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Showing posts with label A2 BIODIVERSITY. Show all posts

Friday, 19 June 2015

No more nutella......

Chocolate spread on bread

If you chocolate spread- look away now!
Eating Nutella has been said in the guardian this week, to damage the environment- especially the Indonesian rainforest- which is cleared every year to grow palm oil.

BUT the company that makes it; ferrero says it is made from SUSTAINABLE palm oil.

Tuesday, 17 March 2015

Sisters- divided by oil in the Ecuadorian Amazon.



Yasuni park in Ecuador

The home of the gorilla under threat from oil exploration?


Should they destroy the Virungas for oil? 

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s prime minister has said that his government wants to find a way to explore for oil in the Virunga national park, a Unesco world heritage site , and will engage in negotiations with the UN body to “explore judiciously”.
Virunga, Africa’s oldest and most biodiverse park, has been on the list of ‘world heritage in danger’ since 1994, as two decades of armed conflict and intense poaching by militias has taken its toll on the park’s ecosystem.
In 2007, the Congolese ministry of hydrocarbons awarded two oil concessions straddling Virunga’s boundaries to the French major Total, as well as Soco International, a British oil company registered on the London Stock Exchange.
While Total quickly agreed to never explore within the current limits of the park – even in the event of a boundaries change – Soco has carried out exploratory activities in Virunga, concluding a seismic study in July 2014. The company said it will hand over the results of the seismic survey to the Congolese government in coming months.
The newly installed Congolese Conservation authority Hydro-electric plant in its finishing stages, on August 8, 2013 in Mutsora. This plant employs water drawn from natural flow and it will provide electricity for the industry in Mutsora, a town of over 30 000 people. Mutsora is in the "Block V" area of Virunga National Park. UK company Soco International PLC is planning to explore for oil in DRC's Virunga National Park, a protected World Heritage Site and most biodiverse park in Africa.

Ever heard of a pangolin? If you haven't you better hurry! or you never will!!!1

The unique animal the Pangolin which looks like a dinosaur but isn't, has been declared the world's most hunted animal. 

Pangolins are mammals with scales, of the genus <em>Manis</em> in the family <em>Manidae</em>. Their closest relatives are anteaters, armadillos and sloths. These two will end up on a dinner table in Gunagzhou, southern China, one of the areas of the world where their flesh is considered a delicacy.Poachers across Indonesia sell critically endangered live pangolins to middlemen for $28 (£18.70) to $31 per kilo; the average size of a pangolin is six to seven kg.

Many have fallen victim to poachers, whoi sell them for around £19 a kg.