Preservação da vida silvestre

By offering sustainable income, SLE significant alleviates poverty. Over 35% of Mongolian families live below the national poverty level (GoM/UNDP 2003). The same source indicates that a family needs 200-300 head of livestock to make a surplus and have ‘a good living’, but 85% own fewer than 200. Today the program involves about 400 families and each participating household earns about $100 from their handicraft production. The fact that SLE income is in cash is a significant advantage. Access to cash is traditionally limited in herding economies where trade is mainly by barter. The increased cash income gained through the program enables a general improvement in standard of living, widens choices, and increases control over members’ own and their families’ lives. All pastoral societies where livestock or wild animals provide an important source of raw materials for survival needs and everyday use possess a range of skills for making tents, clothing, ropes and other items. The skill training provided by SLE develops and refines these basic skills to enable people to make new products and to meet higher specifications suitable for the international market. The skills learned have also been exploited by enterprising members domestically and to manufacture items for sale outside the SLE program. This improvement in skill levels (‘upskilling’) has a beneficial effect on individuals and communities and reinforces personal self esteem. The program contributes to female empowerment in three main ways that are frequently interlinked. These are: 1. raising individual self esteem; 2. enhancing the profile of women within the family and the community; and 3. engaging women in decision-making on the environment. Many SLE participants identified ‘having a job’ or ‘learning a skill’ as important reasons for belonging to the SLE program and the SLE training has enabled them to meet higher standards and reach the international market. Cash earned through the program widens women’s spending choices, giving them more control over their own and their families’ lives. The most significant aspect of empowerment lies in the engagement of women in environmental decision-making. Women in Mongolia are generally well-educated and are unaffected by many forms of gender discrimination. However their main decision-making role is confined to the domestic environment: Making decisions on environmental matters is an area traditionally dominated by men, and one from which women have previously been largely excluded.

Mangalajodi Ecotourism has attracted approx.1000 tourists from six different countries, which provided livelihood to local community in capacity of Ecoguides, Boatman and provision of food. Moreover it attracted State tourism Department and tour operators to provide tourists on regular basis.

The impact of using a DASH protects the biodiversity of our Lake. Herbicides are toxins. They upset the biodiversity by impacting fish, their habitats, by disrupting the cycle of amphibians and plants. The DASH diver carefully removes the root system of invasive weeds, leaving the natives space to grow. Water wildlife remains intact. The water is free of another pollutant. Finally, the Eurasian Water Milfoil (EWM) is sent to an organic farm for composting and recycling.
Another impact area resulted from our court settlement. Our settlement opens the possibility for lake and pond associations throughout the state. The media coverage has been excellent. Our local papers, the Boston Globe and Big Island Pond in N.H. have reported our story. A Taunton group, to the south wants advice. A group in Becket to the west, emailed for information. I have received numerous phone calls. Last Saturday, the group of thirty volunteers from the Charles River Conservancy removed
thirty-four, twenty -gallon bags of recyclables and trash from Pegan Cove and the Henry Wilson Trail. Ten volunteers from Natick helped to clean up trash including a metal slide out in Medfield. We are excited to be working with our neighboring towns to better the whole watershed.

To assess our impact, we did pre- and post- surveys as part of our pilot program. They suggest that the WildLab curriculum and iPhone application increased student interest in and knowledge about birds. Students expressed increased interest in science careers, especially in schools with larger proportions of minorities. In addition, students indicated that they were better observers during the WildLab sessions than they were in their everyday lives. Students found the application helpful, fun, and easy to use. They also helped develop the software, requesting features that our team then implemented. The students, without any encouragement, utilized the camera to document their experiences. One side effect was the awakening of a latent biophilia, E. O. Wilson's term for the instinctive bond between human beings and other living systems. Students also developed a vocabulary to address environmental issues; the increased environmental literacy that resulted is crucial to their participation in future policy decisions regarding their own environment. Students were able to enter real data about birds to a database used by scientists in their research and spent time outdoors, leading to a new way to see their environment.

Teachers felt that the program was beneficial to their students because it gave them exposure to the outdoors and provided experiences with research, data, and technology. All teachers said they would participate in the program if it were offered in the future and offered new ways to use the mobile application, Web site, and curriculum.

In addition to the 6th-12th grade formal curriculum, a series of successful informal sessions were held at the Prospect Park Audubon Center in Brooklyn, NY with an age range from 6 months to 70 years old. Though the user interface was a challenge for some older participants, younger participants collaborated with them, so knowledge sharing happened across age groups.

We are in the implementation stages of this idea and have successfully recruited real estate brokers, construction (and de-construction contractors) and landscape contractors to assist with properties. We have begun the process of searching for eligible sites.

The social goals are
1.Increase awareness and sensitivity among India’s middle-class numbering 300M about the environmental impact of their lifestyles and consumption habits.
2.Rally their active support in shaping legal, political, cultural and behavioral changes that are designed to protect India’s natural riches including the Wildlife.
3.Create search able learning resources by codifying and archiving the explicit knowledge of this Community.
4. Cause behavioral change at the individual level to enhance environmental sustainability.
The club augments its activities online by offline activities on the ground. Some of the major activities have been organizing nature photography exhibitions, organizing screening of nature related films and promoting eco tours. The Club has over the years a good collection of photographs from its empaneled photographers. Dr. Sharma, the founder has also made five low cost documentaries on conservation issues which have been widely screened and distributed.
The growing membership(4000 plus) and responses by members to our user generated activities demonstrate the potential of the site. Continuous hacking on our database forced us to shut down our interactive features including registration for over one year, till we could arrange finances to upgrade the code. The site has now got upgraded code (Thanks to Indian Council of Social Sciences Research Grant)and we are on the verge of resuming full activity once again.
The real impact will be felt over a period of time when the community grows and is able to influence policy. The acceptance of IndianWildlifeClub.com in conservation and wildlife circles and the responses to our photo exhibitions and film screenings are proof that the impact can be translated to ground level action with ease and conviction.

The most famous Conservation organizations in India are World Wildlife Fund(India)-WWF(I) and Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS). A look at the statistics given by "Alexa" shows that WWF(I) is popular with the age group 18-24 and 35-44. BNHS is most popular with 18-24 age group. The online activities of both these sites hardly attract the 25-34 age group. The "Alexa" statistics for IndianWildlifeClub.com show that the site is most popular with the age group 25-34, the active working age group. These statistics are but indicators. However, it does give us satisfaction that we manage getting the attention of some of the busiest people who are currently taking decisions pertaining to our environment. These decisions could be regarding building a road through a national park, granting of a mining license in a forest, using pesticides and fertilizers in agriculture or something as simple as deciding on having a back yard garden in the house.

Rhode Island is the second most densely populated state in the country, and Aquidneck Island, a densely developed area that contains two cities and one town, is a desirable coastal area tremendously threatened by sprawl. The island has approximately 60,000 residents and welcomes about 3 million annual visitors, a situation that accentuates the importance of protecting the remaining open space values on the island.

In order to encourage residents and visitors to enjoy the unspoiled natural resources of the island, ALT is creating a free, publicly-accessible, uninterrupted 9 +/-mile pathway through more than 1,000 conserved acres that run along the eastern side of Aquidneck Island. A partnership with Newport National Golf Course in 2001 led to the creation of an early 2.2-mile segment of the Sakonnet Greenway Trail around the golf course perimeter. Construction of the northernmost 1.5-mile section of the trail, which winds through Portsmouth, began in summer 2007 and was completed and opened on October 19, 2007. The next 1.2-mile segment, which connected the northernmost section to the Newport National Golf Course segment, was built and opened to the public in 2008. Now, about 5 continuous miles of the Sakonnet Greenway Trail are enjoyed by the public. The final 4 +/- mile section will be completed in November 2011.

Lesson plans are also in development to aid local schools in turning the trail into a living classroom, helping children to learn in a natural environment, and highlight the importance of the environment.

To date our organization has raised close to $350,000 and has completed the construction of 1 mile of trail. The completed section of trail has become a huge success and is packed with families, senior citizens and people of all ages - all who are anxiously awaiting the connection of our trail to the neighboring Town of Windham's hugely successful trail. With the connection there will be more than 10 miles of continuos trail. We have also built a volunteer base of over 250 citizens in the community and have partnered with and begun to educate other communities along the rail corridor in an effort to work in partnership towards a larger regional goal of seeing the entire Salem-Concord Bikeway completed. Our work has become a model that is pointed to by people all over the state on how public/private partnerships can work for the common good of the citzens. For a group of only 7 volunteer board members, we have accomplished much in only 2 years. If we are able to raise the needed funds this trail can be a reality in 2010 - and provide incredible benefits to the community.

None yet. Parents may think its a crazy idea. I know that I wouldn't mind if my kids were a part of this program. How quick would a kid involved in this program throw trash on the ground?

PD Approach has been in Practice for nutrition rehabilitation programs in VManonga ADP of World Vision Tanzania resulting to marked reductions in child malnutrition and improvements in child health within a short period of Time .Its our hope that if used in Maternal issues the Result will be overwhelming.