Borneo and Sumatera's Issues

'The Sumatran rainforest will mostly disappear within 20 years'
Borneo and Sumatra are the only places on Earth where tigers, rhinos, orangutans, and elephants live together. The forests are home to marvelous creatures like the proboscis monkey, sun bear, clouded leopard, and flying fox bat, and endangered animals like the Sumatran tiger, Sumatran rhino, and pygmy elephant.
There are more than 15,000 known plants here, with many more species yet to be discovered. Since 1995, more than 400 species have been identified on the islands, with more than 50 of these species completely new to science. An unknown mammal species—for now dubbed the Bornean red carnivore—was photographed by one of WWF’s camera traps in 2003.The cultural diversity of Borneo and Sumatra is as distinct and varied as its plant life. Rapid economic changes have brought shifts in population and threaten the way of life for communities who have traditionally lived off the forest. In Borneo and Sumatra, the vast wealth of natural resources has attracted large-scale international financing focused on extractive industries, from precious hardwoods and minerals to palm oil, rubber, and coal.

Wildlife trade is a major problem in this region. Rampant poaching, facilitated by the growing number of roads and logging trails, poses a grave threat to Borneo and Sumatra's endangered species like tigers and rhinos. Expanding oil palm plantations and, in Sumatra, coffee cultivation is encroaching on landscapes crucial to species conservation. Indonesia is home to approximately three percent of the world's forests. Yet deforestation in this region represents over a third of the total global carbon emissions from deforestation and land degradation. Heavy demand for plywood, hardwoods, and wood products for the pulp and paper industry leads to both legal and illegal logging. In only a few years, logging and agribusiness have cut Indonesia's vast rainforest by half. The government has renewed a moratorium on deforestation but it may already be too late for the endangered animals – and for the people whose lives lie in ruin.

Personal Reflection
 I think it is wise to create strict regulations to prevent the endangered animals of being extinct and the deforestation issues. The government need to control the industrial productivity to make sure that the civilians are safe in certain way. And it is important to banned the wildlife trade, so that our precious natural resources are not in danger because it was our allure (charm) anyway.

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Illegal Wildlife Trade 

Deforestation

Pests and Diseases Attack India's Coconut Farms

Pest attacks wreak havoc on coconut farms

Kochi, August 16:  Even as 2016 marks a century of coconut research in India, the sector is still fearful about the threat of various diseases. Pests and diseases affected the country’s coconut production (up to June) this year, with output dropping 5 per cent from the 20,440 million nuts produced last year. India’s coconut production, which ranks first and contributes around 31 per cent of global production, has been showing a declining trend in the last three years, dropping from 23,351 million nuts to 20,440 in 2014-15. 

The major villains are root-wilt diseases, which have affected coconut production throughout Kerala and are spreading to the neighbouring States of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Besides, Thanjavur / Ganoderma Wilt, bud rot, leaf rot are also impacting output. Price instability is also a major problem, forcing growers to neglect the coconut crop, which is cyclic in nature. Owing to a high degree of price fluctuation, growers are now exposed to economic risks and uncertainties. High labour costs, unavailability of sufficient land suitable for agriculture due to urbanisation and surging farming costs are other factors making coconut cultivation unviable. The average number of nuts per tree per harvest is only eight nuts, which is inadequate to meet even the harvesting charges. And the application of such practices for effective management of pest and diseases at the farmer level is very low.

Personal Reflection
I think the cost of industrial activities should be decreased if we or especially the government want the production of the nut back in live that could encouraged nuts farmers to be more productive. About the pest and diseases I think it was because of the lack of practices of the farmer to be applied to manage the nut trees development or growth. And by that I think the application of such practices should be reminded and applied throughout the coconut yards or farms, so that no pest or disease could disturb the growth of the coconut and the production of nuts would be increased as well.

Antlantic Slave Trade

AFRICAN HOLOCAUST : Not Just History, But Legacy

The African Holocaust is a pan-African discourse on the global historical and contemporary genocide against the mental and physical health of African people. The effects of this genocide impacts all areas of African life; religion, heritage, tradition, culture, agency, self-determination, marriage, identity, rites of passage, and ethics. The African Holocaust or Maafa, is a crime against humanity and is recognized as such by scholars, who have documented the primary culpability of mainly, Europeans in the ongoing Holocaust against African people. Slavery, corrupted and stripped both the enslaved and the slave master of their humanity and dignity. The African Holocaust represents an existential threat to the peoplehood and agency of African people for the last 500 Years of world history. Africa is the most exploited continent in the history of humanity; more human victim's have been procured from Africa than all the continents of the world combined. The consequences of this drain in human and mineral resources is one of the major factors in the global condition of African people.However, this history would be incomplete and distorted, without also reflecting on the acquiescence; collaboration, rape, genocide, slavery, corruption, and warfare that Africans, as free agents, as members of nations and native religions, have also engaged in. Moreover, it would be morally reprehensible to neglect the contemporary trade in Africa and across the globe.

It is also experienced in the academic and political value the Maafa receives compared to the Jewish genocide. While African people are told to "move on from slavery", Jewish holocaust is a stample of World history. However, It is estimated that 40 -100 million people were directly affected by slavery via the Atlantic, Arabian and Trans-Saharan routes. Some historians conclude that the total loss in persons removed, those who died on the arduous march to coastal slave marts and those killed in slave raids, exceeded the 65–75 million inhabitants remaining Africa at the trade's end. Over 10 million died as direct consequences of the Atlantic slave trade alone. But no one knows the exact number: Many died in transport, others died from diseases or indirectly from the social trauma left behind in Africa. Not only was Transatlantic Slavery of demographic significance, in the aggregate population losses but also in the profound changes to settlement patterns, epidemiological exposure and reproductive and social development potential.

Personal Reflection:
Slavery was not only an aspect of history, today Slavery is still a World wide problem.. Millions of people are trapped in domestic slavery, and that's our job as new generations to make it better, to stop the slavery, and not to do the slavery itself. And the last but not the least, we have to encourage other people especially government to stop the slaverians. 

Red-Nickel River Rusia

Source: RUSSIANS are fearing the next world war could be about to break out after a river started running blood red near the city of Norilsk.

Nickel pollution has reportedly caused this river to turn crimson.

The Daldykan river has been snapped looking almost bloodlike in colour, and there is concern what others think could be the result of an industrial accident, is going to spread to other waterways across the country.
The spot where the colour was first seen is close to a metal factory, the Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant, which is owned by Norilsk Nikel. The remote city lay inside the Arctic Circle and more than a quarter of the city’s 210,000 population work for the factory. It mines a fifth of the world’s nickel and more than half of its palladium, a metal used in car exhausts and jewellery. Many residents took to social media and said they were concerned about the colour of the river, — some said they thought it was down to run-off coming from a smelting plant nearby, while others believed mineral ore had leaked into the water.

This region, in northern Siberia, mines a fifth of the world’s nickel.Source:Supplied

 Evgeny Belikov, who claims to be a former factory worker, said a reservoir by the plant was a similar colour and was called “the red sea” by employees. He said “In winter, the snow’s also red. On the one hand, it’s beautiful, but on the other it’s chemical.” Checks are underway to determine why the river has gone red, and production has been reduced.

Personal Reflection
I think the government already did the right thing by investigate the case and causes and reduce the production to prevent another bad event to happen in the future. And for the factory I think they have to completely check the safety of their production so it would not effect especially harm others.

Dogs and Cats Eaten as a Festival

Source: Yulin dog meat festival begins in China amid widespread criticism

About 10,000 dogs and cats are expected to be killed and eaten during the controversial 10-day festival in Yulin. Activists say the event is cruel, and this year a petition calling for it to be banned collected 11 million signatures. The local government says the festival does not have official backing but is staged by private businesses.

The Lychee and Dog Meat Festival sees people gathering in Yulin to sample dog meat hotpot, lychee fruits and local liquor. A tradition of eating dog meat dates back some 500 years in China, South Korea and other countries, where many believe it wards off the heat in summer months. The Yulin festival, celebrated during the summer solstice, is a relatively new one, beginning only in recent years. Residents and vendors in Yulin say the animals are killed in a humane way. But critics say animals are killed brutally and publicly, and are sometimes beaten to death or cooked while still alive. Ahead of the festival, dogs are often kept in small, cramped cages. Some photographs show animals wearing collars, suggesting they may have been stolen pets. Many dogs are transported from other cities in cramped lorries and unsanitary conditions, allowing diseases to spread easily. According to campaign group Stop Yulin Forever, dogs are denied food and water for days during their trip.

Personal Reflection
After babies, I found this article talking about dogs and cats eaten in China as a festival. Human cruelties are now no longer a secret, they even show to the public. This could indicate that people nowadays don't have any humanity left, for they already got what they want and they don't care about the rest. I think we as a human should have respect other creatures, maybe we could at the least eat those domestic pet silently or not-to-eat them at all, they should be a pet anyways. If this keep on happening I could assume that animals are all going to extinct, not only the wild but the tame as well... Hope they would realize what they had been doing and repent to not to do the same despicable things.