Towards a Better World

10/05/2023

Happy Birthday Lucy Wills and Thank You for all that you did for Women and their Babies !

Lucy Wills, the pioneering medical researcher whose analysis of prenatal anemia changed the face of PREVENTIVE PRENATAL CARE for women everywhere.

The excellence of her work on tropical MEGALOBLASTIC ANAEMIA has long been recognized by nutritionists and haematologists. Every medical student has heard of its cure by her discovery of the Wills factor in yeast extract, which paved the way for the subsequent work on folic acid. It was one of the simple but great observations which are landmarks in the history and treatment of the nutritional anaemias.

Today, pregnant women around the world thank Lucy Wills, on her 135th birthday for the crucial research that PREVENTED BIRTH DEFECTS.

02/05/2023

More than 7 million metric tonnes of TUNA and Tuna-like Species are harvested every year.

Tuna species account for 20% of the value of all fishery items captured from the seas, and over 8% of all globally traded seafood.

Rich in Omega-3 fatty acids, minerals, proteins, and vitamin B12, TUNA has various other advantages. But the super fish is a victim of its own amazing qualities and nutritional properties, threatened as it is by the overwhelming demand from the human population.

Most of the world's tuna catches cater to the CANNING INDUSTRY.

USA, EU, Egypt, Japan and Australia have been the major markets for canned tuna.

According to the United Nations, latest data shows that 33.3 per cent of the stocks among the Seven principal TUNA SPECIES are estimated to be fished at "biologically unsustainable" levels.

In a bid to spread awareness about TUNA FISH and its importance to humans and planet earth, World Tuna Day also promotes the importance of SUSTAINABLE FISHING PRACTICES and educates the world on how TUNA have become ENDANGERED SPECIES due to the high demand for their meat.

STOP Corporate Loot - SAVE Tuna.

01/05/2023

"Without WORKERS, no CIVILISATION could be built.”

If suddenly the whole WORKERS of the whole World disappear then the WHOLE WORLD WILL STOP !

Let us all realise this and let us celebrate the WORKERS - these great people who make our World MOVE !

Let's Thank every WORKER and Wish them on this MAY DAY !

Revolutionary Greetings to all WORKERS across the globe, on this May Day !

20/03/2023

Missing Our Friend !

In an age of towering glass buildings accommodating offices and homes for humans, the tiny SPARROW has suffered the biggest brunt of RAPID URBANISATION by humans in the past few years. Lack of habitat, food and more than required Mobile usage are biggest reasons for the decline in the number of sparrows.

The high level of microwave pollution caused by mobile phone towers are also a key reason for the decline of sparrows.

Several native trees were felled to make way for cities and their place was taken by ornamental and other plants has taken a toll on the number of sparrows.

"The conservation of the house sparrow and its habitat is important as it will also help save much of the common biodiversity as well,"

Let's change our way of life, a bit
and
Let's Save the SPARROWS !!!

02/02/2023

WETLANDS are crucial for a HEALTHY PLANET. Wetlands are "Kidneys Of the Earth" - they CLEAN the environment of POLLUTANTS and regulate CLIMATE CHANGE as they store 30% of land based Carbon.

The health of people on our planet depends on healthy wetlands.They "PROVIDE LIVELIHOOD to One Billion People" - their ecosystems are worth USD 47 trillion annually. 40% of the world's species live or breed in WETLANDS.

The most important thing they keep us Safe. These WETLANDS PROVIDE PROTECTION from the NATURAL CALAMITIES such as FLOODS AND STORMS.

Yet they are DISAPPEARING THREE TIMES FASTER THAN FORESTS !

It's time We Wake Up and Protect our WETLANDS from the Corporate Loot !

29/01/2023

A "freethinker" is someone who bases her or his ideas on RATIONAL THOUGHT, on EVIDENCE, on SCIENCE, on REASON - as opposed to basing ideas on tradition, authority, or revelation.

Let's embrace Freethinkers Day by Challenging Arbitrary Authority, Questioning the Status Quo, and Constructing Logical and Reasonable Arguments against Engrained Behaviour.

This is an opportunity for people to listen to different perspectives. That is how people come out of SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEVES.

( Freethinkers Day falls on the birthday of Thomas Paine, a prominent thinker whose work and publications promoting a philosophy of Enlightenment heavily influenced the course of the American and French Revolutions.)

03/10/2022

HOUSING is a HUMAN RIGHT. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or in the shadow of that risk, while others cannot even imagine it.

According to the National Geographic Society, the place where any living organism makes its home is its HABITAT. This habitat is also supposed to contain all environmental conditions needed to survive — shelter, water, food, and space, in adequate amounts.

Every year thousands of people die because THEY DON’T HAVE AN ADEQUATE SHELTER TO LIVE.

As per estimates, 1.6 billion people live in inadequate shelters. Of those, one billion live in informal settlements.

More than 55% of the world lives in cities. As per global estimates, more than 96,000 thousand housing units will need to be built each year to meet the rising demand.

According to the present trend, urban areas will see an influx of an additional three billion people by 2050.

Thus, it is important to address the challenges facing the human population for a sustainable life.

Mind the Gap. Leave No One and No Place Behind !!!

28/09/2022

World Rabies Day is held every year on September 28. This date was chosen as it is the anniversary of the death of LOUIS PASTEUR – THE FIRST PERSON TO SUCCESSFULLY CREATE A VACCINE AGAINST RABIES.

The global COVID-19 pandemic has raised many doubts and misconceptions about VACCINATION in general. For RABIES, this is nothing new, as fears and misconceptions about the disease dates back hundreds of years.

FAKE NEWS will negatively affect the RABIES elimination efforts. FACTS are the only way to beat fake news, so help to SHARE ACCURATE FACTS about rabies control.

We need to dispel the myths about VACCINE HESITANCY and the MISCONCEPTIONS.

RABIES is a Vaccine-preventable Viral Disease. Dogs are the source of the vast majority of human rabies transmission and deaths.

Calling for effective Mass Dog Vaccination, instead of ineffective Dog Culling.

Vaccinate your pet. Act now !

Let us use facts to raise awareness and educate others about rabies – a 99% FATAL, yet 100% PREVENTABLE DISEASE.

Let us work together to Spread FACTS, and not FEAR, this World Rabies Day !

Let's achieve our goal of “Zero Human Rabies Deaths by 2030.”

25/09/2022

“ నీ తల వెంట్రుకలు, నీ మొగుడు, తండ్రి, సోదరులు, కొడుకులు మరియు తోటి మహిళలు మాత్రమే చూడగలరు పరాయి మగవాళ్లు చూడకూడదు” అని ఆదేశించే మతాచారామే హిజాబ్.

దీనికి వ్యతిరేకంగా పోరాటం చేయడం అంత సులువు కాదు. లాలిపప్ మీద ఈగలు, చీమలు ముసరకుండా ఉండటానికి దాని మీద wrap ఎలా ఉంటుందో అలాగే హిజాబ్ కూడా నీ అందాన్ని పరాయి మగవాళ్ల చెడ్డ చూపుల నుండి కాపాడి నీకు రక్షణ కల్పిస్తుంది అని, అంతేకాదు దీనిని ధరించడానికి నీకు ఎవరైనా అడ్డుపడితే ఎన్ని పోరాటాలు అయినా చేసి దీనిని ధరించే స్వతంత్రం సంపాదించుకో అని తర తరారలుగా మహిళలను brainwash చేసి వారిని కండిషన్ చేయబడి ఉంది.
దీనిని ఎక్కవగా promote చేసి ఆడవారి మీద రుద్దేది మగవారు.
అలాంటి హిజాబ్ కి వ్యతిరేకంగా ఇరాన్ మహిళలు పోరాడుతున్నారు. ఈ ఫోటో హిజాబ్ కి వ్యతిరేకంగా protest చేస్తున్న ఒక మహిళది.
వారి పోరాటం సఫలం కావాలని మనస్ఫూర్తిగా ఆశిస్తూ❤️

14/08/2022

To all my Pakistani Friends across the globe...

As Pakistan celebrates its 75th Yaum-e-Azadi (Independence Day) on August 14, 2022. This day remains significant as Pakistan not just received independence but was declared a sovereign state, following the end of the British Raj in 1947.

However, with every passing year, the country has only moved further away from Jinnah’s vision.

Pakistan is currently in the midst of one of its worst political, constitutional, and economic crises in its history.

Parliament has become practically irrelevant as the political elite is at loggerheads. The country’s judicial system faces a collapse, as thousands of cases remain pending in courts. The bureaucracy is deeply politicized and resists reforms that could see the administrative system becoming more effective.

This INDEPENDENCE DAY should be a day to reflect and ponder on the mistakes of the past rather than just celebrating.

It is about time that Pakistan’s leadership do some course correction and think about making Pakistan a country that is respected, valued, and sought after by the world.

More than ever, Pakistan needs a clear direction, otherwise, the gradual decay of the state’s institutions and ethos would eventually lead to the implosion of the state.

Happy Independence Day,
Jashn-e-Azadi, Pakistan !

13/08/2022

"I will never allow PATRIOTISM to triumph over HUMANITY as long as I live."

~ Rabindranath Tagore,
The creator of the National Anthem and his views on Nationalism, “freedom of mind” and opinions “forcibly made alike”

12/08/2022

The ELEPHANT is one of the most Pleasant and intelligent animals on the Planet. So being unique for their ivory tusks they are hunted & used and abused for loading logs.

Tens of thousands of elephants are killed every year, ONE EVERY 15 MINUTES. Driven by demand for IVORY as a symbol of wealth or prestige, the ILLICIT PROFITS OF IVORY TRADE FINANCE WARS, TERRORISM, ILLEGAL DRUGS and HUMAN TRAFFICING. The worst and obvious victims of the trade were the ELEPHANTS.

There are only about 470,000 elephants roaming the continent of Africa presently. Compare this to 3 to 5 million that roamed the vast expanses at the beginning of the 20th century. It's a frightening drop of 90 percent.

Only 35,000 Asian elephants remain. The ASIAN ELEPHANT is the Largest Endangered Mammal on Earth.

UNLESS THE SLAUGHTER OF ELEPHANTS IS HALTED, WE WILL LIKELY SEE THESE MAGNIFICENT ANIMALS DISAPPEAR WITHIN A FEW DECADES.

Protecting ELEPHANTS around the world will help in maintaining balance in the ECOSYSTEM. It is up to us to save elephants from extinction by educating people. So you can help elephants in the world by not using ivory-made products.

Stopping the crisis will require efforts from a diverse coalition of GOVERNMENTS, INSTITUTIONS, ORGANIZATIONS, MEDIA, SCIENTISTS, and INDIVIDUALS.

Let's do our bit and Let's Save them from EXTINCTION !

08/08/2022

Nothing is quite as Elegant as a BLACK CAT !

Some People believe that, If a black cat walks in front of them, it is thought that misfortune will come their way.

There are some countries where Black Cats are seen as good luck, such as Great Britain and Japan.

But Sadly, these days due to SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEFS, black cats are often seen as the unlucky ones. Consequently, they have been neglected and it takes longer for black cats to be adopted from shelters.

In fact there is no such thing as BAD LUCK or GOOD LUCK. Black cats are associated with STRENGTH, SENSUALITY, ELEGANCE, SUPPORTING and ADVOCATING.

So, let's Shun Superstition !

A society with SCIENTIFIC TEMPER will not fall for populist thinking and manipulation by politicians .They will demand better services from their representatives, thus Strengthening DEMOCRACY.

On this International Cat Day, Let's take an oath to Shun SUPERSTITION and Inculcate SCIENTIFIC TEMPER.

06/08/2022

Their LABOUR brings Produce to our PLATE !

It's time we care about them.

We all often see them as we drive by the fields, hundreds of strong backs labouring under the hot summer sun to bring in the harvest. "Farmworker Appreciation Day" was made to help raise awareness of these 'often forgotten bastions of the economy," and remind us to be thankful for all they’ve done.

FARMWORKERS help keep the world fed and work what is considered to be one of the MOST DANGEROUS JOBS in the first world, and yet the "OFTEN NOT PROTECTED BY THE SAME LAWS that Protect other Workers." This is due in part to their seasonal status and their tendency to be immigrant workers who return to their home country after the harvest is complete.

SOME OF THE HAZARDS THEY FACE in their line of work INCLUDE EXPOSURE TO PESTICIDES AND FERTILIZERS THAT CAN BE TOXIC or even worse. They work under the punishing SUMMER SUN for hours on end Without Shade. In the course of their jobs they apply pesticides, dig in fertilized soil, and harvest those same plants they previously doused with POISON.

In such perilous conditions, IT’S NOT SURPRISING THAT MANY DIE or FALL SICK each year FROM THE HAZARDS OF THEIR JOB.

Celebrating Farmworker Appreciation Day is a great chance to stand by them and share our generosity with those who helped bring FOOD to your PLATE.

Let's raise awareness among the people about the difficulties faced by FARMWORKERS every day and to stand by them.

Please use the hashtag to increase awareness on social media.

06/08/2022

29/07/2022

Nepal does it !

28/07/2022

If left untreated, LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF HEPATITIS CAN BE DEADLY. One of the more dire outcomes of this condition is CIRRHOSIS, a deadly liver disease. LIVER CANCER is another potential long-term side effect of CHRONIC HEPATITIS.

Hepatitis C is the most common form of Viral Hepatitis, but there's still No VACCINE for it.

With ONE person DYING every 30 seconds from a HEPATITIS related illness – even in the current COVID-19 crisis – We CAN’T WAIT To Act on Viral Hepatitis.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 354 million people in the world are living with hepatitis B and C. For most people testing as well as treatment is beyond reach.

Let's focus on raising awareness of the need to make hepatitis care more accessible. This day plays a significant role in improving the chances of curing the disease and stopping its further transmission. Awareness is required for people to get vaccinated against hepatitis B.

On World Hepatitis Day 2022, WHO is highlighting the need for bringing hepatitis care closer to the primary health facilities and communities so that people have better access to treatment and care, no matter what type of hepatitis they may have.

WHO also aims to achieve hepatitis elimination by 2030. To get there, WHO calls on countries to achieve specific targets:

✓ Reduce new infections of hepatitis B and C by 90%;
✓ Reduce hepatitis related deaths from liver cirrhosis and cancer by 65%;
✓ Ensure that at least 90% of people with hepatitis B and C virus are diagnosed; and
✓ At least 80% of those eligible receive appropriate treatment.

Decision makers CAN’T WAIT and MUST ACT NOW to make Hepatitis Elimination a Reality through POLITICAL will and sufficient FUNDING.

We Can’t Wait To Act on VIRAL HEPATITIS.

20/07/2022

Am I an AVIATOR because I've flown in a PLANE ?

Maybe its time to define the People who are Paid-to-fly ASTRONAUTS (or AstroPiliot, AstroCrew etc) and People who have bought tickets as PASSENGERS.

A small precision that the Non-specialized Media need to know, that the PASSENGERS are not ASTRONAUTS !

To deserve this title you must have completed at least one orbit around the Earth in SPACE (like Yuri Gagarin, the first in history), and these are only SPACE TOURISTS and in no way ASTRONAUTS, so will be the same for Passengers of Blue Origin etc,, as these two companies practice Ballistic Flight and not Orbital Flight.

Don't compare SPACE SCIENTISTS and ASTRONAUTS with "SPACE TOURISTS" !

They reached an altitude of about 88 kilometers over the New Mexico desert - enough to see the Curvature of the Earth. The Crew experienced a few minutes of Weightlessness before making a gliding descent back to Earth.

They are SPACE TOURISTS. Maybe in the early days of Space Tourism we can call them as SPACE ADVENTURERS.

But as ASTRONAUTS !? Nah.

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Disclaimer: This Post is in no way intended to hurt anyone’s brand, personal religious, political, spiritual, fanatic beliefs and/or faith, whatsoever. It is also not to defame or disregard anyone’s personal decision or his/her identity ! The creator of this Post understands, every individual has a right to do whatever he/she is doing and there is no intention to stop or highlight anyone from doing anything, they feel is their right, duty, and lawfully permissible. The same applies to the creator of the Post !

The intention is not to hurt Sentiments but a sincere effort to bring AWARENESS !

16/07/2022

SNAKES have been worshipped for ages not only in Hindu tradition but in various other Communities too.

Some traditions worshipped snakes and still do (Hindu tradition) while some associated them with evil (Serpent Satan in Bible). But the truth is Extreme Worshipping or Extreme Aversion to them, has made them the Victims of the “EXTREME SYNDROME”.

Snakes are Cold-blooded Reptiles, not mammals. Forcing them to Consume MILK is not offering Worship, rather leading them to DEATH.

Liberating ourselves from the MISCONCEPTIONS and conserving the SNAKES will be the absolute way of offering our Worships to this Beautiful, yet MISUNDERSTOOD CREATURE.

There are about 3,458 species of Snakes known so far, of which around 600 are VENOMOUS.

On this World Snake Day, Let’s shed our FEARS and MYTHS and try to understand this Species better.

14/07/2022

Species are called the “Building Blocks of Ecosystems,” yet humans continue to remove these blocks without fully understanding the consequences. Up to 100 million Sharks are killed Every Year.

SHARKS play an integral role in keeping our ocean's healthy. They do this by keeping other populations in check and preying on the sick and old. This Prevents the SPREAD OF DISEASE and improves the Gene Pool.

Think of the World’s Biodiversity as a giant game of Jenga:
if you keep removing blocks, eventually the whole thing will come tumbling down.

Let's Save Them to Save Ourselves !

08/07/2022

Justice System !?

06/07/2022

Let’s Protect THEM to Protect OURSELVES !

Wildlife serves as a reservoir for many diseases common to domestic animals and humans.

ZOONOSIS is a disease which can be transmitted from animal to human. RABIES is an example of zoonosis.

Generally, disease can be easily PREVENTED than TREATED. Nowadays, there is effective prevention through advance measures in Medical Science and VACCINATION.

Further outbreaks will emerge unless GOVERNMENTS take appropriate and necessary measures to Prevent Zoonotic Diseases from infecting the Human Population.

On this let's raise awareness amongst people, and teach them to take right action.

Let’s Break the Chain of ZOONOTIC TRANSMISSION.

Let’s Protect THEM to Protect OURSELVES !

* This day marks the successful administration of the first VACCINE against Rabies Virus, by Louis Pasteur, a French biologist.

30/06/2022

SOCIAL MEDIA is one of the Tech World’s biggest developments of recent times. The amazing thing about Social Media is it gives everyone a platform to Showcase their TALENTS, Voice their OPINIONS, or Document their DAILY ACTIVITIES.

SOCIAL MEDIA DAY is a way to recognize and Celebrate Social Media's impact on Global Communication. Social media now permeates the globe even more fully than it did when the day it was first created.

Stop HATE
Stop FAKE
Spread LOVE
Spread FACTS

Let's make Social Media, a place to build a better World !

29/06/2022

Let us Save Our PLANET EARTH.

27/06/2022

75 Years Since Independence, Industrial Working Class Still Struggles for Rights !

The Indian working class was a proud participant in the anti-imperialist struggle against British rule in India.

Today on the "Industrial Workers of the World Day", let's spend time remembering those who work in industrial jobs that help to make things run smoothly in our daily lives.

Their jobs are many times LABOUR INTENSIVE, and their labour shouldn't be taken for granted. This may be a good day to thank factory and construction workers, machinists, and welders. This is also a day to remember the role LABOUR UNIONS have played in helping workers, and this day specifically is dedicated to the Industrial Workers of the World. Regardless of one's views on their tactics and political beliefs, it is important to understand their role in history.

Today in terms of employment share, the UNORGANISED SECTOR employs 83% of the work force and there is only 17% in the ORGANISED sector. However, if we look at the nature of employment, 92.4% of all workers are informal workers, ie those with no written contract and thus excluded from the benefits of labour laws.

The wage of the Working Class is at most Pitiful levels. The REAL WAGE GROWTH in INDIA was one of the LOWEST IN ASIA. India’s “real wage” grew by a paltry 2.8% in 2015, 2.6% in 2016, and 2.5% in 2017, while it remained flat in 2018. Even among its immediate neighbours, such as Pakistan, Sri Lanka, China, and Nepal,

Pakistan’s wage grew 8.9% in 2015, and 4% each for the next three years, While China grew by 5.5-7% during the same period. India’s gross monthly wage of $215 was third from the lowest after Bangladesh and Solomon Island among the 30 countries of the Asia Pacific Region.

According to the ILO, after COVID-19, INFORMAL WORKERS saw a 22.6% fall in Wages, even as formal sector employees had their salaries cut by 3.6% on an average.

Women workers suffered the most in India during pandemic; Govt Policies still unfavourable for female employees.

Today, in a time when only a tiny percent of the working people are UNIONISED, and various sections of the unorganised sector are struggling to get specific laws passed and implemented in their favour – notably the construction workers, domestic workers, safai karmacharis – the Central government has chosen to bring in FOUR LABOUR CODES replacing 46 existing labour laws, despite various apprehensions regarding the impact of this enormous sea change of legal regime.

At this critical juncture, Let's stand by these Workers in their demands for scrapping the FOUR LABOUR CODES, opposing PRIVATISATION and enhancing the MINIMUM WAGE etc.

Source: ILO report.

26/06/2022

We Stand in Solidarity with the Women of America !

Rage and dismay swept several US cities as protesters took to the streets against the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Tens of millions of women in the US stand to LOSE THEIR RIGHT to an ABORTION after the landmark judgement, which legalized abortion nationwide, was overturned.

Chanting “Abortion Rights are Human Rights,” the protestors are standing on the ramp to the frontage road, as well as lining the sidewalks on either side.

Abortion is HEALTH CARE.
Abortion is FREEDOM.
Abortion is bodily AUTONOMY.
A country without this HUMAN RIGHT is not a FREE COUNTRY.

25/06/2022

No one is more HATED than he who speaks the TRUTH.

~ Plato.

22/06/2022

RAINFORESTS are essential because they Absorb Carbon dioxide from human activity, Produce OXYGEN, Provide FRESH WATER, Provide a home for half of the World's Animal and Plant Species, are the Source of Medicines, and Stabilize Climate Patterns. Their loss—of which approximately 40 football fields worth disappear each minute—threatens BIODIVERSITY and the overall HEALTH OF THE EARTH.

LOGGING, MINING, RANCHING, and agriculture are leading causes of DEFORESTATION, and deforestation causes 15% of the World's Carbon dioxide Emissions, which speeds up CLIMATE CHANGE.

Despite the raging PANDEMIC and the Lockdowns, India lost nearly 38.5 thousand hectares (Kha) of tropical forest between 2019 and 2020 making up nearly 14 per cent loss of its TREE COVER.

It's time to review the status of INDIA’S RAINFORESTS, which are restricted to the Western Ghats, and the Northeastern Himalayas. The former have already lost a great chunk due to the expansion of Corporate level tea cultivation, other plantations, and clearing of forests for dams. The largest compact of rainforests is now found in the Kalakad-Mundantharai Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu.

Let's Save our Rainforests !

21/06/2022

HUMANISM embraces the value of the human, promoting CRITICAL THINKING over dogma. Typically secular and democratic in approach, humanists look to human experience and rational thinking for knowledge and values.

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

June 21 is World Humanist Day. June 21 marks the date of the June solstice around the world. This means that the northern hemisphere undergoes the summer solstice while the southern gets the winter one. The solstice date was selected as it reflected a deep Scientific understanding of the world.

The main point of World Humanist Day is to try and make the world a better place by increasing the public’s knowledge of Scientific methods in hope that it will dispel many age-old myths.

It is a day to celebrate being a HUMANIST. One thing humanists share is a desire to leave the world somewhat better than it was when we arrived on it. Not because this will promise us a future place in paradise, but simply because it is the right thing to do.

I prefer to Celebrate World Humanist Day
over World Yoga Day, as I prefer
Societal Good over Self-interest.

18/06/2022

It is important for people to understand the existence of mankind relies on a balance between NATURE and WILDLIFE. Killing and hunting of animals will not just degrade the wildlife and environment but also harm human existence.

There are 23 different Different Species of CROCODILE in this world. It was reported that more than half of the world’s 23 species of crocodiles face the danger of EXTINCTION due to human activity.

LAND ENCROACHMENT, Destroyed HABITATS, DREDGING, POLLUTION, HUNTING, CULLING and invasion of other aggressive species, can lead to mass-scale extinction of these reptiles.

INDIA is home to three Crocodilian species:
The mugger (Crocodylus palustris)
The estuarine (Crocodylus porosus) and
The gharial (Gavialis gangeticus)

The crocodiles, in general, keep hitting headlines due to conflicts with humans, often resulting in the loss of life or limb. But does the situation warrant the culling of the animals?

The biggest cause of the decline in the population of Indian crocodiles is the fact that their habitats are being destroyed for SELFISH HUMAN REASONS. URBANIZATION and encroachment of humans on the river banks and marshy areas are the key causes of the human-crocodile conflict.

In India, Vadodara, Kota, and Bhitarkanika are considered as the major human-crocodile conflict hotspots. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are also a part of this list.

CULLING cannot be an option to reduce human-crocodile conflict in India.

WORLD CROCODILE DAY is an occasion to highlight the plight of those Endangered Crocodiles.It also help us to raise awareness about the need to save these ENDANGERED species from EXTINCTION. But the awareness campaigns and conservation need to be done on an everyday basis, hence this post.

The gharial, a distinctive long-nosed species in India, The Philippines crocodile and the Chinese alligator are on the CRITICALLY ENDANGERED LIST and face the dire straits of being totally wiped out.

It is imperative that we SAVE THESE SPECIES from being completely wiped out from the earth.

Let everyday be a World Crocodile Day, not just on June 17.

17/06/2022

Rising up from DROUGHT together !

Over 250 million people are directly affected by DESERTIFICATION, and about one billion people in over one hundred countries are at risk. These people include many of the world‘s poorest, most marginalized and politically weak citizens.

Since 2000, the number of drought-like events has increased by 29 percent while the duration of such events has also increased.

Already 2.3 billion individuals face a situation of WATER STRESS where potable water resources are not present for use.

All the countries in the world are at risk of WATER SHORTAGE, and water shortage is expected to hit 25 percent of all children by 2040.

This World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought should remind everyone of land’s important role in producing food and generating local employment, as well as its ability to add to the sustainability, stability and security of desertification-affected places.

Let’s Invest in HEALTHY SOILS !

16/06/2022

Let's Celebrate the day of FIRST WOMAN in SPACE !

On this day in 1963, Russian cosmonaut VALENTINA TERESHKOVA became the FIRST WOMAN to fly to SPACE, piloting "Vostok 6".She is the first and youngest woman to have flown in space with a solo mission on the Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963. She spent almost three days in space and orbited Earth 48 times in her space capsule, Vostok 6. That was her only trip into space. Tereshkova later toured the world to promote Soviet SCIENCE.

08/06/2022

OCEANS are the planet's lungs, a key source of food and medicine, and an essential component of the biosphere.

The oceans hold about 321 million cubic miles or 1.34 billion cubic kilometers of water, which is roughly about 97 percent of the Earth’s water supply.

OCEANS have become a dumping site for PLASTIC WASTE that ends up degrading the quality of water.

Even though the ocean water is not drinkable, it is still a significant resource for the human species, however, the plastic problem is playing a key role in destroying it. Plastics can take up to several years to decompose naturally and of all the plastics, single-use plastic is the most worrisome.

We must not forget that oceans are not just water bodies, they are our source of life and it is time We Protect and Save them.

Our ultimate goal is...
Revitalization: Collective action for the Ocean.

08/06/2022

OCEANS are responsible for breathing Life into the Planet, as they produce 80 percent of the Earth’s oxygen, through the organisms thriving in it. They are the source of food for billions while regulating the climate.

However, human activities such as OVERFISHING, OIL SPILLS and PLASTIC POLLUTION have taken a toll on the water body and the marine life that it sustains.

World Oceans Day calls to step up efforts and save the oceans from further damage while also taking measures to revive their glory. This day helps us raise awareness about the importance of oceans’ role in our everyday life.

Governments around the world need to initiate various measures for the protection of these vast water bodies.

We urgently need a collective action to REVITALIZE the OCEAN. That means finding a new balance in our relationship with the marine environment..