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MBF will fund Alternare’s ongoing workshops and sustainable development activities. Plans for 2014 include building eleven ‘Building Fuel-efficient Stoves’ , two ‘Forest Tree Production’ , five ‘Organic Fertilizer Production’ and two ‘Reforestation Techniques ‘(approximately 16 ha will be reforested with trees from nurseries and 20 ha will be fenced to prevent cattle from coming in and allowing the forest to regenerate naturally). Additional workshops to address water scarcity will be imparted including two ‘Soil and Water Conservation’, eight “Building Twine Pumps’ (this step follows the construction of ferrocement cisterns to capture rain water and six ‘Participatory Community Diagnostics’ (this workshop is the initial step to begin working with new groups. The process begins by having groups identify the challenges faced by their community and draft a work plan that meets their needs.
Alternare — Workships, Sustainable Development
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Dr. Jaramillo will coordinate the reforestation of approximately 32 hectares in previously-farmed land in the Buffer zone of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve to reduce human pressure on the old-growth forests commonly found in the Core zone of the Reserve.
As he has done for the last three years, Dr. Jaramillo will lead this project and work in collaboration with Alternare and CIGA (UNAM´s Center for Research in Environmental Geography). He will also expand his experiment to determine how applying organic fertilizer (Bokashi) affects survival rates of reforested seedlings by setting aside 10 hectares in one community as an unfertilized control plot and 10 hectares in two communities where the Bokashi will be applied. Seedlings will be planted by the people from the participating communities and will be monitored by Dr. Jaramillo to determine survival rates right after planting to make sure they survive transplant shock and after a one year cycle.
In his field observations, Dr. Jaramillo has noticed that natural regeneration in specific areas results in less damage to the landscape and improved recovery of the forest. For this reason, this year he will sign an agreement with 2 communities so they can set up a protection scheme in selected areas that will be left to promote natural regeneration of the forest. This will provide an initial baseline for future natural regeneration experiments.
Dr. Pablo Jaramillo – Summer Reforestation//Natural Regeneration Project
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MBF will fund Dr. Saénz Romero’s proposal: “Altitudinal genetic differentiation among Abies religiosa natural populations for seed and seedling transfer for reforestation considering climatic change.” Dr. Saénz Romero’s research aims to find if there is a genetic differentiation for quantitative traits among Abies religiosa populations along an environmental (altitudinal) gradient, and to delineate an altitudinal zoning for guiding the seed and seedlings distribution for reforestation programs. The goal is to improve the match between genotypes of the seed sources and the environments of the planting sites, as well as considering the climatic change expected for the year 2030.
Dr. Cuauhtemoc Saenz Romero – Improving Seed Selection for Planting Sites
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Pronatura Noreste will carry out workshops for 1,490 students in eleven two elementary schools in Jaumave, Tamaulipas – an area along the monarch butterfly’s migratory route. The workshops will include informational talks about monarch biology, the migratory route, the importance of conserving the area, drawing booklets, informational posters and activities. The first workshops have already started in April and more will follow in May and June.
Pronatura Noreste – Environmental Education in Jaumave, Tamaulipas
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Geovida will carry out environmental workshops and monitoring activities for 60 sixth grade students in the Amado Nervo Elementary School in Ocampo, Michoacán. The workshops will be about the life cycle of the monarch butterfly, forest conservation, as well as monitoring of the monarch population and habitat conditions along their fall and spring migratory routes.
[/cmsms_text][/cmsms_column][/cmsms_row][cmsms_row data_width=”boxed” data_padding_left=”3″ data_padding_right=”3″ data_color=”default” data_bg_color=”#ffffff” data_bg_position=”top center” data_bg_repeat=”no-repeat” data_bg_attachment=”scroll” data_bg_size=”cover” data_bg_parallax_ratio=”0.5″ data_color_overlay=”#000000″ data_overlay_opacity=”50″ data_padding_top=”0″ data_padding_bottom=”50″][cmsms_column data_width=”1/1″][cmsms_heading type=”h1″ font_weight=”400″ font_style=”normal” text_align=”default” target=”self” margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”20″ animation_delay=”0″]Altitudinal genetic differentiation among Abies religiosa natural populations for seed and seedling transfer for reforestation considering climatic change and using plants from nurseries[/cmsms_heading][cmsms_text animation_delay=”0″]