Saving the Amazon rainforest from exploitation. A new study published in Science magazine found that clearing the Amazon for economic gain only brings a short period of financial profit while permanently damaging the environment.
For example, since the early 1990s, one-third of the areas cleared for cattle have been abandoned and left uselessly vacant. Researchers found similarly that the income, life expectancy and literacy of the people engaging in these activities also fell over time.
Scientists such as Dr. Carlos Nobre of Brazil’s Space Research Institute and chair of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program are thus calling for the halt of such exploitation, saying that it ultimately harms both people and the climate.
Dr. Carlos Nobre – Brazil Space Research Institute, Chair of International Geosphere-Biosphere Program in Stockholm, Sweden (M): We need to abandon the economy, the continued expansion of the agriculture frontier in the Amazon, the livestock economy, the illegal lumber economy.
But we need to invent what will come after.If we do not take the first step to create this new model, the traditional activities which exist in the Amazon, like the livestock, inefficient factory farming, they will in a few decades have eaten up 30, 40, 50% of the Amazon.
VOICE: We thank Dr. Nobre and international researchers for your concern, and pray we may quickly heed your advice to protect the Amazon and people’s lives through wise, sustainable choices.
Supreme Master Ching Hai has often spoken about the irreplaceable value of forests, such as during the following discussion via teleconference with Supreme Master Television staff in January 2008.
Supreme Master Ching Hai : You see, just like the Amazon rainforest, because it has been there for a long time, thousand of millions of years; it’s the lung of the world.
And even if you plant new trees, it’s not the same. Even that.
Supreme Master Ching Hai : The bigger the tree, the older the tree, the more effective for producing oxygen and neutralizing carbon dioxide.
Supreme Master Ching Hai : So I don’t know if the governments are trained to build something to reflect the heat back to the space a way in such a large area , and such a big huge
effective way, like the way nature has made.
Supreme Master Ching Hai : It’s not just the technologies because the karma (bad retribution) is more important than just the technology. So we have to meditate on vegetarianism
for all the people to have peace and to be vegetarian and the technology added to it as well.
Reference
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jKSkhJwYxhn8Hu_IbccA_SFbp9pQ
Indonesian islanders protect endangered sea turtles.
In response to a 2005 agreement made with the government and conservation groups, residents of Runduma Island in Indonesia, have changed their way of life and begun protecting endangered turtles.
According the World Wildlife Fund, some 243 turtles laid approximately 3000 eggs in 2008, compared to just 20 in 2006. Hatipa, a native resident of Runduma Island said of the agreement, "I stopped collecting eggs because I was afraid that if it continued, future generations would never know what a turtle looked like."
She added, "Nobody came here before but now we have celebrity visits. Turtles have given us their blessings." We sincerely thank the residents of Runduma Island and the Indonesian government for your shared commitment and support in protecting the precious marine turtles.
May Heaven's blessings continue to shower upon all the caring guardians of our natural world.
Reference
http://www.thanhniennews.com/worlds/?catid=9&newsid=49239
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