United Nations reports
alarming huge decline
in bees.
According to
a new report
by the United Nations
Environment Program
(UNEP), bee colonies
vital for food crops
across the world
are experiencing
alarming decline,
especially in the northern
hemisphere, with 10-30%
decline in Europe,
30% in the United States
and up to 85%
in the Middle East.
Factors of their
disappearance include
the increasing use of
insecticides that
disrupt the bees'
nervous systems;
reduced wild flowers
due to intensive farming;
and air pollution that
reduces the bees' ability
to find flowers via their
scent, whose normal range
of 800 yards now
only reaches 20 yards.
Further driving
the enormous losses
are new diseases and
parasites that spread
via global trade.
UNEP Executive Director
Achim Steiner said,
“The fact is that of
the 100 crop species
that provide 90%
of the world's food,
over 70 are pollinated
by bees.”
The study authors called
for international efforts
for more care in choice,
timing and application
of chemical pesticides
to save these food
production benefactors.
Many thanks
United Nations
Environment Agency
for alerting the world
to the urgent need
for action to protect
our pollinating friends,
the bees.
May we strive to provide
a better environment
and thus a more
sustainable planet for
countless lives as our own.
As during
an August 2008
international gathering,
Supreme Master
Ching Hai
has long shown concern
for threatened species
such as the bees,
along with emphasizing
a lifestyle change
to help lives.
Supreme Master Ching Hai: My God, now the
continued decline of bees
has affected the food now.
This is nothing new,
but they keep reporting
it's getting worse
all the time.
Because
if there are no bees,
there is no pollination.
And then some food,
some fruits and some
vegetables depend on the
pollination to bear fruits.
And now a lot of bees
have died
We might have no food
because of no pollination.
This this is terrible,
this is such a disaster
All the bees die because
of the poisonous gas.
They cannot bear it.
The people don't take care
of the environment,
and let all beings
keep dying like this.
Just to be vegan,
how difficult can it be?
Is it difficult?
Even if it is,
this is the only choice
we have to survive,
then why not?
Why not just
change to the vegan diet?
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Extra News
Gujarat University
becomes the first
in India to offer
Environmental Science
as a required course
throughout its
370 colleges for all
undergraduate students,
to further awareness
of nature, human-made
climate change and
how to help solve it.
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