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Today there are merely 64,000 specimens left in the wild in 19 countries of the Americas.
These nations will prioritize the conservation and connectivity of habitat corridors and achieve concerted action to curb further isolation of the jaguar population.
(UN News)* — People everywhere need to remember that we depend on Mother Earth to survive, the UN chief said in his message for World Wildlife Day marked on Tuesday [3 March 2020], advocating for “a more caring, thoughtful and sustainable relationship with nature”.
(UN News)* — Many parts of the world can expect above average temperatures in the coming months even without the presence of an El Niño event to drive warming, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Monday [2 March 2020].
The UN agency published its latest update on El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a naturally occurring phenomenon in the equatorial Pacific linked to heavy rains, floods, drought and other hazards.
(UN News)* – Humanitarian assistance needs to be scaled up significantly to more than a million people displaced by fighting in northwest Syria, a senior UN aid official said on Monday [2 March 2020], amid reports that children are freezing to death on the Turkish border.
“People are traumatized and frightened and urgently need better access to shelter, food, sanitation, basic health services and protection”, said Kevin Kennedy, Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syria Crisis.
At Irish Congress of Trade Union, Belfast
Mairead Maguire
I would like to thank Eamon McMahon and the Organizers of this event for giving us the opportunity to discuss what I consider to be one of the most important issues of our time, namely, War and Peace and the right for public to be informed what their governments are doing in their name.
Julian Assange, an Australian journalist founder and Editor-in-Chief of WikiLeaks, tried to uphold this right for us all and tell us the truth and for so doing he has been persecuted, demonized, suffered character assassination, and hounded like a criminal, by the USA government and media.
The current US charges against Assange centre on the Afghan War logs and Iraqi War logs, which the Guardian, New York Times and others published, and on the Collateral Murder in Baghdad, video showing an American helicopter crew gunning down civilians and the crew celebrating their murders.
2 March 2020 – The coronavirus Covid-19 presents the global economy with its greatest danger since the financial crisis, according to the OECD’s latest Interim Economic Outlook.
Covid-19 is spreading from China to other regions causing human suffering and economic disruption. It is raising health concerns and the risk of wider restrictions on the movement of people, goods and services, falls in business and consumer confidence and slowing production.
1 March 2020 (Pressenza)* — The pounding and discomposed mobilization of politicians and media against the coronavirus reminds of Peter and the Wolf: what could we ever do to communicate a real emergency, when the climate crisis at the gates will begin to have a serious impact on our lives (as it is already doing on those of millions of other human beings), now that everyone sees that the wolf is not there, or is not a wolf? | Italian
The theme of this year’s Day is the fight against discrimination faced by women and girls, and the organization aims to raise awareness, mobilize action, and promote equality.
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