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Eco Travellers is a nature documentary following two travelers (both local and foreign) sharing the unique experience of Guyana’s eco tourism destinations within the Rupununi. Along their journey they learn that the country’s tourism model is strongly linked with the conservation of biodiversity and the natural environment.
Green Heart – video – by Caribbean Aqua-Terrestrial Solutions (CATS)
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‘Green Heart’ is a recommendable film on sustainable tropical forestry in the Green Heart of Guyana, where greenheart (Chlorocardium rodiei) timber, which is native to Guyana and neighboring Suriname, is being harvested by the ‘Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development’ (IIC).
‘Green Heart’ was commissioned by the ‘Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit’ (GIZ) GmbH through the ‘Caribbean Aqua-Terrestrial Solutions’ (CATS) program and financed by the ‘German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development’ (BMZ). CATS is a regional development cooperation program jointly carried out by the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and GIZ.
Recently, COP27, the twenty-seventh UN conference on climate change, ended.
Seen from a Caribbean perspective, the primary objective was to deliver with other vulnerable nations an agreement on ‘loss and damage’ through the creation of a mechanism that could provide the financing required to recover from extreme weather events. It was also about ensuring a continuing global commitment to what had been agreed at COP26 in relation to reducing carbon emissions and support for adaptation.
In the end, some progress was made. Agreement was reached at the eleventh hour to establish a loss and damage fund, although who will pay, how much, and what the criteria will be for any nation to qualify are for future discussion. Continue reading
A presidential visit to Saudi Arabia feels sadly inevitable.
By Ben Rhodes | The Atlantic
American foreign policy often highlights the gap between the values-based story that the United States tells about itself and the reality of how a superpower pursues its interests. The size of that gap will be impossible to straddle when President Joe Biden travels to Saudi Arabia to repair his relationship with the kingdom’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.
Biden is by no means the first American president who has struggled to reconcile a declared commitment to human rights with a more utilitarian definition of American interests. George W. Bush enlisted Saudi Arabia as an ally in the War on Terror even though 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, the wellspring of the Wahhabism that helped create the conditions for the attacks. Continue reading
SKY NEWS – AUSTRALIA
Netherlands Agricultural and Horticultural Organization’s Wytse Sonnema says there’s a broad sense of “frustration, anger, even despair” amongst farmers amid proposals for nitrogen reduction target plans. Farmers are protesting around the Netherlands over the government’s new policy which would see the country slash nitrogen oxide and ammonia emissions by 50 per cent by 2030. Continue reading
Several hinterland communities flooded once again — 2021 repeated
–- flooding streets, forcing residents to evacuate homes
— Last year, these and other regions across Guyana suffered after the country recorded the highest amount of rainfall in decades.
Jun 23, 2022 – Kaieteur News – Scores have been forced to evacuate their homes as massive floods hit Kwakwani, Upper Berbice, Region 10, Mahdia, Region 8 and a number of communities along the Cuyuni River, Region Seven.
Flood Scenes from Kwakwani, Upper Berbice, Region 10
Journey to the Sun with me – By Dave Rohee
Solar Panels
This is a fascinating trip and definitely worth your time! In this time of uncertainty regarding climate change, historic wildfires, relentless hurricanes, and devastating floods, we need to be more aware of our dangerous situation caused by weather.
By that, I mean, we have squandered our planet’s resources and hastened its demise to an uncertain future. It may be well beyond our imagination to even comprehend the challenges the future generations will face. But that is a discussion for another time.
You do not have to believe in climate change to understand the recent weather-related phenomena that have gripped our small part of the planet.
What I want to talk about today is our primary source of light and heat – The Sun! Continue reading
Wildlife in Guyana: By https://a-z-animals.com/animals/location/south-america/guyana/
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Below is a link to our website where you can find a complete list of Guyana’s animals. We currently track 207 animals in Guyana and are adding more every day!
The tropical rainforests, savannas, and coastal plains of Guyana are home to various types of animals. Some of the most unique wildlife native to this South American country include the jaguar, black caiman, cane toad, giant armadillo, jabiru stork, capuchin monkey, and leatherback turtle.
This country has 225 mammal species, 800 species of birds, 176 reptile species, 148 amphibian species, and 2,000 plus species of fish!
GO TO: https://a-z-animals.com/animals/location/south-america/guyana/
Multibillion-dollar deal promising to lift country out of poverty may be false dawn with dire impact on climate, warn campaigners
Annette Arjoon is not anti-oil. The marine conservationist calls the vast new oilfields off Guyana’s coast a “blessing” that will earn billions of dollars for one of the poorest countries in the Caribbean, even as she recognises that pulling yet more fossil fuel from the ground will deepen the climate crisis.
But Arjoon does have a problem with who is drilling the oil. She has seen firsthand what happens when the US’s largest petroleum company descends on a small country bearing the promise of riches. Continue reading
GUYANA: IMBOTERO RESEARCH CENTER : Merging Coastal Communities
GUYANA: IMBOTERO RESEARCH CENTER : Merging Coastal Communities & Science
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