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All-female rainforest force battling to protect one of the last enclaves of biodiversity along the Western Ghats mountains.

Published On 4 Nov 2021

As deforestation and climate change ravage India’s UNESCO heritage-listed Western Ghats mountain range, an all-female rainforest force is battling to protect one of the area’s last enclaves of biodiversity.

The region is home to at least 325 globally threatened flora, fauna, bird, amphibian, reptile and fish species but the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has ranked its outlook as a “significant concern”.

At Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary, a group of 27 women act as guardians of the rare ferns, tree-hugging mosses and thousands of other plants that may otherwise be lost forever.

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“We are trying to salvage what is possible. It is like a refugee camp,” said Suprabha Seshan, one of the curators at the reserve.

It is also like a hospital. “The intensive care unit is in the pots and when you take them out that’s like the general ward where they get other forms of primary healthcare,” Seshan added.

Continue reading “Ecological ‘holocaust’: Women saving India’s Western Ghats forest”

read in English HERE

El capitalismo desenfrenado está arrasando las últimas partes del planeta aún no destruidas ecológicamente, arrojando CO2 y envenenando las cabeceras de los ríos del Perú. Pero los valientes pueblos indígenas están contraatacando con una ola de huelgas generales locales y bloqueos de carreteras. Aquí, derrotando la represión policial, destruyendo una operación de minería de oro de millones de dólares, la mina de Aruntani, Apumayo SAC, y sentando un precedente que hará que los buitres lo piensen dos veces.

¡Solidaridad con las comunidades de Ayacucho! ¡Basta de represión!

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La invasión y la quema de la mina de oro Apumayo en Ayacucho

Los conflictos sociales se extienden por todo el país, pero lo que sucedió ayer, alrededor de las 11 a.m., en Ayacucho, fue un hecho magnífico.

Manifestantes invadieron e incendiaron las instalaciones de la empresa minera aurífera Minera Aruntani (S.A.C Apumayo). Esto, después de que el último jueves los pobladores de las provincias de Lucanas, Parinacochas y Páucar del Sara Sara iniciaran un paro indefinido para pedir el retiro de las empresas mineras de sus territorios.

Entre los bienes quemados hay oficinas administrativas, vehículos, el grifo, el comedor y la planta de procesamiento. Además, se cortó el fluido eléctrico y se robaron bienes, incluidos explosivos.

Se supo que policías intentaron controlar la situación con gases lacrimógenos; sin embargo, tuvieron que replegarse al verse superados por la gran cantidad de manifestantes.

Continue reading “Anti-minería y protección del agua: Insurrección indígena y huelgas generales se extienden en Perú”

We now have a major crisis as the race is on to vaccinate our 5- to 11-year-old children who bring no risk to the table, with a vaccine that has been shown to be sub-optimal and potentially harmful. By  Paul Elias Alexander, Ph.D. 6

There is no benefit and only potential harm/adverse effects (here, here, here).

from The Defender’s Top News of the Day. 11/04/21 shared with thanks COVID › Views

When it comes to COVID, public health officials have consistently downplayed and/or ignored natural immunity.

Yet these public health experts and many doctors and scientists know that no vaccine can confer the type of robust, full, sterilizing and life-long immunity to COVID that natural-exposure immunity confers.

Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) know anyone exposed, infected and recovered from SARS-CoV-2 has acquired cellular immunity.

They know how natural immunity works, yet they continue to deceive the public on this issue by falsely insisting vaccines are the only answer to “ending the pandemic.”

Continue reading “6 Studies Showing Why Children Don’t Need — and Shouldn’t Get — a COVID Vaccine”

Coal, oil, and natural gas received $5.9 trillion in subsidies in 2020 — or roughly $11 million every minute — according to a new analysis from the International Monetary Fund.

Explicit subsidies accounted for only 8 percent of the total. The remaining 92 percent were implicit subsidies, which took the form of tax breaks or, to a much larger degree, health and environmental damages that were not priced into the cost of fossil fuels, according to the analysis.

“Underpricing leads to overconsumption of fossil fuels, which accelerates global warming and exacerbates domestic environmental problems including losses to human life from local air pollution and excessive and road congestion and accidents,” authors wrote.

“This has long been recognized, but globally countries are still a long way from getting energy prices right.”

The report found that 47 percent of natural gas and 99 percent of coal is priced at less than half its true cost, and that just five countries — China, the United States, Russia, India, and Japan — account for two-thirds of subsidies globally.

All five countries belong to the G20, which in 2009 agreed to phase out “inefficient” fossil fuel subsidies “over the medium term.”

Setting the price of coal, oil, gas to reflect their true cost — say, with a carbon tax — would cut carbon dioxide emissions by around a third, helping to put the world on a path to keeping warming below 1.5 degrees C.

Such policies would also raise revenues equal to 3.8 percent of global GDP and prevent close to 1 million deaths from local air pollution yearly.

“There would be enormous benefits from reform, so there’s an enormous amount at stake,” Ian Parry, an environmental policy expert and lead author of the report, told the Guardian.

“Some countries are reluctant to raise energy prices because they think it will harm the poor. But holding down fossil fuel prices is a highly inefficient way to help the poor, because most of the benefits accrue to wealthier households. It would be better to target resources towards helping poor and vulnerable people directly.”