<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">FYI: In his Art of the Range podcast, Tip Hudson (member of the IYRP Global Alliance) has interviewed Bildo Saravia and Lauren Svejcar from the Regional IYRP Support Group in North America about using the rangelands in Mexico for both ranching and producing artisanal mezcal and about the IYRP2026. Bildo is growing agave in sustainable polyculture with a diversity of other native plants for livestock and wildlife.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Listen to this 68-minute podcast here: <a href="https://artofrange.com/episodes/aor-150-bildo-saravia-lauren-svejcar-artisanal-mezcal-ranching-mexico" class="">https://artofrange.com/episodes/aor-150-bildo-saravia-lauren-svejcar-artisanal-mezcal-ranching-mexico</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Ann</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">
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-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="1" class=""><i class="">Dr Ann Waters-Bayer</i></font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="1" class=""><i class="">Agrecol Association for AgriCulture & Ecology</i></font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="1" class=""><i class="">German Institute for Tropical & Subtropical Agriculture (DITSL) Research Fellow</i></font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="1" class=""><i class="">Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP) Core Group</i></font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="1" class=""><i class="">Secretariat of International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists (IYRP) Global Alliance</i></font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="1" class=""><i class="">E: <a href="mailto:waters-bayer@web.de" class="">waters-bayer@web.de</a> / <a href="mailto:waters-bayer@agrecol.de" class="">waters-bayer@agrecol.de</a> / <a href="mailto:a.waters-bayer@ditsl.org" class="">a.waters-bayer@ditsl.org</a></i></font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; 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