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China's water still not safe despite stricter standards |
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CHINA'S tap water is still not safe to drink despite the adoption, on Sunday, of stricter standards concerning drinking water quality, according to a Tsinghua University professor.
Tap water which is tested as qualified in the plants might be polluted during the delivery process, and the nation hasn't appointed any authorities to supervise the implementation of the new standards to ensure their complete adoption, Wang Zhansheng told China Central Television.
Therefore, Chinese people still have to rely on tap water purifiers and can't drink water straight from the tap, Wang said.
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Land dispute endangers Ujung Kulon's rhinos |
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Indonesia
The critically endangered Javan rhinoceros does not rely on the existence of mankind for its food, water and daily living. The Javan rhino also does not exist chiefly to cause disturbance to human surroundings and is not looking to be disturbed by species outside of its own kind. Today however, the matter of protecting these endangered 5-ton animals forms the crux of a heated land dispute involving humans, at Banten's Ujung Kulon National Park.
A year-long dispute has been raging between the residents of Legonpakis in the Ujungjaya village of Sumur, and the park management. The subject of the dispute is a 20-kilometer-long fence surrounding one section of the 123,000-hectare national park. Plans are that all the existing rhinos shall be placed within this fenced section for their own security and breeding purposes. The fence will be put up around the Javan Rhino Study and Conservation Area, or Jarhisca, and will serve as a new sanctuary and breeding ground.
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Sby calls for global green economy |
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Indonesia
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on June 13 said that the sustainable management of the world's forests is critical for equitable economic growth. Yudhoyono said that Indonesia's economy had changed from one in which forests were sacrificed in return for economic growth, to an environmentally sustainable one where forests are prized for the wide range of ecological services that they provide to society. He declared that by 2025 "no exploitation of resources should exceed its biological regenerative capacity." "Sustainable forestry is critical to our efforts at sustainable development as well as to our climate mitigation efforts," SBY said in his June 13 speech at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), which has its global headquarters in Bogor, Indonesia.
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'Last stand' for Tripa orangutans |
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Indonesia
The number of orangutans in Aceh's Tripa forest has fallen to a mere 200, according to Ian Singleton, Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP) head. He suggested last week that in the 1990s some 2,000 orangutans had inhabited the protected Tripa peatland forest, spanning nearly 62,000 hectares. He attributed the shrinking numbers of apes to the forced conversions of forested regions and peatland within Tripa forest into palm oil plantations, which he said continue to this day. "Tripa is one region which used to have the highest concentration of orangutans in the world," Singleton said. He added that on June 16, SCOP officers had rescued a baby orangutan from local communities, who were attempting to sell the baby off. "The rescue is a result of a successful collaboration between the police and other institutions involved," Singleton said, adding that the rescue came a day after yet another rescue of a young orangutan which had to be relocated because it had lost its habitat, which was converted to a plantation.
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