A few days ago I wrote about Indonesians clearing land within protected areas to farm coffee.
"The WWF reported that about 15,000 local farmers worked illegally inside the park, cultivating 45,000 hectares of conserved land to grow more than 19,600 tons of coffee. Their illegal activities had destroyed about 20 percent of the forest.
Seventy percent of the 365,800-hectare Bukit Barisan Selatan national park is located in Lampung, while the rest is in Bengkulu province. It is home to a number of critically endangered species, including populations of approximately 40 Sumatran tigers, 500 Sumatran elephants and between 60 and 85 Sumatran rhinoceroses."
Starbucks denies purchasing the beans, which were grown illegally in a sanctuary for endangered rhinos, tigers, and elephants, while Nestle "regrets" purchasing the beans, but claims they didn't know the origin of the beans. LINK
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It's not just critters disappearing.
"12 January 2007 - PANA. Concerned Kenyans have called for the formation of an authority to coordinate efforts by various stakeholders for the preservation of the receding water masses in the country's Rift Valley region, which hosts nine lakes, including the famous Lake Nakuru.Massive destruction of water catchment areas and unplanned settlements in the forests are threatening the region's ecosystem, with environmentalists warning that the water bodies, could disappear within the next 15 years."
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Christ. Ok, granite countertops are definitely out.
""People have found it easy to just walk into the forest and start mining," Mr Saldhana said.
The first quarry we visited was north of the city near Mount Shivaganga.
The workers there were completely without protection for their hands, feet or eyes, and spent their days splitting blocks with hammer and chisel.
Their pay is around £1.50 ($3) a day.
Twelve migrant workers slept in one room. Most were once farmers who had been driven from their land by drought.
The following day we travelled south of Bangalore and walked into a granite quarry where old women and children were breaking rocks. "
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The first quarry we visited was north of the city near Mount Shivaganga.
The workers there were completely without protection for their hands, feet or eyes, and spent their days splitting blocks with hammer and chisel.
Their pay is around £1.50 ($3) a day.
Twelve migrant workers slept in one room. Most were once farmers who had been driven from their land by drought.
The following day we travelled south of Bangalore and walked into a granite quarry where old women and children were breaking rocks. "
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The lungs of the world are failing.
The Amazon river and the Amazon rainforest are drying and dying.
"The consequences would be truly awesome. The wet Amazon, the planet's greatest celebration of life, would turn to dry savannah at best, desert at worst. This would cause much of the world - including Europe - to become hotter and drier, making this sweltering summer a mild foretaste of what is to come. In the longer term, it could make global warming spiral out of control, eventually making the world uninhabitable." LINK
"Global warming could spell the end of the world's largest remaining tropical rain forest, transforming the Amazon into a grassy savanna before end of the century, researchers said Friday."
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That's the cheery, good time article about the Amazon. Severe drought is killing the rainforest much faster than researchers thought.
"So far about a fifth of the Amazonian rainforest has been razed completely. Another 22 per cent has been harmed by logging, allowing the sun to penetrate to the forest floor drying it out. And if you add these two figures together, the total is growing perilously close to 50 per cent, which computer models predict as the "tipping point" that marks the death of the Amazon." LINK
"The consequences would be truly awesome. The wet Amazon, the planet's greatest celebration of life, would turn to dry savannah at best, desert at worst. This would cause much of the world - including Europe - to become hotter and drier, making this sweltering summer a mild foretaste of what is to come. In the longer term, it could make global warming spiral out of control, eventually making the world uninhabitable." LINK
"Global warming could spell the end of the world's largest remaining tropical rain forest, transforming the Amazon into a grassy savanna before end of the century, researchers said Friday."
LINK
That's the cheery, good time article about the Amazon. Severe drought is killing the rainforest much faster than researchers thought.
"So far about a fifth of the Amazonian rainforest has been razed completely. Another 22 per cent has been harmed by logging, allowing the sun to penetrate to the forest floor drying it out. And if you add these two figures together, the total is growing perilously close to 50 per cent, which computer models predict as the "tipping point" that marks the death of the Amazon." LINK
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