World Health Day is celebrated around the world on April 7 every year under the auspices of the World Health Organization. The decision to mark this day as World Health Day was made at the 1st Assembly of this organization, held from June 24 to July 24, 1948 in Geneva,…
World Water Day is celebrated every year on March 22. That day was adopted by a UN resolution in December 1992. As early as 1993, this day began to be celebrated, and, over time, the significance of this day began to grow. On this day, the United Nations wants to…
Happy International Day of Forests! Originally set up as World Forestry Day in 1971. at the European Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, the celebration later evolved into the International Day of Forests in 2012, when the United Nations passed a resolution to celebrate this every year on March…
According to TheGuardian, last year was record, the most people whose defend environment got killed! 212 at all! Just in Colombia and the Philippines half of people were killed. 64 in Columbia, 43 in the Philippines, 18 in Mexico, 14 in Honduras... The mining industry was connected to the most…
According to N1 https://rs.n1info.com/svet/broj-zrtava-zemljotresa-u-indoneziji-porastao-na-82/ number of victims of the earthquake in Indonesia has risen to 82! Rescue teams dag out today few more bodies from the ruins. Many buildings (including hospitals) are destroyed by a heavy earthquake (magnitude 6,9) which happened on Friday on Sulawesi Island. In Majene, at least 15,000…
Cyclone Yasa (category 5), the newest Cyclone in South pacific, hit Fiji yesterday, killing at least two people and causing huge damage to the country. Over 850 000 Fijians were in the direct path of the storm. A total of 72 roads was closed around the country as a result…
According to N1 http://rs.n1info.com/Svet/a657328/Drzave-bez-korone-Samo-devet-zemalja-uz-Severnu-Koreju-odoleva-koronavirusu.html just 10 countries in the world are currently not affected with coronavirus so far. Besides North Korea and Turkmenistan, 8 of them are Pacific countries (Kiribati, Tuvalu, Tonga, Samoa, Palau, Nauru, Vanuatu and Federal States of Micronesia). Those small countries reacted good to pandemic. Australia and…
One of the best private islands in the world, Vatuvara, Kaibu, Adavaci and Kanacea Islands are on sale since recently. I already wrote about each of them before: Kaibu Island https://tropicalislands.net/yacata-and-kaibu-islands/ Vatuvara Island https://tropicalislands.net/vatuvara-island/ Kanacea Island https://tropicalislands.net/kanacea-island/ Adavaci Island https://tropicalislands.net/adavaci-island/ But back then I was writing about their beauty and…
On July 30, 2010, Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument (small post about it https://tropicalislands.net/the-papahanaumokuakea-marine-national-monument/ )was inscribed as a mixed World Heritage site by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Because the monument represents one of the best examples of both the world’s cultural as well as natural heritage, it…
The Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument was created on June 15, 2006 by then-President George W. Bush. The monument covers approximately 360,000 km2 of reefs, atolls and shallow and deep seas up to 80 km off the coast of the Pacific Ocean - an area larger than all national parks in…
