Announcements
HMI Members win Award
George Whitten and Julie Sullivan from Saguache, Colorado and Jim and Carol Thorpe of Newkirk, New Mexico share this year's Clarence Burch Award from the Quivira Coalition Conference for their work in sustainable ranching, environmental education, and their commitment to collaboration. These Holistic Management® International members will also share the $15,000 prize money that comes with this prestigious award.
New Africa Centre Project
The Africa Centre for Holistic Management® has a new project contract with Africa Now, a Non-Governmental Organization, for the European Union. This project, Improving Livelihoods Security Through Sustainably Harvesting Devil's Claw, began in late fall of 2005.
The project aim is to enable poor rural households in western Zimbabwe to sustainably improve their livelihoods by 1) obtaining significant additional and predictable income through the harvest and sale of devil's claw, 2) enabling participants to harvest devil's claw sustainably and preserve it as a source of income, 3) researching the potential benefit to participants of additional trade in other resources, and 4) reducing vulnerability to HIV and AIDS through increasing nutritional status, providing appropriate awareness training, and distributing male and female condoms.
Outreach
Certified Educator Ivan Aguirre from Sonora, Mexico spoke at the Quivira Coalition Conference on January 13, 2006. Holistic Management® International sponsored his talk as part of our outreach efforts this year. His talk was well-received by the approximately 500 participants in attendance.
HMI also will take its tradebooth to the Ecological Farming Association Conference in Pacific Grove, California and to the New Mexico Organic Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico
In the News
Advisory Council member, Guillermo Osuna, has been recently featured in a beautiful new book titled The Call of the Mountains by Patricio Robles Gil. This book focuses on the story of conservation in El Carmen Natural Province, a land in Coahuila and Chihuahua, Mexico and southwest Texas. Guillermo is the President of the Board of Directors for the Fondo Mexicano para la Conservacion de la Naturaleza, one of the most prestigious institutions in Mexico.
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