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shubha ghogar

International Day of the World's Indigenous People, 9 August - 0 views

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  • This theme highlights the need for preservation and revitalization of indigenous cultures, including their art and intellectual property.  It can also be used to showcase indigenous artists and cooperatives or businesses who are taking inspiration from indigenous peoples' customs and the indigenous communities who may have participated or benefited from this.
  • It is also a reminder of the responsibility of individuals as consumers, to understand that there is a story and a personal experience behind every piece of cloth, textile or artwork from an indigenous individual or community.  
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    Indigenous people
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Indigenous Peoples' Literature - 0 views

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      shubha ghogar on 22 May 12
       
      Indigenous people are very important portion of humanity. Their heritage, and they ways they live in this plant is an invaluable treasure house for us all. Indigenous people in every region of the world many cultures they live together and interact. Indigenous people they live in climates from arctic cold to like amazon heat, and indigenous people the natural world is a valued source of food, health 
Aylie Fucella

People of the Amazon | Greenpeace International - 0 views

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  • The Brazilian Amazon alone is home to 20 million people including 400 different indigenous groups and the future of the Amazon depends on the future of those that call the forest home.
  • It provides almost everything from food and shelter to tools and medicines, as well as playing a crucial role in people's spiritual and cultural life.
  • use 32 plant species in the construction of hunting equipment alone. Each plant has a specific role according to its physical and chemical properties.
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  • As logging companies move in, indigenous people are losing their traditional territory. Some indigenous people, such as the Deni living in a remote area of Brazil's Amazonas state, are working not only to protect their culture, but the forest and the diversity of life upon which they depend.
  • Manaus is the commercial centre of the Amazon region with a population of almost two million.
  • Aylie Fucella on 05 Jun 12
     
    looks cool ANGUS
shubha ghogar

Indigenous Quotes - BrainyQuote - 0 views

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      shubha ghogar on 05 Jun 12
       
      This is a really good quote, it saying that, there are not quick fixes when indigenous people are heading to poverty and it going to become a social disaster.
Meredith :) GELSINGER

People of the Amazon Rainforest - 1 views

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indigenous Eco-Tourism WWF CEO

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  • 10 million
  • today there are less than 250,000 indigenous natives.
  • 215 ethnic groups speaking 170 different languages in an area composing 190 million acres of land – roughly twice the size of California.
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      Meredith :) GELSINGER on 22 May 12
       
      There are lots of groups but if we destroy the rain forests we wont have them anymore :(
phdinawesomeness

Atlantic Rising - Case Studies - 0 views

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    *Engineers - use this article to study the indigenous people's arguments and create 'counters' using facts from other sites.
shubha ghogar

http://www.ifad.org/pub/factsheet/ip/e.pdf - 0 views

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      shubha ghogar on 05 Jun 12
       
      There were more than 370 million  indigenous people in 70 countries and before they use to be more. Indigenous people play a crucial role managing natural resources.
Aries Wangbunyen

WWF - Amazon - World's largest tropical rain forest and river basin - 0 views

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  • The landscape contains:One in ten known species on Earth1.4 billion acres of dense forests, half of the planet’s remaining tropical forests4,100 miles of winding rivers
  • Basin
  • 2.6 million square miles, about 40 percent of South America, in the Amazon
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  • There is a clear link between the health of the Amazon and the health of the planet. The rain forests, which contain 90-140 billion metric tons of carbon, help stabilize local and global climate.Unfortunately, deforestation may release significant amounts of this carbon, which could have catastrophic consequences around the world.
  • Amazon, a place two-thirds the size of the U.S.,
  • Unfortunately, deforestation may release significant amounts of this carbon, which could have catastrophic consequences around the world.
  • There is a clear link between the health of the Amazon and the health of the planet. The rain forests, which contain 90-140 billion metric tons of carbon, help stabilize local and global climate.
  • WWF has been working in the Amazon for 40 years
  • construction of roads and dams, and extractive activities including illegal logging and climate change are the biggest drivers of deforestation and river degradation. At current deforestation rates, 55% of the Amazon's rainforests could be gone by 2030
  • 40,000 plant species, 3,000 freshwater fish species and more than 370 reptile species exist in the Amazon. It is one of the world’s last refuges for jaguars, harpy eagles and pink dolphins and home to many birds and butterflies. Thousands of tree-dwelling species including southern two-toed sloths, pygmy marmosets, saddleback and emperor tamarins and Goeldi’s monkeys are found here too.
  • More than 30 million people from 350 indigenous and ethnic groups live in the Amazon and depend on nature for agriculture, clothing and traditional medicines. Most live in large urban centers, but all residents rely on the Amazon’s natural bounty for food, shelter and livelihoods.
Daniel Herten

Medicinal Treasures of the Rainforest: Discover the healing resources of the Amazon - 1 views

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  • A look at the botanical treasures, both known and undiscovered, that exist within tropical rainforests.
  • The abundant botanical resources of tropical forests have already provided tangible medical advances; yet only 1 percent of the known plant and animal species have been thoroughly examined for their medicinal potentials.
  • 20 or 25 percent of the world's plant species will be extinct by the year 2000.
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  • Approximately 7,000 medical compounds prescribed by Western doctors are derived from plants
  • These drugs had an estimated retail value of US$43 billion in 1985
  • For maladies ranging from nagging headaches to lethal contagions such as malaria, rainforest medicines have provided modern society with a variety of cures and pain relievers.
  • • Quinine, an aid in the cure of malaria, is an alkaloid extracted from the bark of the cinchona tree found in Latin America and Africa. • From the deadly poisonous bark of various curare lianas, used by generations of indigenous peoples in Latin America, has been isolated the alkaloid d-turbocuarine, which is used to treat such diseases as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease and other muscular disorders. It also permits tonsillectomies, eye, abdominal and other kinds of surgery due to its anesthetic qualities. • From Africa, Madagascar's rosy periwinkle provides two important anti-tumor agents. One provides for a 99 percent chance of remission in cases of lymphocytic leukemia. The other offers a life in remission to 58 percent of Hodgkin's Disease sufferers. In 1960, only 19 percent had a chance for survival. Commercial sales of drugs derived from this one plant are about US$160 million a year. • Without wild yams from Mexico and Guatemala, society would be without diosgenin and cortisone, the active ingredients in birth control pills. Until recently this plant provided the world with its entire supply of diosgenin.
  • Finally, rainforest plants provide aids for research.
  • testing agents for potentially harmful food and drug products
  • Tropical forests offer hope for safer contraceptives for both women and men. The exponential growth of world population clearly demonstrates the need for more reliable and effectiv
  • e birth control methods. Worldwide, approximately 4,000 plant species have been shown to offer contraceptive possibilities.
  • The chemical components of plants that medicine men use in healing rites could conceivably be building blocks for new drugs or even cures for such scourges as cancer or AIDS.
Aries Wangbunyen

The Effects of Destroying the Tropical Rainforests - 0 views

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  • When the trees are cut down it takes away the habitat of the plants and animals. It also reduces the space for the indigenous people who have lived there for thousands of years.
  • This way of life has died out with contact from incomers.
  • Some native groups suffered greatly from diseases which they had no resistance to.
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  • Deforestation has led to the loss of thousands of species of insects, animals and plants. It means that important chemicals that could be used for medical purposes have not been found and will be lost.
  • Without the branches and leaves to break its fall, heavy tropical storms can quickly wash the soil from even an gentle slope.
  • The climate of the area becomes drier with the loss of the vegetation which acts as a "sponge" to hold on to the moisture. Having less cloud cover means the increase in temperatures. Both the burning of the trees and their reduced number increases the concentration of carbon dioxide. The extra carbon dioxide is believed to contribute to global warming, which in turn is blamed for the rise in sea level.
Cliff Garfield

Mining in Venezuelan Amazon threatens biodiversity, indigenous groups - 0 views

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  • Cliff Garfield on 04 Jun 12
     
    Mining causes a release of mercury
tharin

Benefits of deforestation - 1 views

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rancher scientist cosmetics engineer government furniture miner

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  • tharin on 05 Jun 12
     
    Whenever people talk about deforestation, usually the things that spring to mind are negative thoughts brought on mostly by media hypes and environmentalist drives. People think about global warming, depletion of natural resources, and the casual extinction of indigenous fauna and flora. Yet people don't seem to realize that there are actually quite a few benefits of deforestation.
Meredith :) GELSINGER

Rainforest people - 2 views

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      Meredith :) GELSINGER on 04 Jun 12
       
      These are kids that live in the rainforests
Meredith :) GELSINGER

The Rainforest: People, Animals and Facts * KidExplorers™ at ChristianAnswers... - 3 views

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indigenous rainforest people

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      Meredith :) GELSINGER on 04 Jun 12
       
      This is all about the rain forest people
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