Widespread drought afflicts China.Southwestern Yunnan province has been experiencing the most severe drought in six decades with some regions not having received rainfall since August 2009. Neighboring Guangxi and Guizhou provinces have also lacked rain, which has been disastrous for farmers.
Some 2.55 million hectares constituting 85% of Yunnan's total growing area and containing such crops as wheat, sugarcane and vegetables have been affected.
Provincial authorities reported water shortages for nearly 5 million residents and over 3 million livestock animals.
With the drought also grounding boats on the Mekong River, the Marine Bureau has stopped issuing permits and is warnings vessels instead to stay away from the waterway. It saddens us deeply to know of the suffering of the Chinese people.
Our prayers for the blessing of rain and that humans everywhere quickly adopt sustainable lifestyles that restore balance to our Earth. During an October 2009 videoconference in Germany, Supreme Master Ching Hai voiced, as she has many other times, her concern for humanity’s plight at this dire time on our planet,
while at the same time highlighting the actions necessary to alleviate such crises.
Supreme Master Ching Hai : With current droughts and water shortages already affecting millions and only expected to get worse, worse and worse. But even though our predicament is very grave, we do still have time if we act now.And the solution is still very simple.
It’s the vegan diet – no animal products.
Scientists have found that each person eating a meat and dairy based diet uses around 4,500 gallons of water per day, compared to 300 gallons per day for a vegan diet.
This also means that 1 pound of animal protein requires 100 times more water to produce than 1 pound of grain protein.
Over the course of a year, the vegan diet saves approximately 1.5 million gallons of water per person.
This is the key. If everyone switches to this beneficial lifestyle, our planet will be cooled in no time, scientifically speaking and my promise.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/6900486.htmlhttp://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-46421320100224http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=164990&Itemid=1Âu Lạc (Vietnam) seeks to protect the saola. The nation’s central province of Thừa Thiên Huế has approved a project to help save endangered mammals including the saola, an extremely shy forest antelope found only in Âu Lạc and neighboring Laos.
Funded by the UK’s Darwin Initiative, UK-based Cambridge University and World Wildlife Fund,the project will encompass research, raising awareness and managing the protected areas.
First discovered in 1992, the saola is considered one of the world's rarest mammals, with none that have survived in captivity. Many thanks, Darwin Initiative, Cambridge University, World Wildlife Fund and Âu Lạc for your caring initiative to save the rare and precious saola and other mammals. May their populations
be blessed with flourishing numbers.
http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0224-hance_soala.html http://english.vovnews.vn/Home/Saola-preservation-project-kicks-off-in-Hue/20102/112886.vovExtra NewsThe Worldwide Fund for Nature in Malaysia releases a new report stating that illegal poaching and human consumption of sea turtle eggs throughout the country is threatening the leatherback species with extinction.
http://www.france24.com/en/20100310-solar-power-could-provide-10-us-energy-reportNearly one-fifth of Zimbabwe’s population are facing food shortages, which experts say is likely to worsen with an expected failed 2010 harvest due to drought in some areas and flooding in others.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/03/11/zimbabwe-food-crisis.htmlThe Central American Organization of Fisheries and Aquaculture Sectors reports that overfishing and climate change are decimating shrimp populations in Central America, with lobsters in danger of disappearing completely.
http://www.france24.com/en/20100312-central-american-shrimp-lobster-fast-disappearingWith the help of Finland’s EXIMIN company,the Ghana-based Atlas Business and Energy Systems launches a solar panel project intended to bring clean energy as well as ease power shortages in the country.
http://www.africagoodnews.com/energy/ghana-gets-local-solar-panels.html
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