Our newsletter is evolving and we submit to your perusal a new format: new sections, more pictures and illustrations, and more links to information sources.
You will find some «WORLD NEWS», i.e. recently published articles on topics as varied as: the oceans are in danger, global warming, the result of a study on killer whales and illegal trafficking of species.
In «TENDUA’s FRENCH NEWS», few words about our actions in France , including the overseas departments and territories. This month, Focus on the island of Reunion and its shark fishing, and on “the absurd and outrageous attempt by the government to downgrade the wolf.” It is also an opportunity to thank the mini-company “Eco Phenix” from the College Paul Bert of Chatou for his contribution to conservations projects supported by TENDUA!
BREAKING NEWS on PROJECTS financially supported by TENDUA to know more about the progress of these programs.
Finally, you will find our agenda : next November TENDUA organises a photo exhibition “Beautés naturelles” in Paris and our pink book about lions that are in danger of extinction.
Happy reading!
[1] 1: El Niño is the warm phase of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (commonly called ENSO) and is associated with a band of warm ocean water that develops in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific (between approximately the International Date Line and 120°W), including off the Pacific coast of South America. El Niño Southern Oscillation refers to the cycle of warm and cold temperatures, as measured by sea surface temperature, SST, of the tropical central and eastern Pacific Ocean. El Niño is accompanied by high air pressure in the western Pacific and low air pressure in the eastern Pacific. The cool phase of ENSO is called “La Niña” with SST in the eastern Pacific below average and air pressures high in the eastern and low in western Pacific. The ENSO cycle, both El Niño and La Niña, causes global changes of both temperatures and rainfall. Mechanisms that cause the oscillation remain under study.
Developing countries dependent upon agriculture and fishing, particularly those bordering the Pacific Ocean, are the most affected. In Spanish, the capitalized term “El Niño” refers to the Christ child, Jesus (literal translation “The (male) Child”). La Niña, chosen as the ’opposite’ of El Niño, literally means “The (female) Child”. El Niño was so named because periodic warming in the Pacific near South America is often noticed around Christmas
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Newsletter n°13 -August 2015
