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Member of the Lebanese community of Senegal, Ali Ibrahim El began its activities in Africa before devoting himself exclusively to the Middle East. ... There, alongside his brother Haidar El Ali, he pledged, as part of the association Océanium in defense of dolphins and protected species, and reforestation efforts. In Lebanon
then, when he went for the first time just five years ago, he discovered a "Holy Land", capital of the biodiversity of the Middle East and is committed to protecting its rich ecological heritage . His NGO, Mawassem Khair, Harvest of Charity, in cooperation with UNIFIL, has been involved in defusing more than 4000 bombs in southern Lebanon, reforestation of the region and the fight against fires, especially the efforts awareness and public education on environmental issues.
His major project is to strengthen its current reforestation initiative in Lebanon, to assist municipalities in waste treatment and sewage, and create a news agency dedicated to sustainable development and issues of eco- health in Lebanon.
To monitor the actions of Ibrahim El Ali, visit his website: http://fondation-elali.blogspot.com/

You chair the association NGOs Mawassem Khair (Harvest of Kindness). What are the actions you have taken and what you do now?

Just after the 2006 war, we focused on the emergency demining, assistance to municipalities for access to drinking water, and have mounted with UNIFIL assistance projects and installation of generators and electrical cables, etc ... Finally, we have embarked on reforestation in affected municipalities, and also in private homes.
rate planning is high in Lebanon, reforestation Homestay and on private property gives better results, so we've put together this project to replant 40,000 olive trees. Then, we intend to mobilize new UNIFIL and international agencies to generalize this effort.

In Paris forum, you talked about the importance of awareness and public participation in the event of natural disasters. First, what are the natural disasters that affect as Lebanon?
Then you can We give specific examples on ways to involve the public?

disasters affecting Lebanon are unfortunately too many. This country knows no respite: he goes to war, with its implications for an ecological disaster of great magnitude, to tackle forest fires that have destroyed more than 20% of the landscape green, and now suffer more 1000 earthquakes of low magnitude since February 2008.
Take for example the earthquake of magnitude 5.1 Friday, February 15, 2008 at 12:36. She hit the South Lebanon Saida up causing damage. Geophysical Research Center had alerted the authorities and Civil Defence on the risks of earthquake biggest problems may produce a landslide underwater and a tidal wave on the Tyre area.

here simulator earthquakes, very useful in our schools

what to do to effectively educate the public? The answer is simple: imitate the Japanese.

is a true collective effort we're talking about, everyone's business - the state, Alexandre Sursock Research Center Geophysical can put up a warning system thanks to its efficient access to IRIS or Geoscope, Defence and Civil Society, the highly organized party in Lebanon, schools, municipalities, religious power that can relay our messages during sermons. This passion, I am sure, will benefit the nation who will resoudée Lebanese and gathered around this common theme .. and as part of regular simulations since the reaction time and coordination are vital factors here.
You also addressed the need to build in compliance with seismic standards Lebanon. Can you give us more precise information on how we construct in Lebanon and on these violations?

After the war, the inhabitants rebuilt in a hurry and material prices soared. Furthermore, no control was possible by the scale of projects and the need to rebuild quickly to enable people to find shelter.
What is important to remember here is that we have the know how. It's just a budget issue. Two possibilities: either the state imposes standards on its seismic program reconstruction, or they must be imposed by international donors. But if Italy, European countries, there has not arrived, how Lebanon could he? Do we have only the option of a bank loan at zero interest rate on the 20% additional budget needed to re-construct earthquake-resistant standards! I do not hold
certainly not the solution but we must not forget that in 551 AD, Berit (Beirut) was flooded and took more than ten centuries to recover.

Also, the law serves as a recommendation and does not represent an obligation on the subject? Do you work with departments to educate our public institutions to this problem?

To achieve the Lebanese ministries, I'm active in lobbying practice in my small way: through my lectures in France, or by involving influential politicians and friends of Lebanon. I think departments need the relay and the support of civil society and associations. We should and can expect everything from the state that has never really had time to organize themselves. Moreover, it is very difficult to convey important messages in Lebanon when it is not backed by an influential political structure. And so from this point of view, this can be disadvantageous, however I intend to keep this freedom, my freedom, only requirement for operating effectively in the environment and on the whole territory.

What is the project of the island-shaped cedar in Lebanon. Will it be approved? Why should we reject?

Cedar is the emblem of Lebanon, and that would certainly awakened our national pride to see the top the sky, landing in Beirut! But
remain on earth: One Cedar kept in our mountains has more value than this island of concrete.
Similarly, building on the seashore requires a lot of sand. Now the sand serves as a real filter, and avoids salinization of our rivers, treasures of life for years to come.
Remember that Lebanon is the capital of the biodiversity of the Mediterranean and the Middle East. It is home to the first corridor of migratory birds from Asia to reach Africa, the world's largest.

Then we have within our land, the most diverse flora in the world with over 2,600 plant species of which 100 are endemic.

Finally, as you know, our sea coast has rocky plates shaped terraces, which are the richest of aquariums and marine biodiversity upon which it is possible to s'adossere construction of marine protected areas. This is even more critical that life has virtually disappeared from the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. His Lebanese side, however, thanks to its high acidity still welcomes the reproduction of turtles and sharks. He is here to preserve our natural assets for us to rebuild, not to build them an island, as symbolic as it may seem.
When the whole world is mobilizing to fight against the evils of global warming and loss of biodiversity, the real challenge is to transform Lebanon into a model of sustainable development.

Do you think Bill Gates spends some of his fortune to create seed banks, when we have naturally in Lebanon? So let's Lebanese: re-discover the hidden wealth of our lands and are considering how to provide work for our children by preserving our environment. It is for us to initiate this process when the international community, including the Union for the Mediterranean will be with us in helping us fund this treasure of mankind.

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Paris Forum at UNESCO: Speech by Ali Ibrahim El

"Natural disasters and human solidarity"

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"No one can reach the threshold without going through the night way."
Khalil Gibran

I just arrived from my country, Lebanon, there down on the villages of Upper Galilee, an olive tree called the "Olivier Farsi" feed its people for over 2700 years of oil and olives and produces wealth for sustainable development by reviving our biodiversity .

The recent dollar coin (200 years), has now become the architecture of our economic system, and the driver of industrial development. Then by crises in cascades it generates, the best weapon of mass destruction of our planet.

science and finance must be at the service of Mother Nature, not of his regeneration and the proponent of the calamity. The most obvious example is the grip that the financial means to make nature and belly of the inhabitants of the Third World, by imposing the GMO, as any scientist will tell you that organic farming or sustainable agriculture are well better for our environment.

My name is Ali Ibrahim El , I want to talk about two experiments that will illustrate the point I want to support the importance Awareness and participation of the population in case of natural disasters.

Lebanon first just after the War of 2006, I organized the clearing of more than 4,000 cluster bombs and more than 100 shells, some more than eight meters deep, and this in seven months.

I could accomplish this feat by using all the logistics of the UNIFIL (UN Interim Force in Lebanon), involving the population of the villages for effective information mining localized and religious leaders in their sermons usual, the municipalities, with posters placed in outside mosques and different places ... coordinating the work with the participation of the population have been crucial to remove as much of mine in a very short time, whereas when UNIFIL travels alone, she must use GPS codes .... The loss of time and the procedures to follow are so important that the performance of clearance it is necessarily diminished.

In Senegal the Océanium to successfully reforest more than 6 million 302 thousand trees by raising awareness through film screenings and outdoor and mobilize 12,000 villagers to replant mangroves southern Casamance.


These experiments show that with the accession of a population sensitized and motivated, we find the dynamics of the French Revolution when anthem is sung in its still "citizens to arms, form battalions"

The policy of the Ostrich in disaster management.

The climate disruption and major disasters generated is related to our biblical tradition of the Apocalypse, and our relationship with death, metaphysics, Heidegger already taught us that man lives with oblivion death, and large-scale disasters are obscured in the collective memory. Forgetfulness acting as a sopor, anesthetic management and coordination of all pre-cataclysmic.
Another paradox reinforces this phenomenon. A financial crisis, war, unemployment and discontent often induce change in political leadership of a country, while a disaster tends to be welded by strengthening the solidarity of the people with their leader ... ..

There is a close correlation between economic crisis and climate disruption, but it will be another reflection.

"First, let us have no illusions, if large-scale disaster, we will all be completely helpless and unable to cope, it is understandable that it is difficult to fight against forces of nature, orders of magnitude are not the same. "
This is not me! but Albert Musgrove's Joint Center for Operational Analysis, the man President Bush to handle Hurricane Katrina, Colonel Manfred Molitor of Germany, Command Chief of Defense of the Land of Saxony, and Major General Jean Paul Monfort Executive Officer of the Northern French defense area ... ....

with General Elrick Irastorza Chief of Staff of the Army

The officers of the nation's most powerful militarily, the most disciplined people, and the country has the most experience to help recognize that all face crises of national importance outsized, like Katrina, we could only suffer the damage and wait for it to pass in some way ....

emergency on the territory held by the CDEF CEIS and the Ecole Militaire

Raising awareness

I think these should make us reflect on the importance of empowering people by making every citizen a potential hero. Look at the effectiveness of firefighters in France and it is true for Lebanon, they are virtually all volunteers. We could

use April 1 as a national day to raise awareness of disaster outsized, mobilize road, firefighters, journalists from radio, civil society, local councils, schools, military retirees and especially of great value, make this day as the feast of music, a mobilization of the entire society, with simulation exercises.

This day will open the door for weeks of development now underway in France. And tomorrow, around the world.

One could even imagine a year with volunteer reservists that will last a fortnight days, involve youth in the suburbs, truck drivers, paramedics, and the army, gendarmerie, and prefects. That which can resolder the nation with the authorities instead of letting grow continuously ditches.

Impose seismic standards

In any case, we must remember that the more people will be trained, the more you avoid major disasters and Japan has much to teach us about the subject.

Proofread your papers, earthquake in Japan in the richter scale of 8, 2 dead, 3 buildings destroyed, an earthquake scale 7 in Iran, Algeria, and Lebanon would be 20,000 dead with his entire estate to the ground infrastructure.

Who would be responsible for 18,988 deaths? Our Creator? If so, I turn now to Zen Buddhism.

In Lebanon we have the engineering required to build in compliance with seismic standards, but the law despite the 1000 earthquake at some level 5 for the month of February 2008 calls for just a recommendation, not a obligation. You should know that it costs about 20% more expensive to build with the seismic standards, the state would could at least take them into account and impose upon the reconstruction of the country to start over on this sound basis?

President Jacques Chirac Great Friend Lebanon

reconstruction projects financed by the international community in Gaza or Lebanon should take into account the need to respect these technical standards of seismic design and construction (Standards who had demonstrated their effectiveness.)
Our Excellent interior minister imposed the wearing of seat belts for drivers, and the result is very promising, imagine for a moment that this was just a recommendation!

Lebanon, capital of biodiversity

When in Lebanon, this country is a kind of Union for the Mediterranean miniature , capital of the biodiversity of the entire Middle East, it houses the Corridor's most important migratory bird world, from Asia to Africa to join, it is not difficult to understand, the birds have their brains transplanted into a Google Earth natural when they are tall, they see natural areas rich in biodiversity.

Both mountains Mount Hermon (Jabal cheick current) and Mount Lebanon Water feeding the entire Middle East, The Lebanese Mediterranean mountain environment has a remarkable variety of flora. This small country of 10,452 km2 with more than 2600 plant species, 100 of which are endemic, while there were only 1600 in Great Britain, 30 times larger.

origanum syriacum ... Photos of Professor Francis Couplan

All moms know the Lebanese wild lettuce "Ellett"

Everything has its seacoast plates shaped rock terraces, which are an aquarium full of marine biodiversity, and on which it will build lean for marine protected areas, especially since the entire region east of the Mediterranean Sea became lifeless. His Lebanese side with the acidity of the world's highest, is hosting a refuge area for sharks and turtles that spawn in our seabed and lay on the coast Protected Coastal Tyre, is why we must fight with heart and soul cons of the project shaped island cedar in Lebanon.

In addition to the Phoenician and Carthaginian history, having rebuilt all ports and trading posts along the major cities of the Union for the Mediterranean, Lebanon is goalkeeper undisputed treasure of biodiversity.

You know that the forest fires that have destroyed more than 20% of the Lebanese landscape green. A few days ago, a shepherd was killed after stepping on a mine. Do you think

it is time for Mine plans are unveiled? If you do not give them to farmers or herders Lebanese, provide for trees and replanting, if not for our migratory birds, except to help in the fight against forest fires, otherwise how will you make us believe that you work for peace? And convince us to adhere fully to the project of the UPM ?

Encourage development of local projects and decentralization.

Finally I think we need to create the Union for the Mediterranean at two speeds, one focusing on major projects and reports, other that pass through communities, specific projects, and why not reference the NGOs.

Two arguments reinforce our position size.

communities involved always better environmental problems, and feeling more involved, eventually leading projects, especially with an optimized use of funds.

The states of the south shore are highly centralized and success of their community projects of basic sewage treatment, waste treatment, etc.. ... Would be a means of promoting sustainable democracy in the same time strengthening good Resource Management public.

(I explain to the Minister of Ecology Jean-Louis Borloo the importance of preserving biodiversity in Lebanon)

Religion and Ecology.

If you are a rationalist, I refer you to all the scientific studies of modern environmentalism, otherwise:
- Whether Noah, who has kept in his ark all biodiversity alive per couple;
- Whether Jesus Christ who, in breaking bread, and sharing with his disciples and promising life eternal, this bread could not be made with GMO seeds!
- Whether the Prophet Muhammad saying in a sentence: "If you were present on the day of the Apocalypse, and your eyes you see the end of the world in your hands and you have a tree, you have a duty to plant "

Messengers of all religions teach us the preservation of the environment, if the folly of mankind and greed continue to draw the earth's resources without considering their economy and regeneration, if our industries, our cars and our overconsumption of meat continent to pollute the 10 Km of living space above our heads, we run into all the promises of Psalm apocalyptic John.

I propose that the UPM to adopt a courageous policy of massive reforestation of olive trees throughout its southern rim, from Agadir to Turkey's border, and give me the mission and appointment in five years.

(This Olivier South of France is over 2000 years! Here is where we should lead our heads of states before the Copenhagen conference on climate change)

I end my presentation with Seneca

"This is not because things are difficult that we dare not.
is because we do not dare that things are difficult. "


Paris Forum at UNESCO
Workshop 2:" Natural disasters and human solidarity. "

Speakers: Philippe Bisch, Nathalie Pilhes, El Ibrahim Ali Badawi Rouhban Maurice Daccord.
Moderator: The cons-Admiral Jean François Coustillière.

http://www.forumdeparis.org/forum-2009/syntheses-des-ateliers-et-plenieres/

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