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Glacier Grafting - An Indigenous Practice for Water Conservation
As a response to the hiking temperatures advancing glacial melts, a UN project is supporting Indigenous Practices by the people of Baltistan to conserve water. These practices include Glacial Grafting, Avalanche Harvesting, and Ice Stupas.
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Graveyard, symbolizing the loss of glaciers due to climate change. It features memorial tombstones for glaciers that have melted, such as the Okj?kull Glacier. This initiative aims to raise awareness about the rapid disappearance of glaciers worldwide.
For five generations, Héctor Basilio and his family have lived on the slopes of the imposing Tuni Condoriri mountains in the Bolivian Andes. In this often-unforgiving land, Basilio’s kin have long made ends meet by raising llamas. But in recent years that work has become tenuous. The reason for this is still a matter of debate but it’s likely due to a combination of melting glaciers and other climate change effects.
Manzura used to walk two kilometres several times a day to the closest water spring until FAO proposed constructing an artificial glacier to provide this village in southern Kyrgyzstan with fresh water through the dry summer.