(15 Jul 2007)
Kibbutz Sede Eliyahu, Southern Israel - 17th April 2007
1. Wide shot donkeys walking through date plantations
2. Wide of donkeys in plantation with nesting box in the background
3. Mid shot nesting box
4. Kestrel resting in nest box
5. Kestrel's eggs in nest box
6. Close up on kestrel's eggs
7. Two kestrels sitting on tree
Ramat Hanadiv, Northern Israel - 8th May 2007
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bill Hoodly, Head of Wildlife Management at Ramat Hanadiv Natural Reserve:
"Biological control is a good way of controlling pests. A pair of barn owls can consume in a year about 3,000 voles which is a huge number. This also decreases the use of chemicals in the same area so it can only be a good thing. The same can be said with kestrels. Of course kestrels hunt in the day and owls hunt at night, so if you are using both species you are getting a complete cover 24 hours on your fields."
Kibbutz Sede Eliyahu, Southern Israel - 17th April 2007
9. Medium shot of Israeli farmer holding kestrel during demonstration to Jordanian farmers
10. Close up on kestrel's face
11. Medium of Jordanian representatives watching kestrel
12. Medium shot of kestrel chicks in nesting box
13. Close up on kestrel chick
14. Medium of Israeli farmer holding barn owl
15. Close up on barn owl
16. Farmer putting barn owl in nesting box
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) General (retired) Mansour Abu Rashed, Head of the Amman Centre for Peace and Development:
"The people in the Jordanian side, the farmers, they accepted to deal with the barn owls. Barn owls in our tradition are bad luck but now after what the farmers saw in the fields and saw how much these birds effect, they became friendly (to the idea) and now they are building some nests in the Jordanian valley."
18. Pan of crops
19. Ornithologist Motti Charter checking the size of a kestrel
20. Kestrel's leg being tagged
21. Kestrel being weighed inside sack
22. Charter writing down notes
23. Kestrel being set free
24. Stuffed barn owl and kestrel in front of joint conference sign
25. Israeli farmer wearing Yarmulke (skullcap) shaking hands with Jordanian farmer at conference
26. Presentation with map of area
27. Conference participants listening to presentation
28. SOUNDBITE: (English) General (retired) Mansour Abu Rashed, Head of the Amman Centre for Peace and Development:
"The idea behind this project is also to bring people together, to build trust and confidence between people, not just to build projects or barn owls project"
29. General Mansour in field with another conference participant
Ramat Hanadiv, Northern Israel - 8th May 2007 (night vision camera)
30. Night shot of barn owl arriving at nest
31. Night shot of barn owl giving a small rodent to it's chicks
32. Night shot chick eating
33. Night shot chick looking at camera
Kibbutz Sede Eliyahu, Southern Israel - 17th April 2007
34. SOUNDBITE (English) Imad Atrash, Director of the Palestine Wildlife Society:
"We are sharing the same land, the same air, the same aquifer and because of that reason we should protect our nature for our future generations, coming generations"
35`. Conference participants freeing kestrel
LEAD IN:
An unrestricted avian flight path between Jordan, Israel and parts of the Palestine Authority has given neighbours the chance to bury their cultural and ethnic differences and help protect their local environment.
STORYLINE:
Traditionally farmers in the Beit Shean valley that sits between Israel, Jordan and the West Bank have used environmentally damaging pesticides to protect their crops.
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