Hal Wallis, an "ordinary kid" travels 6 ,000 miles from his home town in the United Kingdom to visit Thailand's threatened mangroves. He finds out about their vital role in the environment and about efforts to preserve and restore them. He interviews Udo Gattenlohner of the Global Nature Fund that coordinates a German funded, international project to  to help restore Asia's lost mangroves.

Related video on the Restoration Project in Asia is on EarthSayers here.

Sustainability: Forest management and Renewal, Biodiversity, Conservation

On January 28th at 12pm (EST), Gary Lawrence, Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer of AECOM, discusses how AECOM delivers solutions that create enhance and sustain the world's built, natural and social environments.

Thomas Lovejoy discusses his experience in international conservation efforts and the conservation of African savannas. Published on Jan 29, 2013

"We still tend to think in the very short term and locally when in fact we are disturbing global systems and the way that the planet actually works. We need to consciously manage the planet."

Ben Collen explains the ways biodiversity loss has been monitored and discusses novel approaches. Published on Jan 29, 2013, Yale University channel on Youtube.

Katrin Boehning-Gaese discusses models and methods used to predict the impact of climate change on species distributions. Published on Jan 29, 2013

April 4-6, 2012, the Indigenous Environmental Network hosted a profound 3 day Rights of Mother Earth Conference at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas. This is one selection of a presentation from the conference. More conference coverage is available on the IENearth YouTube Channel.

This video addresses closing remarks of conference:
Domination of and the destruction of the values of the land can be seen when our Indigenous Knowledge is ignored or not shared by all. If people are given a choice based on the reality of what happens to our world when we disregard for the systems that sustain us and what would be if we return to the ancient knowledge that sustained the people of this hemisphere for thousands of years.

Video inspired on this manifesto:  proclaimed in 2010 at the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth (Cochabamba, Bolivia) featuring the reading of the Preamble and Articles and and 2. Uploaded on May 1, 2011

Brief nterview of Maude Barlow by Amy Goodman on the progress of the Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth within the United Nations, and the resolution addressing harmony with nature, EarthDay 2011.  She also references the book, The Rights of Nature: The Case for the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Nature.

Mari Margil, Associate Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), talks about the founding of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature in the Fall of 2010. The mission of CELDF is "Building sustainable communities by assisting people to assert their right to local self-government and the rights of nature." She was interviewed by Barry Heidt of SustainableTV at the Bioneers 2010 Conference in San Rafael, California. Edited and curated by Ruth Ann Barrett, January 2013.

Ken Blanchard Dr. Ken Blanchard is a noted author, a prominent speaker and a highly sought-after business consultant. He currently serves as the Chief Spiritual Officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies, an international training and consulting firm he co-founded with his wife, Dr. Margie Blanchard, in 1979 in San Diego, California. Ken Blanchard has authored or co-authored almost forty books, including the best-seller The One Minute Manager.