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23/11/2019

Industrial Agriculture, Based on War Technologies, Kills Millions of Species: Agroecology Is the Future

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By Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service*

It Is Driving the Sixth Mass Extinction

On 6 August 1945 the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima which immediately killed 80,000 people with tens of thousands more dying later as a result of radiation.

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Prof. Vandana Shiva

As we remember the innocent victims, let us also think of the innocent victims killed in concentration camps and during the war as a result of the chemicals of war of the Poison Cartel.

This war and the poisoning continues.

These war technologies gave rise to chemical-based industrial agriculture, which is continuing to kill millions of species, driving the sixth mass extinction.

Species are disappearing at 1000 times the normal rate as toxics and poisons spread to every corner of the world.

The Amazon and Argentinian forests and savannas, so rich in biodiversity, are being destroyed to grow GMO soya.

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23/11/2019

Warm Welcome for Migratory Birds

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Read the story of a young Senegalese ecologist Astou who takes part in the annual waterbird count.

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Astou Sané actively participates in counting waterbirds in Senegal’s Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary. ©FAO/David Mansell-Moullin.

November 2019 (FAO)* — At dawn, the water here in Senegal glimmers with orange reflections.

Astou, a young ecologist, is in the Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary to take part in the annual waterbird count. Her excitement is evident as she’s been waiting for this moment for over a year.

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23/11/2019

Wanted: Cacao Trees

21 November 2019 (UN Environment)* — Since Louise won the Young Champions of the Earth prize, much has happened. A quick glance at her greenhouse shows the massive interest in growing cacao in the last few months alone. The previously stocked space is now empty.

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Photo by The Cacao Project (Photo posted here from UN Environment).

 

“Finding new ways of ensuring food security is one of the most defining challenges of our time. We need the creativity and innovation from youth to help all of us to restore soils, stabilize the climate and save biodiversity,” said Tim Christophersen, Head of Fresh Water, Land and Climate at UN Environment Programme.

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22/11/2019

‘Urgent Shift Needed in Approach to the Situation in Libya’ – International Organization for Migration

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Tripoli, 22 November 2019 (IOM)* – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is alarmed by the latest developments in Libya where, in the span of 48 hours, at least nine boats carrying more than 600 migrants have been discovered on the central Mediterranean route. A tenth boat arrived yesterday (21/11) in Lampedusa, Italy. 

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Photo from IOM.

This apparent spike in departures from Libya comes at a time when the capital, Tripoli, and surrounding areas are witnessing some of the heaviest shelling since the conflict erupted in April.

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22/11/2019

Majority of Adolescents Worldwide Are Not Sufficiently Physically Active, Putting Their Health at Risk – New World Health Organization-Led Study

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Unsplash/Paul Proshin | The UN health agency, WHO, is encouraging adolescents to exercise more. (photo posted here from UN News).

22 November 2019 (WHO)* — The first ever global trends for adolescent insufficient physical activity show that urgent action is needed to increase physical activity levels in girls and boys aged 11 to 17 years.

The study, published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health journal and produced by researchers from the World Health Organization (WHO), finds that more than 80% of school-going adolescents globally did not meet current recommendations of at least one hour of physical activity per day – including 85% of girls and 78% of boys.

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22/11/2019

Climate Change Is Breaking Open America’s Nuclear Tombs in Marshall Islands and Johnston Island

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By James Albertini | Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service*

The Marshall Islands say that plutonium is leaking into the Pacific Ocean from the concrete dome the U.S. built to dispose of its nuclear waste.  (Also see information below on Johnston Island plutonium contamination, etc.)

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During the Cold War, the United States nuked the Marshall Islands 67 times. After it finished nuking the islands, the Pentagon dropped biological weapons on the islands.

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22/11/2019

Pacific Countries Confront a Daunting Invasion Force

22 November 2019 (UN Environment)* —  “You can often tell from afar which atolls are free of rats,” says Manoela Pessoa de Miranda, UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Programme Manager for the Pacific. “Nature is in abundance. Vegetation is healthy. The air is full of birds. The sea is teeming with fish. Coral is thriving.

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“Seabird droppings wash into the ocean and fertilize the coral, which attracts the fish, which feed the seabirds, and so on. Rats break this natural cycle.”

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22/11/2019

New Global Atlas on Using Advanced Technology to Monitor Fishing Activity

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Fishing vessels with Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) increasing by 10 to 30 percent each year

Photo: ©FAO/Ernesto BenavidesFishing vessel moored in the port of Lima, Peru.

ROME, 19 November 2019 (FAO)* — A new global atlas – the first-ever of its kind – analyses the opportunities and challenges of using Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) to monitor fishing activity around the globe.

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22/11/2019

Need for New Vision for Fisheries amidst Growing Concerns over State of Oceans

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Rome (FAO)* — Fisheries are facing an important crossroad and the world needs a new vision for fisheries in the 21st century. This was FAO-Director General Qu Dongyu’s main message today [18 November 2019] at the opening of the UN agency’s International Symposium on Fisheries Sustainability (18-21 November).

Photo: ©FAO/Arete Will Baxter
Somali fishers carrying their catch ashore.

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22/11/2019

Deadly Life at Sea: UN Partners Spotlight Depths of Danger in Fishing Industry

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There is a clear link between the seedy underbelly of the seafood industry, and fishers’ safety, now ranked as the second deadliest profession in the world; and more must be done to ensure people dependent on this type of labour are working in safe conditions, UN partners urged on Thursday [21 November 2019]. *

UN Photo/Martine Perret | Fisherman in Timor Leste casts net in the water to catch small fish. UN Photo/Martine Perret

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