Nine whales saved in New Zealand mass stranding. Among 58 whales found stranded on the remote northern Karikari Beach, 45 had already perished by the time they were discovered on Friday, August 20. More than 200 rescue volunteers, including New Zealand Department of Conservation personnel as well as volunteers from Far North Whale Rescue and Project Jonah raced to save the 13 survivors.
After their initial attempts to refloat each 1,500-kilogram whale were unsuccessful in part due to turbulent weather conditions, the rescue workers used cranes and body slings to transport the marine mammals to a different bay where the waters were calmer.
Although another four were tragically found re-beached, the remaining nine were later observed swimming strongly back out to sea.
Our heartfelt thanks, New Zealand Department of Conservation, Far North Whale Rescue, Project Jonah and all other workers and volunteers for your valiant efforts to save precious lives during this tragic event.
With Heaven’s grace, may we all strive to better protect our marine co-inhabitants and their irreplaceable homes. During an international gathering in August 2008, Supreme Master Ching Hai addressed such sorrowful predicaments while highlighting how they may be alleviated through humanity’s better care of the ecosphere.
Supreme Master Ching Hai: So many whales and dolphins, they wash up ashore and die. There are so many dead zones in the ocean.
It’s suffocating them, so they have to swim out of the water where it’s full of the poisonous gas that has been released! They cannot bear it, they cannot breathe. So they have to get out of it.
For them, life is in the water, but if water is full of poison, of course they come out. But when they come out, they die, too. Because they have no water. They stay in the ocean, they die; they came out, they die. There is no choice for them. This is the worst of all cruelty, that 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?
Even the dolphins have to swim out of the ocean; because they think like that they can survive, even risking their lives. So why not we can just can change to vegan diet?
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Nearly-60-whales-dead-in-New-Zealand-mass-stranding/articleshow/6372252.cmshttp://www.france24.com/en/20100821-stranded-whales-transported-survival-nzealand http://www.physorg.com/news201668854.htmlExtra NewsA map published by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shows an increase of as much as 5 degrees Celsius in places like Eastern Europe for average temperatures in July 2010 compared to those from July 1951 to 1980.
Germany is donating US$7 million to help Âu Lạc (Vietnam) and Laos with climate change projects that include forest recovery and re-planting assistance, along with raising the capacity of natural resources while reducing carbon in the environment.
http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/life/210810/life_g.htmhttp://en.baomoi.com/Home/society/cpv.org.vn/Germany-funds-climate-change-project-in-VN-Laos/55788.epi#3AKLyhUEnycvFollowing the recent separation of a massive 100-square-mile chunk from the Petermann glacier on the Greenland ice shelf, a panel of scientists forecast that a global temperature increase of as little as 2 degrees Celsius will result in an entire Greenland ice melt, causing at least a 7 meter rise in sea level.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/10/greenland-ice-sheet-tipping-point
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