this is neil spackman, specialist and regenerative agriculture and former director of the albino have project. together with the local community, neil spackman and other agricultural specialists have been building dams, terraces and kilometers of ditches. the idea is to channel the flood waters to where they're needed and retain them there. they can be re absorbed. these are methods that the length of the income used hundreds of years ago. so it's slowing down the water 1st, where those humans gallery works. physically that allows biology to get a stablished and then is slowing down the water. ecological at 1st artificial irrigation was needed to promote plant growth and get the ecological cycle started again. but then by harvesting flash floods significantly, more water could be put in the ground than taken out. native trees, bushes and grasses even survived a 30 month drought without additional irrigation. we had birds come back, we had small mammals from back. it was quite amazing to windows actually to, to see life coming back to this place. the project has been up and running sin