In this time of global warming and climate change, humanity is waking up to the fact that our planet is dying with the continuous abuse and pillaging of its riches and resources. All over the planet, changes are happening at a rapid pace that scientists can only attribute to human excess and exploitation. In the polar ice caps, ancient glaciers and icebergs that have been around for thousands of years are slowly melting away, resulting in sea levels rising around the world. Natural calamities and disasters are becoming more and more frequent with death tolls rising with each catastrophe. No country or continent is safe: in the Americas, hurricanes and typhoons are occurring at an alarming rate. Asia is being deluged with floods and tsunamis. Australias temperature is steadily rising over the years with the worst heat waves ever recorded occurring in a single month.
There are three culprits mainly responsible for the demise of Mother Nature that scientists have pinpointed: energy consumption, atmosphere emissions and surprisingly, industrial farming. In these three critical points the world hinges on in its survival and we humans as a race must find solutions for the current crisis or face oblivion. Since Earth is our only planet that can support life, we need to get this right. We only get one shot in this experiment.
There are things we could do though: There are no passengers on spaceship Earth, one Marshall McLuhan says. We are all crew. To put it simply, we all have the responsibility of fixing the damage to our only planet. Many will say that I am just one in an ocean of people, what can I possibly do to make a difference? Well to answer that, we could start at home. Let us start reducing our energy consumption and reduce electric bills in the process too. Power saving products like green energy light bulbs can be installed in the house to reduce your carbon footprint. Just the simple power saver light bulbs will surely make a difference if every one else does the same. Imagine every home employing power save products: 6 billion people, I think, can indeed make a difference!
The answer still lies in each and every one of us. No technology is strong enough to counter the monumental mountain that is the physical needs of 6 billion people. In the end, we can blame no one but ourselves if the tide of climate change becomes irreversible. Can you imagine an exodus happening? With the technology that we currently have, we have failed to find a planet that we can live in, much less travel to that planet. If we do find that second home, can you even bear leaving Earth? Let us save ourselves from this sad ending. Help prevent climate change now. The clock is ticking and it will wait for none.
"SAVE TRESS - SAVE YOURSELF"
Trees are important, valuable and necessary for the existence of any living creature on earth. They are essential to life as we know it and are the ground troops on an environmental front line.
Oxygen production, cleaning the soil, controlling noise pollution, slowing down storm water runoff, acting as carbon sinks, cleaning the air, providing shade and coolness, being windbreaks and fighting soil erosion can be considered as the first few reasons why trees are priceless.
1.Ficus MacrophyllaTrees clean the air:
Tree foliage works as a natural air filter of particulate matter such as dust, micro sized metals and pollutants such as ozone, nitrogen oxides, ammonia and sulfur dioxides. Trees take in carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. Combined with the cooling effect of trees, these processes can have a significant impact on reducing smog and overall air pollution.
2.Trees improve water quality:
A healthy urban forest can have a strong influence on our region’s water quality. Tree canopies and root systems slow and reduce storm water runoff, flooding and erosion. Trees also help filter water runoff reducing potential sources of water pollution into our rivers and storm drains.
3.Trees save energy:
Trees cool the air naturally in two ways: through water evaporating from the leaves and direct shade. Homes shaded by trees need less energy for cooling which means lower monthly utility bills in summer and a reduced need for utilities to increase power generation to meet peak load demand.
4.Trees raise real estate value:
Shaded neighborhoods and well-landscaped yards have a positive economic influence on real estate values, timeliness of house sales and neighborhood desirability. Studies report that landscaping speeds the sale of a home by four to six weeks.
5.Trees are good for business:
A series of studies has investigated associations between the urban forest and people’s response to shopping settings. Scientific results suggest that having trees in the business district streetscape is an important investment for a business community. The presence of a quality urban forest positively influences shoppers' perceptions, and probably, their behavior.
6.Pinus CanariensisTrees help stop inner city violence:
A scientific study by the Human-Environment Research Lab has demonstrated that contact with nature may actually help reduce the incidence of aggression and violence in inner-city neighborhoods. According to this study, levels of aggression were significantly lower among people who had some kind of nature outside of their apartments versus those who didn't. The impact of the physical environment on human aggression has been well-established - crowding, high temperatures, and noise have all been linked to violent behavior. Some scientists believe that it's because people living under these conditions suffer from something called chronic mental fatigue, which can make them inattentive, irritable, and impulsive - all of which can be linked to aggressive behavior. Exposure to green spaces, it has been shown, can mitigate the harmful effects of chronic mental fatigue, reducing aggressive behavior in the process.
Oxygen production, cleaning the soil, controlling noise pollution, slowing down storm water runoff, acting as carbon sinks, cleaning the air, providing shade and coolness, being windbreaks and fighting soil erosion can be considered as the first few reasons why trees are priceless.
*Why save trees?
1.Ficus MacrophyllaTrees clean the air:
Tree foliage works as a natural air filter of particulate matter such as dust, micro sized metals and pollutants such as ozone, nitrogen oxides, ammonia and sulfur dioxides. Trees take in carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. Combined with the cooling effect of trees, these processes can have a significant impact on reducing smog and overall air pollution.
2.Trees improve water quality:
A healthy urban forest can have a strong influence on our region’s water quality. Tree canopies and root systems slow and reduce storm water runoff, flooding and erosion. Trees also help filter water runoff reducing potential sources of water pollution into our rivers and storm drains.
3.Trees save energy:
Trees cool the air naturally in two ways: through water evaporating from the leaves and direct shade. Homes shaded by trees need less energy for cooling which means lower monthly utility bills in summer and a reduced need for utilities to increase power generation to meet peak load demand.
4.Trees raise real estate value:
Shaded neighborhoods and well-landscaped yards have a positive economic influence on real estate values, timeliness of house sales and neighborhood desirability. Studies report that landscaping speeds the sale of a home by four to six weeks.
5.Trees are good for business:
A series of studies has investigated associations between the urban forest and people’s response to shopping settings. Scientific results suggest that having trees in the business district streetscape is an important investment for a business community. The presence of a quality urban forest positively influences shoppers' perceptions, and probably, their behavior.
6.Pinus CanariensisTrees help stop inner city violence:
A scientific study by the Human-Environment Research Lab has demonstrated that contact with nature may actually help reduce the incidence of aggression and violence in inner-city neighborhoods. According to this study, levels of aggression were significantly lower among people who had some kind of nature outside of their apartments versus those who didn't. The impact of the physical environment on human aggression has been well-established - crowding, high temperatures, and noise have all been linked to violent behavior. Some scientists believe that it's because people living under these conditions suffer from something called chronic mental fatigue, which can make them inattentive, irritable, and impulsive - all of which can be linked to aggressive behavior. Exposure to green spaces, it has been shown, can mitigate the harmful effects of chronic mental fatigue, reducing aggressive behavior in the process.
SAVE OUR TIGER : 1,411 LEFT
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Tiger is the national animal of India. Tiger shows strength and huge power of India. Tiger is the pride of India. Tiger is the Indian pride so its time for every Indian comes together for taking steps for saving the tiger in India.
Today the world is developed with powerful technology so you can use the many techniques to save the tigers in India like sms, blogs, articles, advertisement. This process becomes one of the most effective steps to give sound to the Indians for saving tiger life.
**Every message becomes nearer step to save tigers in India.**
KOLKATA: Sanctuary magazine, Bengal Tiger Line & Wildlife Conservation Trust's Bengal Tiger Bachaao campaign organised a five-day awareness campaign to save the tiger. The campaign Bagher Jonyo Haatun' (walk for the tiger) that began on November 9, came to an end on Friday.
It covered 15 villages adjacent to the Sundarban Tiger Reserve. The prime objective was to create awareness among the villagers to cooperate with the forest department and work hand in hand with it while tackling critical situation like tigers straying into villages. In the recent past there have been several such incidents at villages near the forest. It also encouraged villagers to plant mangroves.
Folk artists from Orissa's Ganjam district performed tiger dance, adding colour to the initiative. Around 15000 people, including students, teachers, NGO workers, panchayat officials and foresters were present.
Kathmandu: Nepal Sunday pledged to increase its tiger population from current 300 to 600 by the beginning of the next decade with intensified conservation efforts and steps to control poaching.Nepal is a major target for the World WildlifeFund’s (WWF) Tx2 campaign to save the declining tiger population. It has become a transit point between China and India for illegal tiger poaching, according to experts.
There are some 121 breeding tiger population in Nepal and the total number of tigers are estimated to be 300, said Anil Manandhar, country director of WWF Nepal, during a press meet organized to launch the 'save tiger' campaign.
Despite the decade-long conflict that made conservation efforts tougher, Nepal has maintained the tiger population from 123 in 1998 to 221 in 2010, he said.
"We need to focus on three things to increase the tiger population, proper management of tiger habitat, preservation of tigers' prey animals and controlling illegal poaching," he pointed out.
WWF Nepal underlined that Nepal needs cooperation from the international community to control tiger poaching. Over the past one decade, tiger habitat has witnessed 40 percent loss and the tiger population has halved. Tiger population has declined from more than 100,000 in the beginning of the 20th century to 3,200 at present.
NEW DELHI: 1,411 -- that's the number on the lips of Indian celebrities fronting a new campaign to save tigers which was launched ahead of the Chinese lunar Year of the Tiger -- a time some conservationists fear will lead to a spike in demand for the endangered animal's body parts.
"Just 1,411 left. You can make a difference," is the message being broadcast on everything from TV adverts,
Facebook and YouTube, in what organisers say is India's biggest ever campaign to conserve the dwindling numbers of its national animal.
Conservation has not hitherto been seen as a big vote winner in India, where hundreds of millions live below the poverty line.
"I hope some of this could be transferred into votes, and politicians realise that the public now wants tiger conservation across India, and the tiger conservation gets more focus throughout India."
India is a key player in efforts to boost the global tiger population, which numbers just a few thousand and some wildlife experts say could be extinct in 20 years.
"All these things have been tried before," Belinda Wright, director of the Wildlife Protection Society of India, said of the multimedia campaign. "I think the difference with this particular campaign is that it has brought all the elements together ... the coverage has been fantastic."
"They're not telling anybody anything new. But what they're doing is creating a constituency which will then create political will," she added.
India's Environment Minister said at the end of last year that Indian tigers were in a "very, very precarious" state and could be wiped out in nearly half the country's tiger reserves.
Conservationists say the trade in skin and bones is booming to countries such as China, which has banned the use of tiger parts in medicine but where everything from fur to whiskers to eyeballs to bones, are still used.
The campaign was timely ahead of China's Year of the Tiger, which begins on Sunday and which India fears will spur poachers and smugglers operating in its forests to capitalise on increased demand for tiger parts during the lunar new year.
Tiger skins sell as rugs and cloaks on the black market, and can fetch up to $20,000 in countries like China.
New Delhi has been a vocal critic of the Chinese use of tiger parts in medicine, and wants its neighbour to phase out tiger farms it says violate international agreements.
*India's 38th tiger reserve opens :
PALAKKAD (Kerala): India's 38th tiger reserve and Kerala's second was Friday declared open by environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh. It would be known as the Parambikulam Tiger Reserve.
There has been a sharp decline in the number of tigers in India, with only 1,411 of them left, according to official estimates.
The tiger reserve was known as the Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary when it was set up in 1973 in a 285-sq-km protected area in Chittur area of Palakkad.
Another 358 sq km of forests were added, and the tiger reserve now has an area of 643 sq km.
It has a rich diversity of animal life. It also has a variety of trees, including teak, neem, sandalwood and rosewood. Kerala's first tiger reserve -- Periyar Tiger Reserve -- is situated in Thekkadi in Idukki district.
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Forget the environment. The Indian Tiger is the new ‘cool cause’ for Bollywood celebrities and youngsters.
Since the launch of the World Wildlife Fund’s Save Our Tiger campaign, everyone is talking about Stripey, the baby tiger in the video and the diminishing numbers of India’s national animal.
The campaign site has 56,400 members, with hundreds joining every hour and fan groups have cropped up all over the Internet.
Besides, MS Dhoni, captain Indian cricket team, who is one of the faces of the campaign, filmmaker Kunal Kohli has been writing about it on microblogging site Twitter. “Save tigers, donate to the right causes, spread awareness to stop poaching, give money for causes that help breeding,” wrote Kohli.
Today the world is developed with powerful technology so you can use the many techniques to save the tigers in India like sms, blogs, articles, advertisement. This process becomes one of the most effective steps to give sound to the Indians for saving tiger life.
**Every message becomes nearer step to save tigers in India.**
KOLKATA: Sanctuary magazine, Bengal Tiger Line & Wildlife Conservation Trust's Bengal Tiger Bachaao campaign organised a five-day awareness campaign to save the tiger. The campaign Bagher Jonyo Haatun' (walk for the tiger) that began on November 9, came to an end on Friday.
It covered 15 villages adjacent to the Sundarban Tiger Reserve. The prime objective was to create awareness among the villagers to cooperate with the forest department and work hand in hand with it while tackling critical situation like tigers straying into villages. In the recent past there have been several such incidents at villages near the forest. It also encouraged villagers to plant mangroves.
Folk artists from Orissa's Ganjam district performed tiger dance, adding colour to the initiative. Around 15000 people, including students, teachers, NGO workers, panchayat officials and foresters were present.
Kathmandu: Nepal Sunday pledged to increase its tiger population from current 300 to 600 by the beginning of the next decade with intensified conservation efforts and steps to control poaching.Nepal is a major target for the World WildlifeFund’s (WWF) Tx2 campaign to save the declining tiger population. It has become a transit point between China and India for illegal tiger poaching, according to experts.
There are some 121 breeding tiger population in Nepal and the total number of tigers are estimated to be 300, said Anil Manandhar, country director of WWF Nepal, during a press meet organized to launch the 'save tiger' campaign.
Despite the decade-long conflict that made conservation efforts tougher, Nepal has maintained the tiger population from 123 in 1998 to 221 in 2010, he said.
"We need to focus on three things to increase the tiger population, proper management of tiger habitat, preservation of tigers' prey animals and controlling illegal poaching," he pointed out.
WWF Nepal underlined that Nepal needs cooperation from the international community to control tiger poaching. Over the past one decade, tiger habitat has witnessed 40 percent loss and the tiger population has halved. Tiger population has declined from more than 100,000 in the beginning of the 20th century to 3,200 at present.
NEW DELHI: 1,411 -- that's the number on the lips of Indian celebrities fronting a new campaign to save tigers which was launched ahead of the Chinese lunar Year of the Tiger -- a time some conservationists fear will lead to a spike in demand for the endangered animal's body parts.
"Just 1,411 left. You can make a difference," is the message being broadcast on everything from TV adverts,
Facebook and YouTube, in what organisers say is India's biggest ever campaign to conserve the dwindling numbers of its national animal.
Conservation has not hitherto been seen as a big vote winner in India, where hundreds of millions live below the poverty line.
"I hope some of this could be transferred into votes, and politicians realise that the public now wants tiger conservation across India, and the tiger conservation gets more focus throughout India."
India is a key player in efforts to boost the global tiger population, which numbers just a few thousand and some wildlife experts say could be extinct in 20 years.
"All these things have been tried before," Belinda Wright, director of the Wildlife Protection Society of India, said of the multimedia campaign. "I think the difference with this particular campaign is that it has brought all the elements together ... the coverage has been fantastic."
"They're not telling anybody anything new. But what they're doing is creating a constituency which will then create political will," she added.
India's Environment Minister said at the end of last year that Indian tigers were in a "very, very precarious" state and could be wiped out in nearly half the country's tiger reserves.
Conservationists say the trade in skin and bones is booming to countries such as China, which has banned the use of tiger parts in medicine but where everything from fur to whiskers to eyeballs to bones, are still used.
The campaign was timely ahead of China's Year of the Tiger, which begins on Sunday and which India fears will spur poachers and smugglers operating in its forests to capitalise on increased demand for tiger parts during the lunar new year.
Tiger skins sell as rugs and cloaks on the black market, and can fetch up to $20,000 in countries like China.
New Delhi has been a vocal critic of the Chinese use of tiger parts in medicine, and wants its neighbour to phase out tiger farms it says violate international agreements.
*India's 38th tiger reserve opens :
PALAKKAD (Kerala): India's 38th tiger reserve and Kerala's second was Friday declared open by environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh. It would be known as the Parambikulam Tiger Reserve.
There has been a sharp decline in the number of tigers in India, with only 1,411 of them left, according to official estimates.
The tiger reserve was known as the Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary when it was set up in 1973 in a 285-sq-km protected area in Chittur area of Palakkad.
Another 358 sq km of forests were added, and the tiger reserve now has an area of 643 sq km.
It has a rich diversity of animal life. It also has a variety of trees, including teak, neem, sandalwood and rosewood. Kerala's first tiger reserve -- Periyar Tiger Reserve -- is situated in Thekkadi in Idukki district.
---------------------------------------------------------------
Forget the environment. The Indian Tiger is the new ‘cool cause’ for Bollywood celebrities and youngsters.
Since the launch of the World Wildlife Fund’s Save Our Tiger campaign, everyone is talking about Stripey, the baby tiger in the video and the diminishing numbers of India’s national animal.
The campaign site has 56,400 members, with hundreds joining every hour and fan groups have cropped up all over the Internet.
Besides, MS Dhoni, captain Indian cricket team, who is one of the faces of the campaign, filmmaker Kunal Kohli has been writing about it on microblogging site Twitter. “Save tigers, donate to the right causes, spread awareness to stop poaching, give money for causes that help breeding,” wrote Kohli.
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