(CFD.net.au – Contract for Difference, Share, Forex, ETFs, Commodities Traders) – The Federal Government will today announce the protection of a huge conservation corridor stretching from Kakadu to the Arafura Sea.

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Under the plan, local Indigenous people will be trained as rangers to manage and protect the new conservation zones.

Source: Garrett to announce NT conservation corridor

Chattisgarh is a newly formed state carved out of Madhya Pradesh. More than half of Chattisgarh is filled with forests. The state has 6076 Hectares of forestland. Chattisgarh has three National Parks, Panna National Park, Indravati National Park and Pench National Park apart from the eleven Wildlife Sanctuaries.

The other wildlife sanctuaries are, Achanakmar Sancturies, Sitanadi, Badalkhol, Gomarda, Samersot, Barnavapara, Tamorpigala Bhairavgarh, Pamed Sancturies and Udayanti. These forests are store house of wide range of varieties of flora and fauna. Chattisgarh forests in Bastar region are one countries richest biosphere. The government plays an important role in preserving the forests.

The nearest airport is in Raipur, with great air connectivity with other important states. The major railway stations are in Chattisgarh, Raipur and Bilaspur. The state also offer good hotels, resorts and home stays.

R. Romar 16/4/2009

España es, con diferencia, el país europeo con mayor superficie destinada al cultivo del maíz transgénico, que acaba de prohibir Alemania por un presunto riesgo para la biodiversidad y el medio ambiente, medida que previamente habían adoptado otros siete países, entre ellos Francia.

Las casi 80.000 hectáreas cultivadas con la variedad MON 810, la única que autoriza la Unión Europea, representan más del 22% del cultivo de maíz en España y suponen una producción mayor que la del conjunto de los otros seis países comunitarios -ver gráfico- que actualmente liberan semillas modificadas genéticamente para la producción de cereal.

España, ahora, se encuentra cada vez más sola en su defensa de los transgénicos en Europa, en especial a raíz de la prohibición adoptada por Alemania, una decisión aplaudida por la Plataforma Antitransxénicos de Galicia y condenada por la multinacional Monsanto, la poseedora de la patente del maíz MON 810. La compañía anunció ayer medidas jurídicas contra la postura del Gobierno germano. Ursula Luttmer Uazane, dirigente de la filial alemana, explica en un comunicado que su variedad de cereal es «segura para la salud humana, para los animales y para el medio ambiente». «Los argumentos que provocaron la decisión de la ministra no permiten dudar sobre la seguridad del producto. No justifican una prohibición de su cultivo», añade.

El maíz BT de la variedad MON 810 todavía no ha entrado en Galicia, pero podría hacerlo. El Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, Rural y Marino tiene encima de la mesa cinco solicitudes para el cultivo experimental de esta y otras variedades en Arzúa, Vilalba, Chantada, Ribeira y Mesía. Pero ni el organismo central ni el autonómico ofrecen información sobre el proceso. Así lo denunció ayer la Plataforma Antitransxénicos de Galicia, que ha presentado una queja al Valedor do Pobo y un recurso de alzada al ministerio de Elena Espinosa. «Atopámonos cunha total descoordinación entre a Administración central e a autonómica, uns remítennos a outros e ningún nos dá unha contestación, é un total obscurantismo cando os cidadáns teñen dereito a estar informados», subrayó la abogada de la entidad, Montse Valencia.

Fuente: La voz de Galicia

Lakshadweep is India’s largest producer of coconuts. The coconut cultivation is done on 2,598 hectares for which the productivity per hectare is 22,310. Oil rich coconuts are also cultivated in the Lakshadweep.

Coconut fibre extraction and production of fibre products is Lakshadweep’s main industry. There are five coir fibre factories, five production cum demonstration centers and seven fibre curling units run by the Government of India. These units produce coir fibre, coir yarn, curled fibre and corridor mattings.

Due to its isolation and scenic appeal, Lakshadweep is emerging as a major tourist attraction for Indians. This brings in significant revenue, which is likely to increase. Since such a small region cannot support industries, the government is actively promoting tourism as a means of income.

Radio London travel news has just reminded me of the old imperial measurement known as the shed load; as in “an overturned lorry has spilt a shed-load of toilet rolls across the carriageway”. It’s a strange measurement, not only because sheds come in various sizes, but toilet rolls aren’t generally kept in a shed; unlike a shed-load of wood or a shed-load of garden tools.

     As a rule Britain does have the most bizarre and obscure ways of measuring things. The up-tight ten-millimetre regulation pin-striped Eurocrats in Brussels have tried everything possible over the last score years and ten to make us tow the line, but it’s barely made a jot of difference, a jot being a smidgeon more than a trifle.

     Things in supermarkets may now be labelled in kilos, but it hasn’t stopped us thinking in pounds. We buy our petrol in litres but still think in miles per gallon; and why shouldn’t we, all our road signs are in miles.

You can take away our measurements,

But you can’t take away our freedom.

     Britain is a country that thrives on anything that doesn’t make an ounce of decimal or metric sense: pounds, acres, gallons, inches, hundredweights, hands, dozens, fathoms, furlongs, teaspoons, tablespoons, dessertspoons, knots, tonnes, drams, guineas, quarts, barrels, hectares, jiffies, ponies, pints, bakers-dozens, horsepower, Fahrenheit, demijohns, fluid-ounces, nautical-miles, yards-of-ale, fingers-of-fudge, six-packs, party-sevens and after-eights, to name what I suspect could be a mere handful of our obscure measuring systems; take these away and we’d be all at sixes-and-sevens.

     Feel free to add to my list…

UPDATE!

I have received a very small handful of replies, and would now add to the list soupcon and the delightful dollop, nothing whatsoever to do with Dolly Parton’s chest measurement.

     I would also like to clarify that a smidgeon is a small pigeon, as opposed to smidgen, the common name for a small midget.

The politically-correct sport of midget bowling.

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