ADVANTAGES OF BIODIVERSITY By adopting a different‚ more positive‚ and more proactive approach to the challenges that environmental issues pose‚ Indian enterprises will greatly benefit in this millennium. The prevalent attitude today‚ with some exceptions‚ is that environmental concerns impose costs that are best avoided. This is natural since these are costs which can fairly readily be externalised and imposed on somebody else. Thus‚ when industrial effluents render river water unfit for drinking
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1. Wildlife traditionally refers to non-domesticated vertebrates‚ but has come to broadly reference to all wild plants‚ animals and other organisms. Domesticating wild plant and animal species for human benefit has occurred many times all over the planet‚ and has a major impact on the environment‚ both positive and negative. Wildlife can be found in all ecosystems. Deserts‚ forests‚ rain forests‚ plains‚ grasslands‚ other areas including the most developed urban sites‚ all have distinct forms of
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At FIJI Water‚ Corporate Social Responsibility is‚ and should be‚ a priority. Our company has gone to great lengths in order to identify areas of improvement‚ and then provide the necessary resources to make improvements. In attempts to reduce emissions we have evolved to new ways of running our business by reducing amounts of materials and energy used to produce FIJI Water. However‚ even with the current efforts to be more eco-friendly‚ more can be done. Switching to new fuel types‚ using a plastic
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Secondary focus is on materials conservation and energy conservation‚ which are seen as important to protect the natural world. Those who follow the conservation ethic and‚ especially‚ those who advocate or work toward conservation goals are termed conservationists. I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? ~Robert Redford‚ Yosemite National Park dedication‚ 1985 The
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ENDANGERED SPECIES Introduction An endangered species is a population of organisms which is at risk of becoming extinct because it is either few in numbers‚ or threatened by changing environmental or predation parameters. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has calculated the percentage of endangered species as 40 percent of all organisms based on the sample of species that have been evaluated through 2006.Many nations have laws offering protection to
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Turtle | Florida Box Turtle Terrapene carolina | | | Chelonia mydas in Kona‚ Hawaii. | A turtle with eyes closer to the end of the head. Keeping only the nostrils and the eyes above the water surface. | 1. | Snapping Turtle Tail. Blue Hills Reservation‚ Massachusetts | "Chelonia" (Testudines) from Ernst Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur‚ 1904 | The Western Hermann’s Tortoise (Testudo hermanni hermanni) is a cryptodire.Cryptodires hide their head inwards. | The Western Hermann’s
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Date:20.04.2011 Country Lovers by Nadine Gordimer Nadine Gordimer is a South African novelist and political activist.She was born in November 20‚1923 in a small mining town called Springs in South Africa to Isidore and Nan Gordimer.Her parents were both Jewish immigrants and from an early age she questioned her identity as a member of the minority white population in South Africa.She attended a Catholic Convent School but due to her mother’s ‘unusual’ assuptions
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Community Economic Development Can Transform World Economy Cape Breton University Written to: Professor Jason E. Prince Written by: Sana Alzahrani ID: 20130406 April 15‚ 2013 Introduction Economic activity is a universal concept that is inherent in all societies around the world. It entails all activities and processes that are related to the production and consumption of goods and services. Further‚ economic activity serves as the basic function of all societies and creates the foundation
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111. TOWARD A CRITIQUE Although I analyze each of these tenets independently‚ it IS important to recognize‚ as deep ecologists are fond of remarking in reference to nature‚ the interconnectedness and unity of these individual themes. (1) Insofar as it has begun to act as a check on man’ s arrogance and ecological hubris‚ the transition from an anthropocentric (human-centered) to a biocentric (humans as only one element in the ecosystem) view in both religious and scientific traditions is only to
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Journal of Geography and Regional Planning Vol. x(x)‚ pp. xxx-xxx‚ xxxxxxx 2011 Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/JGRP DOIXXXXXXXXXXX ISSN 2070-1845 ©2011 Academic Journals Full Length Research Paper The relevance of tourism on the economic development of Cross River State‚ Nigeria Ajake‚ Anim O. and Amalu‚ Titus E.* Department of Geography and Environmental Science‚ University of Calabar‚ Calabar‚ Nigeria. Accepted 21 December‚ 2011 This study investigated the relevance
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