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Ronni Ancona for World Environment Day: “EIA makes the kind of difference I’d make if I could” - EIA
Ronni Ancona
UN World Environment Day is this Saturday (5 June) and the theme is
“Ecosystem Restoration” to launch the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. To mark the occasion, we’re delighted to share this guest blog by actress, comedian, impressionist, writer and EIA supporter Ronni Ancona in which she talks about her passion for the natural world and for our work to safeguard it.
What prompted you to first get involved with EIA?
I’ve always been passionate about the natural world, ever since I was four and first saw an elephant, at Edinburgh Zoo – it sprayed me with water and I fell head over heels, wanting to be an elephant trainer or, better still, an actual elephant!
A project by the EcoVision Lab at ETH Zurich expects to have every quarter of the tropics mapped and classified by carbon stock by the end of the year, providing a complete picture of which lands store the most carbon and allowing companies to track deforestation in their supply chains. The map is being constructed […]
DID you know that if everyone in the world consumed as much as a Malaysian, the Earth’s natural resources for this year would already be used up by to.