Victor Agali, Nigeria

Victor Agali is a football pro from Nigeria and
he was born on the 29th december in 1978 in the capital Lagos.
With 17 years he was the top scorer in the 2. liga in Nigeria and in 1996 he transfer to Olympique Marseille, in 1998 to Hansa Rostock and in 2001 to FC Schalke 04. FC Schalke bought him for 5,1 million euros, what was the biggest tranfer for Hansa Rostock
In 2002 he was DFB-Pokal winner with FC Schalke 04 and in 2004 he swichs to OSG Nizza in french.

Then in 2005 Kayseri Erciyesspor , 2006 MKE Ankaragücü and in 2007 back to Hansa Rostock, but he wasn't so good like in 1998. In 2008 he tranfer to Skoda Xanthi, in 2009 Anothosis Famagusta, in 2009 to PAE Levadiakos and now he is by Jiangsu Sainty.

Kilian Kraft

Oleku - A nigerian Band

Oleku Band formed in 2006 from a group of Nigerian musicians that had settled in and around Dublin over the preceding 6 years. Lead by composer/arranger Allen-Taylor Adeniyi, originally from Abeokuta in SW Nigeria the birth place of Fela Kuti, the band plays authentic Afrobeat and Highlife from their Nigerian (Yoruba) roots. Oleku made their debut Irish performance in 2007 at a festival in Cork City and have since graced many stages at festivals around Ireland, including The National Ploughing Championships in Tullamore, and the Festival of World Cultures in Dun Laoghaire on a number of occasions. In 2010 Oleku toured Ireland aided by funding from the Music Network touring awards where they played at festivals in Kinsale, Letterkenny, Dun Laoghaire & Cork as well as venue concerts in Bray, Waterford.

In April 2011 Oleku travelled to Eger in Hungary where they performed at Eger Ethno-Fest to great acclaim, they are now Eger's favourite African Band, were filmed by the local TV station and feted by the press. Around this time they were also being filmed by Ireland's national TV station (RTE) for their news & current affairs programme 'Nationwide' on RTE 1 and to be broadcast in May 2011. Singing lead vocals, mostly in Yoruba, Allen-Taylor also plays the Saxophone & Hammond XB2 organ with backing vocals supplied by his wife Tomilola, Segun Akano and Otolorin 'Oto' Olalaleye the trumpeter. Oleku's rhythm section features Segun Akano on keyboards/percussion with Otto's son Sammy on bass guitar and Felix Oludare on drums. Before moving to Ireland trumpeter 'Oto' featured in Femi Kuti’s band (The Positive Force) based in Lagos.

Originally playing covers of songs by Fela & Femi Kuti all the songs in Oleku's current repertoire are now written and arranged by the Oleku Band. As all the musicians are multi-instrumentalists Oleku Band are able to tour as a smaller than usual Afrobeat band (as small as a 6 piece) thus reducing tour costs Allen Taylor released his 3rd album, the spiritually inspired 'Oba nla' in early 2009, and the new Oleku Album 'Awesome' has just been released.

INSTRUMENTATION:

Tenor/Alto Saxophone, Trumpet, Stick Congas, Bongos, Shekere, Clef, Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar, Hammond XB2 Organ, Korg Trinity, Korg M1, Drum Kit & Vocals



Made by Madelaine & Elena :)

Nigerian civil war by Pascal Stieler

The civil war in Nigeria took over 3 years. The main conflict was between the Biafra, Republic of Benin and Nigeria, Egypt. The conflict was supported by UK, UdSSR, Syrien, Sudan, Tschad, Niger and Saudi-Arabien at the site of Nigeria. The Biafra were supported by Israel, South Africa, Rhodesien, France and Portugal.
The situation was the same as the situation in the Mogadischu conflict. Several Warlords ruled over several urbans and said that they only want peace but in real they wanted more land. Their best arm was hunger. Many people died because they had no food before the supporters came. After the supporters arrieved all people had food but the war continued even with more power.
There was no clear winner of the war but Nigeria ruled the most land and the Biafra were defeated. The Biafra underestimated their enemy.
Today there is still a conflict around the Nigerdelta because the corrupt warlords are getting the whole money from the Oil and the civillians have very little money.

The Biafra war was a sign for all corrupt warlords in Nigeria and today most warlords have given up their fights.

There's a great film about the civil war (this is the trailer in German):

Cooking in Nigeria

The biggest part of nigerian people are working on farms, so it's easy for them to get fresh vegetables, fruits and meat from their own animals. They're planting tomatos, onions, rice, Maniok (special radix), corn,
oranges, pineapple and so on. Lots of the nigerian recipes are based on spicy things like chillis.
Even if there had been a huge problem about colonization, there aren't many influences from other countries, it's pretty traditional.
All the recipes are given from mothers to daughters, it's unusual to write them down.
Some gestronomic specialities are Suya (grilled spits with liver and beef, mostly really spicy - second picture), Kilishi (flavoured and dried meat), Egusi soup (stew with meat, dried fish and melon pits - first picture) and Boli (baked plantains - third picture), as a drink you mostly serve Zobo (dried leaves from a special plant and fruitjuice with water).
Beer and wine are also produced on their own land.
Even if there're nice recipes like that, you have to be careful, for not getting ill, so it's better to eat cooked meal and to drink safe drinks, nothing from your water-tap.



I'll probably prepare something for next monday, either a special nigerian cake or something really nigerian: peanut balls, let's see if someone likes them.

Problems of Nigeria

Nigeria is an African state in the south-west of Africa. It has a large of 923.768 km² (Germany has 357.104 km²) and around 152 million inhabitants. It is independent from Great Britain since 1960, but that doesn't mean that Nigeria hasn't got problems.

Quite the opposite- Nigeria has stronger problems than we have and because of this, I want to show you the biggest problems of Nigeria.

First, POVERTY.

Although Nigeria has huge oil reserves, is the second-biggest oil exporter of Africa and one of the most important supplier of the USA, Nigeria is a poor country for its inhabitants- Just a few schools, streets and no work. Only 50% of kids in the school age visit a school, in special parts of Nigeria there are no schools now.

Second,

CRIMINALITY.
Besides the normal forms of criminality, there are especially three more. There is a lot of kidnapping, either to get money or to reach political demands, there is advance fraud; e.g. a lot of money is promised if you send a special amount of money, but after sending your money, you never hear about again, and at last criminal gangs tap the oil pipelines to get oil and to sell it on the black market. Because of the poverty a lot of inhabitants are in favour of this and do the same. The problem here is especially that it's very dangerous: there are many explosions with sometimes about 100 or 200 dead people (later more!).

Third,

HEALTHY.
If you are old, sick or poor and not a public servant (working for the country like police etc.), you are dependant of your family. There isn't a working healthcare- and pension system. Apart from this, there are epidemics often which have very bad consequences for the undernourished population and there are also a lot of cases of polio because of the inoculation ban (Impfverbot) which is actual in some regions of Nigeria. Another problem is that less than every second inhabitant of Nigeria has access to clean drinking-water.

Forth,

LOTS OF ETHNIC GROUPS.
On the first look, a lot of different ethnic groups together is great. But unfortunately it doesn't work: Some groups struggle for politic or economic power.

While my surfing and searching I came to the conclusion that one really really bad thing is that the big oil corporations like Shell exploit the Nigerian people in an inhuman way, so the Nigerian don't profit from their own ressources. I read about the big differences between city and land (in city big wealth, on land poverty) and the desperate people whose only way is it sometimes to get criminal. Apart from this their are not a few accidents at the oil pipelines or the oil refineries, often people die because of this accidents (it seem to be around 3000 the last years). The environment is affected, too.

At last I want to give you a convincing photo:

Pictures from:

http://www.welt-blick.de/landkarte/nigeria.html (card)

http://www.missio.de/de/jugend-und-schule/jugend-1/jugendaktion-2/jugendaktion2009/nigeria/interviews/ (woman in a 'house')

http://www.amnesty.ch/de/laender/afrika/nigeria/dok/2011/klage-shell-oelverschmutzung (shell man in front of an oil polluted place + oil polluted river)

The Super Eagles (Nigerian football national team)

The football national team from Nigeria is one of the most famous and successful football teams from Africa. Their biggest success is the reaching of the last 16 in the football world cup 1994 and 1998 and the victory of the Africa-Cup. In 1996 they were Olympic champions.
Football has a long tradition in Nigeria, even 1949 Nigeria has the first match against Sierra Leone. In the '70s there were more football clubs just in Lagos, the biggest city in Nigeria, than in whole East Africa.
The first official FIFA-match was 1960 against Ghana, they lost 1:4.
The colours of the team are green and white, their sponsor is adidas. Their highest victory was 8:1 against Uganda, their highest defeat was 7:0 against Ghana.
On the 1. march 2007 the German trainer Berti Vogts took the team over. His assistant was Thomas Häßler, Vogts was the 4th german trainer of the Nigerian football national team. In 2008, he was dismissed.
© Maurizio

Human rights

Human rights and their importance in the population: Information from Amnesty International, one of the most biggest human rights organziations worldwide

1. How does the people deal with human rights?


The situation in Nigeria is very bad. A lot of people suffer under this brutal condition and can't find a way out of this hell. In the prisons, there are too many people who were mistreated by the officers and should have to sleep in small rooms with a lot of other inmates.
The hygiene is a big catastrophe and a lot of the people in the prisons are taken ill with tuberculosis and HIV. But instead of these horrible circumstances, the people don't get any medecine help. That raises up the mortality rate and no one of the prison officers tries to change the situation. Quite the opposite; they mistreat and torture them to wring some informations out of them.


2. How many people were killed by the government and the soldiers?

For Nigeria, it's still normal to kill criminal people. The executions didn't decrease in the last years. Since 1983, the official number of killing acts amounts to 1200 people. In 1977, it reduces itself on 33 people. 43 people are condemned to death. 800 people sat in prisons in the very same year.


3. What happends with the kids?

3.1. Are they killed, too?

In the northern part of Nigeria, there are a lot of muslims. Their belief and their rights allows them to kill criminal underage kids. This islamic right is known as "Sharia".
One of the victims were Chidiebere Onuoha. In 1997, he was 17 years old and was killed by soldiers in front of a lot of people who wanted to escort the killing act.
But the UN can't accept these rituals and agree a treat with Nigeria, which stops the murder of somebody.

3.2. What should they have to do in the population and how does the people handle with them ?

The life of the kids is very sad and is informed by violence, poverty, illness and a lot of hard work. Nearly 13 % underage persons in the age of 14 in Nigeria have to work under bad circumstances. The armed forces use a big group of the working kids to train them and send them into foreign countrys for defending Nigeria.
But also the life of the girls seems horrible. The girls are mistreated by soldiers and officers and get big and terrible wounds of the sexual violence, which don't heal for the rest of their life. Because of this extrem rape, a lot of kids contract with AIDS.



4. What happends with homosexual people?

In Nigeria, the homosexual people are persecuted by the officers and the government. Their law, the "sharia" rights allows them kill people, who love the same gender. In 12 federal states in North Nigeria, they introduce this law and kill them by stoning the people. Some of them were killed, some of the have to go into prison for the rest of their life.
The law with the title "The Prohibition of Relationships Between Persons of the Same Sex, Celebration of Marriage by Them, and for Other Matters Connected Therewith" represent what the government think about homosexual people. This law violates the condition of Nigeria and every agreement of national human rights organization like the UN. Some campaigns in Nigeria which defends these rights have to go into prison for five years.


5. How does Nigeria handle with the women?

150 years ago, the women were under the hand of the Islamic religion and they tried to life with the law of the islam. The women only teached themself and tried to help other women by passing on their knowledge to other female persons.
But today, everything changed and the woman in in Nigeria stand up for human rights and stop the oppression against them. There are a lot of associations which help these people by defending their rights.

NIGERIA

This week's topic is Nigeria...

Hello students of the "English in the internet"-class,

how I've told you, I'm not at school on Monday. So I want to give you some ideas for possible topics online. As every week, you've time till Saturday for peparing your entries... Have a nice week!

Possible topics:

- Conflict between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria

- Oil industry in Nigeria

- Lagos: The largest city

- Nigerian football national team: The black eagles

- Abuja: The capital

- Human rights in Nigeria

- Environmental problems

- Ethnic groups (more than 250 ethniticies)

- Crime in Nigeria

- Agriculture

- Ibrahim Babangida

- Goodluck Jonathan (Nigeria's president)

- Colonial history of Nigeria

- Lake Chad

- Nigerian Pidgin English

- Nigerian cuisine
- etc.

Of course you can also choose other topics which are related to this country! Greetings to Mr. Bach! :-)
By the way, I couldn't read your entries about New Zealand... But I will do that when I've a bit more time...



Agriculture and economy in New Zealand

I want to deal with agriculutre and economy in new Zealand because it´s a great job to clue up my classmates about that, what farmers grow up in the country where the ozone is very thin.

Every country has its own things that are abundant for exporting and of course natural goods like coal or iron ore. New Zealand has not much mineral resources, but the island exports a lot of lamb, beef and pork. Wool and milk-products are also exported while petroleum, plastics and machinery have to be imported.

Main customer-countries of goods from New Zealand are China, USA, Europe, Japan and Australia. Agriculture is very important for the island and it´s with 8% part of the gross domestic product. The fields are mostly sown with maize, wheat and barley. Some prople also have kiwi plantations and you associate that fact with the bird "KIWI".

Ca. 2 million tourists travel to New Zealnd every year and the main reason of that is mainly the various landscapes. Some people say that every tenth person in N.Z. works for the tourism and it´s another part of the fluently working economy.

The north part of the island is mainly dealing with trade while the south-side is the agriculture-side.

I can´t imagine that people in N.Z. have to import necessary machinery like some robots for automobil-industry but myself don´t know if we in Germany import machinery. I always think that we are a strong country and produce our own machinery but I think I have to check this in the internet.

http://www.levins-in-sehma.de/images/neuseeland/full/78Kiwi2.jpg

http://apaju.com/f/neuseeland/neuseeland14.jpg

Auckland

Auckland has got 1,3 million inhabitants and is the lagest City of New Zealand.
The Countryside of Auchkland is characterized by the 50 Vulcanos the Sea bays and the Parks around the City.A lot of people from other countries live in Auckland, especially Britain and Asia. One of the reasons why people from other countries come to Auckland is because there is a lot of work available there.
Another reason is the Weather in Zew Zealand.So many people want to live in Auckland that it is over populated and they need to make more room for people who would like to live there.Near the city there are a lot of beautiful beaches that are good for swimming, surfing and relaxing.
by angelina

Vulcano Newzealand

Newzealand has 7 volcanos at an area of 268,680 km ²:

Egmont-> became it of mana Iceland to the north island of New Zealand converted

• Ruapehu-> is the highest volcano of the country with 2797 m.
• Taupo-> a gigantic Caldera volcano; it belongs to the few super volcanos of the earth1886 from him went outbreak more strongly
• Tarawera-> many people died
• Ngauruhoe and Tongariro-> lies just besides the Mount Ruapehu in the Tongariro national park
• White Iceland -> the most active volcano the last years
  
  
  

The island archipelago of New Zealand consists one means mostly from over 700 islands and rock isles, anyway when one talks about New Zealand, the two main islands which simply are called north island and the south island.
There are volcanos only on the north island which owe to her existence of the pacific plate.
Most volcanos of the New Zealand north island extend along the 350 km long Taupo-Volcanic zone.Not only the super volcano Taupo lies in her but also confessed volcanos like Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe and White Iceland.
The last great outbreaks took place in 1981 and in 1983. It came to a smaller eruption in July 2000. On this occasion a new crater arose.

Vanessa

Christchurch, big earthquake by Pascal Stieler

On 22 February 2011, Christchurch, New Zealand's second-largest city, was hit by a magnitude 6.3 earthquake.
While parts of the city have been badly affected, the city as a whole continues to operate. Local business people have responded innovatively and created thriving entertainment, education and business hubs on the outskirts of the Central City.
Temporary repairs have been put in place ahead of a major rebuild of the city's wastewater networks and roads.
In spite of the earthquake, Christchurch is still the gateway to the South Island, and the home of new opportunities. A friend of mine just reported me about the big earthquake in Christchurch. His name is Martin and he lives in a village not far away from Christchurch. He said that the earthquake destroyed many houses in Christchurch. Also the economy took much damgage because several factories were destroyed.

After all Christchurch is also important for New Zealand's economy because many companies have their main building there and many important banks are in Christchurch.

Christchurch is a wonderfull and big city but the earthquake destroyed many parts of Christchurch. But Christchurch will rebuild itself and it will become as wonderfull as it was before the earthquake.

Rugby in New Zealand

Rugby is a sort of football and has an influence of American Football, Canadian Football and Austrailian Football.

Rugby arose in the city Rugby and this sort of football established as a separate sort of football.
One of the first games that were played was the game between Scottland and England, which was the first international cap, in 1871.
Rugby is very popular in countries like New Zealand, Austrailia and England.
From 1900 to 1924 Rugby was a event of the Olympic Games and today there are many sorts of rugby.

Rules

The target is to bring the ball over the rival by run with the ball or kick it, so you can make points. And you can't pass the ball to a team mate who stands in front of you. To hinder the rival to make points you can tackle him. There are muich more rules, but I won't tell them all. :)

Rugby in New Zealand

The most rugbyplayers in New Zealand where from normal worker families and not rich. In Ireland, France and Scottland was rugby very popular too and the players were also mining wokers.



That is the popular Haka dance from the team All Blacks

Kilian Kraft

Maori culture

The Maori people are the first inhabitants od New Zealand. They came with travel canoes from Hawaiki, the home of their ancestors, over 1,000 years ago. Today, Maoris are 14 % of the New Zealand population and their culture and language have an important influence on the lifes of the "new" New Zealand people.

The Maoris have a rich and varied culture: They practise traditional arts like carving (form something from wood with a knife), weaving (with wool etc.), "Kapa Haka" (a kind of group portrayal), "Whaihkorero" (art of speech) or "Moko" (tatooing) and new arts like dance, film, tv, theatre, poetry and hiphop.

How said, the Maoris have an important influence on the modern life: Most place names are in the Maori language and seem to be senseless at first, lots of tourists visit the Maoris and buy things from them and the Maori language is an official language of New Zealand which isn't only, but also spoken in radio and TV. Apart from this the most trees and a lot of plants and animals have Maori names in the New Zealand English.

A long time ago, the Maoris have been cannibals: Sometimes they had enemies and if they were defeated, it was possible that the head of him was detached and showed in the village and the "rest" was cooked and eaten. But in the 19th century, a lot of Maoris went over to the Christianity and gave up this cult.
Today, it's possible that they keep something from their died relatives like "Maui", a Moari warrior who carved a fish hook from the jaw bone of his grand-mother*.

What we can actually say, is that the Maori people have a big and very interesting culture. They have been the first people in New Zealand. And although the temptations of the modern world are suspicious and they even earn money by showing or "selling" parts of their life how I would say and they have normal clothes or TV, they keep their culture and their traditions as the first human inhabitants of New Zealand.


*(source: http://www.spiegel.de/reise/fernweh/0,1518,261031,00.html)
pictures from:

http://www.sheimagazine.com/

(Young woman with face tattoo)

http://www.new-zealand-pictures.co.uk/

(family house of Maori people)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28819117@N08/2718395376/

(Maori with horse and dog at a lake)

http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2009/10/moari-time-in-new-zealand/

(Maori show with tourists in the background)

http://www.templestudy.com/

(Maori girl and old man which greet each other)

Ways of visiting New Zealand

If you want to come to New Zealand, there're many things you've to think of, many things you have to keep in mind. You've lots of opportunities to get there, for studying, working or something.

Au Pair:
For getting to New Zealand as an Au Pair you've to be 18, you've to be able to speak pretty good english and you've to apply for it early.
There're some responsibilities you should deal with, like caring for children, helping with homework, maybe cooking or helping with work in the house. You've to visit a special school, where you're thought how to speak better english. Therefore your host family has to give you your own room, pocket money and at least one free day per week.
Some things you've to think about before, is your legal passport, you've to be able to show that you cared for children twice before, your health insurance and other things like that.

Work and Travel:
The main idea about work and travel is to get to know much of the awesome and amazingly incredible countries, of the culture and the people.
So if you're part of a work and travel program, you're travelling through a country, you're working at different places, either for your own room and meal, or for money.
"WWOOF" is a special organisation for travellers, it means "willing workers on organic farms". It's a really huge organisation, not just about New Zealand, about countries all over the world.
With WWOOF you won't get any money, but you'll get food and a place to live. You've to work for about 4-6 hours. In New Zealand you mostly don't need green light for working, because it's just about working on farms, with animals or in the garden.

Studying:
There's one problem about studying in New Zealand, but it's the same with other countries, it's heavily expensive. So you've to pay 7000NZD - 9000NZD, which is about 4000€ - 5000€.
Anyway, New Zealand is well-known for all the opportunities of studying, for the high level of quality and for it's friendly people.


Here's another link to a video, it's in german but it's awesome. So if you've itchy feet and you want to explore places of the world, like New Zealand, watch the video.

Kiwi - the national bird of New Zealand

Kiwis are nocturnal and extremely shy. The chances to see a kiwi in free nature are extremely low.

The most astonishing bird of the world
The kiwi is the only bird with nostrils, at the front end
of his long beak consider. He has toes and toenails instead of claws and rather hair than feathers.


Size and weight
Kiwis become up to 25 cm high and approx. 1.5 – 1.8 kg.
The kiwi can reach a size of 40 cm.

Speed
An adult kiwi can run up to 25 km/h.

Reproduction
Kiwis claim a district up to 100 ha and pairs divide a district.
They are strictly monogamous and bind themselves for her whole life (up to 30 years).
Because females attack other little male kiwis than her own partners, no brood pairs are possible in kiwi houses.
The kiwi lays with 18-25% of his body weight one of the biggest eggs in proportion to the body weight. A woman with 60 kg would correspond a baby with 13-15 kg.
A kiwi lays in each case an egg which is incubated by the male kiwi.
The hatching time of 75-85 days is one longest time for birds.
Only from 30% of the eggs fledglings hatch out. The shells of the eggs are very thin and are destroyed partially also by the hatching parent.


The kiwi is endangered
By the reduction of his natural day room and eating enemies the kiwi inventory was minimized drastically.
Of 200 kiwis only one will arise.
His main enemies are dogs, cats, rats, possums and other mammals imported by human. A dog shall have killed 200 kiwis within two years before he was shot by the Department of Conservation.
There are spot kiwis only on steward Iceland.
Brown kiwis live on the south island and north island.
In the north of the island still several Thousand kiwis live in the free nature.
At the mating time of May until September you can hear kiwi reputations, but you can see them very seldom.


Often people use the animal as a joke for the fruit "kiwi".
Here you can see a picture of this joke:










Made by Madelaine & Elena :)

The history of New Zealand

Discovery and settlement by Polynesians:
New Zealand was discovered by the Polynesian at the end of the 13 century. The decendants of the immigrants founded the Maori-culture in New Zealand and the Motiori-culture on the Chatam islands. Before the Maori planted and ate the sweet potato they killed many animal species in New Zealand.

Discovery and early settlement by Europeans:
The first eurpoean person who discovered New Zealand was the Dutch navigator Abel Tasman. He reached New Zealand in 1642 and as he was in the golden bay to explore the land in more detail the aborigine attacked him and his sailors.
The second sailor, James Cook, reached New Zealand in 1769 to explore the whole New Zealand. He traveled with his ship around the whole north New Zealand and he had some friendly meets with the maori.



The birth of the nation:

Since the 18th century the Maoire led number riche fights, where different clans fought against each other. In 1820 the Maoire fought against the white people with fireweopens. In 1832 the british government sent James Busby to New Zealand and appointed him to the resident of New Zealand, because he should control the british trade. Two years later 20 Maori leader came togheter to constract a flag for New Zealand.

Colonial times:

The 1839 founded New Zealand Company search for new immigrants. They reached that many villages and cities were settled. The immigrants lived often as farmas in peace with the Maori. Some years later however, the relationships between the Maoire and the immigrants weren't good anymore and so they fought in some wars against each other. After the signature of the Waitangi contract New Zealand was managed as part of New South Wales, until the country built a own colony in 1841. The Europeans populated the whole country and built new nine provinces.

The modern New Zealand:

In 1901 the country decided against the acession to Commonwealth of Australia and raimand untill 1907 a colony. After the country get the status of a dominion, they were nearly indepented of United Kingdom. Until now New Zealand form a faithful ally of United Kingdom.

Made by Robin and Nicolai

Nature Of New Zealand

The nature of New Zealand is one of the most fascinating and interesting natural regions in the world. Long time of separation from another continent over the time of shiftings of the continents helped a population of unique animal species to come into being. Before the today's natives of New Zealand arrived, still 80% of the country was covered by forest and jungle. Now, the number has dropped to 25%, the remains now being under conservation. Part of it is conifer forest, part of it broadleaf forest. Impressing are for example the 10 metres high tree ferns and the evergreen trees in New Zealand. Its nature is mising terrestrial mammals, but the gapes are filled mainly by birds.
Birds that can not fly have a great location on islands of New Zealand because of the lack of predators. Even Pinguins or lizards live in New Zealand. But lots of the animal species are threatened by dying out, because of the natural enemies the natives brought with them, rats, cats, dogs and weasels that caused two large waves of extinction. New Zealand, world leader of killing imported species wants to ensure that, starting with small islands, the population of animals that was there before the civilization came will be restored. However, lots of animal species are still in danger of extiction, mainly because of excessive hunting and the increased tourism in the region. The beauty of dolphins and wales swiming around islands full of jungle and small kiwis stalking through the sand is disappearing, but the government finally realizes its source of money-making.

New Zealand: energy and their importance for the economy and the world

(Manapouri-power stattion: The biggest power station which is driven only with water and without machines)



General information:

New Zealand is one of the countrys on earth which became published because of their renewable, alternative energies. Over 75 % of the energy is produced by energy providern who win the power out of economical, regenerative energy sources.

The most strongtest energy providers in New Zealand:

1.) Water-power: year 2003

In New Zealand, especially in the southern part, you'll find a lot of hydroelectric power stations, which constitutes about 61 % of the energy in New Zealand. In Germany for example, we use only 23,6 % of the water energy in the sector of the regenerative energy.

2.) geometric energy: year 2003

Definition: The geometric energy is a stored, warm energy, which lays under the earth's crust. This energy can be used to warm something up or for winning electricity.
Especially in New Zealand, the geometric energy became very important for the population and the economy. Nearly 6 % are produced in the alternative energy part. Mostly in the north, there are the geometric power stations.

Wind, sun and biological things:

The minority are the wind energy, the sun energy, the biological rubbish and the wood. Only 3 % of the regenerative energy became used by the population.
But the wind energy grew up in the last years and could be the chance for New Zealand of becoming innocent of the nuclear energy, because of their position on the earth. There are still two big wind power stations, which were built by german engineers. Some energy providers wrote an agreement to produce nearly 5 % of the regentative energy by wind power stations till 2025.


Very important for this country is the natural gas. In 1998, it constituted nearly 22% of the total consumption in the section of regenerative energy. Some more big energy sources are coal-fired power stations and the firedamps. But that doesn't declares their innocence of energy, because they need a lot of oil for their cars and the transports.

Consequences and new ideas:

The water energy became more and more important and New Zealand became a model country on earth because of their high alternative providers in the energy sector. But nothing is endless: their natural gas reserves lose weight and the water power doesn't work anymore.
Because of this problem, the regime in New Zealand thought about nucelar power stations which should bring back the necessary energy.

The use and the electricity prices:

New Zealand is rich in natural ressources and the population used them in the last years. For example: In Germany, every person use in one year roughly 6742,0 kWh. One person in New Zealand comsumed nearly 9088,0 kWh. This big comsumption is caused by the low electricity prices.

Own opinion:

I hope, we will take a leaf from their book and try to change our electricity system. We have too much nuclear power stations and don't get away from this sector. But the consequences in Fuskushima show us, what can happen when the humans can't controll their own invention anymore. I hope, we will learn out of these occurences and change over to regenerative energy.

New Zealand Sea Lion

Places to live
The New Zealand Sea Lion is a species of sea lion that lives mainly in New Zealand. 95% of the worldwide animals live in three colonies on the Auckland Islands. Rarely, they live on the South Island. When the breeding season is over, some NZ Sea Lions go to the coasts of the NZ South Island.

Characteristics
The male NZ Sea Lion grows up to 2,45 metres length and are very dark, the female type has rarely a length over 2 metres. They have a brighter colour, they are light brown. Male Sea Lions weigh 320-450 kilograms, the females are much lighter, they weigh 90-165 kilograms.

Way to live
On the coasts, every male Sea Lion will defend his territory against other males. This is the reason for many heavy fights between the males, the results are death or heavy wounds, the stronger animals push the weaker on a hopeless place on the edge of the colony. The male NZ Sea Lions fight for the best place in the territory, to have the best place near to the female animals.

Protection
Now, there live circa 10000 to 15000 animals worldwide, but originally there were much more Sea Lions on the Islands. The people think that the Sea Lions live on the mainland too in the past. The reason for the less population are the seal hunters, that kill many Sea Lions in the 19. century.


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The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings is a Roman from John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. The movie was filmed by Peter Jackson. Peter Jackson is a New Zealand producer.
He got 3 Oscars for his movie ''The Lord of the Rings''.
He filmed the movie in a trilogy. The first movie came 2001 in the cinema, the second 2002 and the third 2003.
Always before Christmas. The movie is about a Ring.
Before the movie The Lord of the Rings excisted there was a book for children wich is called ''The Hobbit''.
The Hobbit was a story for Tolkien's Children.
The film is set in the fictional world of Middle Earth.
He relates the story of the hobbit Frodo, who comes into possession of a powerful ring. The ring has to be destroyed , for avoiding that Sauron the dark Lord, gets the ring.
Sauron would be able to be the master of middle earth with this ring.
The Lord of the Rings was filmed in New Zealand in a Special area.

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NEW ZEALAND

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The Deosai Nationalpark

Hey! I wanna deal with the nature of Pakistan, because I think the most of students don´t konw that this English-speaking country has colorful nature places. When you see videos or pictures of Pakistan in the news they are mostly in connection with war and death and terror. I want to give you a short insight into a world of a wonderful park full of flowers and animals, the DEOSAI NATIONALPARK! ;D

Here are some facts:

Deosai means "the land of Giants" and the park secures the survival of the Himalayan brown bear. The number of these rare bears enlarged up 1993 with 19 bears to 2005 with 40 bears in the area. The park is located on the Deosai Plains, which are among the highest plateaus in the world!
Between November and may Deosai is snowbound. In spring season the area is covered with millions of colorful flowers and a wide variety of butterlies.
I can´t believe that Pakistan is so nice. When you look at the pictures the park is different to German parks.
In the near of the Deosai Nationalpark are lots of hotels for the tourists that come gladly.
A lake named Sheosar Lake (means "blind lake") is also avaliable and here are some animals that live in the park:
Himalayan ibex, red fox, golden marmot, wolf, the ladakh urial, snow leopard and over 124 resident and migratory birds.


The wildsheep:
In the northern of Pakistan lives a species of the wildsheep. The ladakh urial is rare and over 2100 of these sheeps exist anymore.
The weight is 35-90 kg and the basic color of these animals is tan.

The golden marmor:
The golden marmor is one of the 14 subspecies of marmors and all of them are sleeping while wintertime with a weight up to 7 kg. It´s very terrible that these sweet rodents getting hunt because of their fur.

The Himalayan ibex:
This animal is a goat and loves being at a rockly slope. Old trestles are nonconformists and the horns reach a length of ca. 1 meter.
Weight: 40-100 kg

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Indus River

The River Indus comes into existena in the Trashimalya area in Tibet. The river crosses the Himalaya and flows through the areas Punjas and Sind in Pakistan. In the sowth of Hyderabad, the river flows into the Arabiz sea. The river is 3.180 km long. In the middle of the river there are a lot of facio facilities to water the agricultural areas. They get their water from the river. The Indus flows at the border to Indien. In 1960 Indian and Pakistan made a contract for the water providing. The amount of water depends on the Monsunrain. In 2010 there was a big catastrophy in Pakistan, because the water flooded whole areas along the river.