‘Environment’ Archives
Transcript: Dr. Richard Leakey on Tanzania’s Idiotic Serengeti Highway
It’s early July 2010 and the wildebeest migration has just started, over a million wildebeest and zebra are expected to flood into Kenya’s Masai Mara from Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park crossing crocodile infested rivers, and dodging lions and other predators. The ‘Great Wildebeest Migration, as it’s come to be known’ has been [...]
Foolishly, Tanzania Plans to Build Highway Inside Serengeti National Park
Baraza Wildlife Direct | Tanzania authorities are planning to construct a commercial highway across the Serengeti National Park marking an end to one of the worlds greatest spectacles, the wildebeest migration. The road will have untold environmental impacts and could sever a critical corridor for the annual migration of hundreds of [...]
South Africa battles to save rhinos from high-tech poachers
By Leon Marshall | NatGeo News Watch, Johannesburg -- It is a vicious triangle of lust (or love perhaps), greed and death. In faraway China a person feels in need of something that will perk up his sex life. The potion he mistakenly believes will do the trick is rhino horn, and he is prepared to pay good money for that. In South Africa, [...]
Nairobi Greenline to save the National Park
Kenya News Agency, KNA | In efforts towards marking the World Environment Day the Nairobi Greenline initiative planted over 50,000 trees in a bid to save the Nairobi National Park from further encroachment and environmental degradation caused by urbanization. "Today, Kenyans will show their resolve towards protecting the environment by planting [...]
Man Invests in ‘Shit’ bag
A Swedish entrepreneur is planning to mass produce Peepoo, a biodegradable plastic bag that acts as a single-use toilet, which may help millions of urban slum dwellers in developing countries like India. The bag, which is currently undergoing field trials in India and Kenya, is the brainchild of Anders Wilhelmson, an architect and professor in [...]
117 Russians in hospital after drinking holy water | Yahoo! News
MOSCOW – More than 100 Russian Orthodox believers have been hospitalized after drinking holy water during Epiphany celebrations in the eastern city of Irkutsk, an official said Monday. A total of 117 people, including 48 children, were in the hospital complaining of acute intestinal pain after drinking water from wells in and around a local [...]
Live Earth gigs send eco warnings around the world: Combat Climate Crisis
From http://www.bbc.com and http://www.liveearthblog.orgThe Live Earth concerts have drawn to a close, with the curtain going down in New Jersey in the US, after a finale performance from The Police.Rock stars around the world performed to hundreds of thousands of music fans to highlight climate change.Concerts were also held in Washington, Rio de [...]
