Promotes environmental understanding, and increases public knowledge about environmental factors and problems of future generations.
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Mongolia: Protecting the Saker Falcon Among the rich fauna and species found in Mongolia is the iconic Saker Falcon, which, through conservation management techniques, is being protected and bred sustainably. One such effort is a project providing 5,000 artificial nests throughout 2o ...
AFRICA DR Congo At the University of Kinshasa, UNEP will make a presentation on the impact of food waste on the environment (''Impact du gaspillage alimentaire sur l'environnement - Notre responsabilité à tous") UNEP programme advisor Dieudonné Musibono, will discuss the food waste an...
Final Showdown Begins for World Environment Day Blogging Contest – Get Voting! Winner to Travel to Mongolia to Cover Global Celebrations for WED 2013 The votes are in! The winner of the Rio+20 Big Blog Off! is Scott Bartlett, an aspiring fiction writer and environmental activist. Read...
UN Calls for Accelerated Action with 1,000 Days to Go on Millennium Development Goals Thu, Apr 4, 2013 People around the world invited to join in boosting momentum for most successful global anti-poverty push in history | Français    | 中文   New York, 3 April - The United N...
In 2010 the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) World Environment Day campaign sponsored an amazing trip for a green blogger, Tuesday Phillips, to go to Rwanda. In 2011 it was Ximena Prugue who won the prize to go to India. For 2012, Scott Bartlett got to blog about World Environment Da...
Conscious Consumption is a social movement which centres on the understanding that our consumption impacts ourselves, our communities and our world at large. It covers not just choosing what to buy and where to buy it from, but also how to use what we buy and dispose of waste. Simply ...
Building on impacts, lessons learned and the interest of local partners, the ten new micro-watersheds in Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru also stand to benefit from the implementation of the ARA model. The model is simple: downstream water consumers contribute to a local conservatio...
The report also raises similar concerns on the impact of EDCs on wildlife. In Alaska in the United States, exposure to such chemicals may contribute to reproductive defects, infertility and antler malformation in some deer populations. Population declines in species of otters and sea ...
