Articles tagged with: Africa
Posted in Earth, Eco-Friendly, Environment, Go green, Green, concept on 5 August 2008
For the travellers of wilderness, the Green Living Project is like a dream come true for your folks. Well to start with, they let you travel to far off places, documenting all of the successful, sustainable projects that different communities are trying out. Not only this, you even get the chance to stay in eco-resorts that most people don’t even get to see. Right now they are exploring Africa and North America. Apart from taking fabulous trips to amazing places, the project hopes to inspire others by documenting and demonstrating successful, sustainable projects The documentaries are well made and include interviews with the local populace and the cultural aspect of the area.
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Posted in Animals on 18 July 2008
E ‘official: China can legally buy the ivory. The decision came a few hours ago in the meeting of CITES underway Monday in Geneva and which Ecoblog there had given account. As told to ‘AdnKronos Marco Valentini official of the Ministry of Environment has participated in the work:
With nine votes in favour, four against and two abstained the Standing Committee of CITES has admitted China, now next to Japan, purchase of ivory after the showing by the Beijing authorities, measures which prove the traceability of material .
In practice, China can thus buy ivory from South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Botswana comes from elephants that died naturally and can not be sold retail and only in the internal market.