Dozens of whales die in mass strandings
15-Nov-2011, 08:06 AM
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Dozens of whales die in mass strandings
Thirty-two pilot whales were confirmed dead today as the lives of 34 others hung in the balance after a mass stranding on tidal flats off New Zealand's South Island.
The remote location of the stranding meant rescuers were unable to help the marine mammals and their survival will depend on the tide, the Department of Conservation's area manager, John Mason, told the Nelson Mail.
Mason said the whales, up to five meters long, were stranded on the tidal flats at the tip of Farewell Spit in Golden Bay, located nearly three kilometers offshore at the northern end of South Island.
"There's really nothing we can do for them so we just have to hope that they manage to get out by themselves," Mason added.
Read more: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/wor...-1226196098430
24-Nov-2011, 12:28 AM
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Thirty-two pilot whales were confirmed dead today as the lives of 34 others hung in the balance after a mass stranding on tidal flats off New Zealand's South Island.
The remote location of the stranding meant rescuers were unable to help the marine mammals and their survival will depend on the tide, the Department of Conservation's area manager, John Mason, told the Nelson Mail.
Mason said the whales, up to five meters long, were stranded on the tidal flats at the tip of Farewell Spit in Golden Bay, located nearly three kilometers offshore at the northern end of South Island.
"There's really nothing we can do for them so we just have to hope that they manage to get out by themselves," Mason added.
Read more: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/wor...-1226196098430
24-Nov-2011, 01:02 PM
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Researchers say that over the past 30 years, food production has outpaced population increase. Nevertheless, food shortages prevail in large areas of the world because many people do not have sufficient land to grow food or enough money to buy food. In developing countries, some 1.2 billion people subsist on a dollar (U.S.) a day or less. Of these, about 780 million suffer chronic hunger. According to the World Health Organization, annually malnutrition plays a major role in the deaths of over five million children. (report from 2006)
In 2005, Science magazine stated: “There are 854 million people in the world (about 14% of our population) who are chronically or acutely malnourished.” In 2007, a United Nations source reported that 33 countries lack sufficient food to feed their people.
If those were the statistics from several years ago, imagine the increase since then. That's not just a "sad" situation (like whales not being rescued); it's a tragedy of epic proportions.
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