"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the ways its animals are treated" was written by Gandhiji. Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk‚ he does not lay eggs‚ he is too weak to pull the plough‚ he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. Animals are considered as property only. All around the world animals are being used for people’s enjoyment like fairs‚ circuses‚ amusement
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population is removing trees to practise shifting cultivation and for fuel. To fulfill the demands of the urban population the forest cover is being destroyed. We need to conserve our forests as it preserves the ecological diversity and our life support system- water‚ air and soil. The Forest Conservation Act in 1988 made strict punishment for those who violated the rules. Strict measures were taken to regulate the activities of the tribals‚ prohibition regarding felling of trees in hilly areas and
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5/3/13 Saving Planet Earth - Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Saving Planet Earth From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Saving Planet Earth is a season of nature documentaries with a conservation theme‚ screened on BBC Television in 2007 to mark the 50th anniversary of its specialist factual department‚ the BBC Natural History Unit. The series featured films contributed by a number of celebrities on the plight of various endangered species‚ and coincided with the launch of the BBC Wildlife
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Save the Earth With all the talk about going green‚ it seems much easier to let the cards fall where they may. What’s easier? Just throwing all the trash into one can‚ or sorting it into separate cans? As hard as it could be to clear the mess that this and past generations have left‚ it would be severely healthier than the alternative. Plutonium is a dangerous toxin that is released from nuclear power plants. “Plutonium‚ which has the half-life of only 0.5 million years‚ but is so toxic that
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J Agric Environ Ethics (2008) 21:579–596 DOI 10.1007/s10806-008-9110-0 Vegetarian Meat: Could Technology Save Animals and Satisfy Meat Eaters? Patrick D. Hopkins Æ Austin Dacey Accepted: 24 June 2008 / Published online: 11 July 2008 Ó Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008 Abstract Between people who unabashedly support eating meat and those who adopt moral vegetarianism‚ lie a number of people who are uncomfortably carnivorous and vaguely wish they could be vegetarians. Opposing animal suffering
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Some wildlife species like the rhinoceros‚ cheetah‚ elephant‚ crocodile‚ snake etc. are hunted by the poachers. There are persons of much daring who go into the forest stealthily without the knowledge of the wildlife department authorities and shoot the animals which may be a source of great gain to them. Poachers have long been active in several parts of the world. The elephants are killed for their tusks of great value. A pair of tusks in the international market may fetch an enormous amount to
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Save the tigers Someday‚ we may never see tigers again because tigers are on the critically endangered list‚ which is why the National Zoo was celebrating Global Tiger Day. This is happening because of poaching and habitat changes. Large plantations have replaced a lot of tiger habitat in several tropical range countries. Tigers occupy only around 7 percent of their historic range. The current wild tiger population is at as few as 3‚200 tigers‚ including only about 400 Sumatran tigers‚ which are
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10 Ways to Save Paper Use both sides of every piece of paper. Find out how to make double sided copies when you photocopy. If you have a piece of paper that is printed on one side only‚ use the back as rough paper before you finally put it in the recycling box. Schools and offices are some of the worst offenders for sending out sheaves of A4 sized single sided letters and memos with only a couple of lines of text. Could you send out that memo A5? Could you include several topics in one letter
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In the name of GOD The topic is about disabled people‚ who are not able to see‚ hear or something like that. Most of people think that handicaps are different with us and they are not as healthy as we are or maybe they are unusual and useless. Sometimes we keep our difference from them or even trying to don’t see them. We think they are poor and disable and perhaps stupid just because of their features‚ but what is the truth ? Are they miserable and do they need our pity? Last week I saw a
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assam [æˈsæm] pronunciation (help·info) /ɔxɔm/ (Assamese: অসম Ôxôm) is a northeastern state of India. Its capital is Dispur‚ located within the municipal area of Guwahati city. Located south of the eastern Himalayas‚ Assam comprises the Brahmaputra and the Barak river valleys along with the Karbi Anglong and the North Cachar Hills with an area of 30‚285 square miles (78‚438 km²). Assam is surrounded by six of the other Seven Sister States: Arunachal Pradesh‚ Nagaland‚ Manipur‚ Mizoram‚ Tripura and
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