Articles, tagged with "conservationists", page 4
13th February 2009
It is a popular hobby across the world. There are thousands of groups dedicated to watching birds at nature preserves, parks and recreational centers and even large groups that have annual conventions. You may be an individual dedicated to bird watching a...
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Author:
Jadon Sluck
20th January 2009
Solar Power: Is It Environmentally Friendly And A Valuable Resource
The topic of global warming is getting wide acceptance with more and more countries making the attempt to delay the insidious effects of this phenomenon. Todays scientists and conserva...
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Author:
topgear
01st December 2008
It's been a fascinating month as I have been in two separate worlds, the world of here and now, doing presentations on how to set up community based tourism enterprises in Sulawesi in Indonesia, and the world of the future for wildlife, forests and the hu...
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Discovery Initiatives
29th November 2008
The farming of tigers is a practice that is perhaps more cruel than anything else that involves big cats. And the overall business involves not just tigers. Lions, crocodiles, bears and other carnivores are also bred in captivity - in other words 'farmed'...
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Ailurophile
30th October 2008
There are political Tees, (to make a statement about the environment, democracy, freedom, war and peace or the electoral candidate you wish to support) and then there is the politically incorrect T shirt design which could be a rude T shirt, a funny T s...
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Author:
vishal
15th October 2008
Only some natural wonders stir the passion as does the famous Niagara Falls. Niagara Falls - one of the must see tourist attractions in the globe presents an awesome & breathtaking views to every visitors. Also, there is no single falls called 'Niagara Fa...
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Author:
SawhnSultz
10th October 2008
Forty years ago, there was a limited amount of information about chemicals found in tap water. At that time, the conservation of water, air and soil occupied the thoughts of many future environmentalists.
Today some former conservationists have joined...
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Author:
Laurel Tevolitz
08th September 2008
What travels at about six miles per hour, crosses over 800 rivers and streams as well as three mountain passes, and takes six days to reach its destination?
You've got it! Oil!
Every day, about 1.8 million barrels of oil travel down the Trans-Alaska...
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Author:
Kevin Retief
08th September 2008
Nature in Costa Rica is everywhere. I visited primarily to see the nature of this Central American country and was not disappointed. Pleasantly, because the wildlife leads to so much ecotourism in Costa Rica, the local people are generally very supportive...
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Author:
Richard Adams
21st August 2008
Technology is a wonderful thing and has enabled us as a race to achieve things we could have only ever dreamed of, and using manmade and developed technologies we have managed to reach the deepest parts of the oceans and climb far into outer space in o...
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Author:
dtymon
21st July 2008
Can India's tigers survive against the huge odds stacked against them? Do they really stand a chance against rampant poaching, habitat destruction, loss of prey and killings by villagers? Nearly a century ago there were over forty thousand tigers in India...
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Ailurophile
17th July 2008
The unlittered and silky-white shores lining Mexico's Baja Peninsula exist, still, hidden somewhere among the luxury Cabo hotels and the clumps of tourists that paint its beaches and fill its waters. But for every 'hotel zone' or row of bars, there are s...
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Author:
Enid Glasgow
14th July 2008
ECOTOURISM- Now in India…
In India, ecotourism is still mostly hype and inaction. The National Tourism Policy of 2002 is quite ambitious about eco-tourism. Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh also have ecotourism policies. But th...
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Author:
Rajneesh
30th June 2008
The Time is Now to Start Becoming a Conservationist
It really wasn't that too far back in time that being a conservationist had its down sides. Back then, conservationists tended to wear tie-dyed shirts and had girlfriends that were vegetarians with ha...
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Author:
Martin Rantini
25th June 2008
In the winter, energy bills are higher as we spend a lot more on heating so when the summer comes it should be a welcome sigh of relief but this isn't necessarily the case.
During the summer it can, (occasionally) get very hot so we get out the air con...
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Author:
Gill