Voices of the Lake

March 20, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment

PLURAL+2018 TAL-Television America Latina Award
PLURAL+2018 FACIUNI Award
Age Category 13 to 17 | Brazil
By João Adams Samora.

Five hundred years ago, the civilization of Uros, seeking shelter from its enemies, fled to Lake Titicaca, near Puno, in Peru. They built lands out of Totora (a type of straw) in the middle of the water. Globalization and pollution have changed their way of life. They no longer live as their ancestors did, but only by the image of their ancestors’ culture and more.

Killing Whales

March 20, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment

AlJazeera’s People and Power investigates a fierce personal battle that’s raging over the future of whaling in Icelandic waters.

The Asian Elephant: An Endangered Icon

March 19, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment

Asian elephants are icons of their land and gardeners of their ecosystems. They are an important part of the places they live in, but populations are declining. Faced with habitat loss and resulting human-elephant conflict, as well as poaching, there are less than 50,000 Asian elephants left in the wild today. WWF is working in 10 of the 13 Asian elephant range countries to prevent and mitigate human-elephant conflict, build ranger capacity and support protection efforts, help maintain movement corridors, and a myriad other actions to conserve this magnificent species.