A White Rhino and her calf walk in the dusk light in Pilanesberg National Park in South Africa’s North West Province April 19, 2012. Elephant and rhino poaching is surging, conservationists say, an illegal piece of Asia’s scramble for African resources, driven by the growing purchasing power of the region’s newly affluent classes. In South […]
Tag Archives: Environment
Deforestation reality.
Categories: Conservation, Environment, Planet Earth
Forests are very important to the enviroment because they use carbon dioxide (CO2) and produce oxygen. They also provide shelter and food for many different types of plants and animals. Trees are cut down for many reasons but the main reasons are to make space to build new houses and to clear land to grow […]
La Realidad de la Deforestacion
Categories: Conservation, El Medio Ambiente, Environment, Planet Earth, Recursos Naturales
Los bosques son muy importantes para el medio ambiente , ya que utilizan el dióxido de carbono (CO2 ) y producen oxígeno . También proporcionan refugio y alimento a muchos tipos diferentes de plantas y animales. Los árboles son talados por muchas razones , pero las razones principales son hacer espacio para construir nuevas viviendas […]
Bosawas needs to breathe!
Categories: community, Conservation, Culture, El Medio Ambiente, Endangered Species, Environment
Bosawas Natural Reserve іn Nicaragua was declared а biosphere bу UNESCO іn 1997. This is the largest protected reserve іn аll оf Central America. At over 20,000 km² (1.8 million acres) in size, almost half the size of El Salvador, the reserve comprises about 14% of the nation’s total land area making it the second […]
Vieques: El paraiso that conquered man’s development wrath!
No long ago I wrote a song about a few places that needed a voice of awareness to help recognize the beauty being destroy by man’s development wrath. Writen from what a local would say if facing a foreign corporation raping the local’s land.. ” I don’t want to see ”…..” in my land anymore.. […]
Three of the World’s most active volcanoes.
Categories: El Medio Ambiente, Environment, National Parks, Photo, Planet Earth, Travel
I love volcanoes, why you may ask? I don’t know,.. I just do. Their energy, their majestic presence or may be because where I was born is often refer as The land of Lakes and Volcanoes with 13 of them located within 200 kilometers on a little strip of land on the pacific side from the […]
Antartica collapsing beauty.
Categories: El Medio Ambiente, Environment, Oceans, Planet Earth
A massive glacier system in West Antarctica has started collapsing because of global warming and will contribute to significant worldwide sea-level rise, two teams of scientists warn in a pair of major studies released Monday. Scientists had previously thought the two-mile-thick (3.2 kilometers) glacier system would remain stable for thousands of years, but new research […]
A Cabin For My Weekend! #6
Steep Ravine Mt. Tamalpais, Mill Valley, California. One of the secrets of California state parks are the nine Steep Ravine cabins on Mt. Tamalpais just north of San Francisco. Mt. Tam, of course, is one of the birthplaces of mountain biking. It shelters 6,300 acres of redwoods, oaks, and meadows, with views to the Farallon […]
Oceans are the lifeblood of Earth, if they go, we go with them.
Categories: Environment, Marine Ecosystems, Oceans
I grew up near the ocean, the ocean was always a part of me, it becomes a big part of the lifestyle; people make their living from fishing, while surfing, diving, and family outings to the beach are commonplace activities. One of my fondest memories as a child in Nicaragua was to had the opportunity […]