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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 box5....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eKibbutz Sede Eliyahu, Southern Israel  - 17th April 2007\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide shot donkeys walking through date plantations \u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide of donkeys in plantation with nesting box in the background \u003cbr/\u003e3. Mid shot nesting box \u003cbr/\u003e4. Kestrel resting in nest box\u003cbr/\u003e5. Kestrel's eggs in nest box \u003cbr/\u003e6. Close up on kestrel's eggs \u003cbr/\u003e7. Two kestrels sitting on tree \u003cbr/\u003eRamat Hanadiv, Northern Israel -  8th May 2007\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bill Hoodly, Head of Wildlife Management at Ramat Hanadiv Natural Reserve: \u003cbr/\u003e\"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.\" \u003cbr/\u003eKibbutz Sede Eliyahu, Southern Israel  - 17th April 2007\u003cbr/\u003e9. Medium shot of Israeli farmer holding kestrel during demonstration to Jordanian farmers \u003cbr/\u003e10. Close up on kestrel's face \u003cbr/\u003e11. Medium of Jordanian representatives watching kestrel \u003cbr/\u003e12. Medium shot of kestrel chicks in nesting box \u003cbr/\u003e13. Close up on kestrel chick \u003cbr/\u003e14. Medium of Israeli farmer holding barn owl \u003cbr/\u003e15. Close up on barn owl \u003cbr/\u003e16. Farmer putting barn owl in nesting box \u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE: (English) General (retired)  Mansour Abu Rashed, Head of the Amman Centre for Peace and Development: \u003cbr/\u003e\"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.\" \u003cbr/\u003e18. Pan of crops \u003cbr/\u003e19. Ornithologist Motti Charter checking the size of a kestrel \u003cbr/\u003e20. Kestrel's leg being tagged \u003cbr/\u003e21. Kestrel being weighed inside sack \u003cbr/\u003e22. Charter writing down notes \u003cbr/\u003e23. Kestrel being set free \u003cbr/\u003e24. Stuffed barn owl and kestrel in front of joint conference sign \u003cbr/\u003e25. Israeli farmer wearing Yarmulke (skullcap)  shaking hands with Jordanian farmer at conference \u003cbr/\u003e26. Presentation with map of area \u003cbr/\u003e27. Conference participants listening to presentation \u003cbr/\u003e28. SOUNDBITE: (English) General (retired) Mansour Abu Rashed, Head of the Amman Centre for Peace and Development: \u003cbr/\u003e\"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\" \u003cbr/\u003e29. General Mansour in field with another conference participant \u003cbr/\u003eRamat Hanadiv, Northern Israel  -  8th May 2007 (night vision camera) \u003cbr/\u003e30. Night shot of barn owl arriving at nest \u003cbr/\u003e31. Night shot of barn owl giving a small rodent to it's chicks \u003cbr/\u003e32. Night shot chick eating \u003cbr/\u003e33. Night shot chick looking at camera \u003cbr/\u003eKibbutz Sede Eliyahu, Southern Israel  - 17th April 2007\u003cbr/\u003e34. SOUNDBITE (English) Imad Atrash, Director of the Palestine Wildlife Society: \u003cbr/\u003e\"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\" \u003cbr/\u003e35``. Conference participants freeing kestrel\u003cbr/\u003eAn 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. \u003cbr/\u003eIsraeli farmers have been demonstrating to their Arab neighbours how owls and kestrels can limit the numbers of rodents which destroy crops in the Beit Shean valley that sits between Israel, Jordan and the West Bank. \u003cbr/\u003eTraditionally farmers in the Beit Shean valley that sits between Israel, Jordan and the West Bank have used environmentally damaging pesticides to protect their crops. \u003cbr/\u003eBut this year as part of a new biological pest control project they've ditched chemical aids in favour of birds of prey.  \u003cbr/\u003eRodents are a big threat to the fertile valley of Beit Shean and a huge headache for local farmers.  \u003cbr/\u003eBut that threat has brought neighbours from three sides of the border together in an unusual way. \u003cbr/\u003eDozens of Jordanian farm owners are working with Israeli colleagues, targeting rodents with effective natural predators instead of environmentally dangerous pesticides. \u003cbr/\u003eThe project is called Biological Pest Control and has been organised by conservationists from all three regions and the Amman Centre for Peace and Development. \u003cbr/\u003eThis year organisers have started to establish the project in the area of the Palestinian Authority as well. \u003cbr/\u003eBill Hoodly, Head of Wildlife Management at Ramat Hanadiv Natural Reserve in northern Israel explains that barn owls hunt for mice and other rodents at night and kestrels do the same job during the day. \u003cbr/\u003eHe says that together the predators create a 24-hour biological pest control system that relies on natural predators and has many ecological benefits. \u003cbr/\u003eIsrael developed a booming agricultural industry in the decades after its creation in 1948, but widespread use of pesticides posed risks to wildlife. \u003cbr/\u003eIn the late 1970s, chemicals killed hundreds of birds prompting ornithologists to begin persuading members of the Sede Eliyahu kibbutz to try using barn owls instead. \u003cbr/\u003eThe birds can eat up to 10 rodents per day.\u003cbr/\u003eTo lure the barn owls, so-named for their tendency to nest in farm houses, farmers needed only to build boxes where the birds can mate and raise their young. \u003cbr/\u003eMore than 60 nesting boxes now sit on the Sede Eliyahu, and now farmers in the Beit Shean Valley use the same technique.  \u003cbr/\u003eBut as the region's owl population grew the birds began flying and looking to nest  across the nearby border with Jordan, where pesticides were still in use. \u003cbr/\u003eChemicals seeped into the water table, and owls ingesting contaminated rodents themselves succumbed to secondary poisoning. \u003cbr/\u003eAs a result a group of Israeli farmers 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