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Field visit to a "payment for ecosystem services" project in the the Aberdare mountain range that linked sustainable agriculture practices in the mountain range with water quality downstream in the Naivasha Lake, Kenya
©FAO/Damiano Lucchetti
Students made posters of forest, lake, desert, ocean, swamp, river, mountain, or coastline ecosystem's living and non-living organisms.
Aambyvalley Rd.,Lonavala,Mah.,India
now called Chalcidica minea
generally observed Cossidae moths are weak flyers
During the Salzburg Global Seminar session "Value(s) for Money? Philanthropy as a Catalyst for Social Transformation", Fellows envisioned their ideal "ecosystems" for philanthropy, which included a forest and an octopus!
"Fishing and livestock are not enough any more to sustain adequate incomei in Kazakhdarya-village. I established a carpenter’s workshop as an alternative income generation activity. The project (UNDP-GEF «Achieving ecosystem stability on degraded land in Karakalpakstan and Kyzylkum desert») helped me with equipment. I taught my skills to my sons. My shop is supplying the community with double window frames, doors and other wooden products. That is providing extra revenue to my family."
- Onaibek Akilbekov, carpenter
Photo by Nataliya Shulepina
Save nature that save You, Your Family, Community, Nation, Humanity
sasrai help you to save all those
“The world is heading for irreversible and potential catastrophic climate change.” "Nature does not discriminate rich/super power or a poorer, distress equally. Nature demand’s absolute care – We must stop `Consumption Slavery’, "Let’s have mission to spread sasrai-Movement aimed at habitable earth.
Dear Madam/Sir
Greetings from sasrai-Movement that has been working voluntarily since 2004 across the globe aimed at promoting prudent and sustainable consumption and conservation, optimum use and reducing the abuse of resources. `sasrai’ targets to animate, activate each individual, family, community, institution, organization to combat Climate Change, global warming, food, fuel, water, poverty, disaster, waste, ecosystem, biodiversity - finally reverse the devastating trend of globe. Road map towards the implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration - sasrai brings into focus Six MDGs, 09 time-bound targets and 31 quantitative indicators.
Scientists estimate that humans will consume twice as many resources as the planet can support by 2050. At the rate things are going, the Earth in the coming decades could cease to be a “safe operating space” for human beings. And have shown that human activities — economic growth, technology, consumption — are destabilizing the global environment,” We have already crossed four “planetary boundaries.” They are the extinction rate; deforestation; the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; and the flow of nitrogen and phosphorous (used on land as fertilizer) into the ocean.
"Human security will be progressively threatened as the climate changes," the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCCC) warned in its overview report. The Pentagon agrees. "Rising global temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, climbing sea levels, and more extreme weather events will intensify the challenges of global instability, hunger, poverty and conflict,"
UNSG said climate change “is a humanitarian issue, a development issue, and an issue of security and stability.” "The power of young people is essential if we are to succeed in facing global challenges, not least ending poverty and avoiding the worst impacts of climate change".
Albert Einstein opine ~Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act."
USA President in Berlin speech has said the global threat of our time severe storms, Famine and floods, Coastlines vanish, Oceans rise and Climate change. Obama said, "We have to all shoulder the responsibility for keeping the planet habitable, or we're going to suffer the consequences—together."
No matter whatever the experts, scientists, policy maker, power holder opine the prime force mass people far from the fact and perfectly perplexed by the malicious climate crisis. To reduce worldwide emissions each person participation is vital. sasrai commenced aimed at the same for the better earth for youth or our old age. Our appeal was very simple “To combat the Climate Change, Global Warming, Poverty, Hunger, Disaster - ensure Peace, Justice, Dignity and Rights for Each - save a bit, reserve, preserve, rejuvenate and conserve resources.”
Since commencement sasrai theme appreciated by several individual, institution, organization. Chinese President voiced the same and appeal to the Nation “build a thrifty society.” Absolute truth for today’s world careless consumption driving untenable production that driving changes in temperature and weather patterns and that’s Hotter, Hungry World. Hungry world will contribute millions of desperate people. Desperate people do desperate things: They riot, they fight over food, they overthrow governments, and the mass migrate to food-secure countries.
We believe humanity in need of Climate Responsible Community, Climate Compatible Development and we must get Each baby Caring to Each particle of Resources.
To Combat the Climate Change and Global Warming Threat
Please, save a drop of water daily, during all water related activities
Please, plant at least a Native tree annually at own home or community
Please, let’s waste not single particle of food
Please, let’s waste not single particle of any resource
Please, keep off electric appliances one minute daily
Please, suspend travel by personal car once a day
Please, keep a day in a week luxury free
Please, do not throw away the waste wherever you like
Please, No more junk food
Please, Avoid one time
Please, Buy items made from recycled materials
Please, Prefer land phone instead of your cell
Please, save one minute to think on Climate Change and Environment
You Can Reduce CO2 Emissions, Plant Native Trees Worldwide
sasrai Volunteer demand your kind contemplation to spread sasrai across the globe effectively. Please keep a sasrai-Movement slogan at the bottom of your each letter, printing and publication. Let’s keep a sasrai-Movement banner/poster at residence and office gate.
Regards
SM Farid Uddin Akhter
Secretariat In-charge
sasrai-Movement
email: fgaleeb@gmail.com
Phone: 88 01553 748 354, 0312855382
sasrai.com
Let's we try to save one Taka/dollar/pound/yen ........from our daily use, consumption, expenditure, LUXURY combat the CLIMATE CHANGE, GLOBAL WARMING and the sequences.
Let's be a desired friend to all creature, humanity, environment, earth
Plant for planet, water for world, environment for entire
sasrai – sustainable augmentation, solicited restraint, animated integrity
sasrai – work locally-serve globally, initiative local-outcome global
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Keep the planet habitable everyone's interest and each needed to be involved – sasrai is the strategy
sasrai commenced involved mass in most major combat, the climate change and global warming.
sasrai believe Peace, Justice, Rights, Dignity, Poverty, Hunger, Disaster, Development and Environmental Protection - Climate Change, Global Warming closely linked and inseparable.
Climate Change Critically Changing Civilization - Cordial, Prudent, Purposeful Partnering urgent ensure desired environment & ecology, habitable earth for the youth, next generation.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia
Philadelphia, commonly referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the second-most populous city in the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Philadelphia is known for its extensive contributions to United States history, especially the American Revolution, and served as the nation's capital until 1800. It maintains contemporary influence in business and industry, culture, sports, and music. Philadelphia is the nation's sixth-most populous city with a population of 1,603,797 as of the 2020 census and is the urban core of the larger Delaware Valley (or Philadelphia metropolitan area), the nation's seventh-largest and one of the world's largest metropolitan regions consisting of 6.245 million residents in the metropolitan statistical area and 7.366 million residents in its combined statistical area.
Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Quaker and advocate of religious freedom. The city served as the capital of the Pennsylvania Colony during the British colonial era and went on to play a historic and vital role as the central meeting place for the nation's founding fathers whose plans and actions in Philadelphia ultimately inspired the American Revolution and the nation's independence following the Revolutionary War. Philadelphia hosted the First Continental Congress in 1774, preserved the Liberty Bell, and hosted the Second Continental Congress during which the founders signed the Declaration of Independence, which historian Joseph Ellis has described as "the most potent and consequential words in American history". Once the Revolutionary War commenced, the Battle of Germantown and the siege of Fort Mifflin were fought within Philadelphia's city limits. The U.S. Constitution was later ratified in Philadelphia at the Philadelphia Convention of 1787. Philadelphia remained the nation's largest city until 1790, when it was surpassed by New York City, and it served as the nation's first capital from May 10, 1775, until December 12, 1776, and on four subsequent occasions during and following the American Revolution, including from 1790 to 1800 during the construction of the new national capital of Washington, D.C.
With 18 four-year universities and colleges, Philadelphia is one of the nation's leading centers for higher education and academic research. As of 2018, the Philadelphia metropolitan area was the state's largest and nation's ninth-largest metropolitan economy with a gross metropolitan product of US$444.1 billion. The city is home to five Fortune 500 corporate headquarters as of 2022. As of 2023, metropolitan Philadelphia ranks among the top five U.S. venture capital centers, facilitated by its proximity to New York City's entrepreneurial and financial ecosystems. The Philadelphia Stock Exchange, owned by Nasdaq since 2008, is the nation's oldest stock exchange and a global leader in options trading. 30th Street Station, the city's primary rail station, is the third-busiest Amtrak hub in the nation, and the city's multimodal transport and logistics infrastructure, includes Philadelphia International Airport, and the rapidly-growing PhilaPort seaport. A migration pattern has been established from New York City to Philadelphia by residents opting for a large city with relative proximity and a lower cost of living.
Philadelphia is a national cultural center, hosting more outdoor sculptures and murals than any other city in the nation. Fairmount Park, when combined with adjacent Wissahickon Valley Park in the same watershed, is 2,052 acres (830 ha), representing one of the nation's largest and the world's 45th-largest urban park. The city is known for its arts, culture, cuisine, and colonial and Revolution-era history; in 2016, it attracted 42 million domestic tourists who spent $6.8 billion, representing $11 billion in economic impact to the city and its surrounding Pennsylvania counties.
With five professional sports teams and one of the nation's most loyal fan bases, Philadelphia is often ranked as the nation's best city for professional sports fans. The city has a culturally and philanthropically active LGBTQ+ community. Philadelphia also has played an immensely influential historic and ongoing role in the development and evolution of American music, especially R&B, soul, and rock.
Philadelphia is a city of many firsts, including the nation's first library (1731), hospital (1751), medical school (1765), national capital (1774), university (by some accounts) (1779), stock exchange (1790), zoo (1874), and business school (1881). Philadelphia contains 67 National Historic Landmarks, including Independence Hall. From the city's 17th century founding through the present, Philadelphia has been the birthplace or home to an extensive number of prominent and influential Americans. In 2021, Time magazine named Philadelphia one of the world's greatest 100 places.
Additional Foreign Language Tags:
(United States) "الولايات المتحدة" "Vereinigte Staaten" "アメリカ" "美国" "미국" "Estados Unidos" "États-Unis"
(Pennsylvania) "بنسلفانيا" "宾夕法尼亚州" "Pennsylvanie" "पेंसिल्वेनिया" "ペンシルベニア" "펜실베니아" "Пенсильвания" "Pensilvania"
(Philadelphia) "فيلادلفيا" "费城" "Philadelphie" "फिलाडेल्फिया" "フィラデルフィア" "필라델피아" "Филадельфия" "Filadelfia"
Ambyvalley road,Lonavala,Mah.,India
"king of medicines" as per Ayurveda.....panacea for all illness...abundant here.
Combretaceae
also called HartakiHarda/Hirda
Tree
Native
source::flowersofindia
Food production more than doubled (an increase of over 160%) from 1961 to 2003. Over this period, production of cereals—the major energy component of human diets—has increased almost two and a half times, beef and sheep production increased by 40%, pork production by nearly 60%, and poultry production doubled.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) spacecraft stands vertical at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. PACE is NASA’s newest earth-observing satellite that will help increase our understanding of Earth’s oceans, atmosphere, and climate by delivering hyperspectral observations of microscopic marine organisms called phytoplankton as well new data on clouds and aerosols. Liftoff of the PACE mission is set for no earlier than 1:33 a.m. EST on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. Photo credit: SpaceX
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Jean Mombombi Nyangue a fisherman on the Congo River, Lukolela, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Photo by Ollivier Girard/CIFOR
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•Wang Shuo, Managing Editor, Caixin Media, People's Republic of China; Young Global Leader, •Morris Li Ming Shieh, President, China Guangfa Bank (CGB), People's Republic of China, •Hong Qi, President and Chief Executive Officer, China Minsheng Banking Corporation, People's Republic of China, •William R. Rhodes, Senior Adviser, Citi, USA, •Lord Turner, Senior Fellow, The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), United Kingdom
•Zhu Ning, Deputy Director and Professor of Finance, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, People's Republic of China; Global Agenda Council on Fiscal Sustainability at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2013 in Dalian, China 11 September 2013. Photo by World Economic Forum
Cutting the mangrove tree so it can be weighed for biomass calculations during Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) study on above-ground and below-ground biomass in mangrove ecosystems part of Sustainable Wetlands Adaptation and Mitigation Program (SWAMP). Kubu Raya, West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Photo by Kate Evans/CIFOR
Related research publication on mangrove:
Mangroves among the most carbon-rich forests in the tropics
www.cifor.org/online-library/browse/view-publication/publ...
Carbon storage in mangrove and peatland ecosystems
www.cifor.org/online-library/browse/view-publication/publ...
For more information about CIFOR’s wetlands research visit: cifor.org/swamp
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My kids and I had a fun time at the California Science Center today. We saw a great IMAX film about the Hubble telescope and also toured the very cool Ecosystems exhibit, which opened yesterday. Here I am with my Smokey the Bear photo that they borrowed for the Los Angeles section - there was a whole wall of great so.cal. photos - it was a an honor to be included!
L.A. Zone www.californiasciencecenter.org/Exhibits/WorldOfEcology/L...
part of the Ecosystems Gallery www.californiasciencecenter.org/Exhibits/WorldOfEcology/W...
There are thought to be between 20,000 and 25,000 bears in the world, which occur in 19 relatively discrete sub-populations, some of which are shared between nations. Topping the food chain in the Arctic, the polar bear is exposed to high levels of pollutants that are magnified with each step higher in the food web (a process known as biomagnification). Recent studies have suggested that the immune system may be weaker in polar bears with higher levels of toxic contaminants (e.g., Polychlorinated Biphenyls or PCBs). There is also evidence that the hormone system of polar bears is affected by pollution, something that may interfere with reproduction and growth. Climate change could also indirectly affect Arctic animals topping the food chain, such as the polar bear, through the secondary release of toxic contaminants have long been trapped in snow, ice and permafrost that is now melting.
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Yovanny's apartment building seems to be gradually reverting to wetlands.
It's the Circle of Life, people.
In 2003, EIA was approached by Botswana based NGOs and conservations for assistance in dealing with two entrenched and contentious issues relating to the construction of Veterinary cordon fences in two highly sensitive and ecologically fragile areas.
Credit EIA/Mary Rice
Family: Apocynaceae
Florida Distribution: nearly throughout
Ecosystem Type: flatwoods, scrub
Rarity: frequent
Interesting Facts: excellent butterfly nectar plant
First Nations, environmental groups and coastal forest industry representatives joined the Province to celebrate achieving ecosystem-based management in the Great Bear Rainforest.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2016PREM0011-000122
The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.