Biodiversity

sustain a healthy planet, there's no doubt we need to fight to protect this resource. Protect Amazon Rainforest works to prevent Brazilian rainforest from being cut down in order to sustain a livable environment, preserve natural resources, ensure biodiversity, and support native peoples. Entre 1991 et 2000, la superficie totale de la forêt perdue de l'Amazonie est passée de 415.000 à 587.000 kilomètres carrés (160.000 milles carrés à 227.000), la plupart de la forêt perdue devenant des pâturages

I ORGANIC AGRICULTURE IN THE WORLD Organic agriculture is a production system that sustains the health of soils, ecosystems and people. It relies on ecological processes, biodiversity and cycles adapted to local conditions, rather than the use of inputs with adverse effects. Organic agriculture combines tradition, innovation and science to benefit the shared environment and promote fair relationships and a good quality of life for all involved.." The term organic farming was coined by Lord

and water management? We will first show that the water scarcity issue, if it is caused by population growth and economic development, is actually more complex, as it is interrelated with other environmental problems such as global warming and biodiversity loss. Moreover, if scarcity is considered as the result of water shortage, it has also roots in social issues and can thus be seen as part of an environmental justice. As a result, the lack of water highly threatens human and state security, leading

1 "Impacts de la perte de biodiversité sur les services rendus par les écosystèmes océaniques" "Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services" Science 3 November 2006 Vol. 314. ‣ Activités humaines  baisse des populations, des espèces, de la qualité de l’eau… ‣ Réserves en poissons et crustacés auront disparu d’ici à 2048 ‣ La perte de biodiversité est généralisée: côtes, haute-mer … et affecte les ressources en nourriture et la capacité à se régénérer ‣ MAIS, il est encore temps d’agir

and can result in arid land and wastelands. In many countries, deforestation is ongoing and is shaping climate and geography. Deforestation results from removal of trees without sufficient reforestation, and results in declines in habitat and biodiversity, wood for fuel and industrial use, and quality of life.

désigne la diversité de espèces , de leurs gènes , mais aussi la variété de leur habitat . La ’’ biodiversité ’’ Ce mot rendu célèbre par le scientifique américain Edward O. Wilson à Rio (1992), est une contraction de "diversité biologique" ou "biodiversity" pour qualifier le tissu vivant de notre Planète. Il recouvre l'ensemble des formes de vie sur Terre, les relations qui existent entre elles et avec leurs milieux depuis l'origine commune de la vie, c'est-à-dire plus de 4,5 milliards d'années

complementarities. A further obstacle to substitutability lies also in the multi-functionality of many natural resources. Forests, for example, not only provide the raw material for paper (which can be substituted quite easily), but they also maintain biodiversity, regulate water flow, and absorb CO2. Sustainable development can be varied complementary ways: politically, on Territories, in business, even in his personal life. Sustainable development was first implemented in the territories (at the Earth

Deforestation : Deforestation is dramatic because, every two seconds, it is the equivalent of a football field which disappear. It is responsable of 20% of CO2 emissions. Deforestation represent a triple threat for biodiversity, world climatic balances and living conditions in the forest basins. Greenpeace militates since the beginning of the year so that the question of deforestation occupies a central place in the debates in Copenhagen. Decisions must be taken there to protect the forests

europa.eu/ Sau de la mmediu.ro, legături utile - instituţii europene şi internaţionale – Agentia Europeana de Mediu (EEA). 2 documente: a) Situaţia de bază privind biodiversitatea Uniunii Europene în 2010, numele în engleză – European Union biodiversity baseline, 2010; acest document reprezintă modul în care la nivelul UE este percepută biodiversitatea şi care sunt principalele idei care fundamentează politica UE privind biodiversitatea; biodiversitatea europeană este componentă a biodiversităţii

national languages: Lingala, Tshiluba, Kikongo (Kituba) and Swahili. As the country was a colony of Belgium, French became the official language of this country. Among all other African countries, the Democratic Republic of Congo has the most biodiversity. The rainforest contains diverse species that are rare and endemic, such as, Okapi, Bonobo (Pygmy Chimpanzee), forest elephant, mountain gorilla, white rhino, and many other ape species. There are five national parks that are listed as the world