Urban forests are important for people and wildlife. Unfortunately they are, at least in Finland, often managed like commercial forests: thinned, even clearcut and replanted.
Urban forests can be a paradise for people and nature, if they are protected and their biodiversity is taken care of. Let’s let the urban forests grow old and allow also rotten and fallen trees in them.
Some background info:
The Rancho La Brea Tar Pits – “One of the world’s most famous fossil localities, recognized for having the largest and most diverse assemblage of extinct Ice Age plants and animals in the world.”
Alberta Tar Sands – A destructive fossil fuel exploration project, that will produce dirty oil, toxic waste and huge CO2 emissions.
Keystone XL Pipeline – “Pipeline that would trek close to 2,000 miles from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast of Texas. If constructed, the pipeline will carry one of the world’s dirtiest fuels: tar sands oil.”
Barack Obama – The President of the United States.
Stephen Harper – The Prime Minister of the Canada.
Santa has trouble as the Arctic ice is melting. Please visit Save Santa’s Home to save the Arctic and rescue Christmas. You also can send Arctic e-cards from there. I drew these two of them.
Here’s a rare video footage from Santa headquarters:
Cartoon for the World Wetlands Day 2014. It is organized by the Ramsar Convention and themed “Wetlands and agriculture”.
Download the cartoon & other material for the World Wetlands Day 2014.
The material are also available in French and Spanish:
Journée mondiale des zones humides 2014 : Les zones humides et l’agriculture
Día Mundial de los Humedales de 2014 : Humedales y agricultura
If you wish to help protect the wetlands, you can translate the cartoon into your own language. Here’s the blanco cartoon for that. If you do the translation, please send it to the Ramsar Convention.
Here’s the cartoon without the texts. (10 MB)
Here are the Ramsar quidelines for the language versions:
“Adapting our materials. We will again be making the design files for our materials available. If you would like to receive the design files please write to wwd@ramsar.org.
IMPORTANT CAUTION ON CUSTOMISING WWD MATERIALS
The Ramsar Secretariat encourages the translation of our materials into national and local languages and the editing of materials to include a national/local perspective.
Please note:(i) The images in all of our materials cannot be used for any other purpose without the permission of the credited photographers.
(ii) Our materials may only be used for non-commercial purposes.
(iii) WWD is an important branding opportunity for the Convention on Wetlands as well as your own organization. To make clear the importance of the Ramsar Convention in your work, we ask that you always retain the Ramsar logo on all your materials. Please remember to put the logo in its current position at the top left.
Thank you for following this guidance.”
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