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Dear all
Happy New year of 2005 with
the wishes for Peace.
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Dear friends
wish you all a very HAPPY AND
PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR 2005 !!!
May the first light of
2005 come with blessings of Peace and new hopes and end the
sufferings of all the Nepalese living at home and abroad.
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All the Best to all of you on the
Occasion of New Year 2005
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I wish you all very happy New
Year, 2005 and May the Year bring a shower of
Happiness and Prosperity to Everyone.
Thanks,
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Dear
All,
I
would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a Merry Christmas and
a very happy, prosperous and peaceful New Year, 2005!
Ramesh
Adhikari
National Programme Manager
RUPP/UNDP (NEP/03/003)
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Thank you so much
sharing the information with us.
And wish you all
a very happy New Year 2005.
With warm
Regards,
Anjalee
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Mountain Day' 2004 Celebration
Centre for Environment Education Himalaya celebrated
International Mountain Day 2004 by organizing a series of events
in Kashmir (Western Himalaya) and Uttaranchal (Central
Himalaya), India. A rally by the school students was flagged off
from the
and the vicinity took part in the rally. Before the flag off
students were briefed about the importance of the mountains and
the threats to them. The rally concluded at the Office of the
Regional Wildlife Warden,
made on the importance of the mountains and the steps to be
taken to conserve them. In the rally children displayed placards
carrying messages on threats to mountains, armed conflicts, and
peace and development. Children also raised relevant slogans.
In the afternoon a seminar was organized where about 50
participants representing 30 NGOs of the
part in the discussion and shared their views. Problems in the
mountains in the
highlighted.
In Almora,
and poetry recitation competitions were conducted in schools on
the themes, effects of armed conflicts on environment, effects
of armed conflicts on development and peace - key for
sustainable development. In the busy hours of evening a street
play was performed in the market place for the general public.
CEE
network of NGOs. Various events were organized across the Indian
Himalayan Region.
For more details please visit our website
<http://www.ceehimalaya.org/>
With best wishes and greetings for a Merry Christmas and a Happy
New Year
Abdhesh Gangwar
Coordinator
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CEE Himalaya
19/323
Indira Nagar
Lucknow 226 016 India
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I wish you a very happy and prosperous New Year
2005. May the almighty God fulfill all of your aspirations.Let us also hope for
a peaceful
With Very Warm Regards,
Sincerely,
Meen B. Poudyal Chhetri
Executive Member
NCDM
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Wish you a Happy New Year!
Dipendra
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We take the opportunity of the end of the 2004 to wish you a successfull 2005, full of joy and friendship.
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Year.
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We wish you a very happy and
prosperous New Year 2005.
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The attached questionnaire is
part of a project of scientific research on conservation humid tropical forest,
executed for Solange Rodrigues dos
Santos-Corrêa (a pos graduate student). Please, we request your opinion that will
be dealt with anonymous form, in accordance with the ethical rules.
Sincerely.
Professor Ronan Xavier Corrêa (Ph.D or D.S.)
Director of the Department of Biological Sciences (www.portaldcb.uni.cc)
State University of Santa Cruz (http://www.uesc.br)
Ilhéus, BA, Brazil
QUESTIONNAIRE ABOUT NATURAL RESOURCES PRESERVATION
We are carrying out research between residents of the European Union and the United
States of America to determine whether people would be willing to pay for
Tropical Rain Forest Conservation. The answers obtained from this questionnaire
will be used exclusively for this research. They will not be used to define any
kind of taxes to monitor a specific Tropical Rain Forest Conservation. The
results will be analysed for a hypothetical
forest. This information will be kept in secret and anonymous (it's not
necessary to give your name, address and telephone number) and the scientific
analyses of the results will be included in papers that will be published in
scientific magazines.
THE TROPICAL RAIN FOREST
Tropical Rain Forests have the biggest biodiversity in plants and animals, including
50% a 75% of all living species, of the planet. But because the potential for
economic exploration be varied and large, and there be a lot of vegetable and
animal products coming from fishing and hunting; as well as minerals,
hydroelectrics, and agricultural resources, the
PART 1. General Question (about yourself).
1.
City:
Country:
2.
(x ) Male
( ) Female
3.
( ) Elementary School
(x ) High School
( ) College
( ) Master Degree
( x ) P.H.D
( ) Other. Which one? .......................................
4.
( )Single
( x )Marriage
( )Other
5. How old are you?
( ) Under 18 years old
( ) Between 18 and 25 years old
( x ) Between 26 and 35 years old
( ) Between 36 and 50 years old
( ) Between 51 and 65 years old
( ) Above 65 years old
6. What is your job (profession)? biologist
PART 2. Why do you want to preserve the
7. Had you ever heard anything about the
( x ) Yes
( ) No
8. the answer is YES, how did you learn about the
( ) by questionaire
( x ) by internet
( ) by TV
( ) by newspaper
( ) by visiting a Rain Forest
( ) by other way. Which one?
.........................................................
9. Do you think the
the setences below according to your opinion. Which one is the first more
important reason for this conservation? Which one is the second, Third and
Fourth.
( x ) permits obtention of products for actual human use.
( x ) an environmental resource for future human needs.
( x ) there is an intrisinc value that doesnít depend of utility or function
for the men kind.
( x ) Others? Which ones? to preserve global processes like CO2 budget in
the atmosphere
10. Why to protect the Natural Patrimony:
( ) Protect the capability to use the Natural Patrimony for actuals
and
futures men needs;
( ) Preserve the functionality of Natural Patrimony independent of
direct
utility;
( x ) Both of the sentences.
11. Questions about the Tropical Rain Forests:
(Yes or no )
( yes ) Do you know why peoplle keep choping down
trees?
( no ) Had you ever been in a
( yes ) Do you have plans for visiting a
( yes ) The industrial countries should help countries in
development to
pay for their Tropical Rain Forests Preservation?
12. Put in order some environmental problems, giving them values from 1
to
6 according to the priority of each one. ( 1 for the moust important, and 6
for the less important).
Environmental problems Grade
( 1) Air quality
( 5) Water pollution
( 3) Ozony sky destruction
( 2) CO2 air effects
( 4)Deforestation
( 6) Acid rain
PART 3. Determination of two forests values
13. Should you pay a tax every month to preserve the
( x ) Yes. Go directly to question 14.
( ) No. Go directly to question 16.
14. Think about a
ìA Conservation Unit, located in a city with 250.000 living people. Itís the
only place where still have a strucuture of primary
urban perimeter. Itís a Park ñ area 437,2 ha. The risk of degradation is
imminent and the potencial use of the park, including conservation of rare
species, is possible, only, if there will be protection against this
degradation. The place suffer problems related to antropic pressure coming
from the neighborhood; however this place presents peculiars caracteristics,
like fragments of tropical forest rich in biodiversity.î
How much could you pay for this Tropical rain Forest Fragment Conservation?
( x ) U$10,00
( ) U$20,00
( ) U$30,00
( ) U$40,00
( ) U$50,00
( ) U$60,00
( ) U$70,00
( ) U$80,00
( ) U$90,00
( ) U$100,00
Other: U$............
15. Think about a
ìA Conservation Unit located 5 km from a city with 7.000 living people. Itís
a place with primary tropical forest structure far way from populate down
town centers. Itís a particular Natural Patrimony Reserve ñ area 200ha,
located into a 520ha farm. There are others forests in the neighborhood,
forming a
ecological value, providing oportunities for development of cientific
research activities, environmental education and ecoturism. The forests are
home for primary species and other threatened animals.
How much could you pay for this
( ) U$10,00
( x ) U$20,00
( ) U$30,00
( ) U$40,00
( ) U$50,00
( ) U$60,00
( ) U$70,00
( ) U$80,00
( ) U$90,00
( ) U$100,00
Other: U$ .............
16. If not, tell us why you made this decision:
( ) Each population should be responsable for your own Natural
Patrimony.
( )The conservation should be an exclusively government obligation.
( )The enterprises and industries should pay a tax that will be
destinate
for the Environmental Resources Conservation.
( ) Others? Which ones? .....................................
3.
Poem/s:
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Love
and Friendship |
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Love is like the wild
rose-briar, The wild rose-briar is sweet in
spring, Then, scorn the silly
rose-wreath now Emily Bronte |
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4. View/s:
v
It is always not true
what your thought is.
5. Moral/s:
A Buddhist path to peace
A Nepali monk in
BHIKKHU SUGANDHA
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I left
Many brilliant Thai university students had fled to
the jungles in northeastern
They declared many parts of
My senior colleague, a British Buddhist monk, Ajarn
Brahm, who was in
1 Restraint: The military did not attack the communist
bases, though every soldier knew where they were.
2 Forgiveness: Throughout this dangerous period, there was an unconditional
amnesty in place.
3 Solving the root problem: New roads being built and
old roads being paved in the region. The King of Thailand personally supervised
and paid for the construction of many hundreds of small reservoirs with
connected irrigation schemes, allowing the poor farmers of the northeast to
grow a second crop of rice each year. Electricity reached the remotest of
hamlets and with it came a school and a clinic.
A Thai government soldier on patrol in the jungle told
me once: “We don’t need to shoot the communists. They are fellow Thais. When I
meet them coming down from the mountains or going to the village for supplies
and we all know who they are, I just show them my new wristwatch, or let them
listen to a Thai song on my new radio then they give up being a communist.”
Thai Communists began their insurgency because they
were so angry with their government that they were ready to give up their young
lives. But restraint on the part of the government helped to prevent their
anger from becoming worse. Forgiveness, through an amnesty, gave them a safe
and honourable way out. Solving the problem, through development, made the poor
villagers prosperous. The villagers saw no need to support the communists
anymore: they were content with the government they already had. And the
communists themselves began to doubt what they were doing, living in such
hardship in the mountain jungles.
By the early 1980s, there were hardly any insurgents
left, so the communist leaders also gave themselves up. They were not punished
but offered important positions in the Thai civil service. Why waste the
resource of such courageous and committed young men?
There is a lesson for
1 The economy. Poverty is a root cause of violence and
the Buddha himself pointed out: “If a ruler allows poverty to develop, it will
lead to social strife, so it is his responsibility to avoid this by looking
after the poor.”
2 Negotiations. The Buddhist way of solving conflict by peaceful means is
carried in the Buddha’s own life when he gave practical lessons in tolerance.
3 Nonviolence. The Buddha always instructs his followers to be true pacifists
by telling them: “Conquer anger with love, conquer evil with good, conquer
greed by giving, and conquer lies with the truth.”
4 Patience. The Buddha instructs his followers to advance themselves by
practicing loving kindness, compassion, appreciative gladness and equanimity.
5 Forbearance and forgiveness. The Buddha says: “The words of a fool are best
stopped by responding to his anger and verbal onslaught by oneself remaining
calm, not by harsh measurers. This will not lead to one’s opponent thinking he
can take advantage of one’s ‘weakness’, forbearance is a sign of real strength,
unlike the deceptive ‘strength’ of a fool.”
6 Tolerance and amity. The Buddha teaches his followers to have religious
tolerance and peaceful coexistence with followers of other religions.
If the leaders of the government or Maoists practice
these values sincerely, it would guarantee peace in
Phra Sugandha (Anil Sakya) is a Nepali monk who is
assistant secretary to the Supreme Patriarch of Thailand, His Holiness Somdet
Phra Nyanasamvara. This article is excerpted from a theme paper he presented at
the World Buddhist Summit in Lumbini recently.
6. Quote/s:
"If
you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but
every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried
up."
-
Russian novelist, Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevski (1821-1881)
"You don't get paid
for the hour, you get paid for the value you bring to that
hour"
- Jim Rohn
7. Satire/s or
Joke/s:
Prahachanda: Mao taught us that political power comes
from barrels of the guns?
Mohachandra: It may true but peace comes from barrel
of funs.
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Public: When will peace come in
Politicians: When it becomes 46 (22+24) pieces!!!
8. Breaking News:
MSNBC News: Tsunami death toll now estimated at more than
115,000, officials in affected areas say.
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Ocean disaster toll hits 114,000 New
figures reveal at least 114,000 people died in Sunday's (Dec 26) ocean
disaster. Officials in
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9. Recall/s:
Our Grandmother
Poush
14, Tritiya,
Dream
A corrupt contractor was brutally
beaten by staff in
10. Note/s:
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Tsunami among world's worst disasters The
massive tsunami in the With a death toll so far of well over
115,000, the wave is particularly notable for the extent of its reach, from The high numbers of Westerners
affected and the speed at which footage from the disaster has reached our
television screens have also added to its impact. The highest death toll from a tsunami
until now happened in 1896, when 27,000 people were drowned following an
earthquake off the coast of Cyclones and famine But there have been other natural
disasters which have also claimed tens of thousands of lives. In 1970, up to 500,000 people were
killed in In 1984 and 1985, a famine in Last year, a 6.3 quake devastated the
Iranian city of Hurricane Mitch, which devastated
much of The 1988 earthquake in And one of the worst monsoons in
living memory claimed the lives of 10,000 people in Snow storms, forest fires and
avalanches have all proved deadly. A single landslide in In 1887, about 900,000 people died
when the A volcanic eruption of |
2004
Asian quake disaster - toll so far exceeds 115,000
2003
earthquake in
1976
Earthquake in
1970
Cyclone in
1887
1826
Tsunami kills 27,000 in
1815
Volcanic eruption of
1556
Earthquake in
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Snow
Leopard (Uncia uncia)
Habitat: Rugged and mountainous terrain of Central Asia and the
Himalayan region
Diet: Wild sheep and goats, pikas, zokrs and marmots
Threats: Poaching, conflict with herders, loss of prey
Fun Fact: Snow leopards are terrific jumpers - able to leap up to 50
feet through the air, or straight up into a tree or onto a cliff, simply to
perch and rest.
11. Useful Link/s:
Email: disaster@nrcs.org
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http://dpnetnepal.tripod.com/
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