foundational english lesson "Environment ppt". i made it for my seminar @ school. hope it helps kids who need a reference.

2. Sherpa to clean Mount Everest.
Wangari Maathai and the Green
Belt Movement.

4. Sherpas clean Mount Everest.
Most climbers who try, don't succeed in
summiting the 29,035-feet-high Mount Everest,
the world's tallest peak.
But they do leave their trash; Thousands of
pounds of it.
That's why an experienced climbing group from
the Indian army(Sherpas) plans to trek up the
8,850-meter mountain to pick up at least 4,000
kilograms (more than 8,000 pounds) of waste
from the high-altitude camps.

5. The mountain is part of the Himalaya mountain range on
the border between Nepal and the Tibet region.
The 34-member team
planned to depart for
Kathmandu on Saturday
and start the ascent in mid-
May. The trip marked the
50th anniversary of the first
Indian team to scale Mount Everest.
"Sadly, Mount Everest is now ... called the world's highest
junkyard," Maj. Ranveer Singh Jamval, the team leader,
said.
"We will target the mountaineering waste from Camp 1
(19,695 feet) to the summit," said Jamval, who has scaled
Mount Everest twice.

6. "There are old cylinders, tents, tins, packets, equipment and
other mountaineering waste. Apart from our own
haversacks weighing 10 kg each, we intend to bring in
another 10 kg each on the trip."
More than 200 climbers have died attempting to climb the
peak, part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Indian expedition isn't the first attempt to clean up the
trash left by generations of hikers.
Among the cleanup efforts is the Eco Everest Expedition, an
annual trip launched in 2008 that is all about climbing "in an
eco-sensitive manner," bringing old refuse, in addition to
that generated during the trip, down for disposal, according
to the Asian Trekking website.
Last year, Nepalese tourism authorities started to require
hikers to carry out an extra 18 pounds of garbage, in
addition to their own trash and human waste.

7. Picture Gallery.
MOUNT EVEREST
SHERPAS – A GROUP OF
34 MEMBERS OF INDIAN
ARMY.

8. • Wangari Maathai (1 April 1940 –
25 September 2011) was a Kenyan
environmental and political activist.
• Wangari Maathai started the green
belt movement.
• She was a woman activist, she
fought for equal rights for women in
Africa.
• She was the first African woman to win the Nobel
Peace Prize.

9. THE GREEN BELT
MOVEMENT.
• The Green Belt Movement (GBM) is an
indigenous grassroots non-governmental
organisation based in Nairobi, Kenya.
• It takes a holistic approach to development by
focusing on environmental conservation,
community development and capacity building.
• The Green Belt Movement organises women in
rural Kenya to plant trees, combat deforestation,
restore their main source of fuel for cooking,
generate income, and stop soil erosion.

10. The Movement – Structure
and Key focus areas.
Structure
There are two divisions of the Green Belt Movement:
• Green Belt Movement Kenya (GBM Kenya) and
• The Green Belt Movement International (GBMI).
Key focus areas
The Green Belt Movement works in six principal areas, known as "core
programs":
• Advocacy & Networking
• Civic & Environmental Education
• Environmental Conservation/Tree Planting
• Green Belt Safaris (GBS)
• Pan African Training Workshops; and
• Women for Change (capacity building)
Each of these programs is aimed at improving the lives of local inhabitants
by mobilizing their own abilities to improve their livelihoods and protect
their local environment, economy and culture.

11. Picture Gallery.

13. P.S.Sarvamangala.
X – ‘C’.