The color green is sacred in Islam, which is why an emerald made such an ideal surface on which to inscribe a religious text. The gem itself is believed to have been mined in Colombia, home to the most spectacular green emeralds in the world.
Securing and Managing Our Borders. Protecting the nation's bordersâland, air, and seaâfrom the illegal entry of people, weapons, drugs, and contraband is vital to our homeland security, as well as economic prosperity. Over the past several years, DHS has deployed unprecedented levels of personnel, technology, and resources to the Southwest border.
The reason we need to save or conserve an ecosystem is because they are all interdependent, if one ecosystem is thrown off balance it causes a domino affect down the food chain/web.e thus need to save the ecosystem that supports us inorder to save ourselves from the damage we did to the environment that gives us our food, clothing and shelter. As Walter Kelly said in the Comic Strip Pogo,  We have met the enemy and he is US ! . Source(s):