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env1, Chavakali High School, Kenya, Question:

1. Give five reasons why the youth should involve themselves in conserving the environment.

 

2. One of the emerging issues in the world is about environmental pollution what activities are you undertaking to ensure that environmental pollution is decreased.

 

3. The region being covered by forest in the world has been cleared by around 60% what have you done to ensure that the there is no further deforestation taking place ‘in the world.

4. What can be done to reduce global warming in the world

 

5. As  a school what are you doing to make the environment around you  to be suitable for living

 

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Answer from env2

 

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Answer from env3

 

Deforestation

            If you asked people 10 years ago if they knew what deforestation is most of them would have said no. “Deforestation is the permanent removal of forest cover from an area, and the conversion of this previously forested land to other uses. Deforestation is not logging it is the result of clearing trees for a change to a non-forest land use, such as agriculture”. Deforestation is becoming a serious issue throughout the world. Trees are such important aspects to any ecosystem, and to people. Trees take in the carbon dioxide we emit and produce oxygen which we breathe in. Wood is such a valuable resource that we sometimes take for granted seeing as we have such an abundant supply of it. Now that we are becoming aware of many environmental problems such as greenhouse gases and global warming, deforestation has become an issue of great importance. “Already 60% of the region being covered by forest in the world has been cleared”.

One of Canada’s many exports is wood. It is the primary reason as to why our economy recovered from the recession in such a small period of time compared to other powers such as the United States. Some things the Canadian government is trying to do to reduce the amount of deforestation is Integrated Landscape Management (ILM). ILM means planning land uses over an entire landscape and encouraging different land users to work together. For example, coordinate forest clearing with oil sands development, to ensure forest companies harvest timber cleared for oil sand use. We feel that Canada monitors it deforestation rate very well compared to other nations because deforestation affected less than 0.002% of Canadian forest in 2005. In addition, Canada’s deforestation rate accounts for less than 0.04% of the world’s rate.

Some things that our school has implented to reduce deforestation is that we have an eco-club that plants trees. As well, our school is becoming more technologically advanced; we now use Moodle instead of printing handouts and wasting paper. As students, we could contribute to reducing the deforestation rate by using led pencils instead of using wooden pencils. In addition, we could reuse more paper, and personally recycle more. We as students need to change our ways because we are the future of tomorrow, it will be up to us to fix this problem. If we are not willing to make the necessary changes the problem will exist for generations and generations to come. Rainforest are the lungs of our planet.           

Austin Sooklall, Rishy Mahendran, Naazim Sufi, Owais Khan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn521aOASvg

 

 

 

 

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Answer from env4

 

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Answer from env5

 

Dear ENV1

 

We believe that youth should be involve in environmental conservation because,conserving the environmental will help make it a better and save place for us the future generation;our involvement will also send a positive signal to world leaders that we are concern about the future the earth;conserving the environment will help safe plant and animal from extinction.If we do not get involve we will not be able to see and benefit from plant and animals that would be extinct. For example Liberia had a large hippopotamus population in the natural forest but illegal hunting and indiscriminate killing of these animal in hunting have  made the hippo population to either migrate or disappear in the Liberia forest.

Liberia has a rich natural Rain Forest which contribution immensely  to our national Economy.During our 15 year civil war,illegal logging activities were carry out in the forest thus contributing to a huge deforestation between 1990 to 2005.The united Nation Security council banned the exportation of timber and logged from Liberia in 2001,because of the illegal logging activities.In 2006,the sanction was lifted ,the government is now encouraging Re-forestation,Planting new trees in forest or woodland that have been depleted.The government has also introduce a bar coding sysem attached to log to track illegal logging activities.However,our research also reveal that the farming method widely practice in Liberia has also contributed to environmental pollution.In Liberia,rural farmers cut trees,clear a forest area and burn down the wood to create farming space.This practice have also contributed to carbon dioxide emission.

 

 

Our group has join an Environmental network called Environmental program Online for an annual ENO Tree planting event to promote a greener Liberia and help to reduce the impact of Global warming. We are creatig the awareness for trees planting at the community level and getting other schools involve. Our campaign is also against the cuting of forest wood to produce charcoal. Burning wood into charcoal is a serious economic activites in Liberia.Most people who burn wood for coal cut trees down indiscriminately,they sometimes get the wood from there farm areas.The stop cutting tree indiscrimenatly campaign has just begun we hope to create the awareness in other provinces.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Answer from env9

 

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