Photos Of Manaus, World Cup Host City. Madamax: une aventure durable à Madagascar. Mad'arbres: utilisation durable des fôrets. Birdwatching wildlife in Madagascar. List of Kind of Birds species in Madagascar : For Madagascar non-passerines birds : Penguins • Grebes • Albatrosses • Shearwaters and petrels • Storm-petrels • Tropicbirds • Pelicans • Boobies and gannets • Cormorants • Darters • Frigatebirds • Bitterns, herons and egrets • Hamerkop • Storks • Ibises and spoonbills • Flamingos • Ducks • Osprey • Hawks, kites and eagles • Falcons • Partridges and quails • Guineafowl • Mesites • Buttonquails • Rails, crakes, gallinules, and coots • Jacanas • Painted snipe • Crab Plover • Avocets and stilts • Pratincoles • Plovers • Sandpipers and allies • Skuas • Gulls • Terns • Sandgrouse • Pigeons and doves • Parrots and allies • Cuckoos • Barn owls • Typical owls • Nightjars • Swifts • Kingfishers • Bee-eaters • Typical rollers • Ground-rollers • Cuckoo-roller • Hoopoes For Madagascar passerines birds : Red-Tailed Tropicbirds ( Phaeton rubricauda at left & at right) are Ravo 2007 pictures 1- ( From left to right ) Madagascar Tropicbirds :
Gaz de schiste : Toute l'actualité sur Le Monde.fr. Gaz de schiste - Google j M. Agriculture. Dérives de l'écologie. The Year In Dirty Energy: Money, Corruption, And Misinformation. Himalayas in danger of becoming a giant rubbish dump. The trash dumpsite in the Khumbu.
Photograph: Daniel Byers. /Mountain Institute Expedition There's nothing like waking up to bright clear skies with spectacular views of the Lhotse and Amu Dablam ranges – and a rubbish dump. This heap of beer cans, mineral water bottles and other material was just a few minutes' walk outside the village of Tengboche. It represents about a season's rubbish. The dump is not on the regular trekking trails which are, aside from the stray Fanta and instant noodle wrapper, admirably clean. But the dump exposes the risks of Nepal's strategy of lifting itself out of poverty by expanding its tourism industry.
The government has declared 2011 Nepal tourism year, and has sought to double the number of visitors to 1 million. But those numbers are already taxing local villages. It's even harder to clean up after the trekkers once they are gone. Even the village of Namche Bazaar, the biggest in the region, does not have a waste treatment system. Pollution in India. Revealed: the child victims of pesticide poisoning in India - News. A panorama of rolling hills distinguishes the landscape of Kasaragod, a northern district of the Indian state, Kerala.
With fertile land and an abundance of water, the cashew industry once flourished amidst dense vegetation, red earth and coconut palms. These forested valleys are home to rural communities still living off the land, such as Mamatha’s family who collect betel-nuts as their main source of income. The household of six adult siblings and their elderly father live in a small, overcrowded cottage, which they may have to sell to fund a series of operations that will remove the tumour distorting Mamatha’s face. Mamatha, her family claim, is an endosulfan poisoning victim. Endosulfan, an organochlorine insecticide, acts as a contact poison for a wide variety of insects and mites and has been used extensively worldwide on food crops like tea, fruits, vegetables and grains. However, last May, the manufacturing and usage of endosulfan in India was forced to a complete halt. Alaskan oil pollution. Polluted Ocean Photos. Oil spills and violence plague Shell operations in Nigeria: Oil.
Second of three parts Ask almost any environmental activist about Shell and he'll point to Nigeria, in West Africa.
Environmentalists say decades of oil production have left the Niger Delta one of the most polluted regions in the world. Shell is Nigeria's biggest operator, with more than 50 years of oil production there, and it's a main target of activists' wrath. The political and social situation there is far more complex than anything Shell will encounter in Alaska. Shell maintains that sabotage by rebels and spills from oil thieves drilling into pipelines or opening wells are mainly to blame for the pollution. Other assessments say aging and neglected equipment, substandard practices and insufficient cleanup efforts are also factors. Rick Steiner is a former University of Alaska Fairbanks professor and marine conservation biologist who has been to Nigeria five or six times to study oil pollution there.
Local activists drew world attention on the region in the early '90s. Forestry. Ecologie.