---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 10:49:37 +0100 (IST) From: WWF International <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: WWF Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: WWF Newsletter: Are you a chemical dump?
Dear Reader In this issue:
* Are you a chemical dump? - enter our blood testing survey * Asia's river dolphins swim for survival - rare river dolphins on brink of extinction * Water crisis looms in Himalayas - global warming causing glaciers to retreat too fast ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Are you a chemical dump?
You may not want hazardous chemicals contaminating your body - but whether you like it or not they are probably already there.
Most people and wildlife are exposed to, and contaminated with, a cocktail of toxic man-made chemicals. It's just a question of what and how much.
Discover your levels of chemical contamination and help put a stop to it. Put your name forward to take part in Europe's largest blood-testing survey.
Are YOU brave enough to know?
Read more: http://www.panda.org/campaign/detox/how_you_can_help/blood.cfm
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Asia's river dolphins swim for survival.
Coinciding with World Water Day (22 March), WWF warns that populations of Asia's river dolphins are in severe decline and they now rank among the world's most threatened mammals.
The main threats to river dolphins are from polluted water, dams and entanglement in fishing nets. WWF also warns that the declining status of the dolphins is a key indicator of reduced availability of clean fresh water.
Read more: http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/freshwater/news/news.cfm?uNewsID=19175
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Water crisis looms in Himalayas
WWF warns that the glaciers of the Himalayas are retreating at an accelerating rate as global warming increases.
This will eventually result in water shortages for hundreds of millions of people who rely on glacier-dependent rivers. Himalayan glaciers feed into seven of Asia's greatest rivers ensuring a year-round water supply to millions in China, India and Nepal.
Read more: http://www.panda.org/news_facts/newsroom/other_news/news.cfm?uNewsID=19111
Download the report(PDF): Impacts of Himalayan glacier retreat http://www.panda.org/downloads/climate_change/glacierssummary.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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