Galapagos fur seals migrate to Peruvian waters. The Peru-based Organization of Research and Conservation of Aquatic Animals (Orca) recently reported that a colony of 30 fur seals had traveled some 1500 kilometers from their original Galapagos Islands home to settle in the waters of northern Peru.
This first-ever instance of the fur seals moving to an area remote to the Galapagos is being attributed to warmer Peruvian waters due to global warming.
The Peruvian Geophysics Institute indicated that the average sea surface temperature in northern Peru has risen 6 degrees Celsius over the past 10 years and thus now closely matches the sea temperature of the fur seals’ original native habitat.
More fur seals and other marine species are thus expected to act similarly in migrating to Peruvian waters.
Our appreciation, scientists at the Organization of Research and Conservation of Aquatic Animals and Peruvian Geophysics Institute, for these observations of marine animal response to global warming effects.
May such disrupting signs accelerate our actions toward lifestyles that support a restoration of balance to our planetary home.
As on previous occasions, Supreme Master Ching Hai spoke again with concern for the Earth’s fragile balance as she offered ways to encourage both awareness and hope in young people during a May 2009 videoconference in Togo.
Supreme Master Ching Hai:You can show how the migrating birds have to fly farther and farther to find a place to nest, and the polar bears swim longer and longer now because there is no more ice until sometimes they drown of exhaustion, or why the neighboring country has so many floods in recent years, so many disasters, etc.
Tell them how climate change is affecting real lives, real animals, real people, and their own lives as well.
But it’s also important to show the young people that there is still hope; we can still save the planet.
It’s a chance to be true heroes, by being vegan and spread the news of this solution.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/7193082/Sea-lions-abandon-Galapagos-Islands-for-warm-Peruvian-waters.htmlhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8503397.stmExtra NewsBolivian officials state that overfishing in Lake Titicaca has endangered seven species native to the world’s highest altitude lake.
http://www.rpp.com.pe/2010-02-14-pesca-indiscriminada-puede-acabar-con-especies-nativas-del-titicaca-noticia_242496.htmlIn an interview with the renowned French daily newspaper “Le Monde,” Britain’s Lord Nicholas Stern states that his prior reports underestimated the dangers of global warming and the urgency of reducing greenhouse gases.
http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2010/02/12/nicholas-stern-j-ai-sous-estime-les-dangers-du-rechauffement_1304800_3244.htmlInternational climate researchers collaborate to develop a method for measuring the North Atlantic Ocean’s absorption of CO2, which they hope to evolve into an early warning system for signaling more severe climate change.
http://energybusinessdaily.com/global-warming/developing-an-early-warning-system-for-climate-change/The Taiwan Indigenous Cultural Enterprise Development Association co-hosts “Vegan Fashion: The Green Harvest Festival,” offering multi-cultural arts and activities while calling on all participants to adopt a vegan lifestyle to reduce carbon emissions and benefit the planet.
http://news.chinatimes.com/CMoney/News/News-Page-content/0,4993,11050703+122010012600117,00.html
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