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The Nature Conservancy Announces 2023 Photo Contest Winners
Photos from Hong Kong and Asia Pacific Region Received Multiple Accolades HONG KONG, Nov. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The Nature Conservancy (TNC) unveiled the winners of its 2023 Photo Contest, featuring images that help connect us to the power and the peril of the natural world – with closeups of creatures great and small, painterly…
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Monitor environmental and habitat conservation programmes, Agong decrees
TEMERLOH, Nov 6 — Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah today decreed for monitoring activities to be carried out for programmes involving environmental and habitat conservation to ensure the successful achievement of their goals. His Majesty said monitoring activities can be conducted by both the federal and the state governments, while efforts…
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Leonardo Challenge 2023, a great success
The Leonardo Challenge has diversified its goals over the years, addressing issues of crucial importance for society and the environment. Each edition delivered a new challenge and helped increase awareness of important issues. The first challenge, Race 2 Space, organised in 2021, focused on health and wellness: topics of great importance, especially in view of…
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Helping young people to become stewards of their environment
#inform-video-player-1 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #inform-video-player-2 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } In the decade since Richard Louv’s book “Last Child in the Woods,” educators, parents, health providers, conservationists and administrators have been rethinking the nature/child relationship. According to Lesley University, research is showing us the powerful, positive impact on the…
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Prince William goes dragon boating in Singapore ahead of Earthshot Prize ceremony SINGAPORE (AP) — Britain’s Prince William took to the waters in Singapore for a morning of dragon boating ahead of activities linked to the annual Earthshot Prize awards, which seek to promote finding solutions for the planet’s environmental threats. Donning a life vest…
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New Zealand’s ex-Premier Jacinda Ardern will join conservation group to rally for environment action
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will work alongside leaders from Conservation International to advocate for climate action and better treatment of the environment, the group said Monday. Conservation International said Ardern had become its sixth Arnhold Distinguished Fellow and would serve a two-year term to advocate internationally, especially on issues…
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10-storey Aqua Bay plan heads to Conservation Council
A proposal to demolish the 35-year-old Aqua Bay Club on Seven Mile Beach and build a 10-storey apartment block has been sent to the National Conservation Council for review. The council will examine any “potential adverse effects” that the development could have on the environment, before the plan is returned to the Central Planning Authority.…
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Q+A: Seed banks – critical for climate adaptation
<img width="800" height="415" src="https://news.myworldfix.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/37391790210_cd3c902ab5_c.jpg" class="img-responsive FeatureImage wp-post-image" alt decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" data-attachment-id="84626" data-permalink="https://forestsnews.cifor.org/?attachment_id=84626" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/forestsnews.cifor.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/37391790210_cd3c902ab5_c.jpg?fit=800%2C534&ssl=1" data-orig-size="800,534" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"Patrick Shepherd/CIFOR","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="37391790210_cd3c902ab5_c" data-image-description data-image-caption=" A Kenyan farmer pots up a seed. Photo by Patrick Shepherd/CIFOR-ICRAF ” data-medium-file=”https://i0.wp.com/forestsnews.cifor.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/37391790210_cd3c902ab5_c.jpg?fit=566%2C378&ssl=1″ data-large-file=”https://i0.wp.com/forestsnews.cifor.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/37391790210_cd3c902ab5_c.jpg?fit=622%2C415&ssl=1″> A Kenyan farmer pots up a seed. Photo by Patrick Shepherd/CIFOR-ICRAF Related stories The effects of climate change are putting today’s…
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5 Facts About Rwanda Every Global Citizen Should Know
By now, you must know that Move Afrika: Rwanda, A Global Citizen Experience will take place on Dec. 6, 2023 at the BK Arena in Kigali, Rwanda. Surely, then, you are also aware of the fact that not only is Kendrick Lamar headlining, but the rap superstar’s creative imprint pgLang will also be curating the…
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Configurational paths to the green transformation of Chinese manufacturing enterprises: a TOE framework based on the fsQCA and NCA approaches
Abstract In the current complex and ever-changing environment, the high-quality development of manufacturing enterprises has a long way to go. The theoretical framework based on technology, the organization and the environment (TOE) from a configuration perspective provides a new integrated theoretical perspective for studying the green transformation path of Chinese manufacturing enterprises. The research purpose…
