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Species Jeopardized by Global Warming
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Manmade green
house gases cause a barrier in the atmosphere preventing the heat to
leave earth causing the heat to bounce back to earth. Many animal
species around the world are directly endangered by this global warming.
Over twenty regions around the globe face animal extinction due to
global warming. The largest of these regions is in Northern Canada and
Alaska.
The US administration refused to participate in any kind of agreement
regarding the reduction of green house gas emitions. According to a
National Geographic report 80% of world's green house gas comes from the
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Sibirga Native Siberian
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Ecuador and Peru Amazon Natives Harassed |
Burlington Resources, a Houston-based oil company with record annual
earnings of some $1.2 billion in 2003, is the company drilling oil in remote
Amazon regions of Ecuador and Peru on territories belonging to four
indigenous nations--the Shuar, Achuar, Kichwa, and Z‡para--without their
consultation or consent.
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Ice Free Arctic by 2070
Satellite images showed that for the second year in row the Arctic
didn't refreeze. Calculations show that by 2070 the Arctic will be ice
free. Reports of changes due to warmer temperatures
are coming from throughout the
globe.
Some climatologists are trying to say that the global warming is due
to a natural process. The majority of scientists say that global
warming is due to human activity. Records from ancient ice show that the
levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today are the highest in
600,000 years.
As the ice melts there is more water exposed to the sun in summer.
The water then gets warmer and causes even more ice to melt. The
reduction of the Arctic ice then speeds up.
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In the North Ecuador borders Columbia, In the east and west
it borders Peru and in the West it is at the Pacific ocean.
Ecuador has four regions: the Amazon, the Highlands, the Coast,
and the Galapagos Islands. It has 22 provinces, which, in turn,
are split into 205 cantons.
The coastal provinces from north to south are Esmeraldas,
Manabi, Los Rios, Guayas, and El Oro. Highlands provinces are
Imbabura, Pichincha, Cotopaxi, Tungurahua and Chimborazo, in the
north, and Bolivar, Caiar, Azuay and Loja, in the south. The
Amazon is comprised of the provinces (from north to south) of
Sucumbios, Napo, Pastaza, Orellana, Morona-Santiago and Zamora-Chinchipe.
Ecuador's 22nd province the Galapagos Islands.
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Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People Shelved by UN
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A resolution on The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
was adopted by the Human Rights Council June 29, 2006. The Human Rights
Council adopted it by a roll-call vote of 30 in favour to 2 against and
12 abstentions.
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The Shuar and Achuar peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon want it to be known
that the position of our communities is 'no' to oil exploration, 'no' to
dialogue and negotiation, 'no' to deforestation, 'no' to contamination, and
'no' to all oil activities.
-- Bosco Najamdey, President of the Shuar Federation
Sibirga Natives
Akkanat
the leading Western Siberian Shaman and Elder, from the Sibirga Nation,
explains: Siberian Natives are divided
into three big language groups, which are Ugry, Samodijtsy and Turks.
Separately stand tribal Natives of the Far East. There are also Nations...read
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