Sony
participated on the 12th and 13th of December in the exhibition,
"Bright Green" in Copenhagen, which was held at the same
time as the UN Climate Conference (COP15), in order to present their
environmental initiatives.
Sony works together with a group that engages with forest guarding by young members of the society to make their "Forest Eye" idea a reality. It is a system consisting of networked sun powered internal television cameras and fire watchers operating through a web. It seeks to share information on forest fires to prevent them from spreading. David Morgan, Division Director of Sony in the field of research and development (R & D), stayd in the exhibition box with the Forest Guard subsets engaged to forest fire prevention.
His Royal Highness, Prince of Denmark and the Danish Prime Minister, as well as world-famous inventor Dean Kamen are among the important visitors who arrived in the exhibition and met the Forest Guard subsets.
In addition to prevention of forest fires, Sony has begun cooperation with the rainforest rescue organization The Prince's Rainforests Project (PRP), in order to increase awareness of the devastating effects of logging during the COP15 Climate Conference, where world leaders met to reach important agreements also in this matter.
In the beginning of this year, Sony announced Daniel Beltran the Sony World Photography Awards photo contest PRP-category winner, and sent him to the world's three largest areas covered by rainforests. His photographs from Amazonas, Congo and Indonesia show the incredible beauty of the rainforest, but also the flagrant consequences of the destruction.
Forest burning can cause adverse effects in many ways, where the destruction of the forest itself is sometimes secondary. Discount bounds, forest fires are a high risk to built-up areas, industrial enterprises, grain fields and causing traffic disruption. In addition to the destruction of human settlements forest fires are also a major environmental problem. Through smoke air will be contaminated and combustion waste pollutes water. Such fires may equate with the amount of carbon dioxide emissions caused by multi-million cars by the period of a year. Loss of organic matter reduces soil fertility and in some cases for decades. They destroy the micro flora of forests, partly higher animals and birds are killed.
Daniel Beltrá's second assignment from The PRP and Sony, visiting the rainforests of the Congo.
A great selection of pictures taken by Daniel Beltran.
Source Green Gate (in Estonian)
and North Estonian Rescue Centers Training and Logistics Center.
