Showing posts with label CURIOSITIES. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CURIOSITIES. Show all posts

Monday, 11 November 2013

Thursday, 31 October 2013

We love animals

Hi!!
I've been thinking today..... Since we love animals and some of us have pets we would like to share with our classmates...why don't we post pictures of our cats, dogs, horses....or whatever animal we have as a pet? I'll start with mine, here you have some pictures.

Pd: you can send your photos to my email-educamadrid one- and I will add yours here. Do you like the idea?

Rosemary, Oscar´s cat
Rosemary, Oscar´s cat

Renata, Berta´s cat

Dulce, Laura´s cat

Nessy, Laura´s dog

Kity and Malibu, Laura´s turtles

Triana, Laura´s horse

Paca, Iria's turtle 

Calcetines. Berta and Alba's pet







Sunday, 13 October 2013

Uncontacted Tribe in the Amazon Rainforest

HI! Here you have the video we talked about in class. 


For the first time, extraordinary aerial footage of one of the world's last uncontacted tribes has been released. Survival's new film, narrated by Gillian Anderson, has launched our campaign to help protect the earth's most vulnerable peoples.
Video thanks to http://www.uncontactedtribes.org/

Lost tribe: Bow and arrow at the ready, and with faces contorted with curiosity, the group stare and point at the unknown object hovering in the sky

This man, painted with annatto seed dye, is in the uncontacted community’s garden, surrounded by banana plants and annatto trees, Brazil

What do you mean by ‘uncontacted’?

Peoples who have no peaceful contact with anyone in the mainstream or dominant society. There are about 100 uncontacted tribes in the world.

Men painted with red and black vegetable dye watch the Brazilian government plane

Does that mean they have no contact with anyone else at all?

No. Everyone has neighbours, even when they’re some distance away, and they’ll know who they are. If it’s another tribe, perhaps also uncontacted, they may or may not have friendly relations with them..

Uncontacted Indians in Brazil in May, 2008

How long have they lived there?

Generally, tribal peoples have lived on their lands for many generations if not millennia.


Why are they threatened?

Outsiders want their land or its resources, for timber, mining, dam or road building, ranching, or settlement etc. Contact is usually violent and hostile, but the main killers are often common diseases (influenza, measles, etc.) to which the uncontacted people have no immunity and which often prove fatal.
More than 70% of the Peruvian Amazon has been carved up into oil concessions, making uncontacted tribes extremely vulnerable to the introduction of diseases

What do they need?

Their lands to be protected.


Monday, 7 October 2013

Ten Wonderful Treehouses Around the World

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Breckenridge Treehouse  
It was built by reclaimed and natural materials, and its location will be kept in secret which is a great benefit for the owners – people build these houses because they love the peace and silence of the forest, none of them would be happy if crowds of visitors spread around their houses.

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 The manufacturer sells kits so everyone could build such house. The treehouse is hanging on ropes which are tied on higher branches, so it doesn’t hurt the tree physically. It consist of two parts – a veranda and a coconut-like sleeping pod

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Finca Bellavista is a treehouse community with nearly 100 members. Their village is inside the mountains of Costa Rica and has 23 treehouses connected with each other through 27 zip lines
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Friday, 20 September 2013