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By doing so, Slow Food hopes to promote the growing and eating of foods which are sustainable and preserve biodiversity in the human food chain. The list is intended to include foods which are rare, and are "culturally or historically linked to a specific region, locality, ethnicity or traditional production practice". [ 2 ]
The species can grow up to 3 meters tall, but generally grows to around 2 m (6 ft 7 in) with spreading branches producing leaf stalks up to 15 cm (6 in) long bearing 10–15 pairs of oblong leaflets. Not to be confused with C. maximus that has glossy leaves, the leaves of C. puniceus are matte, due to its cuticle having a dense reticulum of ...
He was part of Brazil's 2002 FIFA World Cup-winning squad in Korea/Japan, but played only 25 minutes, all of which were in the 5–2 first round victory against Costa Rica on 13 June. [ 166 ] In 2003, Kaká was the captain for the 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup , where Brazil, competing with their under-23 team , finished as runner-up to Mexico .
The World's 100 most threatened species [1] is a compilation of the most threatened animals, plants, and fungi in the world. It was the result of a collaboration between over 8,000 scientists from the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission (IUCN SSC), along with the Zoological Society of London . [ 2 ]
The "World Footballer of the Year", Kaka, was one of the first global celebrities to endorse the "Fill the Cup" campaign. [2] Kaka, is a world cup winning player with the Brazil national team and he combines his professional career as a player for AC Milan with a role as a WFP Hunger Ambassador. In February 2008, he supported a launch event for ...
Loxodonta africana (Except the populations of Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe, which are included in Appendix II subject to annotation 2) – L. africana now refers exclusively to the African bush elephant; the African forest elephant, which remains listed in Appendix I as part of L. africana, is now classified as L. cyclotis ...
The name Kaka is of obscure origin. [2] Some local elders have attributed it to an eponymous "long-forgotten" local king, while others to the Persian onomatopoeic word قهقهه (Qahqahe) "ha-ha", a deep laugh, indicating that the area is a happy land. [2] The current spelling of the name, Kaka, was established by parliamentary decree in April ...
Lists of endangered languages are mainly based on the definitions used by UNESCO. In order to be listed, a language must be classified as " endangered " in a cited academic source. Researchers have concluded that in less than one hundred years, almost half of the languages known today will be lost forever. [ 1 ]