WWF Ticino Clean-up-Day 2018 Impegno comune per una Svizzera pulita Il littering ti disturba e vuoi fare qualcosa per combatterlo? Venerdì 11 e sabato 12 settembre 2020, hai la possibilità di dare il tuo contributo: organizza assieme al tuo comune, alla tua ditta, alla tua scuola, ai giovani esploratori o alla tua associazione un'operazione di pulizia …
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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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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Clean Up Day…but it shoudn’t be necessary!
To gather the garbage that others throw carelessly into nature... is certainly a very altruistic and admirable gesture. Even more beautiful would be if people brought respect to Nature, avoiding to throw around every kind of crap! We collected two rusty bicycles, computer parts, road signs, table pedestals, eternit plates (with asbestos) in addition to …
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Once upon a time a Little Red Riding Hood… * C’era una volta Cappuccetto rosso…
. Unfortunately, the story teaches: they yells "to the wolf, to the wolf" and then people victimise this poor animal, so defamed and hated because of the facts (real or inflamed) that have been put to the fore for elitist and propaganda purposes. Now, even the WWF is up in the net of those pointing …
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Getting to know bats with the WWF
I spent a day, as a volunteer, organized by the WWF, to accompany the children along a fun-interactive path designed to bring greater knowledge of these graceful mammals. Thanks to the efforts of the organizers of the "Centro protezione chirotteri Ticino" we have learned to distinguish these small creatures (only in Ticino there are 20 different …
Il tunnel fa acqua
As "environmentalist" and "ecologist" I object vehemently to the doubling of the Gotthard tunnel under the Swiss Alps! The media are boycotting the information, supporting the voices that tell only the goodness of this wrong choice from every point of view: environmental projects, ecological, financial and (also) political. Here is a detailed and accurate report …
Worldwide mobilization for the climate * Mobilitazione mondiale per il clima
. Sunday November 29th. at 13:30 piazzale di Besso Stazione FFS - Lugano (Switzerland) Perhaps these are not the spectacular actions of Greenpeace... there will be no chains with which attack us to the secular trees 🙂 There will be no Anonymus' masks to put on the face to make our intervention more ascetic 🙂 …
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about frogs and toads * sulle rane e rospi
. Not only in our country there is this issue! When the rain arrives, this trigger the migration of frogs and toads. Like every year specimens of toads and frogs are on their way to their breeding grounds, usually ponds, but also lakes. After spawning, the batrachians remain few weeks in this places, and then …
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Claudine Giovannoni 