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| Wordpress Tutorial |
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This tutorial shows you how to set up a
Wordpress blog, change its template, add
categories, password-protect a post, and add
a blogroll.
Tags : Wordpress |
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Affichage : 15122
Durée : 475 s |
| Elephant-blogging in Benin with Xeni (BBtv WORLD: West Africa) |
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BBtv online: http://tv.boingboing.net.
Today's Boing Boing tv is an installment of
our ongoing BBtv WORLD series, in which we
bring you first-person glimpses of life
around the globe. Today: an ambient
exploration of the creatures rustling around
in a West African wildlife preserve at dawn.
I traveled to Benin not long ago, and I shot
this video on a small handheld digital
camcorder. This episode of our daily show is
a little experiment in trying to convey what
this place feels like, first-person, without
too many words.
The Pendjari Biosphere lies in Benin's remote
rural northwest, along the border of Burkina
Faso. Despite poaching and environmental
damage, it's still home to a diverse number
of species -- elephants, lions, monkeys,
cheetah, and around 300 species of birds. We
traveled here during the dry season, when
animal spotting is easiest. Here is what we
saw at dawn (the time of day when critters
all come out to the watering holes and
rivers).
Poaching is still a big problem in this area,
and organized trophy hunting for foreign
tourists is still legal and in demand here
(mostly visitors from France; Benin is a
former French colony and French is the
official language). Lion hunts are a
lucrative trade in this extremely poor
region, where most people are subsistence
farmers.
But eco-tourism and less-invasive safari
experiences are becoming more important to
the local economy here, and offer a more
sustainable future.
Note: don't miss the epic baboon ball-grab at
0:35, and the mama elephant ripping tree
branches off and getting ready to kill us
around 1:50. We were too close to her kids,
and we were having a hard time leaving
quickly. Do not taunt happy-fun elephant.
Tags : Africa BBtv World animals eco green xeni jardin Benin West pendjari ecotourism elephants wildlife safari lions earth |
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Durée : 289 s |
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