Environment and Pollution: Think & Act

Environmental Pollution: Think and Act

Great Indian bustard poachers still at large despite being identified

JAIPUR (India): At a time when the state is taking pride in having taken giant steps for conservation of the critically endangered Great Indian bustard (GIB), poachers of two GIBs shot in February and December last are still at large despite being identified by police. The GIB is the state bird of Rajasthan. On December […]

Achieving a Sustainable Food System with Organic Farming

Despite a slight decline between 2009 and 2010, since 1999 the global land area farmed organically has expanded more than threefold to 37 million hectares, according to new research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute for its Vital Signs Online service. Regions with the largest certified organic agricultural land in 2010 were Oceania, including Australia, New […]

Global land forum declaration commits to land rights for indigenous peoples and women

At the Global Land Forum meeting held in Antigua, Guatemala, from 23-27 April 2013, members of the International Land Coalition (ILC) agreed to a series of commitments in the ‘Antigua Declaration’ related to securing tenure for responsible land governance. The Antigua Declaration advocates for the inclusion of a sustainable development goal on governance of land […]

Food Security Need Importance

“Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life” (World Food Summit, 1996) Millennium Development Goals first goal is to eradicate hunger and poverty and every body around the world […]

Bangladesh Village Homestay: Becoming One of the Family

This is the story of a homestay experience in rural Bangladesh — and a young woman who hopes to be Prime Minister one day. There I was in a traditional courtyard kitchen in a village in Bangladesh. Dirt floor, earthen oven. Mrs. Ali, our host mother, stoked the fire and minded several hot pans. It […]

ITU Highlights importance of ICTs for climate change

ITU, together with the Italian Ministry of Economic Development, is organizing the first Green Standards Week last September in Rome, Italy. Hosted by Telecom Italia, the cluster of workshops that make up the event will focus on raising awareness of the importance of using ICT standards to build a green economy and combat climate change. […]

STOP HUNTING! GIVE ANIMALS THEIR RIGHTS

Does that picture look ‘humane’ to you? An idiot of a man teaching his child to be like that?? How Discusting!! How could you do that, bring a child up to show no compassion towards animals, he will never feel love towards animals, that beautiful part of life has been taken away from this child, […]

Sea World’s New Friends

  By TFK Kid Reporter Alaa Osman Sea World Orlando has a new attraction. It’s called Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin. I got to visit the Florida theme park on opening weekend to learn all about it. The exhibit features nearly 250 penguins, including Adelie and rockhoppers. I even got to pet one! The animals all live […]