For thousands of years, the indigenous people of Borneo have relied on the rainforest for their daily necessities, including fruits, vegetables, medicinal plants, meat, fish, firewood, construction materials, and clean water. They have maintained vital cultural ties to the forests, which serve as the focal point for traditional ceremonies. Over generations they have developed impressive […]
Nickel mining planned for the island of New Caledonia threatens its biological diversity, its public health and the cultural security of the indigenous Kanak people. The grassroots group Point Zero (formerly Action Biosphere) is working to ensure that local mining meets international standards. The South Pacific island of New Caledonia, a French territory, boasts the […]
——————————————- GREEN CAMEL BELL Greengrants has provided a series of grants to help this organization develop. The most recent is $5,000 for an educational handbook on pollution from radioactive waste. (2006) ——————————————- In 1999, environmental leader Liang Congjie, founder of Friends of Nature and TIME Asia reporter, called Lanzhou (the capital city of the Gansu […]
Overview The Teribe-Changuinola Watershed, in Western Panama, is home to the indigenous Naso and Ngobe peoples, and to some of the most important animal habitats in the hemisphere. Unfortunately, in the early 1970s the government of Panama discovered that the region also has the country’s largest potential for hydroelectric power. The result has been a […]
Shrimp is no longer the luxury food that it once was: in 2001 it surpassed canned tuna as the number one seafood consumed in the United States. From Thailand to Ecuador, a number of developing nations have created large-scale shrimp production industries. In Brazil, shrimp production has been growing by more than 50 percent a […]
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