Enviro-Blah!

Environmental Observations

LightBlog
Responsive Ads Here

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Buy Rainforest

9:25 PM Rainforests , 2 Comments
Some time ago I posted a list of organisations that assist in buying rainforest for those conservation-minded people who want to save the rainforest. Yesterday I updated the list and added many elements to the rainforest page.

Buy rainforest to protect it; this is by far the most effective way of preventing rainforest destruction and instigating reforestation - Save The Rainforest

The page also contains information on why we should save the rainforest, including high biodiversity, potential for discovering medicinal plants and carbon sequestering.

There are also some photographs of rainforest plants and insects that I have taken in rainforests in Thailand.
By at 2 comments:
Topics:

Friday, June 4, 2010

Some Words of Hope on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

4:40 AM environmental disasters , 0 Comments
Some Words of Hope on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
The United Kingdom's Channel 4 has today published some facts on the BP oil spill that may stop the panic amongst wildlife lovers. Whilst this oil spill is obviously a terrible thing, it is worth considering that the impact could have been much worse.

"The Deepwater Horizon spill is 40 miles offshore in a depth of 1 mile and is a steady stream rather than a gush.

The environmental impact has been small, with politicians and media searching out tar balls on beaches and any dead animals, most of which have proven to be unrelated to the current incident.

The main damage so far has been to the outlying island chain off the coast where an already stressed mangrove ecology will likely and tragically be pushed over the edge by this last straw.

Fishing has been stopped in the Gulf region but experience in other incidents has shown that the fishing grounds will open within a few months of the oil being capped off.

The oil itself will decay naturally and rapidly in the warm sunlit waters of the region."

The full article can be seen here: BP oil spill: is Obama's fury justified?
By at No comments:
Topics:
hnnn
This blog is purely designed to provide me with a device to moan, groan, gripe and waffle about environmental issues; any interest it may have to others is completely coincidental.