Local fishermen fishing on Loktak Lake amongst phumdis, floating masses of vegetation and organic matter, Moirang, Manipur, India, Asia

BURKINA FASO Environment Flooding Bund low rock walls built to prevent soil erosion by flash floods. Stones are placed along the contours on gentle slopes. Sometimes the bunds are reinforced by planting tough grasses along the lines. The stones and grass encourage rain water to infiltrate the soil and reduce the amount of rain water that is lost by run-off. Any soil that has been eroded by run-off is trapped by the bund. Topsoil and organic matter e.g. leaf litter is deposited here.Bunds are placed 10 to 25 metres apart African Western Africa Ecology Entorno Environmental Environnement Green Issues

Burkina Faso Environment Flooding Bund low rock walls built to prevent soil erosion by flash floods. Stones are placed along the contours on gentle slopes. Sometimes the bunds are reinforced by planting tough grasses along the lines. The stones and grass encourage rain water to infiltrate the soil and reduce the amount of rain water that is lost by run-off. Any soil that has been eroded by run-off is trapped by the bund. Topsoil and organic matter e.g. leaf litter is deposited here.Bunds are placed 10 to 25 metres apart African Western Africa Ecology Entorno Environmental Green Issues Environnement

Small bunches of branches and plant fibres on a table, the organic matter used in making washi paper, Kyushu, Japan

Eurasian Badger in mud, Wales UK

African Elephant throwing mud, Savuti Chobe NP Botswana

Les Terres Noires de Robine sur Galabre under the snow. Jurassic (Toarcian) marls rich in organic matter, tender and very sensitive to gullying, colonized mainly by Scots pines and forming remarkable reliefs in the Digne Geological Reserve, Alpes de Haute Provence, France.

Les Terres Noires de Robine sur Galabre under the snow. Jurassic (Toarcian) marls rich in organic matter, tender and very sensitive to gullying, colonized mainly by Scots pines and forming remarkable reliefs in the Digne Geological Reserve, Alpes de Haute Provence, France.

African Elephants taking a mud bath, Kruger South Africa

Spotted hyena bathing, East Africa

Hamerkop capturing a tadpole on the bank, Botswana

Les Terres Noires de Robine sur Galabre under the snow. Jurassic (Toarcian) marls rich in organic matter, tender and very sensitive to gullying, colonized mainly by Scots pines and forming remarkable reliefs in the Digne Geological Reserve, Alpes de Haute Provence, France.

Male red deer during rutting, France

Male red deer during rutting, France

Male red deer during rutting, France