MAP
the route
We came up with a project which aim is to spread the idea of sustainability, to establish awareness of how fragile our ecosystem has become and on which places on the world you can see some fatal impacts made by humans. Authenticity plays an important role in terms of getting the whole impression and so we decided to visit these places ourselves cycling the world and telling stories of nature under ecological pressure. These are our points of interest:
- 80% of the urbane waste in India get to the rivers flowing to the seas -> accumulation of plastic garbage through international streams in front of the bay of Los Angeles with a size double the USA ->Internationalisation of regional waste problems -> Bioplastics from Polylactidacid may be an alternative?!
- Dams in Ilisu and Munzur in Turkey
- Drinking water poisoned with arsenic through good meant development work in NE India till Thailand
- Disappearance (clearing) of mangrove forests and accompanied problems like floods and reduction of fish species in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia
- Papermills and their impacts in Thailand, Indonesia
- “Ramsar Convention on Wetlands”, since 1971, regions especially worth of protection, worldwide
- Huge oil refinery in Iran, also recycling from steel shipwrecks
- Oilpalm plantation in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Central America -> Clearing of rainforest -> extraction from „bio“fuels
- Other biofuels in Guatemala, Honduras
- Rainforest of the Austrians in Costa Rica, research station Nouragues in French Guyana
If everything works out as planned I am finally off by Wednesday next week!
