Rabbit Posted November 5, 2010 Report Share Posted November 5, 2010 This brought a tear. http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/content.php?sid=3329&utm_source=PFK_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=November_5_2010&utm_term=The_greatest_Amazon_River_disaster_in_history&utm_content=html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amethyst Posted November 5, 2010 Report Share Posted November 5, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted November 5, 2010 Report Share Posted November 5, 2010 Oh that's terrible. Horrible to think of what is happening over there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zayne Posted November 6, 2010 Report Share Posted November 6, 2010 That sucks!!! hope it rains soon!! wonder how long it will take to completely get back together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliffy Posted November 7, 2010 Report Share Posted November 7, 2010 Gees that's very upsetting to see . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deepsound Posted November 21, 2010 Report Share Posted November 21, 2010 I drove just recently 2500 km through Mato Grosso, seeing only soya from horizon to horizon - when I had crossed it during my childhood with my mother, it was full of rivers and creeks and the thickest primary rainforest on earth. (Heiko Bleher - practicalfishkeeping.co.uk) That's the point. Europeans cows eat brazilian soya. This is just insane... We all know about BP disaster. But how many have been told about 60 years of oil slicks in the Amazon ?... They turned it into a giant sewer. They burned oil wastes without any precautions, poisonning atmosphere, creating black rains. Ok. We can say : Amazon is a so wild area, a thick native forest. It must be damn hard to keep a check on the installations. We had an oil slick in France, one year ago. Not in the sea, not in the ocean, not on the coasts but right in the middle of a protected land, the last half arid steppe down here. Yep. Because of a pipeline leak they don't even notice. Four millions liters of oil, a two meters rip in a pipeline which produced a four meters high geyser of oil and the company didn't even notice it. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xa3e29_fuite-de-petrole-dans-une-reserve-n_news Guess what. One year after this disaster, the area is still contamined. They tried to unpollute it. But they failed. So you can imagine what happens daily in the rainforest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henward Posted November 22, 2010 Report Share Posted November 22, 2010 When you live ina country where 99% of the population is poor - unfortunately, cutting trees, destroying nature is the only way to live. i guess we are just animals in the end of the day. Cutting down forest to grow crops for fuel and food - is just normal, shame but nothing else we can do i guess. shame about the species, only a few weeks ago i saw an article saying they discovered 1200 new species in the amazon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke* Posted November 24, 2010 Report Share Posted November 24, 2010 ughhhhhhhh this is awful! very very sad.. hopefully some good news comes soon for everyone incl the animals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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