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First International Day of Play

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For the first time ever, the United Nations and Lego have partnered together and have scheduled the first International Day of Play on June 11, 2024. The main purpose of this event is to encourage children to play more and have fun. According to recent research involving more than 25,000 children across 36 countries, 3 in 5 children would like to play more than they do now.

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The research further states that four in five children would also like to play more with the parents or career. Further, children’s charity UNICEF estimates that as many as 160 million children across the world are currently working instead of playing or learning. The UN has a treaty that sets out universally accepted rights for children, including the right to play. The International Day of Play is the result of a campaign by charities and companies that came together to form a “global play movement”. More than 140 countries have agreed to participate.

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Mining Poses Great Threat For Apes 

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Mining for critical minerals in Africa is threatening the survival of great apes in Africa. The rising demand for minerals and other rare earth elements required for the transition to clean energy has led to a significant increase in mining in Africa. This is threatening the native animals with pollution, habitat destruction, and risk of meeting with an accident.

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Researchers looked at mining sites in 17 African nations and discovered that there was a significant overlap of mining with areas that have large populations of great apes, especially in the West African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone, Mali, and Guinea. Guinea had the most significant overlap with more than 23,000-up to 83% of the ape population-directly or indirectly affected by mining activities. Researchers also found that the threat of mining to great apes in Africa has been greatly underestimated. In fact, more than one-third of the entire population (nearly 180,000 gorillas, bonobos, and chimpanzees) is at risk.

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The First Person To Run The Entire Length Of Africa 

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Russ Cook also known as “the Hardest Geezer” has created history by becoming the first person to run the entire length of Africa.

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He completed the distance of 16,000 km over 352 days running across 16 countries. He started his run from South Africa all the way to Tunisia in the north. Russ Cook has raised more than £700,000 for charity. Russ Cook faced many challenges including being robbed at gunpoint and suffering food poisoning, during his run.

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Famous Roald Dahl Characters Will Reappear In New Adventures

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Roald Dahl characters have received a lot of love. Now these famous characters will come to life once again in a new spin-off series of stories. Since Roald Dahl is dead, Greg James and Chris Smith, authors of Kid Normal, have been assigned the task of working on the short stories, hoping to bring new readers to the originals.

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Greg James and Chris Smith have written The Twits Next Door which will follow The Twits. In December 2024, Charlie and the Christmas Factory will be released along with other stories exploring “why Matilda is worried about being on the naughty list” and “what happens when, years after the creation of his original marvellous medicine, George’s granddaughter Gigi decides to make her own”.

Who was Roald Dahl? Roald Dahl was a British author of popular children’s literature and short stories, and a poet.

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UN Report Says: More than 1 billion Food were wasted per day in 2022

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UN Report Says: More than 1 Billion Meals Wasted per Day in 2022

According to a recent study by the United Nations (“UN”), households all over the world threw away one billion meals every day in 2022. In its latest Food Waste Index Report 2024 (“Report”), the UN stated that over $1 trillion worth of food was thrown away by businesses and households, when about 780 million people were going hungry.

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“Food waste is a global tragedy. Millions will go hungry today as food is wasted across the world, Inger Andersen, executive director of the UN Environment Programme, said in a statement. Such wastage was not just a moral but “environmental failure”, the report said.

It was also reported that food loss and waste generate 8 to 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. If food waste was a country, it would be the third-biggest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions on the planet behind the US and China.

The Report has also showed that almost one-fifth of all the food wasted in 2022: 

60% In our Homes 

28% By food services like restaurants and hotels 

12% By supermarkets and other shops

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The good news is that all the people that are currently hungry in the world (about 800 million people) can be fed over a meal a day just from the food that is wasted every single year.

The UN is asking countries to cut food waste by half by 2030!

Do you waste food? What can you do at home to minimise food wastage?

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