The eyes of Thailand Research

1.What is it about? A brief summary (~5-10 sentences)
The movie "The eyes of thailand" is a documetary movie about a elephant. Tells the true story of one woman's quest to help two elephant landmine survivors-Motala and Baby Mosha-walk on their own four legs. It is a great film. 
2.      Include a link to the trailer of the film

·   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCRD5yz5BHE&feature=plcp&context=C46339d2VDvjVQa1PpcFN08LwIMf_xDWXtV_TNLZsD5J9Z6yaJwg0%3

3. What is the global issue behind the film?

     Asian elephant is an endanger animal, but people still use these elephant for doing hard work such as carrying the logs. Some elephant got abuse, neglect, or over worked. The population of Asian elephant have dropped a lot and Asian elephant is consider as one of the endanger species already. People are still doing this which may cause Asian elephant to extinct in the future. Another global issue behind this film is landmines that are around the border of Thailand and Myanmar. These landmines are for protecting people to escape or come illegally to Thailand. 

4. How is it related to our class and why are we going as an environmental science class?

We as a environmental science class can't really help them but there is one way in which we can help them. It is to donate. 50 baht per person is really important. And tell more people about the film. 

5.  Which organizations are involved

·         Friends of the Asian Elephant (FAE)

·         Amie Penwell

·         Animon Tripod

·         Galen Garwood

·         The Humane Society of The United States

·         Mines Action Canada

·         United States Campaign to Ban Landmines

·         Handicap International

·         Sofia Christian Icon & Jewelry

·         Choclatique

·         Earthlust

·         Remedy Editorial, LLC

·         Creative Narration

·         Phuket Beer USA

·         The Changmai Project

·         Baan Panom

·         Jody’s Jungle

6. Question

How can we help the elephant?

THE EYES OF THAILAND TICKET

Jay Z Discussion

                                   

Discussions 1 Why was Jay-Z “honored to be at the UN”?     Jay-z was honored to speak at the United Nation because he wanted to help people that is having a hard time getting water. Why did Jay-Z want to do more than just go on a concert tour around the world He wanted to know and learn about the water crisis that is happening. He wanted to help that area that is having a hard time. Arunabha Ghosh explains to Jay-Z “you can live without food for a while, but you can’t live without water.”  Jay-Z agrees.  Why? Jay-z agrees because, we can only survive without water for only about 4-5 days, but we can survive without food for a week even more. What are some reasons why people in Angola do not have running water in their homesSome reasons why people in Angola do not have running water in their homes are because of civil wars. Civil war destroyed the water system in Angola. Arunabha Ghosh talks about the ‘loss of dignity’ when one is forced to bathe in public.  What does he mean? ·        It’s a loss of dignity because people need to have a private place to do personal things such as toilet.

Discussions 2 1.        It takes Bella four hours to collect water. Is there a better use of her time? ·         She can use her time to study or help her family. 2.      What are the health risks associated with open sewers? ·         Open sewers contain bad smell and it might spread disease, especially in a community when one person get the disease it in the whole community. 3.     Why does a flush toilet help keep girls in school? Males can pee anywhere such as bushes but females need to have a private place to do their private things. 4.      The water, sanitation and hygiene facility improvements and education at Bella's school are supported by UNICEF Angola. UNICEF-supported WASH programmes take place in over 90 countries around the world and are designed to increase access to safe water and sanitation and to educate young people about the importance of water, sanitation and healthy hygiene behaviours.  How might the knowledge and skills students learn in school WASH help their communities at large? ·         The increase of education will be able to help the community because cleaning up the water supplies in their community; they would have a better life both their community and themselves. 5.      It is more difficult for rural villages to get water, why?  What effects does this have on the girls of the community? ·         It is more difficult for rural villages to get water because the lack of technology and civilization that comes with living in a rural area.

Questions to Consider 1.        Are there shortages of freshwater resources in your country? If so, what effects do these have on your nation’s health, economy and development? Health ·         Health risk due to poor quality of drinking water ·         About 43 millions of people drink non-standard water ·         The highest risk is rain water follow by the people who drink underground water ·         The lowest risk are the packaged drinks Economy ·         Long periods of drought each year causes the decrease amount of water flowing into dams. ·         Droughts also effect on the production of rice, Thailand is also the world largest rice exporter and the agricultural take up 70% of nation water supplies. ·         Farmers have expanded farming outside of irrigated zone and farmer does not conserve water and have failed to plan crop production efficiently. ·           Development ·         Because Thailand needs lots of water each year this lead to effort to become “Kitchen to the World” ·         If not for exporting there should be enough water for present and future needs. 2.      What does your country believe the international community can do to address the issue of declining freshwater resources? ·         Both Thai and foreigner notice that freshwater is declining. ·         Example: the website Imagine Thailand is an organization that addresses about freshwater declining. In the site there are ways to get involve and help fresh water from declining. 3.      How does your country suggest the international community pay for global water resource management programs? ·         Managing risks in water resources is essential to alleviate damage and the consequences of natural disaster ·         Understanding the types or risk in each area help planners to select the right policies and actions to apply in order to reduce the risks and mitigate damage. ·         Risk management framework involves collecting info., establishing the context, identifying the risks, assessing the risks, and treating the risks. At each step stakeholders should communicate, review and monitor the progress and performance of the management framework. ·         The impact of climate change needs to be addresses when establishing the context and must continue to be considered throughout the risk management framework ·         The major source of risk in water resources especially water supply is rainfall, because we can’t control where, when and how much it will rain and these are the reasons that causes flooding and drought risks. These risk also have threat to economic development ·         Risk assessment feature an analysis of the types of risk in an area, the time of the year when will risk likely to occur ·         Traditional methods: rainfall analysis, flood and risk map creation and water balance have often been conducted on an annual basis and are statistically-based 4.      What are types of roles NGOs and business can play in the water shortage problem? ·         Organization called “water-advocacy” NGO that helps rural village with water providing. The types of roles are: -          Provide leadership necessary to create a relationship with water project recipients -          Ask for organizational expertise to plan a project with Global Water’s help -          Provide onsite skilled supervision throughout the project -          Provide after-project connection to check and monitor equipment installed during project construction -          Provide maintenance as needed -          They can provide with necessary connection with people who we can get help from.

Giving hands project

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwZG-ryOPXVpNi12Y1MxMlh0LXc/edit

Ecosystem project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7gfvbvtQ7g&feature=youtu.be

I'm a scientist and i like to study science my favorite science is environmental science I love the ecosystem so much i know all about it so many types of different ecosystem.

I'm a scientist and i like to study science all night
Ecosystems community of plants
Ecosystem community of animals
Ecosystem community of microbes

All the living and non living
are part of the ecothings
Like air and water interact with this system

Ecosystem style Ecosystem style oh oh oh
eh eh eh sexy animals
eh eh eh sexy plants oh oh oh

Within ecosystem there are
HABITATS
Which means every ecosystem has its own
POPULATION
A population is a group with same kinds of animals
They all interact with community

Natural cycles of life

Lyrics

Water Cycle x2

It happens everyday

It starts from evaporation

From the ocean to the sky

Then goes condensation

And that leads to precipitation

Water Cycle x2

It happens everyday…

Carbon Cycle

Lyrics

Old mcdonald had a farm e-ya-e-ya-oh

Plants take in carbon dioxide during photosynthesis

Animals eating plants they get carbon too

Respiration happens turns carbon back in the air

Photosynthetic organism release carbon too

Old mcdonald had a farm carbon cycle

Nitrogen Cycle

Lyrics

Nitrogen Cycle

Nitrogen nitrogen starts of as a gas

Nitrogen nitrogen goes into the plants

To spread the nitrogen around omnivores eat the meat

Nitrogen nitrogen the omnivore will poop

Then these smelly nitrogens will go into the roots

Nitrogen fixing bacteria is found on plant roots

It turns into ammonia

Water Cycle: It happens every day in our life. First it starts from evaporation (water going up). Second Condensation, when water stays up and last precipitation, when water goes down (Rain)

Carbon cycle: Complex molecule in living organism contains mostly carbon. Carbon is also important in the ecosystem. It enters the ecosystem by producers which take in carbon dioxide during photosynthesis. When other organism eats the producer they would also get carbon. Carbon would get back into the atmosphere in form of carbon dioxide by cellular respiration from the consumers. Plants would also release carbon dioxide as well, when they do cellular respiration. Other forms of carbons are fossil fuels, coals, oils, natural gases, dead animal body and plants from millions years ago that are underground. As we burn fossil fuel, they would release carbon and returns it into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. Nowadays, human have been affect the carbon cycle which is one of the big concern that the world is having right now. (FROM THE TEXT BOOK)

Nitrogen cycle: Nitrogen is very important to living things on earth. Nitrogen gas is about 78 percent of the atmosphere. Every living organism requires nitrogen in order to build protein. There is only one organism that could take the nitrogen gas and directly use it is the nitrogen-fixing bacteria, others organisms depends on the bacteria. The nitrogen-fixing bacteria are on the plants roots, but not all species of plants have these bacteria on their roots. Some bacteria are not in or on the plants roots they are also living in the soil so plants that doesn’t has the bacteria on their root would get nitrogen from the soil. Nitrogen-fixing bacteria has a very important role in the nitrogen cycle, they would fix the gas in a way that plants would be able to use, which is ammonia. The energy that they use fix the gas into ammonia is the sugar that were produced by the plants. When animals eat the plants or other animal they would also get their nitrogen that they needed. Nitrogen would return into the atmosphere by decomposers, which will turn nitrogen back into ammonia. (FROM THE TEXTBOOK)

symbiosis

Commensalism: :) / :l Commensalism is a relationship between two organisms in which one benefit and the other is not harmed or benefit. Ex= Shark and the remoraㅁover food of sharks Parasitism= :) / :( Parasitism is a relationship between two organism, one organism benefit (parasite) while its a harm to the other organism(host). The relationship of parasite and host. Ex.= roundworm, heartworm, tapeworm, ticks in dogs Mutualism= :) / :) Mutualism is a relationship between two organism and both organism benefits Ex= Bacteria that are in human intestine that produces vitamins.