1We think this is a special time where eco-friendly people need to unite to save their A time when lovers of the natural environment will be the leaders of a 'new common sense' This 'common sense' will see our communities ensure our planet becomes sustainable and To start， we need to support each The Environment Society of Australia wants to help by offering you the opportunity to find your green The Organic and Enviro Directories are great places to The Organic Directory allows you to find organic producers and retailers all over A Whilst our Enviro Directory sorts out all the green and enviro-friendly companies and groups across the You will also find， environmental articles featuring ecology and environment issues， organic farming and organic gardening， alternative technology breakthroughs as well as environment Finally we have also recently started our own nursery - the Heart Garden Nursery where we are hoping to combine an environmental， world peace and meditation community The hope is that we will be able to help you， our greatest environmental resource， inspire others and ourselves to smarter， more sustainable practises that save the environment and save our 2How we live our lives affects We turn on a tap and the water that gushes out may have been taken from a marshy place， making it just that little bit drier and less suitable for wading If we throw away a tin can instead of recycling it， more metal needs to be mined， perhaps eventually destroying a wildlife When you switch on a light， the electricity may come from a coal-burning power station， which releases gases into the air that contribute to global warming – the biggest threat faced by wildlife in the We can help wildlife by being more environmentally friendly in the way we live our lives – using fewer resources and less Using the link， you can download one of the activities that will help you to be environmentally This is an example so you can see the type of task you might choose to 中英对照的：_117005_htm 继续前天的补充：2】The Environmental Revolution - We Can Make a Difference! Since the first time having blown bubbles in my Open Water class， I've logged over 100 This love for diving has evolved into an intense passion towards protecting the ocean， and all of its I've chosen to put my love for the ocean into action， as an Actually， this passion extends out towards efforts that look to help all the planetary domains gain As such， I appreciate when others take the time educate me on those other realms for which I know less To be an environmentalist， one must choose the cause which resonates within ones sole， and run with One must be willing to educate people about the environment while being open to education from those people who support other Together we can help each other towards learning how to become a true "Environmentalist" We must all encourage positive collaboration and education as opposed to being against For example， sharks are being decimated to near extinction simply for their The fins are used to make Shark Fin soup， a delicacy popular particularly in Taiwan and S It would be easy to blame these communities for creating the However， in conversing with Asian environmentalists， they liken the culture around eating Shark Fin soup to the culture surrounding Americans eating turkey for Thanksgiving There are ongoing efforts to educate these people， by members of their own community， on just how dangerous this cultural practice is and the devastating impact this could have on their (our) world if all the sharks were to disappear as a Environmentalists everywhere are making a difference! Famous restaurants have taken endangered Swordfish off their menus， these same restaurants are buying wild-caught salmon (and boosting the economy of local fisheries in the process)， laundromats have started selling green detergent， this just to name a few of these enlightened This is how the "Environmentalist" can begin the Just find something you believe in and make a One by one， we can make our planet a cleaner place to live， steeped in healthy bio-diversity for generations to 3Giving 1% to Protect Our Environment Though most of the world's surface is covered by water， since the Earth is so large relative to human horizons， there doesn't appear to be a shortage of However， when one begins to think of land in terms of a human resource， ， a producer of food， a provider of wood， an expanse for passage， one realizes that many portions are either too lacking in nutrients， too high in elevation， too prone to flooding， or too cold or ice-ridden for extensive Furthermore， habitable lands are becoming less abundant due to desertification (the expansion of deserts due to the misuse of land)， agricultural expansions and rising sea Since humans aren't the only species that need land， it isn't surprising that this resource is becoming limited for other forms of life In part as a result of this added stress on living things， we are also witnessing extinctions of grand proportions-at a rate of many thousands species per Since these losses are largely due to human actions， such as deforestation and non-native species introduction， many are beginning to pay attention to how we use and protect Recent ecological research has also recently provided a message of hope concerning the future well-being of life on this In the world today， scientists estimate that the Earth is losing at least 1 percent of species every ten years， and the percentage loss may be close to 5 Even if only the lower rate persists， the Earth will have lost near half of its biological diversity by Can this be possible? Many esteemed scientists think While the future appears bleak， several recent insights tell us that we have the potential to significantly reduce what amounts to a biotic holocaust， one not witnessed on Earth for over 60，000，000 While there are hopeful signs in the area of human activities (such as increased acreage of nature preserves and national parks)， the hope of which I speak of here stems from specific characteristics of the other forms of life which may enable us to mutually coexist in the long The Earth's organisms are wonderfully varied in size， shape， function， behavior， and genetic One only need to consider that there are ~ 15，000 species of butterflies and ~50，000 species of mushrooms worldwide to begin to fathom the immensity of variety that this planet Yet， as different as the species come， the bulk of living things are also similar in a couple of very important Most living things live in relatively small regions and do not travel far from where they or their parents were In fact， recent biological and ecological work has determined that most land species are very particular about where they As opposed to humans whose choice of home is largely driven by economic and political forces (mobility driven by availability of wealth or forced relocation)， flora and fauna find themselves in locations for which they are We now know that many species of insects and plants have a very restricted range in which they Very few organisms are ubiquitous like we It goes without saying that you aren't going to find a Great Blue Heron or a Grizzly visiting Antarctica or climbing M Everest; yet you might find the snow bear (recently discovered and previously known as the Abominable Snowman) doing the Recognizing that most living things are rather localized during their lifetimes has profound implications， both hopeful and On the one hand， it suggests that we can learn a lot about species by parking our scientific minds in specific On the other hand， it means that if we destroy even small areas of the globe we are likely causing great and even irreversible destruction to the species that are found We have also determined that there are specific locations on our planet where a disproportionate number of species For our species， Asia serves as the homeland for In fact more than 60 percent of humans lives on this largest of continents (which only makes up 24 percent of the land surface on the planet) With other life forms， geographic concentrations sometimes defy We only recently became aware that the vast majority of terrestrial (as distinguished from oceanic or riparian) species collectively live on just 1 percent of the Earth's land (If humans lived at a comparable concentration level， we'd all have to cluster together in an area roughly the size of Antarctica or twice that of A) This mind-blowing realization has prompted those that have been struggling to protect organisms a new way of thinking about such They have concluded that if we humans could somehow find a way to avoid disturbing just 1-2 percent of the land surface， nearly 70 percent of the world's terrestrial species might be able to Recently some conservationists have refocused their attention on these unique The regions of the globe that contain such a splendid array of biological diversity have been named "hot spots，" a name that communicates their critical In what has to be the most beautiful books I have seen， Hotspots represents the collective work of scientists Russ and Cristina Mittermeier and Norman Myers as well as photographer Patricio Robles G In this oversized volume， these four scholars have assembled more than three hundred vivid photographs of some of the world's endangered species and threatened These absolutely breath-taking images come from the what they refer to as "the 25 most critically important regions" in the These regions originally constituted almost 12 percent of the world's land surface but now， due to human pressure at many levels， only a little more than 1 percent remains What makes these locations， which are found on all continents except Antarctica， so "hot" is that they are home to hordes of the Earth's plants and animals and they face imminent danger from a variety of human The Hotshot authors and others strongly believe that the global community can do wonders if these areas move to the top of our priority But what will have to happen for these spots to be protected? There are no simple answers to this central Unfortunately， those of us in the United States who have the luxury of time to even ponder such questions， face many obvious First， nearly all of the hotspots are located outside of our territorial boundaries， exceptions being the forests of Oregon and California as well as portions of Southern Florida (namely the Keys and the Everglades) Key hotspots are found in New Zealand， Madagascar， and Indonesia as well as the continental parts of south-east A Obviously we cannot expect that we will be able to force other countries to enact and enforce laws that will greatly reduce biological Yet， while many other countries have ratified the Biodiversity Treaty that was drafted at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit， it has never reached the floors of the US Congress for a vote; Canada， Japan， and the European Union are among those to ratify By this inaction our nation apparently lacks the wherewithal to support global conservation efforts as a matter of However， given that the wealthy nations in concert with international banks promote unsustainable extraction of resources in the world's developing countries， it would appear that we have an obligation to do If our national policy makers are unwilling to commit themselves to the protection of global ecosystems and species， we still have ourselves to look to for sources of positive All of us have tremendous purchasing power， especially in comparison to the majority of the other human residents on this planet; Barry Bearak， a Pulitzer Prize-winner journalist who recently spoke at Knox College's convocation， referred to the residents of the United States as "filthy rich，" a conclusion he came to after spending a great deal of time in the poorer regions of the world， particularly Afghanistan and I What we buy makes a The environmental campaign to support shade coffee rather than sun coffee is just one of many attempts for the consumer to support sustainable practices in regions of great ecological According to the Northwest Shad Coffee Campaign， shade coffee agricultural allows for the extraction of a desired resource but at the same time allows between 3-8 times as many birds species to persist not to mention many more mid-size mammals as well as amphibians and Coffee is also a particularly important commodity in terms of the health of ecological systems because the countries that produce the bulk of it are precisely the same countries that are home to the majority of the world's species; the countries of Brazil， Bolivia， Indonesia， Vietnam collectively produce ~40 percent of the 17 billion pounds of coffee that are harvested each year (folks， that's more than 3 pounds per person!) Burdensome debts also force many developing countries to endlessly delay infrastructure Debt-for-nature swaps， an idea proposed by D Thomas Lovejoy of the World Wildlife Federation in the mid-1980s， have enabled poor countries to relieve foreign debt and international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to increase commitment to conservation programs both at the same In these swaps， NGOs pay off a poor country's debt to a bank or well-to-do country at greatly reduced costs in order to establish agreements for investment in national parks， for While not a cure-all， these efforts have begun the paradigm shift from unabated expansion and unhealthy extraction to one supportive of saving natural ecosystems and securing the health and welfare of all human Threats to these locations represent massive scale intrusions taken by societies found on every Unfortunately， there is so much that will be lost if these "special" places aren't quickly protected from future On the bright side though， so much of the world's genetic diversity lives in just a couple handfuls of "hotspots" that if these locations were saved hordes of species would be able to persist into the next The time is now to respond to this fairly recent observation and It is time for the world to begin to act like a civilized 21st Century It is incumbent upon us， those with time and wealth， to maintain the momentum that others have The masses of life forms are relying on us to make the best attempt at this daunting yet critical Hopefully our species will be sensible enough to leave at least 1 percent of land alone， so that other life forms may continue to Do we need all 100 percent? 写不下了，如果觉得不够，可否把邮箱留一下，我继续补充
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