Positive news from Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone creates rainforest parkSierra Leone, one of Africa's poorest countries, today announced the establishment of Gola Rainforest National Park (GRNP), an area of forest home to chimpanzees, a key population of pygmy hippo, and hundreds of bird species, reports the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).
"In a far-sighted act, this developing West African country – which is on the front line of climate change – has decided to help the world by locking up a vast carbon store as well as protecting its unique and globally-important wildlife,"
- Tim Stowe, RSPB's International Director |
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More positive news from Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone creates rainforest parkSierra Leone, one of Africa's poorest countries, today announced the establishment of Gola Rainforest National Park (GRNP), an area of forest home to chimpanzees, a key population of pygmy hippo, and hundreds of bird species, reports the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). |
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Pneumonia vaccine ‘to save thousands of lives’
Source: BBC, Tue January 25, 2011 |
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John Lennon’s sons and Yoko Ono revive ‘Give Peace a Chance’ to help UNCelebrating the 40th anniversary of John Lennon and Yoko Ono recording the anti-war anthem Give Peace a Chance with the Plastic Ono Band, the United Nations announced today that the proceeds from the release of a commemorative single will garner funds for its peacebuilding efforts in countries emerging from conflict. |
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Renowned Swedish retailer donates proceeds from toy sales to UNICEF projectsUnited Nations - This holiday season, scores of projects aimed at improving the education of school children around the world are set to profit from an IKEA initiative to the tune of €5 million (almost $7 million), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced today. |
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Skies to be swept for alien lifeHat Creek, California - The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life. |
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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Saving Sierra Leone’s Chimps
Source: AFP, Sun September 02, 2007 |
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music serves as tool in UN-backed plan for peaceful elections in Sierra LeoneIf music be the food of love, then it can also serve to promote peaceful elections in a country recovering from a disastrous decade-long civil war. Such is the updating of the famous line from Shakespeare adapted by the United Nations and its partners to fit the upcoming polls in Sierra Leone. |
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Princess Finds the Shoe FitsBumpe, Sierra Leone - As an adopted child, Sarah Culberson dreamed about what her birth parents looked like and where they came from. |
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