09/20/2005
World Expo 2005
Well done to the team at the South African Pavilion at the World Expo in Japan who have been awarded a Silver Award. This award recognises -
"...the pavilions of official participants that do an outstanding job of bringing to life the expo theme 'Nature's Wisdom", organisers said. "South Africa was awarded for its recognition of poverty and war as a threat to the environment and for its efforts to create a sustainable economy through ecotourism," SA Pavilion said in a statement.
The criteria used to select winners was respect of the theme, the theme's development, innovation, clarity and intelligibility of messages and contribution to education.
The website of the Pavilion can be found HERE.
06:27 Posted in Saffers | Permalink | Comments (2) | Email this | Tags: South Africa
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I'm a little worried - no, make that "severely vexed" - about the proposed culling of elephants in our parks. Eco-tourists are not going to like it. The reasons for culling them - destruction of the environment etc. - could as well be applied to humans. Not that I want humans to be culled, but they shouldn't be rewarded for crowding out other life-forms with child grants and the like. We humans should remember that we are part of a web of life and not the apex.
Posted by: Anony-mouse | 09/20/2005
Woah there tiger! Fully agree with you on the need for sustainable growth in the human population, but to say "they shouldn't be rewarded for crowding out other life-forms with child grants and the like", is frankly way out of line.
Child grants are not only necessary, but they show that a country is prepared to take care of its future by protecting its most valuable commodity - its children.
That is not a "rewardng", it is common sense.
Posted by: someamoungus | 09/21/2005
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