" ILOILO CITY - “It’s not for me. It’s for the mangroves.” As always, Jurgenne Primavera thought about her advocacy first before her achievements. The retired Iloilo-based scientist has been featured...
A carbon footprint is the impact of greenhouse gases, notably carbon dioxide, on the environment. So the footprint for the proposed Essar Steel plant in Trinidad and Tobago is 900,000 tons per year. Please help...
opinion by rhea.mungal | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 364 views | 4 recommendations | 4 comments
Oil, Gas, Aluminum and Steel in Trinidad and Tobago “It was the best of times……. It was the worst of times…..” (Charles Dickens-A Tale of Two Cities) Here‘s The Real Deal 1. There are certain...
opinion by rhea.mungal | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 721 views | 10 recommendations | 13 comments
What does Essar Steel Corporation of India want In Trinidad and Tobago?It wants the cheap rental of high-value port lands, over five hundred acres, which was only three years ago allotted to former Caroni workers...
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"Mangrove forest functions to restrain tidal wave. Recently Jakarta mangrove forest is 376.52 hectares located in Angke Kapuk North Jakarta and Kepulauan Seribu district, 14 hectares of it has been scraped by sea water. Because of that, Jakarta Provincial Government through...
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"With it's luscious mangrove trees and abundant flora and fauna, Sundarbans established itself as the largest block of mangrove forests in the world. Placed at the heart of Bangladesh and West Bengal, India this asian tourist spot is also a UNESCO's World heritage site since...
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"Medan, North Sumatra (ANTARA News) - Around 60 percent of the total 85,393 hectares of mangrove forest areas in North Sumatra, were damaged seriously."Most of the mangrove areas have been damaged due to the opening of shrimp ponds and human encroachment," Director of Sumatra...
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The new New7Wonders of Nature campaign was launched at the end of the Declaration gala on 07.07.07. Since then, organizes have received input from more than half a million people around the planet, and hundreds of natural sites have been nominated....
Thousands of homes were ripped apart by ferocious winds, and tracts of farmland have been severely damaged.
“The first priority is to distribute food and other relief
items, to provide emergency shelter, and to...
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"Due to massive expansions of shrimp ponds since the 1980s, the world`s shrimp production had increased drastically to 1,084,641 metric tons valued at more than US$6.8 billion, director of the Nature Conservation...
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"Rasyid Assaf Dongoran, director of the Amanah Nature Conservation Foundation (Akasia), said here on Monday that 2.9 million hectares of Indonesia`s mangrove forests were located in Papua province, 195,000...
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"Build a shrimp farm in Thailand by cutting down mangrove forests and you will net about 8,000 dollars per hectare. Meanwhile, the destruction of the forest and pollution from the farm will result in a loss of ecosystems worth 35,000 dollars/ha per year.0530 02Many leading...
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"Talk about buying into the global warming hysteria. Ever since FNC offered up Robert Kennedy as a “special correspondent” on its much ballyhooed global warming report, Fox has become a sucker for the gaiaist...
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