2021 Marks 50 Years Of International Wetlands Agreement

Feb 04, 2021

This year marks the 50th anniversary of an international agreement on protecting wetlands around the world, called the RAMSAR convention.

Cary Hamel is the Nature Conservancy of Canada’s director of conservation in Manitoba.

"There's been a ton of progress," he commented. "The Nature Conservancy of Canada has worked with land owners all over the Prairies that are committed to conserving habitats on their lands. Work with us to restore wetlands. There's still lots of work to do. More than 50 per cent of the Prairie pothole region in the Southern Prairies has been lost over the last half century. We're still working hard on it."

He notes wetlands filter our water and help protect our communities from floods by acting like a large roll of paper towel and sponge, soaking up and storing water.

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Video: Learning to Wrench From Dad the Hard Way

Harvest is a week out and the farm picked this week to fall apart. The truck needs a battery, the barn curtain's got a problem, and the corn and beans are telling us we're out of time to get it all fixed.

So it's a full day of wrenching. Tork supervises while I get the truck back running, then we're out at the hog barn where one rusted up part has the whole curtain system hung up. Ladder work, cable work, and a little dad-and-son disagreement about the right way to do it. We close it out walking the fields, shelling beans and checking corn, because whether everything's fixed or not, harvest starts when harvest starts.

Chapters: 00:00 Everything breaks the week before harvest 01:00 Tork supervises while I fix the truck 12:30 Out to the barn to find the curtain problem 14:30 One rusty part hung up the whole curtain 20:00 Running the curtain cable from the ladder 24:00 Walking the beans and corn before harvest 26:30 Wrapping up

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