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A must watch !
A friend sent this link to us and I have watched it over and over again.
Yann Arthus and Jean Luc Besson teamed up for this production and had a worldwide release on the WED but strange enough, it appeared on no news channels. This why you need to [...]

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World Environment Day

What legacy are we leaving behind ?
Today is the World Environment Day.
World Environment Day is observed annually in more than 100 countries, and is one of the most popular days on the United Nations calendar. It is an opportunity to raise awareness and promote action on national environmental issues. Every year, a different host city [...]

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Emergency – School and Learning

The School-in-a-Box has become part of the UNICEF standard response in emergencies, used in many back-to-school operations around the world. The kit contains supplies and materials for a teacher and up to 80 students, if taught in double shift classes of 40. The purpose of the kit is to ensure the continuation of children’s education in the first [...]

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Diving and snorkeling

My Mum told me I chuckled merrily when she first gave me my beach bath ….

Looks like I do till now. I love the sea. I am a true islander. Happiest when I am by the beach and the sea. Nothing else matters, life seems restful and all seems to come back to order. Being [...]

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Post Dodo – The Tambalacoque -another endemic tree is almost extinct !

Would this sort of reading be cliche now ?  Well, to a Mauritian, no. It is heartbreakingly serious. We are losing the Tambalacoque tree very rapidly and only a dozen are believed to be still alive.
You would want to know why am I talking about a tree which is almost extinct when there are [...]

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