Environmental Info

Important: Watch “Alan Savory” on “How to fight desertification and end climate change“ People can have a reference to the clip that is there, but these are strategies that were developed for large extensive areas, what we call grazing lands, which are a component. It also fits into a context ...

Instead of neat rows of monoculture, forest gardens combine fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and perennial vegetables together in one seemingly wild setting. This type of agroforestry mimics natural ecosystems and uses the space available in a sustainable way. UK-based Martin Crawford is one of the pioneers of ...

Aliou: My name is Aliou Sall, coming from Senegal, West Africa. I’m a Fisheries social anthropologist. When I talk about fisheries, I’m referring to small scale fisheries. Judy: That’s the kind of fisheries that we believe are most sustainable are small scale fisheries. Aliou: Yes of course. It’s the most ...

MR KOLVE NOBRE DE CAVALHO – ATTORNEY GENERAL OF REPUBLIC OF SAN TOME AND PRINCIPE Question from the Audience:  Do we easily give that sort of universal jurisdiction when it comes to fisheries crime. That would be document fraud, human trafficking and all that. that is the main question. For piracy, ...

CAMILLA BRUCKNER – DIRECTOR – UNDP NORDIC REPRESENTATION OFFICE The US city itself represents in many ways the transition to sustainability that the sustainable development goals, the SDG’s as they are known popularly, what to promote. This building was designed by a Danish architectural firm called 3 times n. The ...

Many of the Large Ocean Nations are small island developing states. A thriving fishing industry based on fair competition and the sustainable use of the ocean is crucial for a viable blue economy that will support the well being of their populations, but large ocean nations have limited capacity to ...

Jamaica is located in the Carribean and we are smack between two major shipping lanes. We are also geostrategically located between the demand countries for narcotics in North America and the supply country countries in South America. Most importantly, the coastal waters in Jamaica are one of the most overfished waters ...

H.E. MR. HOGNI HOYDAL: It’s a great honour for me as Minister of Fisheries and Deputy Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands to address this workshop today where we will focus on the challenges of large ocean nations around transnational organised fisheries Crime, and the establishment of the large ocean nations ...

We interview Des Fernandes in his home in Cape Town. Judy: There is such a lot of confusion about skin and therefore there is a huge amount of abuse of skin, and I think that if people understood as much as you do, they might be kinder to their skin ...

A tightening noose We set off last week to go and take water samples from our drinking water supplies. Our objective was to determine whether or not chemicals from nearby farms could be found in our storage dams. So you can imagine our absolute shock in seeing what was left ...