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Trees, Shrubs, Flowers and Herbs

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Annex 2. Table of Trees, Shrubs, Flowers and Herbs to Introduce in the Entoto Natural Park. Description of Characters of Seedlings to be Planted in the Park Area Table 1 is based on a meeting at the National Herbarium with Sue Edwards, editor of the Flora "Some Wild Flowering Plants of Ethiopia" (Edwards 1976). Some of the plants in the table are already present in the Entoto area but in various quantities. Some species belong to open areas, and some are forest plants. (A detailed inventory of the vegetation of Entoto started in October 1994.) To get an idea of what can be grown in the Entoto Natural Park, table 2 shows the composition of different vegetation stratas in the Menagesha State Forest, set together by Dr. Sebsebe Demissew at National Herbarium (published in Mountain Research and Development Studies Vol. 8, number 2, May 1988). The indigenous  Podocarpus falcatus (P. gracilior)   tree is scarce on Entoto; it seems that it can no longer give surviving progeny in t...

Videos: Keyline Dam Construction

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How to create a hydrological design of a farm in keyline. manel badia  Nov 19, 2018, 2 minutes, keyline design demonstration Keyline® in the AR Sandbox #3: Design for Water Andrew Millison 33,702 views Feb 11, 2020 Keyline® in the AR Sandbox Welcome to this 7-part video series that is excerpted from Oregon State University's Online Permaculture Design Certificate Course: https://workspace.oregonstate.edu/cou... The Keyline® Plan is a method of land design for soil and water conservation developed by Australian farmer and engineer P.A. Yeomans in the 1950's, and practiced widely throughout Australia ever since. My training in this design system came from Keyline® design's modern day emissary, Darren J. Doherty of the Regrarians (www.regrarians.org). This series is my best attempt to present a simple introduction to the design system, beginning with the very basics: understanding landforms to determine the potentials that each landscape possesses. There are a...

Videos: Ethiopia's Water Restoration

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    Ethiopia Abandoned Tree Planting In The Desert And Did THIS—Nobody Saw This Coming Earth Fresh Description: Welcome to the channel. Here we cover environmental transformations and restoration projects that will brighten your day. Our content is educational, documentary, and scientific in nature and serves the public interest. We hope you enjoy the content! Use of media falls under fair use guidelines, but if you have any questions or concerns, reach out via the contact email! 635,316 views Jan 31, 2026, 13:57 min In the scorched highlands of Northern Ethiopia, where the earth had baked into something closer to concrete than soil, thousands of villagers showed up for work. They didn't carry saplings. They carried pickaxes, shovels, and crowbars. And for months, under the sceptical gaze of government officials and the open laughter of neighbouring villages, these workers did something that looked completely insane. They dug holes. Millions of them. They excavated over t...