If so, you may be contributing to the devastation of the wildlife-rich forests of Indonesia and Malaysia, where orangutans and other species face extinction as their habitat disappears.
What steps can those buying, selling, hoarding, working and wearing Peruvian gold take to ensure they stop contributing to the devastation of huge swathes of the Amazon and the contamination of 1,000s of people living there?
They do not see themselves as contributing to the devastation of rhino herds in South Africa and presumably have no inkling that their purchases may finance terrorism in Kenya.In Vietnam horn is often bought for the sole purpose of being gifted to family, colleagues or people in authority.
I've gotten used to living with despair: that so little of our effort, energy, intelligence and determination are invested in creating a sustainable future; and, indeed, that humanity's macro-organizations, its national governments, its multinational business enterprises, expend their enormous power not only contributing to the devastation but sabotaging every effort to make it stop.
The Damodar Valley Corp., one of the huge irrigation works the government relies on to control floods, paradoxically contributed to the devastation.
Unfortunately, the natural disaster has been trumped by policy disasters that have contributed to the devastation now being felt in New Orleans.
The judge, Alvin K. Hellerstein, said victims' lawyers could use the courts to try to prove that carelessness or poor planning contributed to the devastation wrought on Sept. 11.
Word quickly spread among teachers, who recommended it to one another as a brief, provocative way of drawing students into a dialogue about how buying a cellphone or jeans could contribute to environmental devastation.
One major aftershock of Mw 7.3 on May 12 , 2015 contributed to the devastation of many villages in mountainous areas nearby the epicenter.
A new study finds that grasses--because of their shallow roots--contributed to the devastation caused in the Western United States by the severe El Niño winter of 1997-98.
