Petites bêtes, plantes, jardin, oiseaux, potager... découvre vite les 80 activités que tu peux réaliser pour prendre conscience de ta planète. Voici quelques exemples d'activités proposées : fabriquer une mangeoire, élever des coccinelles, faire son compost, cultiver des cacahouètes, donner de l'eau aux oiseaux, faire pousser un avocat à la maison, fabriquer une maison pour un hérisson, planter des légumes en motte...

Pourquoi chaque espèce est-elle si précieuse ? Pourquoi l'eau ne s'arrête-t-elle jamais de tomber ? Pourquoi l'effet de serre est-il une bonne chose ? Pourquoi le trou dans la couche d'ozone n'est-il pas un vrai trou ? Comment la pluie pollue-t-elle l'eau ? Comment faire durer nos gisements de pétrole ? Pourquoi l'énergie éolienne a-t-elle le vent en poupe ? Comment fabrique-t-on l'eau potable ? Comment se brosser les dents de façon écologique ? Pourquoi la mort des coraux est-elle prise au sérieux ? Comment protéger les animaux marins ? Comment faire plus pour l'environnement ?

This book focuses on African childhood and youth within the context of development and socialization where children are expected to be moulded in the image of adults. In many African societies children are generally held as passive bearers of the demands of adults, regardless of the fact that they are often exposed to a multitude of challenges that originate from the capriciousness of those adults. However, buoyed by international conventions and national legislations that offer them greater protection, and the ubiquitous internet that exposes them to childhood and youth experiences elsewhere, many of them are increasingly becoming assertive in homes, schools, and communities as well as re-invigorating their survival and self-preservation instincts. It is in this regard that this book, through the various chapters, engages with their competencies, skills and creativity to respond to experiential challenges as independent migrants or ones under coercion working in city streets and markets or cocoa farms or juggling work and schooling in pursuit of some education. Confronted with their parents and siblings health predicaments and the inadequacies of state and familial care, or urgent negotiation of their sexualities, they demonstrate incredible resilience. Similarly, their perceptiveness is demonstrated in a unique appreciation of politics and its actors and a capacity to assume responsibilities beyond their chronological age. Thus while highlighting some of the challenges confronting African children, the book provides gripping evidence of how they resiliently negotiate those challenges.

This report contains four major sections entitled: Forests: A dwindling resource (Desertification, rain forests); The Forestsof Today (Fighting Deserts and Fires); A Developing Industry(Scarcity amidst plenty); Trees and people.