EarthWatch Magazine is - (the nation’s foremost development magazine) aimed at disseminating information in a language that can be understood by all. It is a cross between a magazine and a journal. EarthWatch Magazine is published quarterly for now and intends to go monthly eventually.
The first EarthWatch Magazine was published in 2001 with the cover story Poison In Fuel (highlighting the risk of lead in fuel). Three years after, EarthWatch Magazine has ten issues to her credit with financing coming from the sales, adverts and from the personal purse of the initiators.
The vision of EarthWatch Magazine is to provide a wheel of change in the way people treat the environment and the earth’s natural resources by supplying them with information and data that the ordinary people would never have come across. We are, by this means also focused on changing the pattern of environmental/developmental journalism in Nigeria.
EarthWatch was originally an Environmental Magazine Published by Cookey Environmental and Public Health Services (CEPHS) in the year 1997. In 2003 EarthWatch now changed from just been a magazine with a strong focus in Environment and Development to an international development organization well known for its activities in the fields of sustainable development, environment and public health, especially with serious activities in the area of water supply and environmental sanitation.
EarthWatch offers focused interdisciplinary research and publications with an international and national outlook, easy to read writing that has made it a leading source of information on environment and development issues in Nigeria, Africa and globally.
EarthWatch is a development and environment organisation that informs, interprets, advocates as well as provide services in our core field of focus to as many that require them. EarthWatch is unique in that it is a development and environment organisation that focuses exclusively on the angle of humanity.
This is a quarterly forum where experts in the field of development concerns are invited to a Roundtable Discussion to proffer solutions on our nation’s numerous developmental challenges. Recommendations are normally sent to appropriate government organs and agencies, private sectors and non–governmental organizations.
The first EarthWatch Roundtable was held in the year 2004 at the ancient city of Ibadan, as preliminary events to the 3rd EarthWatch conference on water 2004. It was 24hr discussions on the Polymerase Chain Reaction {PCR} And Its Application in Water Quality Control in Nigeria.
To improve the relationship between man and his environment; to improve the quality of the earth, inform and educate the people about the earth or environment, to enhance self reliance and concern for the earth’s resources and to help people avoid, prepare for, and cope with the earth’s abuse and sudden reaction.
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