Naturen har inga landgränser!
Allt som händer (bra som dåligt) påverkar hela vår jord och alla som lever här.
Efter att jag själv börjat hostat och känna av röken här i Borneo så har jag gjort en del research om hur situationen är i landet.
Det jag läser och hör är skrämmande. Det är skrämmande för det är en stor naturkatastrof och det är skrämmande att situationen inte får mer uppmärksamhet. Vilket också medför att de som jobbar dygnet runt för att försöka släcka bränderna (utan tillgång till bra utrustning) inte heller får den hjälp de behöver. Utan mer hjälp från regeringen eller andra länder är det enda som kan stoppa bränderna är regn, mycket regn.
Här kommer utklipp från artiklar och inlägg jag har läst om situationen i Indonesien.
Även länkar till de sidor där ni kan läsa mer.
"The regional pollution is a global responsibility, not just of the Indonesian government."
Källa: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34440946
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South East Asia haze: Deadly cost of Indonesia's burning land
19 October 2015 Last updated at 23:30 BST
The Indonesian health ministry says hundreds of thousands of people are now suffering from respiratory illnesses after breathing in hazardous smoke caused by peatland fires.
The fires, often started to clear forest for plantations, have been burning for weeks, sending heavy haze across the region.
The city of Palangkaraya in Central Kalimantan has been one of the hardest hit areas.
The Pollution Standard Index, which measures air pollution levels, has reached more than 2,000 at times - anything above 300 is considered hazardous to health.
As Rebecca Henschke reports, it's having a devastating impact on children.
Källa: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34571356
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The Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project (OuTrop), which is based Palangkaraya, described the situation in Central Kalimantan as a major environmental disaster. “The largest area of lowland rainforest left in Borneo is burning and the world’s largest orangutan population is at risk.”
In Pekanbaru, the capital of Riau province in Sumatra, where pollution hit levels of about 1,000, infants aged below six months in 12 sub-districts were put into a special evacuation nursery in an air-conditioned city hall building.
“The orangutan babies are the worst affected by this situation as they are still so young and their immune systems are too immature to fight these extreme environmental conditions,” the foundation said. “Six of our 13 orangutan babies are receiving treatment from our veterinarians for acute respiratory infections and eye infections. Judging from the deteriorating situation, it looks likely that more medical cases will undoubtedly arise.
“All the orangutan babies are currently limited to playing indoors which is not optimum, but the safest option we currently can provide.”
Most recent estimates indicate that fewer than 6,000 Sumatran orangutans and fewer than 45,000 Bornean orangutans survive in the wild today. Estimates point to a loss of between 3,000 and 5,000 every year.
The Global Forest Watch fires tool indicated that, from July 1 to October 6, 2015, there were a total of 69,413 fire alerts in Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and Sumatra, Meijaard said.
On the NASA-linked Global Fire Emissions Database it is estimated that about 600 million tonnes of greenhouse gases have been released as a result of this year’s forest fires – roughly equivalent to Germany’s entire annual output.
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Many wildlife species on Borneo are forest dependent, or at least prefer forest. The destruction of peat-swamp forests by fire reduces available habitat, and is a key driver behind population declines for many forest-dependent species. For example, a recent OuTrop study in the Block C of the fire-prone ex-Mega Rice Project indicates that about 70% of the area’s forest has been lost since 1996-97, resulting in the loss of 55-60% of the orangutan population within just two decades. This is why we consider fire to be the most serious threat currently facing orangutans in Sabangau.
Källa: http://outrop.blogspot.co.id/2015/10/impacts-of-peat-fires-threat-to-forests.html
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LATEST UPDATE: OCT 22nd
Now fresh fires are igniting across BOS's Mawas Conservation Program in Central Kalimantan. Already, more than 15,000ha is estimated to be affected.
The Mawas Conservation Program is home to over 3,000 Orangutans and protects 309,861ha of natural peat forest. It is, without doubt, one of the few remaining strongholds for wild Bornean orangutans in Indonesia.
Fire prevention methods were put into place as soon as it became apparent that the situation across the region was only going to get worse. But minimum infrastructure and limited access to the hot spots makes fighting fires incredibly difficult, so extensive areas of forest have already been lost to fire.
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This year, more than 94,000 fires, most in carbon-rich peat lands, have engulfed the island nation of Indonesia, sending thick, acrid smoke into the air. The haze is affecting the health of millions of people there and in Malaysia and Singapore. It is also creating a diplomatic nightmare and enforcement problem for government officials.
Källa: http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060026643
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While the haze problem from fires in Kalimantan and Sumatra is still worsening, the news seems to be slowly slipping from the headlines. Apart from the approximate 40 million people breathing in noxious smoke day in day out, not many media outlets here or overseas really seem to care about the issue. I find this astonishing. Not only is there appalling human suffering, with hundreds of thousands of people ill and many dead, the fires are a massive economic cost to the Indonesian economy.
Checking the list of the worst man-made environmental disasters ever, Indonesia’s fires are probably the biggest global environmental disaster of the 21st century.
Haze in 1997 significantly reduced bee populations and these took about three years to recover. Bees are the most crucial species in pollination. No bees, no onions, no tomatoes, no potatoes, no eggplants, and no water melons, to name a few. As Albert Einstein said: “if the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.” At least Albert got it.
If the government of Indonesia cares for its people, its economy, its wildlife, and for people elsewhere in the world, it immediately must do more.
Erik Meijaard coordinates the Borneo Futures initiative. Follow @emeijaard
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Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvvggPCFld0
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Det händer sjukt mycket hemskheter i världen just nu!
Och man kan inte hjälpa alla, men alltid någon eller något.
För mig är det viktigt att börja från grunden, vårt hem, jorden.
Om vi inte har en fungerande jord så har vi inget.
Och ju sämre jorden mår desto mer svält, mer sjukdomar, ännu mindre rent vatten, fler naturkatastrofer, mer föroreningar och så vidare…
Tänk om, tänk om vi människor var lite smartare… då kanske vi hade tagit hand om vår jord och tänkt lite mer långsiktigt.
"There is nothing on a dead planet"
