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Niloufar Bayani (born 1986; ) is an Iranian wildlife conservationist, researcher and activist. She was sentenced in 2019 of spying by Iranian authorities in a secret trial in Iran. She received a 10-year prison sentence. Early life and educational career. Niloufar Bayani was born in 1986 in Tehran, Iran. Bayani completed her graduation in 2009 from McGill University in Canada. Her degree was in BSc in Biology. She got an MA degree in Conservation Biology from Columbia University. After graduation, Bayani worked as a consultant and project adviser to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) between 2012 and 2017. In the summer of 2017, she joined the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation (PWHF). It was an Iranian environmental organization. It was co-founded by Kavous Seyed-Emami and other Iranian environmentalists. PWHF is a not-for-profit organization. It is controlled by a board of trustees and an executive board. These members are well talented in conservation techniques and natural resource management. In Iran, she worked on the wildlife projects. It was setting camera traps in 7 places to look after the critically endangered Asiatic cheetah. Arrest and imprisonment. Bayani was arrested in January 2018 by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. She was charged of spying. Others arrested and imprisoned from PWHF are Seyed-Emami, Amir Hossein Khaleghi, Abdolreza Kouhpayeh, Hooman Jokar, Morad Tahabaz, Sam Rajabi, Sepideh Kashani and Taher Ghadirian.  In 2019, Bayani wrote an open letter to Ayatollah Khamenei. In the letter, she was describing her extremely bad treatment by her investigators. On February 18, 2020, published letters that Bayani wrote from Evin Prison. In the letter, she detailed the tortures she suffered. According to a report from the BBC, she was separated for eight months and her questioners tortured and threatened her with sexual assault. Bayani said that her investigators showed her a photo of Seyed-Emami
The law of truly large numbers (a statistical comment), says that with a large enough number of independent samples, any result with constant probability formula_1 is likely to be seen. We may highlight unlikely events and notice them more.  The law is often used to falsify different pseudo-scientific claims.
Fowler's snouted tree frog ("Scinax quinquefasciatus") is a frog that lives in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Human beings accidentally brought it to the Galapagos Islands. Scientists have seen it as high as 620 meters above sea level. The adult male frog is 27.6–38.2 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 33.9–38.9 mm long. This frog can be in different colors. It can be light brown or dark brown with darker marks and other patterns. Its belly is the color of cream. This frog sometimes has a mark on its stomach that looks like five lines coming out from the same middle. Its Latin name means "five rays."
Bennettitales (also known as cycadeoids) is an extinct order of seed plants. They first appeared in the Permian period and became extinct in most places toward the end of the Cretaceous. Bennettitales are among the most common Mesozoic seed plants. They looked like shrubs or cycads.  Although the leaves of the Bennettitales looked like that of cycads, they had more complex flower-like reproductive organs. So some of them were probably pollinated by insects. Certainly Bennettitales were cone-bearing seed plants. However, their relationship to other seed plants is unclear.
Archaeopteris is an extinct genus of progymnosperm tree with fern-like leaves. This tree is found in strata from the Upper Devonian to Lower Carboniferous.  For a while, 383 to 323 million years ago, it was the dominant tree all over the Earth. They had a world-wide distribution. On all the land areas that were habitable, they all had this tree. Until the 2007 discovery of "Wattieza", many botanists thought "Archaeopteris" was the earliest known tree. It has buds, reinforced branch joints, and branched trunks similar to today's wood. It is more like modern seed-bearing trees than other spore-bearing plants. It is a bit like woody trees and herbaceous ferns. These extinct plants are sometimes called the progymnosperms. They are plants with gymnosperm-like wood but which produce spores rather than seeds. Because it bears spores. it is an ancestor of the gymnosperms.
Anglophone nationalism in Cameroon is a nationalist movement in the Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon. It wants greater autonomy for those regions, if not outright independence. It tries to preserve and promote English-speaking Cameroon's distinctive identity and values. Its legal, administrative, educational and cultural institutions were left by British colonialism.  Rise of Anglophone nationalism in Cameroon. On 1 September 1961, the Franco-Cameroonian parliament voted in favour of the new constitution. It was essentially the version for the Foumban conference, drafted beforehand by Ahidjo and his French advisers. To be binding under international law, it should also have been voted on by the parliament of the Southern Cameroons. This did not happen.  The absence of intergovernmental agreement and compromise is cited by pro-independence representatives of Ambazonia as a key feature of the illegality of the union. Another concern mentioned is that the federal constitution gives the impression that former French Cameroon has taken over Southern Cameroons.  The French president at the time, Georges Pompidou, referred to Southern Cameroons as a small gift from the Queen of England to France. Contrary to the United Nations General Assembly's binding resolution 1514 (XV) of December 14, 1960, on the granting of independence to all colonial peoples and countries, Britain transferred Southern Cameroons to the sovereignty of a foreign country, French Cameroon, and not to the government of Southern Cameroons, as required by international law. On September 30 1961, the British administrators left the Southern Cameroons. The next day, the French-Cameroonian army crossed the border. They disarmed the armed police in Southern Cameroons. It is described as a seizure of power by force. A Franco-Cameroonian official was appointed to the position of Governor General of Southern Cameroons. His official title was Federal Inspector of Administration. He reported directly to the President of French Cameroon. A series of other Franco-Cameroonian officials followed, including later his police force, which literally took over Southern Cameroons. In a memorandum dated March 20, 1985, the Anglophone lawyer and president
use both this parameter and |birth_date to display the person's date of birth, date of death, and age at death) --&gt; Dyhia Belhabib is an environmental scientist and researcher. She is specialised in illegal fishing, conservation, artisanal fishing and food security. As of now, she is a main fishery investigator for Ecotrust Canada. She is the founder of Spyglass. Her research has studied the relationship between fishing industries and the illegal drug trade. She has also found the conflict between artisanal fishing, illegal fishing, climate change and international fishing subsidies. She also stood for the decolonization and greater equity in ocean science.
Mabel Cañada Zorrilla (b. 1952) is a Spanish environmentalist. She is an antimilitarist and . She is the founder of the ecovillage of Lakabe. It is a town recovered in 40 years ago and united into the "Iberian Ecovillage Network". Life story. Mabel Cañada was born in the Santutxu neighborhood of Bilbao in 1952. She is a daughter of Ángel, a Burgos glassmaker and Isabel, a Balmasedana. She stopped studying nursing to take care of her father. She is the second child of the five sisters and two brothers. She is a mother of 4 children. She is active in groups such as the (MOC). It is the feminist movement. She is also active in groups against large infrastructures like nuclear power plants or the Itoiz reservoir in Navarra. She was one of the founders of the community of Lakabe (Navarra) in 1980. It is an unpopulated town that was later recovered. In the place, coexistence is based on self-management, self-sufficiency, self-consumption, mutual help and team work. Cañada has been trained in many ways to create collectivity. She is taught to express oneself in a group, to live in community, to organise structures allowing horizontal decision-making, in process facilitation, experimental education and non-violent communication. It has also been formed in other communities such as Findhorn. Since 2004, she has been providing many changes to the processes, performances from many situations for social groups. She has accompanied them in their own processes. She has taught them the courses and workshops.
Joan Carling (born 1963) is an indigenous Filipino human rights activist and environmentalist. She has protected the rights of the native and discriminated peoples for over twenty years. She has served as Secretary General of the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP). She was a chairperson of the Cordillera People's Alliance in the Philippines. Carling has also contributed to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. She has also contributed to the . She has served as a member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFii). In September 2018, she was given the Champions of the Earth Lifetime Achievement Award from the United Nations Environment Programme. It was in recognition of her work as an environmentalist and a defender of human rights. Early life and career. She was born on 30 June 1963 in Baguio City. She is the daughter of a half-Japanese, half-Kankanaey father and a Kankanaey mother. The Kankanaey people belongs to the . They are based in the Mountain Province in the mountain range. After completing high school, she studied social sciences at the . She has specialized in sociology. She graduated in 1986. While still at college, in 1984 she fell extremely sad with the murder of Macli-ing Dulag. The victim had been campaigning against the Chico River Dam Project. It was in order to protect the native Kalinga people. She attended his memorial in Sadanga. For the next three years after this, she joined in efforts towards community integration. She became a human rights activist in . In 1989, she attended a conference on ethnocide and militarization in Mindanao. During that time, she was one of 16 delegates to be arrested. It was because they were members of the Communist New People's Army. After a number of protests, they were finally released. In 1998, she campaigned against the construction of the . On returning to Baguio, she joined the Cordillera Peoples Alliance. She became the Secretary General in 1997 and Chair from 2003 to 2006. From September 2008, she served for two periods
Ana Čolović Lešoska (born c.1979) is a Macedonian biologist. Since 2011, she has campaigned against the construction of dams for hydroelectric power production in the Mavrovo National Park. It was in order to protect the threatened species, including the Balkan lynx. This led to the removal of loans from the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). It was convincing the Government of North Macedonia to hold on the further works on dams in the national park. For her works, in April 2019, she was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize. Activities. Colovic Lesoska heard about plans to create hydroelectric power facilities in Mavrovo in 2010. They included the 33m-high dam and the 70m-high dam. She was an executive director of Eko-svest. It was a Macedonian environmental research centre. It was in collaboration with other NGOs and activists. She launched the "Save Mavrovo" campaign. In November 2011, she complained about the ERBD. She explained that they had approved a loan for the Boškov Most project without conducting the required biodiversity assessment. She encouraged the ambassadors of countries with representatives on the EBRD board. She encouraged them to push for an end to the funding. A petition she launched was urging the government. They were urging the ERBD and the World Bank to bring the projects to a close. It was supported by almost 100,000 signatures. In 2013, she complained to the Berne Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats. She explained that the Boškov Most hydropower project "could have a decisive negative impact on the lynx". In December 2015, the Berne Convention ordered the ERBD and the World Bank to hold on the financing as the project could have "a decisive negative impact on the lynx". The World Bank immediately remove funding. During the following month of May, a court decided to stop the environmental permit for the Boškov Most project. In January 2017, the EBRD cancelled financing. For her achievements, in April 2019 Ana Colovic Lesoska was given the Goldman Environmental Prize. It was the first time the prize had been awarded to a North Macedonian.
The Autonomous University of Barcelona (also known as UAB) is a public university of Spain created in 1968 and located in Bellaterra, Sardanyola del Vallés, Catalonia. UAB has 105 degrees, 328 postdegrees programs and 90 PhD programs. Incidents. 2021 cyberattack. During October 2021, UAB servers felt down during COVID-19 pandemic. 2018 death threats. During December 2018, some students got a death threat. This is because UAB is consider to be ideologized to the left-wing, supporting Catalan independence and Pere Aragonès movement.
The Phoebus cartel was formed by Osram, General Electric, Associated Electrical Industries and Phillips among others in 1925. The cartel lowered operational costs and worked to standardize the life expectancy of light bulbs at 1,000 hours (down from 2,500 hours)
Kathryn Linn Cottingham is an ecologist, evolutionist, environmentalist and social scientist.  She is a Professor of Ecology, Evolution, Environment and Society in the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College. She is a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America and American Association for the Advancement of Science. From 2020, she serves as editor-in-chief of the journal "". Education. Cottingham got her bachelor's degree at Drew University in 1990. Here, she studied mathematics and biology.  Sports. She played lacrosse and field hockey. Cottingham played Lacrosse in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III Tournament during her first season. She was on the team that won the 1988 championship. She was the only NCAA Division III athlete to earn one of the Disney Scholar-Athlete Awards.  University of Wisconsin–Madison. She went to the University of Wisconsin–Madison for her graduation. She got her master's and doctoral degrees at there. Her supervisor was . She was supported by a National Collegiate Athletic Association postgraduate fellowship. Her PhD research in the Center for Limnology evaluated the effects of nutrients and the food web structure on plankton. She was one of the first groups of the postdoctoral researchers at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. Here, she made early warning indicators. She also made many ways to study community activities. Research and career. Cottingham studies the activities of lake plankton communities and relationships between and aquatic ecosystems. She joined the teaching staffs at Dartmouth College in 1998. She has studied the reasons that cyanobacteria occur. She also studied about the results of the algal blooming in low nutrient clear-water lakes. She has studied many ways to manage the growth of these blooms and control the negative effects of them on ecosystems. Cottingham showed that cyanobacterial blooms create their own favourable environments. It is driving and cycling. Else, the results are . She has started work with computer scientists to use big information and artificial intelligence. It is to know about the cyanobacteria across the . The information will be collected using robotic boats, buoys and drones along
Faiza Darkhani (born c. 1992) is an Afghan environmentalist, women's rights activist and educator. In the year 2021, she was a part of the list. It includes the most inspiring and influential women in the world. Darkhani is one of the few scholars of climate change in Afghanistan. Formerly, she was the director of the National Environmental Protection Agency in . She studied in the Badakhshan University. Later, she studied at University of Putra Malaysia (also known as Universiti Putra Malaysia). She graduated with a degree in landscape architecture. Her research focuses on the sustainable management of urban landscapes. She also researched on the relationship between urban agriculture and food security.
Martha Delgado Peralta (born April 26, 1969) is a Mexican environmentalist and civil servant. Since December 1, 2018, she has served as Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Education. Martha Delgado has a degree in Pedagogy from the Intercontinental University. She graduated from the Program for Advanced Studies in Sustainable Development and the Environment LEAD from El Colegio de México. She has a certificate in Environmental Policy and International Development from Harvard University. She is currently doing graduation.  Works. Martha Delgado has carried out uninterrupted work in the environmental sector. It was both in the Federal Public Administration (1991 to 1998). It was directing civil society organizations. It was dedicated to the environment (1998 to 2003) and was an Independent Deputy in the III Legislature of the Assembly Legislative of the Federal District (2003 to 2006). From 1993 to 1998, she served as advisor to the Presidency of the National Institute of Ecology. She was in charge of the process of decentralization of environmental management. Later, she participated in the social management of new decrees of Natural Protected Areas. During her working, an important stage of environmental management at the subnational level was founded. A legal protection of important ecosystems was also founded in Mexico. Some of the orders in which she participated were the Huatulco National Park and the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve. Between 1998 and 2003, she chaired the organizations Presencia Ciudadana Mexicana AC. It is one of the main associations for citizen participation and electoral observation in Mexico. It is the Union of Environmental Groups IAP. It brings together a hundred environmental organizations from all over the country. In Citizen Presence, she organized the deployment of 1,500 electoral observers. It was achieving the most accurate independent quick count in the 2000 Presidential election. She was leading the Union of Environmental Groups. She was able to stop the construction of the largest salt mine in the world in Baja California, in the Laguna de San Ignacio. It was the birthplace of gray whales, a threatened and endangered species
Nike Doggart is a British environmental activist, conservationist and writer. Education and Career. Doggart has completed her MA and MSc degrees in education. She studied at Christ Church, Oxford and at University College, London. She began her career as a marine conservationist in Belize. Her research work is mainly based in the forests of Tanzania. Her works have discovered many new species. New species include a frog from the Eastern Arc Mountains. The species is named after her as "Arthroleptis nikeae". Works. Doggart is an advisor to the Tanzania Forest Conservation Group. She has successfully made the Tanzanian government to protect water and forestry resources. She made the government to promote environmentally sustainable forms of economic development. One of her most successful programs is the introduction of sustainable butterfly farming. It was for women living near the Amani Nature Reserve. Doggart was a presenter and advisor on the BBC's "Villages on the Front Line". It was broadcasted in the year 2006. She is the Editor of "The Arc Journal".Preprint including front page naming editors
Armenians in Turkey (; , romanized: Hayery T’urk’iayum; "Turkish Armenians"), are ethnic Armenians living in Turkey.  They have an estimated population of 50,000 to 70,000, down from a population of over 2 million Armenians between the years 1914 and 1921. Until the Armenian genocide of 1915, most of the Armenian population of Turkey lived in the eastern parts of the country that Armenians call Western Armenia. Today, the overwhelming majority of Turkish Armenians are concentrated in Istanbul.  They support their own newspapers, churches and schools, and the majority belong to the Armenian Apostolic Church and a minority of Armenians in Turkey belong to the Armenian Catholic Church or to the Armenian Evangelical Church. Geographical distribution. Istanbul. Of the 60,000 Christian Armenians living in Turkey, 45,000 live in Istanbul. Today, in the Kumkapı quarter in Fatih, Istanbul, the various churches Armenian, Greek Orthodox and Syriac as well as the Armenian Patriarchate of Turkey. In some ways, the quarter has even regained its reputation as an Armenian quarter. Yet, the majority of Armenians residing in Kumkapı today are immigrants from Armenia, while of the original Armenian population, only a few individuals still call Kumkapı their home. The Armenian population in Turkey, which makes up the largest Christian community in the country, "resembles an iceberg melting in the sea" with its some 60,000 members, the newly elected Armenian Apostolic Patriarch of Istanbul has said. At present, the Armenian community in Istanbul has 20 schools (including the Getronagan Armenian High School), 17 cultural and social organizations, three newspapers ("Agos", "Jamanak", "Marmara"), two sports clubs (Şişlispor, Taksimspor).  Dersim. According to Mihran Prgiç Gültekin, the head of the Union of Dersim Armenians, around 75% of the population in villages of Dersim are "converted Armenians." The greater part of hidden Armenians of
Flossie Donnelly (born 2007) is an Irish person who studies about the sea environment. She is a school student. She was the first person to bring seabin machines to Ireland. She was making money for two of the machines. Those machines remove plastics from the waters. She appears on the RTE News to show her works. Donnelly regularly works for climates either outside her school or at the parliament. She makes cleanups near the sea in Dún Laoghaire and Sandycove. It was along the local South Dublin near the seas. She started an environmental group called "Flossie &amp; the Beach Cleaners". It collects money for environmental works. It was when she was eleven years old. With that, she told people about plastic pollution and its results in the sea life. She collected €4,000 for two seabin machines into Ireland. The machines can remove up to 83,000 plastic bags or 20,000 plastic bottles from the sea in one year. On World Oceans Day 2018, she led Ireland's only March for the Ocean event in Dún Laoghaire. She spoke at a TEDx Dún Laoghaire event in October 2018. In October 2019, RTÉjr said that they would follow Donnelly's works to the Citarum River in Indonesia. It is one of the world's dirtiest 'plastic' rivers. She was related to a true story recorded movie named "My Story: The Beach Cleaner." This was one of her many works for people. She did it with school children in Ireland. It was on the works to stop plastic pollution.
Margoth Escobar is an Ecuadorian person who works for environmental and native people's rights. Escobar is born in a mixed European (Spanish) and Amerindian family. She was born in Puyo, Pastaza. Works. Escobar was against the taking away of natural things in the Ecuadorian Amazon. In 1975, Escobar helped people in making the "Provincial Union of Peasant Organizations of Manabi" (Unión Provincial de Organizaciones Campesinas de Manabí). It was important in the saving the village lands of many families in Manabí region.