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Rangelands Partnership Newsletter -- January 2024

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*January 2024*

*Newsletter Topics*

RP Annual Meeting Details <#RP>
Grazing to Reduce Fire Fuels <#Fire>
IYRP Update <#IYRP>
International Resources <#IR>
*Announcement*

*Save the Dates!*
RP Annual Meeting
March 17 - 24, 2024
Hilo, Hawaii

Stop by the RP booth at SRM

Join the *Outreach, Communication, and Website/RP meeting*
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on Sunday, Jan 28 1-3pm
RP Annual Meeting

*Registration is now open for the 2024 RP Annual Meeting!*
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Registration
for the in-person meeting closes on *Tuesday, March 5, 2025*. Register
today!

*Agenda (At a Glance)*

   - Sunday, March 17: Welcome mixer at Hilo Hawaiian
   - Monday, March 18:  Speakers, State Reports, the RP looking forward
   - Tuesday, March 19: Business meeting, Keynote speaker, Technology
   training, Banquet
   - Wednesday, March 20: Technology training, Future of library science,
   Reflections/Next Steps
   - Thursday, March 21: Tour of Kapalala Ranch

*Registration Costs: *

   - Full registration is $150 (includes banquet). The RP is subsidizing
   registration to reduce the overall cost of the meeting.
   - Extra banquet guest: $75
   - Tour (optional): $40
   - Virtual registration: $100

*Hotel Information*: Hilo Hawaiian.
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reserve, call the hotel at (808) 935 -9361. You may also mail or fax the
hotel (see reservation form
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The hotel will collect a deposit at the time of reservation, which is
refundable up to four days before the reservation.  Rooms must be
booked by *Thursday,
February 15, 2024* to get the discounted rate.

*By-laws:* The RP will vote to update the by-laws at the RP annual
meeting. Please
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Grazing to Reduce Fire FuelsTracy Schohr
University of California

Goats arriving for research project investigating what and how much they
will eat.

Grazing for fuels reduction is an emergent strategy in California’s efforts
to address wildland fuels and reduce wildfire risk. With the sudden influx
of public funding, it is critical to know how to use available resources
efficiently, and in a manner which develops a sustainable infrastructure to
maintain treatments. By collaborating with small ruminant producers to
develop best grazing practices, this effort has potential to empower small
landowners to implement fuels treatments on their own, thereby improving
the cost feasibility of long-term fuels maintenance.

A multi-disciplinary team of University of California Cooperative Extension
(UCCE) academics are conducting applied research on the effectiveness and
efficiency of targeted livestock grazing to reduce fuel loads in
California’s wildland urban interface (WUI).

“Our team is implementing and evaluating the efficacy of targeted livestock
grazing in mixed-conifer forest ecosystems at the wildland urban interface
(WUI),” stated project team member Tracy Schohr, Livestock and Natural
Resources Advisor with UCCE. “Together we are identifying the scale at
which small ruminant grazing is effective and financially viable on
non-industrial timber land. We have also identified toxic plants in these
ecosystems and have a veterinarian on our team working with us to develop
new extension materials on the topic.”

The project is currently in its infancy with year 1 of grazing complete
and data analysis by the team is underway. In 2023, 305 goats were used
across 3 young conifer plantations subject to different treatments on 20+
acres in August and September.

In 2024, the team will work with a targeted grazer to implement a second
year of treatments for fuel reduction analysis. Other future steps for this
project include business planning for targeted livestock grazing
enterprises and land managers (private and public) to grow grazing
contracts/enterprises for fuel load reduction in forested landscapes.

“Our goal is to define maintenance tactics and costs of targeted grazing to
reduce live vegetation that can become fuel for wildfires in forested
landscapes and develop technical documents on use of targeted grazing in
California’s wildland urban interface,” added team member Katie Low, UC ANR
Fire Network Coordinator.

For questions you can reach Tracy Schohr <tkschohr at ucanr.edu>. Future
project updates will be shared on the UCANR website
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Goats at research site.

IYRP UpdateBarb Hutchinson
University of Arizona

The IYRP Working Group on Gender has prepared a one-pager with its key
messages.  You can find these resources and many more on the IYRP website
under Global Resources
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See also the latest news posted on the website:

   - IYRP News
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   - UNESCO declares transhumance as Intangible Cultural Heritage Dec 2023
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   - IYRP newsletter November 2023
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   - Pastoralists advocate at GASL 2023 meeting in Thailand
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   - IYRP at GASL 2023 - report by Nitya Ghotge
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Although this blog by Ilse Köhler-Rollefson of the League for Pastoral
Peoples is not about the IYRP in 2026 but rather about the International
Year of Camelids (IYC) in 2024, it is well worth reading as it highlights a
challenge that also the IYRP may face with regard to representation of
pastoralists: The International Year of Camelids to be inaugurated on 4th
December, 2023 – will it help pastoralists?
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International ResourcesBarb Hutchinson
University of Arizona

*COP 28 Resources*

Secretary Antony J. Blinken At the UN Climate Conference, COP 28, Leaders
Event: Transforming Food Systems in the Face of Climate Change
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- United States Department of State.

Integrating Grasslands and Savannahs into National Biodiversity and Climate
Commitments is a collaborative piece by Plantlife, Equilibrium Research,
and WWF, released at COP28. The publication is available on Plantlife's
website here
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Webinar Recap: Building Climate Resilience through Inclusive Land
Governance. On the opening day of #COP28, the Land Portal hosted a webinar,
“Building Climate Resilience through Inclusive Land Governance
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that delved into the crucial role which inclusive land governance plays in
building climate resilience.

Webinar Recap: Climate Funding and COP28 - Turning Pledges into Action
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- Under the umbrella of the Land Dialogues series, the third webinar of the
series “Climate Funding and COP28 : Turning Pledges into Action” took place
on November 28th, 2023. The webinar drew in a little under 200 participants
and featured panelists from Indigenous leaders to donors. The series is
organized by a consortium of organizations, including the Land Portal
Foundation, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the
Tenure Facility.

Conservation and Adaptation Resources Toolkit
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(CART) – CART is a platform developed by a multi-organizational partnership
that enhances collaborative conservation efforts at all scales by
facilitating issue-based, not geography-based, peer-to-peer knowledge
sharing. By connecting individuals from dozens of organizations across
North America, CART helps bridge the gaps between work at project,
landscape, and operational scales. CART supports *knowledge sharing*,
co-develops* tools*, and supports *collaborative action* to improve
management outcomes for priority issues. CART provides *internship and work
training opportunities* for students and early career professionals.

UNESCO film on *Transhumance: the seasonal droving of livestock*
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(21:20
min). *Description**:* Each year, in spring and autumn, herders organise
the movement, or transhumance, of thousands of animals along traditional
pastoral paths. They move on foot or horseback, leading with their dogs and
sometimes accompanied by their families. An ancestral practice,
transhumance entails social practices and rituals related to the care,
breeding and training of animals and the management of natural resources.
Transmitted informally within families and communities, the practice
strengthens cultural identity and ties between families, communities and
territories while counteracting the effects of rural depopulation.

*1) Film for the **Declaration of Transhumance as Intangible Cultural
heritage of UNESCO*
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*2) Declaration in Botswana:* For those not wanting to browse the full
video (many hours), the section where the declaration is done is *here*
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*.*

*ThinkLandscape*
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is a new media platform that combines news and feature stories with the
GLF’s social media content, videos, podcasts and much more. Previously
known as Landscape News, ThinkLandscape offers a more streamlined way to
navigate between GLF digital content.

*Traditional livestock enclosures are greenhouse gas hotspots in the
African savanna landscape: The case of a rangeland in Kenya*
<https://globalrangelands.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e07e5b3765520a0c1bbf6590&id=4e1629271b&e=c581af76b6>,
EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023. There is debate
about whether grassland-based livestock production can be climate-smart or
not. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from livestock (primarily from enteric
methane [CH4] and manure CH4 and nitrous oxide [N2O]) stand vis-à-vis
vegetation CO2 uptake and soil carbon sequestration. In sub-Saharan Africa
(SSA), livestock ensures the livelihoods of millions of people, which often
belong to marginalized groups such as pastoralists. To protect their
animals from predation and theft, livestock are secured in overnight
enclosures (“bomas” in Kiswahili), which form the center of many pastoral
settlements. However, in these enclosures manure accumulates for months or
even years, making them a potential hotspot for GHG emissions. This paper
presents the first year-long measurements of GHG emissions from active and
inactive (abandoned) bomas from an African rangeland at the ILRI Kapiti
Research Station in Kenya. The study found high N2O and CH4 emissions that
have implications for global GHG inventories, which currently do not have a
category for overnight livestock enclosures and therefore do not account
for these emissions. Furthermore, hotspots for GHG emissions such as these
livestock enclosures need to be included to assess the full GHG budget of
pastoral livestock systems and to develop management interventions for
low-emission livestock production in developing countries.

*New Comprehensive Portfolio on **Rangelands, Drylands and Pastoralism*
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– *The Land Portal launched an updated portfolio offering fresh insights
into the challenges and risks facing diverse pastoralist communities
globally, from the Sahel to Siberia. Explore the impact of anthropogenic
climate change on rangelands and drylands, assess international policies'
effectiveness in protecting pastoralist rights, and delve into the risks of
carbon offset markets. Additionally, the portfolio highlights the crucial
role of women and youth in pastoral communities and challenges common
assumptions about the future of pastoralism, offering new perspectives for
sustainable development.

*PASTRES*
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Pastoralism, Uncertainty, Resilience* – Summary of work conducted between
2018-2023.
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Covers a range of themes. The initial blog focuses on our policy-related
endeavors, providing a comprehensive summary of various initiatives and
highlighting key policy suggestions. The blog encapsulates policy efforts
and outlines some of the crucial policy recommendations. This work aligns
closely with the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists 2026 and
contributes to a strong global advocacy for pastoralism, offering a new
positive narrative for policy and practice.

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