What might seem as waste to Africa’s many herbivores is gold to the Dung Beetle who needs animals dung for its species survival. Not only do these dung beetles gather and roll as much dung as possible but they will even resort to high jacking another’s ball, which it has spent many hours perfecting. But not without a fight.

This video is on the Galana- Kulalu food security project-10,000 acre model farm.
It's objective is to optimize productivity of the ranches in the area through an array of targeted investments in crop, livestock and fish production thereby contributing to Kenya's food security.

If farmers practice sustainable farming techniques, water towers resources shall not be over extracted.

In this guest lecture, Paul Blackmore, director of the Fuqua Conservatory at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens presents his fascinating work on edible and medicinal plants of Cameroon. Mr. Blackmore speaks about his fascinating experiences during field research and conservation efforts over 6 years that he spent working in the area of Mount Cameroon. This lecture was given in April 2012 in Dr. Cassandra Quave's class "Botanical Medicine and Health" at Emory University.

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The functioning of the forest ecosystem is complex and often not easy to understand. This includes the mycorrhiza, the living community between plants and fungi. This symbiosis is illustrated with an educational film of the nationalparks Bavarian Forest and Šumava.