The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Sunday June 5th, 2022 – World Environment Day
World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated annually on 5 June and is the United Nations’ principal vehicle for encouraging awareness and action for the protection of the environment. First held in 1973, it has been a platform for raising awareness on environmental issues such as marine pollution, overpopulation, global warming, sustainable consumption and wildlife crime. World Environment Day is a global platform for public outreach, with participation from over 143 countries annually. Each year, the program has provided a theme and forum for businesses, non government organizations, communities, governments and celebrities to advocate environmental causes.
Mirrors #ShortStory #Fiction by Abigail George
She is two people. One filled with introspection and the other is a mirror held up to her face, her identity, her personality, and perhaps truth too in ways in means inconceivable to the world around her.
The man is magnificent. Everything about the man is magnificent. His life speaks of travel and adventure. She has never been anywhere.
She has never been out of this town. She has lived, but only a half-life with half-measures and half-truth. She has been searching her entire life for someone to make her feel as if she did have an identity in crisis or otherwise. An identity that came with means and truth and a personality.
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Desolation Of The Night #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“Under
The midnight
Moon
Weighed down
By time,
Madness
And the burden
Of life”
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Avenues of Action : UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration by Rene Wadlow
On 5 June 2021, the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, 2021-2030 started. An ecosystem is the interaction between people, plants, animals and their surroundings. The UN Environment Programme and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization are the lead UN agencies for this Decade. However, the Decade aims to become a broad-based global movement in which many can play a rôle. There are many measures which need to be taken within the UN system as well as by national governments and local authorities. However, in this great effort for ecologically-wise use of land, there is a rôle for many persons as a vast range of actions are needed. Individual actions can have a wider impact by bringing together people in new alliances for action.
There is a need to look at situations locally. Official government statistics need to be taken with a grain of salt, especially concerning forest cover. Higher figures than reality allow governments to justify higher forest cutting rates. Much of Africa’s « forest land » is actually a thin scattering of scrub with only a small percentage of the ground actually under tree canopy.
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Sceptic feathers #037 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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