https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=12&v=aIoBAS6bLy8&feature=emb_logo . I would like to share with you this 6 min. video, with some very strong images, which will make you seriously think of "speciesism" as a degenerative disease in the human being. Being a vegetarian or vegan, we're more sensitive to this topic, but it shall be our mission to spread the words …
Together we win * Insieme vinciamo
Just a few months ago, we had never heard of SARS-CoV-2, no one imagined its existence. Today, the whole world fears it and we know that there are half a million people infected, and perhaps as many do not even know they are positive for the Covid-19 virus. The number is constantly rising, hour after …
What about the Wolf? * Cosa dire del Lupo?
. Over the centuries, in different cultures, the wolf has taken on opposite meanings. Revered as a divinity or insulted as a devil, he often paid for his crimes with his life. During the Middle Ages in Europe, myth and superstition assumed significant importance. For example, we believed in werewolves. Religion exploited this fearful image …
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Biodiversity to be protected * Biodiversità da proteggere
. . Although the definition of the Ecosystem is a relatively new term, in recent months it has taken on a very important media impact. The human being is closely connected to Nature, on which he depends for his survival. Without a healthy ecosystem, we would not have water to drink and clean air to …
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Tito Bassi: trilogy “El Molino del OSo”
Tito Bassi: la trilogia "El Molino del OSo" . Read about the author who lives in Guatemala City . My review - la mia recensione It all began a long time ago… in a quiet area of Insubria, what is today commonly called Canton Ticino. Perhaps the villagers had first noticed Otto, a …
Saving the anphibian * Salviamo gli anfibi
A causa del cambiamento climatico e relativo innalzamento della temperatura, le rane e rospi si sposteranno prima dalle zone di letargia verso quelle di riproduzione. La loro migrazione è prevista in concomitanza con le prime piogge ed è proprio in questi momenti che i volontari entrano in azione effettuando i picchetti e salvataggi direttamente nei …
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Bushfire Emergency WWF Australia
Our Aussie icons are losing their homes & their lives to catastrophic bushfires. To donate, please go to the link below: Australia is in the grip of a nationwide bushfire emergency. Can you help us save wildlife, and protect and restore their native bushland? URGENT APPEAL: Across the country, over 10 million hectares of Australian land …
“Fase finale: non c’è possibilità di ritorno”
(English) To order the publication with my short contribution La generazione precedente, la mia per intenderci, ha originato una situazione climatica instabile che è esplosa all'improvviso in una vera e propria emergenza globale. È stata un'onda d'urto, uno shock tale da scuotere in modo irreversibile le generazioni dei più giovani, ma non solo loro. È …
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Is it really going to be an “happy new year 2020”?
Australia shows us what will happen to the whole planet, in ecological terms: an ecatomb of sacrificed lives, living creatures without distinction. Be that as it may, men have somehow been able to be evacuated to safe areas... and what about the animals? For the half a billion living creatures that burned in the flames, …
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Animal testing: only an act of cruelty.
https://www.facebook.com/official.peta/videos/565698033992189/ . We are confronted with a drifting planet, with an emergency climate situation that involves us all: each of us must act immediately. Animal experiments are an aberration, an act of complete cruelty and incivility. I am here to share a video of harsh reality... myself, I admit I couldn't watch it until the …
Jordan * Giordania
The desire to escape, even if the years pass by quickly, is always extremely alive! Fortunately, I have a very understanding husband (he knew my problem with the adventure even before I got married), so it gives me great pleasure to have him by my side even though sometimes the goals are particular. Petra and …
La fauna selvatica non dovrebbe forse essere patrimonio nazionale?
(Corriere del Ticino 22.10.2019) Nel 1800 sono scomparse in Svizzera diverse specie, sterminate poiché ritenute pericolose o semplicemente poiché l’uomo ha sottratto loro lo spazio vitale: nel 1871 in Ticino è stato ucciso l’ultimo lupo, nel 1894 in Vallese l’ultima lince, nel 1904 in Grigioni l’ultimo orso. Nel 1985 si è estinto il gipeto barbuto, …
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The IUCN calls for halt to species decline by 2030
With urgent need, I share the post of "in the shadow of the wolf". The International Union for Conservation of Nature reminds us that the emergency must be taken with extreme urgency. The current crisis, without previous analogues, must absolutely lead us to launch immediate conservation laws so that the bio-diversity is also guaranteed in …
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Saturday September 28th. 2019: I was there, in the Federal Square Bern
foto del ghiacciaio del Rodano scattata il 4 settembre 2012 100,000 participants: they were so numerous that only a part was able to enter the large square, in front of the imposing Federal Palace where decisions of vital importance are made, for Switzerland, but not only. In 19 days Switzerland will vote: with this strike, …
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What you wouldn’t want to see * ciò che non vorresti vedere
Estratto dal blog Serbian Animals Voice see here for the English text - by Venus "Il noto dolore al petto è tornato, posso solo camminare, loro non possono." (Jo-Anne McArthur, fotografa e investigatrice del benessere degli animali). Gli attivisti che hanno esposto la crudeltà verso gli animali alla più grande fattoria di suini in Francia hanno …
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Claudine Giovannoni 