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Martes, 28 de Febrero de 2012 19:02 |
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Source: alertnet // Johann Earle
Members of a Wapichan community in Guyana look at a map created with GPS technology to document their land use and forest sites of livelihood and cultural importance. Photo: Tom Griffiths
By Johann Earle
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (Alertnet) – A group of Guyana’s indigenous people have unveiled a digital map of their territories as part of a project aimed at protecting 1.4 million hectares (5,400 square miles) of the country’s rainforest and preserving the community’s culture and language.
The 10-year mapping project is part of a longstanding campaign to gain legal recognition of Wapichan rights to their traditional lands. But by protecting the pristine rainforest, the community also aims to play its part in environmental conservation and efforts to curb climate change.
“In a very quiet way, the way of life of the Wapichan people is about fighting climate change,” said Kid James, a member of the tribe involved in the project.
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Martes, 28 de Febrero de 2012 18:50 |
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The poached ivory is believed to be exchanged against money, weapons and ammunition to support conflicts in neighbouring countries.
Geneva, 28 February 2012 - The Secretary-General of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), John E. Scanlon, has expressed grave concern over recent reports of the poaching of close to 450 elephants in Bouba Ndjida National Park in northern Cameroon.
Governments of the region are being offered support to find, and bring to justice, the criminals responsible and to locate and seize the poached ivory. Potential transit and final destination countries have also been urged to remain extremely vigilant and to cooperate.
"This most recent incident of poaching elephants is on a massive scale but it reflects a new trend we are detecting across many range states, where well-armed poachers with sophisticated weapons decimate elephant populations, often with impunity. The CITES programme for Monitoring Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) has revealed increasing levels of poaching in 2011. This spike in elephant poaching is of grave concern not only to Cameroon, a member state of CITES, but to all 38 range states of the African elephant, as well as the Secretariat", said Mr Scanlon.
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Martes, 28 de Febrero de 2012 10:06 |
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The first plants to colonize land didn't merely supply a dash of green to a drab landscape. They dramatically accelerated the natural breakdown of exposed rocks, according to a new study, drawing so much planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere that they sent Earth's climate spiraling into a major ice age.
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Martes, 28 de Febrero de 2012 10:03 |
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As humans warm the planet by releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, some researchers believe that capturing CO2 and trapping it in buried rocks could lower the risk of catastrophic climate change. Now a team of researchers has shown that bacteria can help the process along. They can even be genetically modified to trap CO2 faster, keeping it underground for millions of years.
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Martes, 28 de Febrero de 2012 10:01 |
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When it comes to the size of its protoplanetary disk, our solar system is just an average Joe. That’s what researchers will report in an upcoming issue of The Astronomical Journal about the extent of dust and gas from which our planetary system first formed.
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