Topics include the destruction of the rain forest, vanishing coral reefs, land grabs, the need for food security, clean water, the role of women in food production, safe drinking water, energy access, clogged transit systems, jobs and sustainable development as a way of fighting poverty.
"But if the forest vanishes tomorrow, this new species will also vanish".
Now, it turns out that the mix of forces that caused these colorful residents of cloud forests to vanish from misty slopes remains contentious even though they have become an icon in discussions of extinction dangers from rapid climate change.
The Costs of War Project says illegal logging by US-backed warlords and wood harvesting by refugees caused more than one-third of Afghanistan's forests to vanish between 1990 and 2007.
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Ranjan Panda, Convenor, Water Initiatives Odisha, correctly points out that industrialisation is destroying our forests and rivers: "Natural forests are vanishing fast, rivers and other water bodies are dying and decaying in the country".
Species are becoming rapidly extinct, forests are vanishing and fish stocks are collapsing.
THE pace at which the world's forests are vanishing has slackened over the past decade but it is still alarming, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation, a UN agency.
Thanks to the practices of poor peasant farmers and not-so-poor ranchers, 70% of the country's forests have vanished.
