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Nile Transboundary Environmental Action Project
is the largest project in the Shared Vision Program of the Nile Basin Society.
It provides a strategic framework for environmentally sustainable development
of the Nile River Basin and support basin wide
environmental action linked to transboundary
issues in the context of the NBI Strategic Action Program. The long-term
goal of the Shared Vision Program is to create the enabling environment for
the Nile riparian's to realize their vision to “achieve sustainable
socioeconomic development through the equitable utilization of, and benefit
from, the common Nile Basin water resources.” The project will encourage
more effective basin-wide stakeholder cooperation on transboundary environmental
issues by supporting the implementation of the actions prioritized by the
Transboundary Environmental Analysis, in the following areas:
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Areas around the River
Nile are a representation of the worsening
fresh
water crisis, not just around the Nile basin, but in many parts of Africa
and the world. Colours
of the Nile aims to complete the first unbroken journey from the
source of the Blue Nile to the Mediterranean Sea to raise public awareness
for this global fresh water crisis.
Colours of the
Nile is an international organization aiming to raise public awareness
around the worsening global fresh water crisis and provide possible
suggestions
to help resolve the predicament.
Colours of the
Nile is going to attempt the first unbroken journey from the source
of the Blue Nile to the Mediterranean Sea to assist in fulfilling its mission.
The universal decline in water resources is due to the multiple factors of
global warming, increased personal consumption (caused by an exploding
population), burgeoning industrial
requirements,
widespread pollution and the loss of the vast majority of freshwater supplies
that are siphoned off for irrigation. These factors have caused such a burden
on the world's water reserves that the UN has forecasted by the year 2025,
two-thirds of the world's population will have inadequate access to fresh
water. Although in parts of Africa this issue is already very serious, without
any action, this problem will affect almost everyone in one way or
another.
WorldFish Center is a unique international research
center involved in research on fisheries and other living aquatic resources.
Their vision is to contribute to
food
security and poverty eradication in developing countries. Their mission is
to promote sustainable development and use of living aquatic resources based
on environmentally sound management. The Challenge
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One billion people rely on fish as a source of animal protein.
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One hundred and fifty million people depend on fish for employment.
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There are 80 or 90 million new people in the world every year to be fed, most of them poor and in developing countries.
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Natural fish stocks are being severely depleted and under serious threat. Many forms of aquaculture have yet to prove their sustainability and be accessible to the poor.
WorldFish Center's response. They work to:
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Raise and sustain the productivity of fisheries and aquaculture systems;
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Protect the aquatic environment;
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Save aquatic biodiversity;
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Improve policies for sustainable development of aquatic resources; and
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Strengthen the capacity of national programs to support sustainable development.
The principal functions of the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA) include:
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Formulating environmental policies.
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Preparing the necessary plans for Environmental protection and Environmental
development projects, following up their implementation, and undertaking Pilot Projects. -
The Agency is the National Authority in charge of promoting environmental relations between Egypt and other States, as well as Regional and International Organizations.
Preservation Station has a mission : With the success
of important captive breeding
programs
like the Species Survival Program and the large number of captive felines
coming from the private sector, they have now reached the stage where they
must develop and implement a methodology for the reintroduction of captive
exotic felines into the wild.
Their
program vision includes the providing of a self-sustaining ecosystem based
on the species' natural habitat, and the systematic retraining of the cats
to survive in this wild environment. They will then be allowed to breed in
conjunction with a sanctioned Captive Breeding Program, and raise their offspring
completely wild as nature intended. This will then allow
Preservation
Station to reintroduce these "wild born" off-spring to their native
habitats with a much greater chance of success.It is their hope that the
methods and techniques they develop will then be used as a basis for the
similar re-habituation and reintroduction of other endangered species. Their
flagship species is the
Barbary
Lion, native to North Africa and extinct in the wild since 1922.
"Judah", their lion is one of only 30 lions to be chosen to be genetically
tested for certification as a Barbary Lion and the only one currently living
in the US. Check their
website to see how you can help or
email them directly from here.
Hurghada
Environmental Protection & Conservation
Association.
HEPCA is a recognized NGO (Non Governmental Organization) established by
Members of Hurghada Diving Society in 1992. HEPCA's mandate is the
protection
and conservation of the land and marine ecology and the underwater environment
of the coral reef of the Red Sea and its coastline. HEPCA, supported by its
members, achieve its goals and objectives of preserving the natural resources
and the environment of the Red Sea through active participation in various
environmental projects and through other effective efforts. Devoted to the
protection and conservation of marine life and the underwater environment
in the Red Sea. You can contact them by email at
hepca@hepca.org.
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contact us please email
terry@africanconservation.org
