celebrating life: world water day

Hey everyone. Have you been noticing the blue World Water Day logo on the blog.

We hope that you are aware of its meaning. Here is some information for those of us who still do not know about it.

Water or the growing scarcity of its usable for is becoming a bigger concern day by day. But then why care? We need to care because water is the single most important entity that makes life possible on Earth (even more important than oxygen). That is so because even if you don't have oxygen on the planet, you can extract it from water (H2O), considering water is there. Keeping this in mind presence of water on this great planet is somthing that we should celebrate (and appriciate).

United Nations has decided to celebrate the 22nd of March' 2010 as World Water Day. Lets at least keep one day to bring change in our lives for the long term benifit of our mother (Earth) and its sons/daughters (Us). Keeping the busy life schedulde of most of us Sanrakshan has thought of celebrating water on 21st of March (Funday-Sunday). We request and invite you to join us to celebrate somthing that has made our life on Earth possible.

See you all there.

the year of biodiversity

United Nations has declared 2010 as the year of biodiversity. This as said by the CBD (Convention on Biodiversity), ' it is a celebration of life on earth and of the value of biodiversity for our lives'.

But what is Biodiversity. In the simplest terms, it can be understood as variation (diversity) of the life form (bio). The measure of biodiversity is often geographical or temporal. It means we can measure biodiversity at our local, ecosystem, country or global level.

Biodiversity has been under threat for a long time due to human activities. Destruction of habitat, hunting, deforestation, Climate Change are some of the many threats being faced by the biodiversity. Hence, the UN has decided to celebrate 2010 as a celebration of life and has declared it as the international year of biodiversity.

CBD defines 4 reason for declaring 2010 as the year of biodiversity:



However, its upon us now to respond to the invitation of UN & CBD (they have invited the world to take action in 2010 to safeguard the variety of life on earth: biodiversity). The simplest (and the most complex) way to respond to this invitation is to make our lives sustainable. Use only as much as we need. Recycle, Reuse and Reduce paper (using cell phones will not solve the problem). Be considerate towards towards other species.

Think.....before doing anything.

As a small initial contribution to this cause, we have put the 'species of the day' widget on the blog. The widget updates the picture of an endangered species everyday and if you click on the picture you can know more about the species. It is brought to us by IUCN. Have fun and let others have fun.