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The United Nations (UN) recently launched the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems worldwide. It is a response to evidence that our current abuse of nature has accelerated global warming and degraded natural resources to a degree that threatens the wellbeing of people. The Decade will use overseas development aid to influence land…

In this document, UN climate experts note that the impacts of climate change will accelerate, and become palpable well before 2050. Water scarcity, exodus, malnutrition, extinction of species... Life on earth as we know it will inevitably be transformed by climate change when children born in 2021 will be 30 years old, or even earlier, warns a draft report of the Intergovernmental Panel on…

Climate change will fundamentally reshape life on Earth in the coming decades, even if humans can tame planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, according to a landmark draft report from the UN's climate science advisors obtained by AFP. Species extinction, more widespread disease, unliveable heat, ecosystem collapse, cities menaced by rising seas -- these and other devastating climate impacts are…

All Romario Valentine wants for his 10th birthday is to help provide a safe haven for endangered African grey parrots and to plant trees to save the environment.The grade 4 boy from Umhlanga in KwaZulu-Natal has been spurning birthday gifts for years to focus on bird and marine conservation, climate change and deforestation. Romario, whose birthday is in three weeks, has again decided to…

NIKITA CHINIAH Durban: Romario Valentine, an uMhlanga conservationist, intends to spend his tenth birthday subsequent month aiding in finishing an aviary and planting 250 bushes. The grade 4 pupil is on a mission to guard the planet. He’s captivated with chook and marine conservation, local weather change, and deforestation. Up to now, Romario stated he…

This young conservationist is determined to save the environment, one beach clean-up at a time. Romario Valentine (9) from Umhlanga, Durban, has been an eco-warrior for the past four years and has dedicated every weekend to cleaning beaches and protecting the planet. “He cleans the beach every week for one hour without fail,” his mom, Delsha Moodley (36), tells YOU. The chirpy…