University of Canberra student SHAVONNE HYDE'S story on endangered dragon for NowUC.com.au the newspaper of the school of journalism.

Film by Nature for Kids. Focuses on the issues of overgrazing. Part 1 of 3 www.natureforkids.nl

Film by Nature for Kids. Focuses on the issues of overgrazing. Part 3 of 3 www.natureforkids.nl

Film by Nature for Kids. Focuses on the issues of overgrazing. Part 2 of 3 www.natureforkids.nl

WONG: Animal activists are stepping up protests against government plans to cull hundreds of kangaroos on an Australian military base. Here's the story. STORY: Wildlife Protection Association spokesman Pat O'Brien says the culling of animals that are identified with Australia could hurt tourism. Activists say they'll make human shields and demonstrate to protect the animals today. [Pat O'Brien, Wildlife Protection Association]: "Managing wildlife by killing it is not on anymore. This is the sort of thing we did hundred years ago." The Eastern Grey Kangaroos are living on a military communications base in the nation's capital Canberra. Even former Beatle member Paul McCartney is speaking up. He appeared on a website set up by a British animal welfare group called Viva! to condemn the act. Viva! or Vegetarians International Voice for Animals, has launched a Europe-wide campaign against the cull. By Wednesday it had gathered more than 1,300 protests signatures from 36 countries. [Bernie Brennan, Activist]: "If they have to dart them to kill them why can't they dart them to move? It's just a no brainer." Authorities say the kangaroos threaten other local species through overgrazing, and is a way to look after the environment. [Peter Garret, Australia's Environment Minister]: "I think that we've got a fantastic record in this country of caring both for our wildlife and for our environment." In 2004 there was an international outcry over the shooting of 900 kangaroos at a dam supplying water to Canberra. The animals were causing erosion problems through over-grazing.

All Things Being Equal, A Holistic Approach is Best. There is a small but growing group of farmers, ranchers and land managers who are challenging both environmentalists and traditional ranchers to change the debate on overgrazing and land degradation. This trailer highlights four individuals that have embarked on a new, more holistic strategy to save their farms, heal the land and improve their overall quality of life. They make a compelling case that cattle and other grazers can and do have a positive impact on the environment and provide a sustainable income for farmers and their communities. The completed video (coming February 2009) will be a practical guide specifically for the rancher but will also provide food for thought for policy makers, environmentalists, scientists or anyone who is interested in the environmental health of grazing lands and the communities and livelihood that it supports.

Home to more than 50 million people, the Loess Plateau in China's Northwest takes its name from the dry powdery wind-blown soil. Centuries of overuse and overgrazing led to one of the highest erosion rates in the world and widespread poverty. Two projects set out to restore China's heavily degraded Loess Plateau through one of the world's largest erosion control programs with the goal of returning this poor part of China to an area of sustainable agricultural production. More than 2.5 million people in four of China's poorest provinces -- Shanxi, Shaanxi and Gansu, as well as the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region -- were lifted out of poverty. Through the introduction of sustainable farming practices, farmers' incomes doubled, employment diversified and the degraded environment was revitalized.

An oil rich region of Sudan is seen by some as the tinderbox for Africa's next war. Abyei is sandwiched between North and South. But a referendum in three years time will decide whether to merge with southern Sudan. Tension is already brewing over grazing rights between the African Dinka and the Misseriya Arabs who move south every winter. The Dinka believe the Arabs are only guests on their territory and should recognise their right to the land. Mohamed Vall found a tribe fearing for their way of life.

Animal farming uses 30 per cent of the Earth's entire land surface for grazing and to grow crops as feed (FAO 2006). In Britain, 70 per cent of all agricultural land is used as pasture and to grow crops to feed animals (FAO, 2004). Research has shown that if Britain went vegan, less than a quarter of the current farmland would be needed. (Spedding 1990). Livestock farming also causes wide-scale land degradation, with about 20 per cent of global pasture land considered degraded through overgrazing, compaction and erosion (FAO 2006). This figure is even higher in the drylands where inappropriate policies and inadequate livestock management contribute to advancing desertification (FAO 2006). Animal farming also plays a destructive role in deforestation. In Latin America, some 70 per cent of former forests in the Amazon have been turned over to grazing (FAO 2006). Soya production for animal feed is another major cause of deforestation. Around 75 per cent of global production is fed to farmed animals (Worldwatch Institute 2006). It is the demand for meat that drives the production of soya and, therefore, the destruction of the rainforest. Going vegan saves one acre of forest every year (Robbins 1992). 'Those who consume livestock products and fish are competing directly with those who need grain for food.' Lester Brown, past president of the Worldwatch Institute, USA. Almost half of the world's food harvest is fed to farmed animals and almost all of those calories go into simply keeping the animals alive. Only a small fraction of the calories consumed by farmed animals are actually converted into meat. An acre of cereal can produce five times more protein than an acre devoted to meat production; and legumes (beans, lentils and peas) can produce ten times as much (Seager 1995). Rather than adding to our capacity to feed the world's human population, putting animal products at the centre of food policy diminishes the possibility of doing so. If we are to feed a growing human population, the only choice is to rely upon a plant-based diet. Source: http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/AA/HOME/

August 2005 Americans are buying up vast swathes of land in Patagonia, bringing in needed investment. But many locals are troubled by the scale of this sell off. Overgrazing has turned much of Patagonia into wasteland. "The land has turned to desert," laments farmer Jorge Lemos. "Today, it's very cheap because there are no pastures." While few Argentineans can afford to leave the land to recover, foreign companies are moving in. "43% of land in our country is virtually in foreign hands," complains politician Marta Maffei. "They control the water, they change the course of rivers, they control access to our own natural beauties." But the government welcomes the new investment as a way of regenerating the region. And some investors are bringing in a new ecological outlook. One recently spent $1.7 million buying up land to turn into a national park.

The world is actively losing farmland, to erosion, overgrazing and development, among other factors. The price of oil is also causing food prices to rise rapidly. Mark Chp.13:8- For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in different places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these ARE the beginnings of sorrows.

This VCD is published by Xihai Ethnicities Audeo-video Publishing House. Rgan gya'i skar ma and Sman tshong tshe skyid were two lovers. Rgan gya'i skar ma was a man from Rgan gya Village, Labrang County, and Sman tshong tshe skyid was a woman from Sman tshong Village in Rebgong. Although they were lovers, their two villages fought over grazing rights and Rgan gya'i skar ma, who was considered a hero in his village, was killed by the men of Sman sthong Village in order to crush the Rgan gya villagers' hopes. This tragic story is known by many Tibetans. Traditionally, it was sung unaccompanied, but here it has been adapted for mandolin.

The Forest Service division of the US Department of Agriculture produced this animated and live-action environmental theatrical short concerning watershed management. Junior Raindrop leaves Papa Cloud to visit Mother Earth. Along the way, Junior becomes a juvenile delinquent and gets mixed up with some hoodlum raindrops plotting to gang up and create a flash flood. The H2O Gang escalates the chaos and the next thing you know they're flooding the landscape and the countryside. Live action segments supplement the animation. The message is to preserve the trees, avoid over-grazing and soil erosion, protect vegetation and maintain the natural ecology as a general rule - and to spread the word about good watershed management. Matinee at the Bijou, hosted by Debbie Reynolds, is coming soon to public television in HD. Visit the Bijou blog: http://matineeatthebijou.blogspot.com Free BIJOU Mini-Matinees Change Weekly

Dance "Flying Apsara" is derived from Chinese well-known Dunhuang. You can taste the history and culture of China. This dance is performed by Soldier Art Troupe in Guangzhou Military District. Dunhuang was made a prefecture in 117 BCE by Emperor Han Wudi, and was a major point of interchange between China and the outside world during the Han and Tang dynasties. Located near the historic junction of the Northern and Southern Silk Roads, it was a town of military importance. Its name is mentioned as part of the homeland of the Yuezhi or "Rouzhi" 月氏 in the Shiji 史記, but this mention has also been identified with an unrelated toponym, Dunhong. Edges of the city are threatened with being engulfed by the expansion of the Kumtag Desert, which is resulting from longstanding overgrazing of surrounding lands. Early buddhist monks accessed Dunhuang via the ancient Northern Silk Road, the northernmost route of about 2600 kilometres in length, which connected the ancient Chinese capital of Xi'an to the west over the Wushao Ling Pass to Wuwei and emerging in Kashgar.[2] For centuries Buddhist monks at Dunhuang collected scriptures from the west, and many pilgrims passed through the area, painting murals inside the Mogao Caves or "Caves of a Thousand Buddhas."[3] A small number of Christian artifacts have also been found in the caves (see Jesus Sutras), testimony to the wide variety of people who made their way along the silk road. Today, the site is an important tourist attraction and the subject of an ongoing archaeological project. A large number of manuscripts and artifacts retrieved at Dunhuang have been digitized and made publicly available via the International Dunhuang Project.

Desertification comes about by a complex interaction between the natural environment and human activities. The cause may vary from region to region on account of economic conditions, population pressure, agricultural practices, and politics. Human activities that destroys surface vegetation, degrades soil structure and fertility, impedes water infiltration, and causes soil drying promotes desertification. This is especially true for the fragile transition zone between arid and semiarid land where human activity has stretched the ecosystem to its limit causing expansion of deserts. Desertification is a global problem occurring in many places but is prevalent along the margins of semiarid and arid lands in Asia, central Australia, portions of North and South America, and Africa. A world map prepared by the United States NRCS shows just how widespread the problem is. Africa has been significantly impacted by desertification. Almost three quarters of Africa's agricultural drylands are already degraded to some degree. The impact on desertification on the greatest number of people occurs in Asia. Degraded regions include the sand dunes of Syria, the eroded mountain slopes of Nepal, and the deforested and overgrazed highlands of Laos. The Northern Mediterranean region is the cradle of civilization and has borne the effects of poor agricultural practices. Salinized, infertile soils are the result of natural hazards e.g. droughts, floods and forest fire, as well as overtilling and overgrazing. Soil degradation is high through much of Central and Eastern Europe, and very high in some areas, for example along the coast of the Adriatic Sea. Poor irrigation practices and the unsustainable exploitation of water resources are contributing to chemical pollution, soil salinization and aquifer depletion. Nearly a quarter of the inhabitants of Latin America and the Caribbean live below the poverty line fueling practices that lead to land degradation. Erosion and water shortages are intensifying in many East Caribbean islands.

How did the Hawai'ians of olden time survive in such an inhospitable, barren wasteland as Kohala? At Lapakahi (meaning "single ridge") State Historical Park you can walk through the partially --restored remains of a 600-year old Hawai'ian fishing village, Koai'e. One must bear in mind that Kohala was not always the barren wasteland seen today. Initially dryland forest, a thousand years ago or more the native Hawai'ians burned the forest to clear farmland for dryland crops such as sweet potato. Primitive farming techniques, overpopulation, erosion from storms, lava flows and lack of irrigation water eventually desertified much of the previously forested coast. With the coming of Europeans, over-grazing by cattle prevented the ecosystem from repairing itself once the native Hawai'ians had deserted it. Contrary to what Park staff may tell you, snorkeling is both permissible and delightful in Koai'e Cove, adjacent to this site. Admission is free, self-guided tour takes about 45 minutes. Portable toilets, no water. For more information, visit www.tourguidehawaii.com or www.tourguidehawaii.blogspot,com

This VCD is published by Xihai Ethnicities Audeo-video Publishing House. Rgan gya'i skar ma and Sman tshong tshe skyid were two lovers. Rgan gya'i skar ma was a man from Rgan gya Village, Labrang County, and Sman tshong tshe skyid was a woman from Sman tshong Village in Rebgong. Although they were lovers, their two villages fought over grazing rights and Rgan gya'i skar ma, who was considered a hero in his village, was killed by the men of Sman sthong Village in order to crush the Rgan gya villagers' hopes. This tragic story is known by many Tibetans. Traditionally, it was sung unaccompanied, but here it has been adapted for mandolin.

Los ríos de la sierra alta de Chihuahua se encuentran en condiciones alarmantes debido principalmente a la deforestación y al sobrepastoreo. SIERRA MADRE OCCIDENTAL CHIHUAHUA Rivers in the high sierra of Chihuahua are in alarming conditions mainly due to deforestation and overgrazing

See www.wcs-ahead.org for more information. The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and a range of partners helped to start AHEAD (Animal Health for the Environment And Development) in recognition of the importance of animal health to both conservation and development interests. Around the world, domestic and wild animals are coming into ever-more-intimate contact, and without adequate scientific knowledge and planning, the consequences can be detrimental on one or both sides of the proverbial fence. But armed with the tools that the health sciences provide, conservation and development objectives have a much greater chance of being realized -- particularly at the critical wildlife/livestock interface, where conservation and agricultural interests meet head-on. The AHEAD program catalyzes work focused on several themes of critical importance to the future of animal agriculture, human health, and wildlife health (including zoonoses, competition over grazing and water resources, disease mitigation, local and global food security, and other potential sources of conflict related to land-use decision-making and economic realities). To date, neither nongovernmental organizations nor the aid community nor academia have holistically addressed the landscape-level nexus represented by the triangle of wildlife health, domestic animal health, and human health.

The small island state of Antigua and Barbuda supports a range of globally and regionally significant terrestrial and marine habitats and species. Inadequate conservation, planning and management the states important, yet limited, resources has resulted in both a loss of species diversity and degradation of the functionality of the islands watersheds and other ecosystems (GoAB 2006). During the colonial era watersheds were denuded of native forest and scrubland vegetation. These impacts on watersheds have been compounded by unsustainable agro-pastoral practices (agro-chemical misuse, overgrazing and uncontrolled fires) as well as the introduction of invasive species (Cooper and Bowen 2001). Antigua and Barbudas watershed ecosystems have a finite capacity. Their degradation will lead to the deterioration in the quality of water for drinking and irrigation; deterioration in coastal water quality leading to reduced productivity in fisheries; topsoil losses and soil exhaustion with resultant lack of fertility; etc. In fact, the economic development of Antigua and Barbuda, which is based primarily upon tourism, is highly dependent upon the quality of the ecological functions of watersheds and other ecosystems as well as other physical processes throughout the Islands. In short, the lack of strategic planning for watershed resource management and an overall lack of understanding of the finite nature of natural resources including those derived from watersheds is resulting in a degradation of ecosystem functions, which will lead to a decline in quality of life. The effects of global climate change only add to this equation. Although these concerns hold true for all populations in any part of the globe, in the small island context there is little to act as a buffer to such changes and the results of ecosystem stress and decay can be seen and felt more quickly and more tangibly. This Project will aim to develop an Integrated Watershed Management System for Antigua and Barbuda. Such a system considers the islands watershed ecosystems and their resources as capital assets, which, if properly managed and protected, will continue to yield a flow of vital goods and services necessary components for sustainable economic development.

Part 2 of 2 on how Block's argument doesn't persuade: 3 examples. See part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsIi3tkAXSc Response video to Walter Bock defending libertarian environmentalism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrTsaSUFfpo

The Aravallis are the oldest mountain system in India, traversing the states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana and Delhi. However, the burden of overgrazing and need for building materials has left it total devastated. Due to large scale quarrying, entire hills disappear in a matter of months. Though some efforts are being made by the forest departments, it may be too late to save this mountain system.

Group 3 - Sampaguita 2010 PHILIPPINE SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL - DILIMAN MUSIC VIDEO ON ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS BIOLOGY 1 SUNG and DANCED by: MIGHTY BAND LYRICS BY: ALDON GALIDO pls. comment/rate thanks! LYRICS: Yeah, Bio The earth's on fire It's undesired Believe when I say It's hotter this day But we have one Earth for starts Can't ditch it, can't part don't kill it global warming's on its way [Chorus:] Climate change Ain't nothin' but shifting rains Nuclear waste Ain't nothin' but UV rays The sewage Smells of garbage and of human waste Now, who wants it that way? Ozone depletion from Air pollution can cause skin cancer and kill plants down under [Chorus:] Climate change Ain't nothin' but shifting rains Nuclear waste Ain't nothin' but UV rays The sewage Smells of garbage and of human waste Now, who wants it that way? Now that the Earth is dirty and black Full of CO2 and there's less trees With cooperation and Financial support We can still save our race, live free Are you managing waste Segregating garbage We are We are, We are, we are Don't wanna hear you Ain't nothin' but acid rain Ain't nothin' but oil spillage (Don't wanna hear you say) Illegal logging, overgrazing (oh no) Who wants it that way? Climate change Ain't nothin' but extreme days Nuclear waste Ain't nothin' but a leaking case The sewage Plastics, bottles, unrecycled waste who wants it that way? Just replace Replant trees to make a green space Less garbage Recycle stuff that are of old age Tell your age Help make the earth our heritage That's my plan today Cuz we want it that way

Kenya's iconic Maasai Mara is a crown jewel of Kenya's tourism industry. It is haven for migrating wildebeests that come rushing from the nearby nations and was recently considered as a world's "eighth wonder. But the wildlife haven has seen a sharp reduction in the wildebeests because of over-grazing, farming and mass tourism. Though, Maasai Mara national park is a protected area, but the ecosystem around it is privately owned. In 2000 Kenya govt. move to subdivide land into small plots for Maasai families, the newly-acquired notion of land ownership has led to tensions between neighbors encroaching to find pasture for their livestock. Whereas restricted for grazing in their shriveled estates, many Maasais opted for wheat farming or simply sold their plots to developers. And both outcomes contributed to choking the natural habitat of the lions and elephants so prized by the world's tourists. The Maasai had to make a choice because the pastoralist lifestyle was no longer sustainable. The wildlife has one of the best exotic products in the world and it firmly needs commercial and philanthropic models to make the conservancy viable. http://www.instablogs.com/

This VCD is published by Xihai Ethnicities Audeo-video Publishing House.Rgan gya'i skar ma and Sman tshong tshe skyid were two lovers. Rgan gya'i skar ma was a man from Rgan gya Village, Labrang County, and Sman tshong tshe skyid was a woman from Sman tshong Village in Rebgong. Although they were lovers, their two villages fought over grazing rights and Rgan gya'i skar ma, who was considered a hero in his village, was killed by the men of Sman sthong Village in order to crush the Rgan gya villagers' hopes. This tragic story is known by many Tibetans. Traditionally, it was sung unaccompanied, but here it has been adapted for mandolin.