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This site facilitates collaboration among those who participate in and communicate about entrepreneurial conservation projects. The objective is to highlight and explain unique private sector initiatives in developing economies; to provide creative personal accounts of exploring the cultural and natural environments where these initiatives operate, illustrated with photography, video, music and links to supporting relevant media; to inform about these efforts and encourage travel to these places to further strengthen the resorts’ commitment of resources to these initiatives.
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raxacollective Community, Collaboration and Conservation Around The World

English - Community Development, Entrepreneurial Conservation, Sustainability
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raxacollective · 3h ago

Bird of the Day: Snowy Egret (Rancho Mirage, CA)

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raxacollective · 3h ago

Celebrate Urban Birds

For the past year, I have been working at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology for the project Celebrate Urban Birds. Unlike other citizen science projects the Lab of O. is involved with, such as eBird or FeederWatch, Celebrate Urban Birds (CUBs) stays true to its name and hones in on the celebratory aspe
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raxacollective · 8h ago

Road To Rio

The power of convergence and collaboration • Sustainability optimists speak of an era of convergence – a coming together of new technologies and new business models to create a 21st century economy • In the below video, sustainability pioneers explain the power of having common goals and a shared, c
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raxacollective · 18h ago

3 Minutes Of Silence

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  Turn the volume off (because beauty is in the ear of the beholder), go full screen, and click play.  If all goes well for you, repeat with moderate volume.
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raxacollective · 1d ago

Bhathra Kali Amman Goddess (Ten Handed Goddess)

This is the statue of the Goddess Veera Bathra Kaliamman situated 8 kms away from Thekkady, on the way to Madurai in between Gudalur and Lower camp(villages of Tamilnadu). The statue is nearly 42 feet high and is unlike anything elsewhere in India. She has 10 hands of which one hand carries a small
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raxacollective · 1d ago

Bird of the Day: Fox Sparrow (Basking Ridge, NJ)

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raxacollective · 2d ago

A Very Tough Call

Click the headline above to go to the story below: A western Indian state has declared war on animal poaching, allowing forest guards to shoot hunters on sight to curb attacks on tigers, elephants and other wildlife. The government in Maharashtra says injuring or killing suspected poachers will no l
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raxacollective · 2d ago

Black Lily

The Black lily is an ornamental species of flowering plant found in the Western Ghats of India. It grows a cluster of beautiful blossoms from a taller, leafless flower stalk and are surrounded by broad bracts. The underground stem tubers of the plant are rich in starch. In ancient times, these tuber
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raxacollective · 2d ago

Bird of the Day: White-crowned Sparrow (Palm Desert, CA)

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raxacollective · 2d ago

Red Torch Ginger (Pyramidosphaera)

Red torch ginger is a perennial tropical plant native to Malaysia and Indonesia but naturalized in the Western Ghats of India. The plant grows from rhizomes, bulbous root structures similar to culinary part of the ginger family. The main attraction of the plant is its sturdy cluster of bracts that v
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