The first International Year of Forests, launched by the United Nations to raise awareness of the forests' vital importance and the urgent need to conserve them, is being commemorated with events such as massive tree plantings worldwide to improve sustainable development and preservation.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/173873.html http://www.justmeans.com/press-releases/International-Year-of-Forests-2011/7077.html http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=4065 http://www.un.org/en/events/iyof2011/ Pledging to continue a moratorium on polar bear hunting in effect since 1957, the website of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin states that despite a quota of 29 animals agreed by the governor of the Chukotka region with the US, no hunting of the bears will be allowed.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/wwf-unimpressed-by-ban-on-chukotka-bear-hunting-quota/435084.html ,
http://www.france24.com/en/20110414-russia-will-not-lift-polar-bear-hunting-banAs part of a four-year cooperation plan with Japan, several major cities in China will be greening their landscapes as they transform areas of current urban waste into eco-friendly recycling.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-04/07/c_13817715.htm,
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2011-04/08/content_12292224.htm Supreme Master Ching Hai : Animal diseases from the horrid, filthy livestock raising environment are responsible for 75% of all the emerging, infectious human diseases, and they are often contracted by us hunting after the animals, or forcing them to stay in a crowded, filthy place to be massacred for us to eat.
This is not the way God intended for us to live with our co-inhabitants. This is not the way we should behave as children of God. We have been really deluded into doing all this, and degrading ourselves thus into this level.
The animals are our helpers, our friends, and Heaven’s beloved.
I hope whatever most motivates us, we change, and quick. We are running out of time anyway. If we wait too long, I’m afraid we won’t be left with a choice, if we want ourselves and our children to survive.