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AMOUNT: $12,000
US
PROJECT LEADERS: Diane Austin, Antonio Hernández
INSTITUTIONS: University of Arizona and Instituto Tecnológico
de Nogales
The Ambos Nogales Revegetation Project was a successful
collaboration among the University of Arizona, Instituto
Tecnológico de Nogales, and various schools,
state and city agencies, and nongovernmental organizations
on the Arizona-Sonora border, focusing on Nogales, Sonora.
The Ambos Nogales Revegetation Project was designed
to explore ways to increase the planting and maintenance
of native vegetation on hillsides and in local gardens
in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. There were three phases
to the project: the first phase of the project was to
assemble existing information on native vegetation and
sustainable community forestry and gardening in Ambos
Nogales, it included interviews within the pilot schools
and neighborhoods to explore the residents’ histories
and concerns, attitudes and practices regarding planting
and gardening, and to inform residents of the demonstration
projects; the second phase was to prepare the demonstration
sites and begin planting and to include demonstration
workshops on organic gardening, composting, water harvesting
and plant/tree selection and maintenance; and the third
phase included the production of guides and presentations
on native vegetation, sustainable community forestry
and gardening, a booklet organized as a "Community
Tour" of the pilot demonstration sites, and the
creation of a bilingual website describing the project.
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