Media report: Irish celebrity spreads veg solution with Supreme Master Television.
Recently in the Environmental Data Interactive Exchange, or Edie.net, Europe’s largest environmental website that has become a main news source for environmental professionals, journalist Luke Walsh wrote about Irish top model and Miss World 2003 Rosanna Davison’s recent campaign to promote the vegan diet.

Titled “Former Miss World backs veganism for climate change,” the article stated: “Rosanna Davison is fronting the campaign for Supreme Master Television, featured on TV3 in Ireland, on buses and the Luas – Dublin's light rail tram system.

The campaign is aimed at encouraging people to re-think their attitudes to animal treatment generally and to eating meat in particular, due to its carbon footprint.”

Ms. Davison, daughter of the world-famous Irish singer-songwriter Chris de Burgh, had been a vegetarian since childhood. She decided to be vegan after working with Supreme Master Television and learning about how only a pure veg diet could most effectively stop animal cruelty while sustaining personal and planetary health.

Edie news cited Ms. Davison as saying: “Watching the effect meat production and meat consumption is having on the world around us in terms of cruelty, emissions and health issues, I was determined to totally cut out dairy, eggs and cheese and have a completely vegan diet. It's going well so far and I feel great.
I've loads of energy and just feel so much more invigorated as a result.”

Many thanks, Mr. Luke Walsh and Environmental Data Interactive Exchange, for your articles that inform readers about global warming’s most effective solution. We also extend our appreciation to you, Ms. Rosanna Davison, for your noble initiative as a beloved role model. May all of Ireland and the world join in preserving our planet with the smart, rejuvenating, and lifesaving vegan diet.

http://www.edie.net/about.asp?channel=0
http://www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp?id=17547&channel=0&title=Former+miss+world+backs+veganism+for+climate+change

Deep-sea trawling is devastating marine ecosystems.
In his research for the ten-year European Census of Marine Life, Dr. Jason Hall-Spencer of Plymouth University in the United Kingdom has found that deep-sea bottom trawlers are destroying corals and marine habitats that had been preserved for eons, since the last Ice Age.

Once used only in shallow waters, the giant heavy nets with rubber rollers that are dragged along the seafloor are now being taken to deeper seas due to dwindling numbers of fish.

Along with the countless lives they take, the net’s rollers are known to collapse delicate coral habitats. Dr. Hall-Spencer stated in fact that while less than 1% of some 50,000 underwater sea mountains have been studied, their biodiverse ecosystems may be decimated before ever being explored.

He said, “It doesn't matter what ocean you go to, these habitats are being trashed by international fishing fleets. …What is urgently needed is a network of protected areas where any type of fishing gear that involves dragging equipment across the seabed is banned.”

Many thanks, Dr. Hall-Spencer for your call to halt the destructive practice of bottom trawling. Indeed, let us allow all fish to live so that our world may continue to be graced with wondrous marine life.

Supreme Master Ching Hai has frequently spoken of the need to protect our living oceans, as in an interview published in the September 2009 edition of the British Parliament's The House Magazine.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/18/deep-sea-trawling-coral-reefs

Malaysia to revive wetlands.
Announcing the launch of a five-year restoration project, Sabah Wetlands Conservation Society President Zaini Aucasa stated that 2,000 mangrove trees would be initially planted along the banks of Sungai Likas with another 25,000 to be restored within the next five years.

The wetland regions that are home to the mangrove trees are known to mitigate climate change and storm effects.

President Aucasa said, “We hope this will go some way towards creating awareness about the importance of wetlands and the need to preserve them.”

Meanwhile, the environmental education program offered by the Kota Kinabalu Wetland Center has benefited more than 10,000 students thus far.

President Aucasa and Sabah Wetlands Conservation Society of Malaysia, we laud your environmental concern and caring protection of the wetlands. May Heaven bless your country's revitalizing efforts!
http://www.borneobulletin.com.bn/mon/feb15b3.htm

Extra News
Concerned for its lethal effect on marine life, Environment Canada is seeking the source of Cypermethrin, a pesticide banned from use that has been found to be the cause of hundreds of recent lobster deaths in the eastern Bay of Fundy.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/19/bay-of-fundy-lobster-deat_n_467561.html
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/02/17/nb-lobster-fund-pesticide-1209.html

Following heavy but ineffective pesticide use that could result in rice harvest declines of more than 30%, the International Rice Research Institute in Thailand is recommending natural growing methods to restore crops and the environment.
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/307995,insects-devastate-thailands-rice-crop-institute-says.html

The US-based National Science Foundation donates US$25 million to the University of Southern California for a project to study life beneath the ocean floor.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/sci/2010-02/21/c_13181857.htm

In India’s holy town of Shirdi, the highly popular Sai Baba Temple has implemented a large solar system that now powers meal preparation for up to 100,000 pilgrims daily, with significant financial and environmental savings.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2010/02/21/kapur.india.green.temp.cnn?hpt=T2