Azores Experiences - Whale Watching & Jeep Tours

Environmental impacts of war are the damage that warfares cause on the environment.   Destroyed building after a bombing in Syria (Southfront, 2016) War has a destroying impact on the environment. Air, water and soil are polluted, human beings and animals are killed, and numerous health issues occur among those still living. Back in history we find that the armies of ancient Rome, to ensure the total capitulation of their enemies, sowed salt into the cropland of their foes, making the soil useless for farming. This practice had a devastating environmental effect.   Modern chemical, biological, and nuclear warfare has the potential to wreak unprecedented environmental havoc. Fortunately, we have not seen it yet –perhaps the Japanese community will disagree on that*.  Comparison between the nuclear bombs dropped in Japan, and modern ones. (Nairobi Wire, 2017) During the war, extensive damage is done and many people suffer health effects from weapons applied to de...

Illegal wildlife trade –or animal trafficking– is the transport of animals from one place to another for purposes of commercial enterprise.   Illegally trafficked leopard and tiger heads at a warehouse in Denver, USA (National Geographic, 2016) Animal trafficking relies on the killing of hundreds of thousands of animals and is a multi-billion-dollar criminal industry –ranking around 23 billion USD worldwide. It is one of the world’s most pressing conservation challenges, affecting hundreds of millions of people and thousands of wildlife species. The illegal and unsustainable wildlife trade is one of the highest valued illicit trade sectors in the world. Yet work within this field is uncoordinated. Some animals that are frequently traded include fishes –including sharks and rays–, insects and arachnids, turtles and snakes, crocodilians, tigers and other big cats, monkeys, pangolins –the world’s most trafficked mammal and perilously close to extinction–, rhinos, elephants, and...