformation of society from a peasant mode of production to a modern, industrialized and ultimately socialist model. In implementing this strategy, a clear distinction was made until the mid 1980s between immigrant Han Chinese workers on State Farms and indigenous ethnic minorities who were deemed too backward to be capable of managing rubber. In the uplands, policies to end swidden agriculture, together with government poverty alleviation programs promised prosperity through the cultivation of terraced tea, a modern and ?scientific? alternative to the long-established practice of growing tea under the forest canopy. Over the last decade, however, the growth of urban and international markets for ?green? products and for products with an ethnic and cultural heritage, have confounded government agencies? conventional constructions of modernity and scientific development. The formerly ignored, backward practice of growing tea under the forest canopy has been recast as a sustainable, marketable niche product with a distinguished cultural cachet triggering official and unofficial plans to recreate ?ancient forests? under which to grow more ancient forest tea.
Shan State
Shan State is a state of Myanmar. Shan State borders China to the north, Laos to the east, and Thailand to the south, and five administrative divisions of Burma in the west. Largest of the 14 administrative divisions by land area, Shan State covers 155,800 km², almost a quarter of the total area of Burma. The state gets its name from the Shan people, one of several ethnic groups that inhabit the area. Shan State is largely rural, with only three cities of significant size: Lashio, Kengtung, and the capital, Taunggyi. Taungyyi is 150.7 km north east of the nation's capital Naypyitaw.
Shan State, with many ethnic groups, is home to several armed ethnic armies. While the military government has signed ceasefire agreements with most groups, vast areas of the state, especially those east of the Thanlwin river, remain outside the central government's control, and in recent years have come under heavy ethnic-Chinese economic and political influence. Other areas are under the control of military groups such as the Shan State Army.
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Mass bamboo dance at Reiek, Mizoram
Mizo youngsters take part in the Cheraw dance - a traditional mass bamboo dance of Mizoram on the occasion of Anthurium Festival 2013 at Reiek Village.
Is it true that the Mizos call this dance Cherawkan while the Maara call it Rakhâ tla? So says a viewer!
The Anthurium Festival is a 3 day-long event organized every year in September by the State govt. of Mizoram with the aim to promote tourism in the state and also encourage Anthurium cultivation in Mizoram. It is a very popular festival and has slowly become one of the most prominent tourism festivals of the North East region.
The Anthurium Festival is celebrated every year at the tourist resort in Reiek Village at the foothills of the mystic Reiek Mountain. Set in an idyllic and mystic location about 20kms away from Aizwal, the capital city of Mizoram, the serene and tranquil beauty of Reiek Village adds an amazing charm to the beautiful Anthurium Festival. Beautiful Anthurium flowers grown in Mizoram are put on display and sold during the Anthurium Festival and tours to amazing Anthurium plantations are also conducted during the 3days. What started as a way of promoting tourism and the amazing homegrown Anthurium flowers in Mizoram has slowly become one of the most anticipated festivals for tourists both from within and outside the country.
Anthurium Festival is also a festive event where all the various Mizo tribes get to come together and showcase their amazing cultures and traditions. The 3 day-long celebrations are marked by a colorful display of various Mizo cultures and traditions; indigenous games and sports, mouth-watering traditional Mizo delicacies, folk songs and dances, traditional methods of harvesting and cooking, handicrafts etc. Various local products of Mizoram like fruit juices, pickles, handicrafts, handloom items, bamboo products etc are also put on display and sold during the festival. Fashion shows and music concerts highlighting the talented Mizos are also an important aspect of the Anthurium Festival.
Anthurium Festival, for a tourist, is indeed a great festive moment to enjoy the vibrant diversity of Mizoram. A festival that not only highlights the tourism potential of the state but also showcases the amazing culture and tradition of the Mizos, the Anthurium Festival is a must attend.
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Dynamics of root and leaf decomposition in chronosequence of rubber plantation (Hevea brasilensis) in SW china
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Today's Kunming- one big construction site.
Botanical garden | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:02:58 1 Definitions
00:06:39 1.1 The botanical gardens network
00:08:45 2 Historical development
00:09:46 2.1 Precursors
00:10:04 2.1.1 Grand gardens of ancient history
00:11:59 2.1.2 Physic gardens
00:14:25 2.2 16th- and 17th-century European gardens
00:15:20 2.2.1 Origins in the Italian Renaissance
00:16:25 2.2.2 Northern Europe
00:17:58 2.2.3 Beginnings of botanical science
00:20:30 2.3 18th century
00:21:17 2.3.1 The Cape, Dutch East Indies
00:21:48 2.3.2 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
00:24:32 2.3.3 Bartram's Garden
00:25:01 2.3.4 Plant classification
00:26:25 2.4 19th century
00:27:07 2.4.1 Tropical botanical gardens
00:30:05 2.4.2 Australia
00:30:56 2.4.3 New Zealand
00:31:19 2.4.4 Hong Kong
00:31:42 2.4.5 Sri Lanka
00:32:07 2.4.6 Ecuador
00:33:02 2.4.7 Egypt
00:33:21 2.4.8 South Africa
00:33:57 2.4.9 United States
00:35:19 2.4.10 Russia
00:36:15 2.4.11 Ukraine
00:36:56 2.5 20th century
00:37:05 2.5.1 Civic and municipal botanical gardens
00:37:53 2.5.2 Community engagement
00:39:20 2.5.3 Plant conservation
00:40:55 3 Role and functions
00:43:05 4 Future
00:45:19 5 Photo gallery
00:45:28 6 See also
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A botanical garden or botanic garden is a garden dedicated to the collection, cultivation, preservation and display a wide range of plants labelled with their botanical names. It may contain specialist plant collections such as cacti and other succulent plants, herb gardens, plants from particular parts of the world, and so on; there may be greenhouses, shadehouses, again with special collections such as tropical plants, alpine plants, or other exotic plants. Visitor services at a botanical garden might include tours, educational displays, art exhibitions, book rooms, open-air theatrical and musical performances, and other entertainment.
Botanical gardens are often run by universities or lolo mo other scientific research organizations, and often have associated herbaria and research programmes in plant taxonomy or some other aspect of botanical science. In principle, their role is to maintain documented collections of living plants for the purposes of scientific research, conservation, display, and education, although this will depend on the resources available and the special interests pursued at each particular garden.
The origin of modern botanical gardens is generally traced to the appointment of professors of botany to the medical faculties of universities in 16th century Renaissance Italy, which also entailed the curation of a medicinal garden. However, the objectives, content, and audience of today’s botanic gardens more closely resembles that of the grandiose gardens of antiquity and the educational garden of Theophrastus in the Lyceum of ancient Athens.The early concern with medicinal plants changed in the 17th century to an interest in the new plant imports from explorations outside Europe as botany gradually established its independence from medicine. In the 18th century, systems of nomenclature and classification were devised by botanists working in the herbaria and universities associated with the gardens, these systems often being displayed in the gardens as educational order beds. With the rapid rise of European imperialism in the late 18th century, botanic gardens were established in the tropics, and economic botany became a focus with the hub at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, near London.
Over the years, botanical gardens, as cultural and scientific organisations, have responded to the interests of botany and horticulture. Nowadays, most botanical gardens display a mix of the themes mentioned and more; having a strong connection with the general public, there is the opportunity to provide visitors with information relating to the environmental issue ...