{"id":1731,"date":"2024-09-19T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2024-08-26T13:03:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T17:03:49","slug":"tapping-into-traditional-conservation-techniques-in-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/tapping-into-traditional-conservation-techniques-in-jordan\/","title":{"rendered":"Tapping into Traditional Conservation Techniques in Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overgrazing was threatening to convert much of Jordan\u2019s countryside into deserts, but then the country revived a tradition that Bedouins used more than 1,400 years ago.\u00a0 The tradition is called himas, an Arabic word that translates as \u201dprotected places.\u201d\u00a0 By bridging tradition, culture, conservation and even religious faith, it sets aside lands for rotational grazing that protects them from hunting, logging and other extractive uses. And it has been a ringing success.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Protected Place<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biographic.com\/a-protected-place\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.biographic.com\/a-protected-place<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9781645021520\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overgrazing was threatening to convert much of Jordan\u2019s countryside into deserts, but then the country revived a tradition that Bedouins used more than 1,400 years ago.\u00a0 The tradition is called himas, an Arabic word that translates as \u201dprotected places.\u201d\u00a0 By bridging tradition, culture, conservation and even religious faith, it sets aside lands for rotational grazing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/tapping-into-traditional-conservation-techniques-in-jordan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Tapping into Traditional Conservation Techniques in Jordan&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-global"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1754,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions\/1754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}