Advocacy on the Awareness of Environmental Sustainability and Biodiversity
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RE-C.R.E.A.T.E is the Second Phase of AIESEC Davao: Initiated Environmental Awareness Project. Also known as, The Re-Calling for the Restoration of the Environment by Awareness Through Exchange, is a series of events and programs participated by International Youth Volunteers from across the world aiming towards the inculcation of proper values and knowledge to Secondary Educational Institutions & Village Communities regarding the environmental issues of sustainability and biodiversity. |
AFG Consultants
www.afgconsultores.com.br
The AFG Consultants conducts its business activities with actions and vision for the future, trying to establish their values, the social and environmental responsibility and sustainability. As a responsible company and concerned with the current rates of emissions, and loss of biodiversity on our planet, and their resulting impacts, develop projects aimed at the development and application of methods, techniques and technologies that reduce emissions carbon through the use of renewable and efficient energy, sustainable processes, and with the preservation or restoration of forests. Using the carbon market to support these projects, we developed the design, development, approval, audit, and certification of environmental projects that generate credits or carbon offsets. We act as partners in each project from day one until the last day of duration of each project.
African Views
www.africanviews.org/green-africa
African Views (AV) is a nonprofit organization on a mission is to facilitate mutual understanding and value-based information from an African populist position to the world and from a constructive world view on African issues. The Organization’s program includes workshops and media advocacy - based on dialogues, learning, and action on African development strategies around the world. AV works in collaboration with accomplished professionals, minds and, and organizations from all over the globe advocating for the goals of safe, healthy, and prosperous societies. The AV framework consist of interdependent components such as strategic sharing of information on its AV radio programs, social media networks, workshops, print publications, conferences, written reports, AVTV, videos reports, directory of services, and community projects.
Our organization members and partners are individuals from a variety of cultural, professional, academic, and religious backgrounds, organizations, private and public institutions who are stakeholders in various scholastic and professional disciplines of human and societal developments. Some of our ongoing projects are African Cultural Exchange (ACE) programs for children and adults, panel discussions on health, environment, youth, women issues, economic, workshops and creating a worldwide directory of African programs. Our activities also include infrastructure and structural analysis on health, environment, economic wellbeing, and education improvement in Africa and countries with significant or minor presence of African Diaspora.
Aggregate Industries
www.aggregate.com/sustainability/biodiversity
We are a leading player in the construction industry, committed to creating a better built environment. We produce and supply a wide range of construction materials including aggregates, asphalt, ready-mixed concrete and precast concrete products. We also import and supply cement materials and offer a national road surfacing and contracting service. As a major supplier of materials to the construction industry we are very aware of the impact our products have on people, the environment and the economy. We contribute to more sustainable forms of construction in many ways. From replacing ingredients in our concrete and asphalt products with recycled or less carbon embodied alternatives, to the development and promotion of new innovative systems of construction, such as the use of concrete to maximize the thermal mass in buildings. We see our goal as creating better built environments not only through the provision of the highest quality and most sustainable materials, but also through working closely with our customers, clients and other partners in the supply chain to find the best solution.
Aviornis International Netherlands
www.aviornis.nl/over-aviornis/english
AVIORNIS INTERNATIONAL brings together devoted breeders of non-passerine birds. It is one of the most important organisations in Europe in its field with around 8.000 members in 6 European countries. Approximately 625 bird species are successfully kept by our members.
The objectives of Aviornis International are:
- To support and co-operate with other organisations on scientific programs to preserve bird species that have become nearly extinct.
- To stimulate (inter)national exchange of young birds in order to keep genetically healthy stocks of each species.
- To help our members with advice and information on the husbandry and breeding management of the wide diversity of bird species.
- To contribute, together with other international organisations, to scientific programs, aimed at the re-introduction of bird species that have become (locally) extinct due to natural catastrophes or other reasons.
Biodiversidades
www.biodiversidades.com
This portal has been designed to provide information on biodiversity and climate change, recommendations, best practices, products, tools and news providing useful solutions and resources to help communities, companies and government with alternative options that can be implemented to avoid impacts and destruction creating sustainability for biodiversity. Biodiversidades.com offers an interesting mix of news promoting the conservation of biodiversity and green thinking, in addition be a major source of environmental information and opinion.
BioFOCUS
www.bio-focus.org
BioFOCUS is the first magazine online in Tunisia specialized in biology. Founded in 2012, by two Tunisian students, BioFOCUS brings to you everyday news about environment, science and technology and publishes interviews with authors, researchers and experts.
مرحباً بكم في أول مجلة رقمية مختصة في البيولوجيا في تونس.كونوا من السباقين لزيارة هذا الموقع الفريد من نوعه و المكتمل جدا.اكتشفوا جميع أبوابه على غرار البيئة،التكنولوجيا ،العلوم والمقابلات الحصرية مع مختصين و باحثين وصناعيين من هذا الميدان المهم في عصرنا هذا.
BLUE BIRD
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BLUE BIRD is a local NGO located in Tokyo. Our aim is to conserve biodiversity as we believe that it is one of the biggest sources of interactions between living things on Earth. We work on promoting biodiversity conservation and raising awareness about its importance.
活動のテーマは「つながり」。生活者が「つながりの大切さ」を再認識・再確認できる様に、「地球上の大きなつながり=生物多様性」を中心テーマに据え、軽やかに「女性ならではの視点」で活動をしています。
Bristol Conservation and Science Foundation
www.bcsf.org.uk/bcsf
The Bristol Conservation and Science Foundation (BCSF) investigates conservation problems in the UK and the developing world and guides and supports communities in tackling their environmental issues. We undertake original research to provide insights to guide conservation action, and we raise awareness and support for this through our sister organisation, Bristol Zoo Gardens. BCSF empowers others to identify and alleviate issues that impact on species and habitat conservation and sustainable development, develops a body of knowledge from the projects we support and from the research we undertake, and engages actively with the public and scientific community, sharing knowledge, eliciting support and guiding behaviour change.
Canadian Biosphere Reserves Association
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Biosphere reserves in Canada are ecologically significant regions that promote sustainability and conservation by engaging all community stakeholders. Recognized by UNESCO, they support research, share the resulting knowledge broadly and inform policy-makers. Biosphere reserves address one of the most challenging issues we face today: how to maintain the health of natural ecosystems while meeting needs of communities.
Centre for Environment, Education and Economic Development (CEEED)
www.ceeedindia.com/index.html
The objective of CEEED is to carry out its strategy for environment and development research in India in co-operation with other organizations, both domestic and international. The focus of CEEED's work lies in finding the balance between environmental conservation and socio-economic development. As an independent non-governmental organisation (NGO) under the NGO partnership system of Planning Commission, Govt. of India and as a self sustained body CEEED has enhanced flexibility and avoids bureaucratic entanglements. The formation of a co-operative internal and international network of scientists in the field of environmental studies is a goal of CEEED. The Center was established in2004. It has a permanent staff in Guwahati, Assam, including its founding chairman/director late Mrs Arati Hazarika renowned lawyer and social worker. Its associate staff includes a broad network of university professors and researchers, medical practioners, government officials.
CEPA Japan
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We participated as a non profit organization at COP10, Nagoya Japan. Some specialist of communication gathered and we established this organization on May 28, 2011. We included five IUCN-CEC members (IUCN Commission on Education and Communication). We held civil events with local governments and mass-medias. We are also a member of the UNDB Japan Commission.
COP10でNGOスピーチを行い、CEPA決議を修正。国内のコミュニケーションのスペシャリストを集めた組織として2011/5/28に設立。IUCN-CECメンバーも5名。自治体とメディアと組んだ市民イベント開催、国連生物多様性の10年日本委員会の運営メンバー。
日本国内で行われている「CEPA」のグッドプラクティスを各種メディア、Web、印刷物にアーカイブし、国内、海外に発信、愛知目標の目標1を推進。日本人が都市化によって忘れかけている「自然との共生」、生物多様性という概念を生活で実感できるように取組む。
Conservation and Research in Ornithology and Wildlife
www.crowindia.org/about.html
Conservation and Research in Ornithology and Wildlife (CROW) is a Non Government Organization based at Palakkad, Kerala,India. Our main concern is to prevent the loss of natural resources by human activities through research, awareness and management activities. Our mission is to convey the people and make esteem and recognize the importance of biological diversity to their own well-being. Our vision is a sustainable natural resources for next generations. Since the birds are vital environmental indicators, by focusing them and their habitats, the CROW is working to aware people, suggest management strategies to improve the quality of their habitats, other wildlife and for people.
Dr. Salim Ali Memorial Nature Club
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The name of our organization is Dr. Salim Ali Memorial Nature Club (SAMNC) located in Mahoba District of the State of Utter Pradesh in India. SAMNC is a national level NGO named after Late Dr. Salim Ali, a renowned ornithologist of India with the primary objectives of conservation of environment, forest and wild life in India. With the increasing population growth and rapid industrialization, the environment and forest and wildlife resources have been becoming vulnerable to human pressure. We have a vision to create awareness about this problem amongst the people living in close proximity to such environmentally vulnerable sites and take action to empower them to deal with the environmental problems through community participation. We also often augment to the efforts of government in this regard by providing scientific inputs for effective management of environment and forest resources.
EcoloMagTunisie
www.ecolomagtunisie.com
Founded around a desire to communicate about what makes the news in the field of ecology, environment and sustainable development, EcoloMagTunisie is defined as the first magazine in Tunisia which seeks to further research and debate on the nexus of environment and development issues at the local, national, regional, and international levels. “EcoloMagTunisie” provides a platform that bridges the parallel debates among policy makers, attorneys, academics, business people, and NGO activists worldwide.
EPO Hokkaido - Japan
www.epohok.jp
Environmental Partnership office Hokkaido (EPO Hokkaido) makes bases promoting environmental conservation activity for the purpose of the formation of the sustainable society.
環境省北海道環境パートナーシップオフィス(EPO北海道)は、持続可能な社会の形成を目的として環境保全活動を促進する基盤づくりを行っています。
European Association of Zoos and Aquaria
www.eaza.net
The European Association of Zoos and Aquaria is the largest zoo and aquarium association in the world, with 326 members in 36 countries. It provides membership services and leadership to those zoos and aquaria, promoting the association mission aims of conservation, education and research. EAZA members receive 140 million visitors a year. Since the year 2000 EAZA has coordinated European-wide conservation campaigns on a range of topics including the plight of apes, tigers, rhinos, and chelonians. It has also focused on the complexities of European carnivores and their existence in a crowded continent. Additionally the geographic areas of the Atlantic Coastal Forest in Brazil and Madagascar have been dedicated campaigns. To date more than 4 million Euro has been raised via the campaigns for in situ conservation of biodiversity. In addition EAZA coordinates 342 ex situ conservation breeding programmes. EAZA members formally teach more than 5 million European children a year about biodiversity.
General Incorporated Foundation mudef
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mudef stands for ‘Music Design Foundation’. It is a coined word combining music and design. mudef, which will implement sustainable activities with global perspective, is established in order to organize and manage artists’ social activities.
mudef set 8 goals of MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) as the center of its activities. MDGs are comprehensive and specific development goals which were set by combining United Nations Millennium Declaration, adopted at the United Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000.
一般財団法人mudef(ミューデフ)は、「Music +Design 」が組み合わさってできた言葉。「音楽とART」を通じて、地球規模の課題を解決するために設立されました。 mudefの活動の軸は、「ミレニアム開発目標(MDGs)」。MDGsとは、2000年、189の国の人々が同意した、21世紀の国際社会が真っ先に取り組むべき8つの課題。 2015年までに国際社会が達成すべき8つの目標を掲げています。それぞれの目標に紐付いて行動することで、より具体的な活動を展開します。
GiottoConsulting
www.giottoconsulting.it
GiottoConsulting is a company that offers consulting services in the field of wine and wine-making. Thanks to its laboratory it is also able to provide to the costumers a complete service of wine analysis tests, also concerning cuts, additions and clarifications. Finally, with its agricultural tools and machinery, it can realize for the costumers all the agricultural operations needed during the cultivation of the vineyard.
Our philosophy
A great wine cannot be produced in the winery. The raw materials for the wine are created in the vineyard so it is here, from earth, that the wine derives its own, individual features. The winery procedures, guiding the restless young wine towards maturity, are closely related to the practices carried out in the vineyard: so we work to discover and become aware of all the things and processes hidden behind every environment. We want to understand its secrets and present it in its best appearance. The aim is to give voice to qualitatively unique wines that have to be sustainable not only for the territory of which they are ambassadors, but also for the people who take care of them, spending their time and resources. To do this we need a careful study that ranges from geology to microbiology, from the ecology and the physiology of the vine to tasting analysis, together with marketing considerations and the evaluation of all economical aspects.
Global Development Research Center
www.gdrc.org/sustdev/biodiv
The Global Development Research Center is an independent non-profit think tank that carries out initiatives in the spheres of environment, urban, community, economy and information, and at scales that are effective. GDRC's foray into the theme of biodiversity began with the Kyoto Protocol and it's COP3 held in Kyoto in 1997. In order to highlight the interconnectedness of the 'Big Three' conventions - Climate Change, biodiversity and desertification, GDRC developed the "Trialogue" initiative, particularly focussing on the role of NGOs in the three conventions.
Golden Turtle
www.animalphoto.ru/en
Annual competition of photos and films of the wild nature spent in Russia. It is the largest cultural ecologic-educational action in Russia. Also, it is one of the most appreciable events in nature protection life of the country.
Greeners Magazine – The Indonesian Environmental News Portal
www.greenersmagz.com
Since 2005 from our first printed monthly publication, Greeners has been continously spreading information on environmental issues until 2011 when we decided to stop using paper and transform into digital media at greenersmagz.com. As a public media, Greeners also develop public campaign, activities and work with “green communities” in Indonesia.
Heriot-Watt University
www.lophelia.org
Heriot-Watt’s Centre for Marine Biodiversity & Biotechnology co-ordinates biodiversity research in the marine environment across the University with academic projects currently taking place in a variety of locations from the UK to the Caribbean. The group works on a variety of systems from shallow intertidal to deep-sea cold-water coral habitats. We run a public outreach website on cold-water corals (www.lophelia.org) that was upgraded as part of our contribution to 2010 International Year of Biodiversity.
Hero Productions
www.hero-productions.com
Hero Productions is an environmental media and marketing firm in Ghana that works with NGO's, CSO's, International NGO's and Government in promoting biodiversity conservation and environmental sustainability through public awareness campaigns, media education, information sharing, advocacy, research and development to build capacity. Hero Productions develop green marketing mechanisms to promote eco friendly products, services and initiatives that contribute towards powering Ghana’s green economic growth. Our effective communication strategies enhance the green brand image of our clients engaged in corporate environmental responsibility through our-self initiated Biodiversity campaign programme.
IKANAWTIKET
www.ikanawtiket.ca
IKANAWTIKET in Mi’kmaq loosely translates to pathfinder. Sharing our Aboriginal eco-centric world view about interconnectedness, interdependency, and respect for Mother Earth is our work.
IKANAWTIKET promotes respect for our Mother Earth through:
- education about biodiversity and Aboriginal Peoples;
- sharing information about opportunities and obstacles for Aboriginal Peoples involvement in biodiversity issues;
- connecting and linking like-minded individuals;
- forming partnerships between leaders on issues of conservation, sustainable use, and access & benefit sharing with Aboriginal Peoples; and
- encouraging the involvement of Aboriginal Peoples to make our voice heard.