Amu Darya: River to a Missing Sea
Film Screening with James Chapman
2 April 2025 14.00 BST
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Remembering the Amu Darya
Oscar Fraser Turner is Co-Founder of Project Amu Darya which aims to record an oral history of the Amu Darya River Dusk fell across the muddy river. Somewhere in the bushes, the shrill howl of jackals serenaded the dying light. As their calls quietened, everything else grew louder – the hum of critters, the gurgle…
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Following the Great Mongolian Road: Biocultural Diversity and Intangible Heritage in the Mongolian Gobi Desert
Simon Phillips is an ethnobotanist with the Centre for Biocultural Diversity, University of Kent and Chris McCarthy is a Silk Road Scholar and Conservationist At a dry river bed in the Mongolian Gobi desert near the Chinese border, camels slowly drink water from holes dug by nomadic herders to the water table a little below…
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The Struggle for Safe Drinking Water in Coastal Bangladesh
Dr Sonia Ferdous Hoque is an Environmental Social Scientist, working as a Senior Research Associate in Water Security and Society at the University of Oxford When you think of coastal Bangladesh, picture a vast, flat landscape where the land meets the sea in a delicate balance shaped by both human intervention and nature’s forces. This…
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Rapid Reforestation in Nepal
Lt Col (Retd) Philip Holmes OBE, Founder and CEO of Pipal Tree Pipal Tree and its Nepal implementing partners, Mithila Wildlife Trust (MWT) and Lily’s Leaves have been pioneering the use of the rapid-reforestation Miyawaki Method in Nepal since December 2021. The results have been dramatic – far exceeding our expectations – but does this…
