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Cape Verde has been recognized as a global hotspot for terrestrial and marine biodiversity and United Nations in Cape Verde is actively involved in promoting environmental sustainability for the people and its' future generations of Cape Verde. On the island of Maio, two projects funded by GEF Small Grants Programme, are making the difference in shaping the minds and actions of the people.
"Marine Turtles Protection" is the first turtle conservation project in the history of the island involving the active participation of local communities and fishermen to protect Loggerhead Turtles. The project enables 17 fishermen and local people to be employed to patrol the beaches from June to October for the nesting and the hatchlings of the turtles. The local youth are also taking part in the conservation project by visiting the project sites and learning about the life cycle of the turtles and the eco-system of the island. The youth also had the opportunity to share their findings by organizing a theater performance at the municipality's festivals. Theater is relatively new to Maio and the play combined traditional story-telling techniques with an emphasis of turtle conservation andthe importance of preserving the natural environment.
This is a positive change in the increased awareness of the people where before, the hunting of turtles for their meat and eggs was common practice across the islands and egg predation by humans and other predators, had almost wiped out the breeding turtle population of the island.The project is also in alignment with Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (BSAP), a national government policy priority, which is also linked to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The project is really a local-to-global contribution.
"Revitalizing the Porto Ingles Wetlands" is also a unique cooperative project,empowering 70local women working in salt extraction. Porto Ingles Wetlandsinclude the largest «salina» in Cape Verdewith a heritage of salt extraction since the late 16th century. The entire salt production process in Maio is managed and operated by local women, and these women are proud and motivated in further improving their professional skills by actively participating in a technical exchange program to increase salt production with women from similar projects in Guinea Bissau, West Africa.The UN in Cape Verde will continue work with the Government, civil society, private sector, development partners, and families to promote sustainable development. After all, the women in Porto Ingles Wetlands have definitely illustrated that by working together and sharing experiences, they are not only helping each other to enhance the quality of life for themselves, but also are contributing to the lives of the people in Cape Verde and it's neighboring countries.
In addition,the project not only promotes sustainable traditional livelihoods of these women, it also promotes biodiversity by protecting and re-vitalizing the wetlands. The wetland attracts a wide variety of birds,including endemic species, for breeding and feeding.A protected fence is scheduled to be built to preserve and to develop this area as a natural reserve to incorporate eco-tourism as a unique bird-watching site in Cape Verde. The flocks of flamingo canalso be observed when visiting the Porto Ingles Wetlands.
Both projects, while aimed at issues related to MDG7, (Ensure Environmental Sustainability), have the added benefits of addressing poverty eradication and other MDG1 targets. The UN in Cape Verde and GEF Small Grants Programme continue to be committed to promoting sustainable livelihoods of the people by protecting the environment and utilizing the natural resources.
Article writen by Masakazu Shibata / One UN Communication Officer
U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers from the 339th Military Police Company (Combat Support), headquartered in Davenport, Iowa, train on route reconnaissance through the heat and high operational tempo of a Warrior Exercise (WAREX) held at Fort Hunter Liggett, California, June 19. The MP company's Soldiers had to relocate their tactical assembly areas in the field multiple times as they reconnoitered different areas of their operational environment, while fighting against temperatures reaching 100-plus degrees daily. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Master Sgt. Michel Sauret)
The HOBO UX100-023 External Temp/RH data logger records temperature and relative humidity in an indoor environment with its external sensor. Ideal for monitoring occupant comfort in office buildings, tracking food storage conditions in warehouses, logging temperature trends in server rooms, and measuring humidity levels in museums.
•Easy-to view LCD display
•Large memory capacity
•Visual high & low alarm thresholds
•New Burst and Statistics logging modes
The key to extracting usable energy from deep coal seams and depleted oil reservoirs may lie with their tiniest residents: the microscopic organisms known as methanogenic Archaea. These small cells, measuring only 1/10,000th of an inch long, inhabit the space between mineral grains in these deep underground reservoirs and grow by converting buried organic matter to methane, the principal component of the natural gas we use to heat our homes and generate electricity. The environmental conditions which control the activity of these miniscule gas generators are poorly understood, however, limiting our ability to develop strategies that harness their energies to improve natural gas production.
A recent publication in Frontiers in Microbiology from Matthew Kirk, an assistant professor of geology at Kansas State University, and his colleagues at the University of North Carolina–Charlotte and Argonne National Laboratory, sheds new light on the role salinity plays in controlling the activity of methanogenic Archaea.
ABOVE: Assistant professor Matthew Kirk and a student from Kansas State University sample water from natural gas production wells in the Cherokee basin of southern Kansas. Photo courtesy Brianna Kwasny, Kansas State University.
Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 0.50m LIDAR Composite Digital Surface Model (DSM).
Data supplied by Environment Agency under the Open Government License agreement. For details please go to: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/v...
For full raster dataset go to: environment.data.gov.uk/ds/survey
Sampling boat returning to harbour after completion of sampling.
IAEA experts visited Japan from 8 to 14 September 2014 and -- together with staff from NRA and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs -- collected water samples from the sea at five locations near TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station,
The water samples were shared both between the IAEA Environmental Laboratories and the Japanese Laboratories to e=be analyzed independently.
Photo Credit: NRA
Last week the University’s School of the Built Environment celebrated its close links with employers at a special prize-giving ceremony for students that followed Wednesday’s graduation ceremony.
www.salford.ac.uk/built-environment/about-us/built-enviro...
Environment- california based company shows their line of sustainable furniture environmentfurniture.com/
The supportive environment aims to tackle toxic stress, which occurs when a child experiences strong and prolonged adversity due to the war.
© IRC/Abdullah Hammam. All rights reserved. Licensed to the European Union under conditions.
Transfer of collected seawater sample into IAEA container.
IAEA experts visited Japan from 8 to 14 September 2014 and -- together with staff from NRA and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs -- collected water samples from the sea at five locations near TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station,
The water samples were shared both between the IAEA Environmental Laboratories and the Japanese Laboratories to e=be analyzed independently.
Photo Credit: NRA
Photo credit: Manuth Buth/UNDP Cambodia
In March 2020, over 330 students, women champions, government officials, NGO members and community members from around Kampot and Kep gathered in an effort to plant 3,000 mangroves and conserve Cambodia’s coastline. Shoes were abandoned on the sideline as people waded into the mud and shallows – the mission was much more important than worrying about dirty feet.
The local activity took place as part of a larger mangrove planting and marine exhibition under ActionAid Cambodia’s 100,000 Mangroves campaign, supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) under the project ‘Strengthening Climate Information and Early Warning Systems in Cambodia’. The campaign aims to plant 100,000 mangroves in eight community fisheries by May 2020 and raise awareness of the importance of marine ecosystems.
For more information, visit www.adaptation-undp.org/how-mangroves-mud-and-music-are-h...
Preparations for transport of collected samples after completion of the mission.
IAEA experts visited Japan from 8 to 14 September 2014 and -- together with staff from NRA and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs -- collected water samples from the sea at five locations near TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station,
The water samples were shared both between the IAEA Environmental Laboratories and the Japanese Laboratories to e=be analyzed independently.
Photo Credit: NRA
...isn't that romantic anymore. I forgot to download this a couple of weeks ago. About a year ago, I took a picture of sky over Los Angeles, wondering the fact that most clouds over that city were man-made:
www.flickr.com/photos/ikkoskinen/334412058/. Oh well, European big cities are not much better, as this picture shows. A good deal of clouds in Paris are from jet engines, and like in LA, they are in various degrees of degradation. Scary. We should travel less.
The goal of integration should be to make the environment easy to use by offering the highest possible level of synergy between the elements that constitute the environment.
This photo has been compiled from a batch of partially focussed images (Pictures 106 - Picture 142) using Helicon Focus software.
The images were taken from a microscope with a usb camera.
This was part of Nicole's 'Work Shadow' day at the University of Adelaide. Thanks to Dr Scott from the Environment Institute for setting up the interesting exercise.
My interest here is to document/describe the process by which the single 'sharp' image has been created from a bunch of blurry ones!
I'm hoping other students will narrate stories about the creature, or their fav field of study.
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Last week the University’s School of the Built Environment celebrated its close links with employers at a special prize-giving ceremony for students that followed Wednesday’s graduation ceremony.
www.salford.ac.uk/built-environment/about-us/built-enviro...
Environment day pictures by BWS are displayed at Sasken also.
There was a very good response.
Shot this in the evening after the viewers left.
( Unfortunately I could not shot when there was crowd. )
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Presentation by environmental activist Ross Mirkarimi hosted by DERES and the U.S. Embassy Montevideo. DERES is a non-profit business organization that promotes corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Uruguay.
San Francisco District 5 Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi introduced legislation in 2007 that prohibits large supermarkets and drugstores from providing customers with non-biodegradable plastic bags, making San Francisco the first city to regulate such bags. Since then other cities around the country and in Europe have take up similar bans.
[U.S. Embassy photo by Pablo Castro]
1 June 2014. El Fasher: A technician from the Ministry of Environment in North Darfur inspects a massive oven used to dry during the brick production in El Fasher, North Darfur. The production of bricks in Darfur is one of the most contaminating activities and erosive for the soil.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID
Last week the University’s School of the Built Environment celebrated its close links with employers at a special prize-giving ceremony for students that followed Wednesday’s graduation ceremony.
www.salford.ac.uk/built-environment/about-us/built-enviro...
Last week the University’s School of the Built Environment celebrated its close links with employers at a special prize-giving ceremony for students that followed Wednesday’s graduation ceremony.
www.salford.ac.uk/built-environment/about-us/built-enviro...
Last week the University’s School of the Built Environment celebrated its close links with employers at a special prize-giving ceremony for students that followed Wednesday’s graduation ceremony.
www.salford.ac.uk/built-environment/about-us/built-enviro...
5 June 2014. El Fasher: People attend the opening session of the celebration of the World Environment Day at El Fasher University, North Darfur.
The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the North Darfur Ministry of Environment organized, with the support of UNAMID, an event with a photo exhibition, technical lectures and awareness information for students.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID
5 June 2014. El Fasher: A student participate at the final "call for action" during the celebration of the World Environment Day at El Fasher University, North Darfur.
The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the North Darfur Ministry of Environment organized, with the support of UNAMID, an event with a photo exhibition, technical lectures and awareness information for students.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID
5 June 2014. El Fasher: A local drama group performs a show at the celebration of the World Environment Day at El Fasher University, North Darfur.
The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the North Darfur Ministry of Environment organized, with the support of UNAMID, an event with a photo exhibition, technical lectures and awareness information for students.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID