BIOPLAN POSTING 2001-5-3
BIOPLAN POSTING 2001-5-3
Ken Creighton <ken.creighton@undp.org>
05/23/01 03:25 PM
Please respond to "Biodiversity Planning Support Programme"
Dear folks,
Please see the message in the attached about WWF's source of
conservation news stories in English,French and Spanish. Maybe worth
checking their wbsite address periodically for material for your
regional Bioplan lists.
Yacine, the story about Lac Lobeke in Cameroon may be of particular
interest to your list.
best regards,
Ken
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There are 2 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. WWF Features May 2001
From:
"Hild Glattbach" <hglattbach@wwfint.org>
2. UNEP Ozone Video Competition
From:
kongnoom@un.org
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 09:45:11 +0200
From: "Hild Glattbach" <hglattbach@wwfint.org>
Subject: WWF Features May 2001
WWF International Features
May 2001
These feature stories about the conservation organization WWF's field
projects are produced monthly in English, French and Spanish by the Conservation
News Service, WWF International, Gland, Switzerland.
The stories may be reproduced free of charge with due acknowledgement
given to WWF. To help us monitor this service, please fax or e-mail a copy
of the publication in which they appear to Managing Editor: Hild Glattbach.
Tel: +41 22 364 9556. Fax: +41 22 364 8307. E-mail: hglattbach@wwfint.org
The Features are also available on the WWF International website at:
http://www.panda.org/news/features/
1) Snow leopards poached for new skeleton trade
By Anouk Ride
Until recently, the endangered snow leopard has been hunted solely
for its coat of white-grey fur. But in the mountains of Central Asia it
now faces a new foe: bone traders. (724 words.)
2) Blue Danube, Black Sea: a portrait of the Danube Delta
By Paul Reddish
The delta of the River danube remains one of Europe's best-kept secrets.
While other parts of the continent suffer severe degradation this most
secret corner has its own success story. (860 words. Pictures available
from Claire Thilo, Communications Coordinator, WWF Danube Carpathian Programme.
E-mail: claire.thilo@wwf.at)
3) A disappearing abundance
By Jemini Pandya
Villagers around Cameroon's Lobeke National Park speak of a time when
there were so many animals they literally found their supper on their doorstep.
Now they have to go deep into the forests to find the animals to hunt.
It is perhaps this fact more than any other that is helping to convince
them not to poach. (876 words. Pictures available from Devendra Rana. E-mail:
drana@wwfint.org)
4) Good for the forest, good for business
By Stephanie Boyd
Just a few years ago Aserradero San Martín S.R.L , a Bolivian
logging and wood products company was struggling to stay afloat. When executives
at the family business heard important buyers in Europe and the United
States were beginning to demand forest products with a certified "green
label," they saw an opportunity to set the company on a course ripe with
potential. (920 words. Pictures available from Lynne Hall. E-mail: lynne.hall@wwfus.org)
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 08:24:13 +0700
From: kongnoom@un.org
Subject: UNEP Ozone Video Competition
UNEP Ozone Video Competition
Bangkok, May 23, 2001 - Aspiring film makers in developing countries
are being
invited to focus on the ozone layer in a global video competition organised
by
the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
"The international community has won several battles in ozone layer
protection,
but the war is far from over," said Klaus Toepfer, UNEP Executive Director.
"News journalists, independent producers and the general public all
have a
responsibility to ensure that the race to protect the ozone layer does
not
disappear from the headlines. UNEP's Global Video Competition is a
chance to
bring the ongoing story of the planet's greatest achievement in international
environmental cooperation home to everyone," Mr Toepfer said.
The competition is open to amateur and professional video producers
and must
focus on the Ozone Layer and the need to protect it from environmental
degradation.
Entries should be submitted on a broadcast quality format to National
Ozone Unit
offices, in the country of production, by August 15, 2001, enabling
UNEP's
Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific to select regional winners
for prizes
of $2,000 and $1,000 in September.
The global winner, to be chosen by a professional jury appointed by
UNEP's
Division of Technology, Industry and Economics OzonAction Unit, will
receive
$3,000 and an invitation to attend a screening of the film at the 13th
Meeting
of Parties to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone
Layer in Sri
Lanka in December.
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For more information please contact:
Lud Coppens, Regional Ozone Network Coordinator for South Asia, UNEP/ROAP,
tel
(662) 288-1670, email coppensl@un.org, Thanavat Junchaya, Regional
Ozone Network
Coordinator for South East Asia and the Pacific, UNEP/ROAP, tel (662)
288-2128,
email junchaya.unescap@un.org, or Tim Higham, Regional Information
Officer,
UNEP/ROAP, Bangkok, Thailand, tel: (662) 288-2127, email: higham.unescap@un.org.
UNEP News Release ROAP/01/11
Background:
The ozone layer is important because it absorbs ultraviolet (UV) radiation
from
the sun, preventing most of it from reaching the Earth's surface. Intense
UV
radiation is damaging to all forms of life. It causes harmful effects
such as
increased skin cancer and eye cataracts, plant growth is diminished,
the aquatic
food chain is modified, etc. The ozone layer also controls the temperature
distribution of the Earth's atmosphere, never allowing it to become
too hot or
too cold. With a damaged ozone layer, the Earth can suffer devastating
weather
conditions.
Some man-made chemicals containing chlorine
and bromine, when released into
the air, gradually infiltrate all parts of the atmosphere, including
the
stratosphere. The chemicals are broken down in the stratosphere due
to the high
level of solar UV radiation. This frees the extremely reactive chlorine
and
bromine atoms that take part in a complex series of reactions leading
to ozone
depletion.
More information is available at www.uneptie.org/ozonaction.html
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(See attached file: UNEP OzonAction Video Awards.doc)