Conservation on North Stradbroke Island / Minjerribah, AU One of the world’s largest sand islands, North Stradbroke Island, or Minjerribah to the Aboriginals who inhabited it for tens of thousands of years before Anglo settlers, has a University of Queensland research station where my class went to study tropical conservation […]
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Wai Mauri, Wainui, A Celebration of Water
In many Southeast Asian countries the ‘Water Festival’ represents an outdoor celebration where people splash one another with water as part of a cleansing ritual to welcome the New Year. Sprinkling water is a sign of respect, blessings and good tidings, and it often also becomes a pretense for celebration! […]