Do we care about the enviroment !!! ????

Ha, Ha, great hats.

Lava tubes................. We have some not to far from me up here, (4-5 hours), Same here as some of the tubes have collapsed. Pretty dry country where the tubes are and where they have collapsed there are pockets of rain-forest growing in them.

Bid difference in the country and tubes
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Undara+lava+coverage&t=ffab&iax=images&ia=images

Had a look at al malpais search and pics of the tubes
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=el+malpai...is-lava-tubes-hike-pat-2019-08-15/1030685.JPG
 
Coral bleaching in the La Nina year............To be fair the combination of farm chemicals and soil run off do, and have been a problem for a long time. The farm run off affect is slow and accumulative that can be controlled and changed with the right practices. Not like the bleaching where it takes years for it to recover.

"Recover" can give the impression the coral will grow back. The coral dies. The recovery is when new coral grows and that means a whole new plant, (although it is an organism that grows on top of its self, and not a plant). Once a coral reef has died fungus's are allowed to flourish and take over that area and grow on the old coral. This fungus is always trying to grow and is prevalent at all times on a healthy reef and that's where certain fish keep the coral healthy by eating the fungus as it grows. It cant take control so they, (fish), keep it in check and in turn food for the fish and shelter. Once the coral dies and the fungus takes over the reef completely, the fish move away and will not come back so any new coral doesn't have a chance to reestablish its self on the old reef. If there are pockets of healthy coral left it can sustain the fish so they will stay and it will give the coral a chance to slowly spread out from these pockets to slowly reestablish a large area.

It will if there is enough time between the years bleaching occurs, (usually on bad, not all, El Nino years), but when there is bleaching events on a regular basis even if that is around 5 years apart the coral doesn't have time to recover. We are having events 2 years in a row and now a bleaching event in the La Nina cycle where it shouldn't be occurring at all. The oceans are warming up to much.

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...-reefs-healthiest-reefs-succumbs-to-bleaching
 
Can one person make a difference?
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225 hectares fenced off for a pest free native Fauna and Flora sanctuary

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06...anctuary-helps-save-endangered-kaka/101163058

https://www.visitzealandia.com/

https://www.visitzealandia.com/About#History

The Sanctuary​

ZEALANDIA is the world’s first fully-fenced urban ecosanctuary, with an extraordinary 500-year vision to restore a Wellington valley’s forest and freshwater ecosystems as closely as possible to their pre-human state. The 225 hectare (500+ acre) ecosanctuary is a groundbreaking conservation project that has reintroduced 18 species of native wildlife back into the area, some of which were previously absent from mainland New Zealand for over 100 years.
Set around a picturesque reservoir, ZEALANDIA is home to some of New Zealand's most rare and extraordinary wildlife - all thriving wild in a world-first protected sanctuary.

Why?​

Prior to the arrival of humans, Aotearoa (New Zealand) was isolated and unique. Without any mammalian predators an ecosystem of remarkable flora and fauna had evolved – the likes of which could be found nowhere else in the world. Sadly, over the last 700 years, that paradise was almost destroyed by humans and the mammals they introduced with them.

Introduced predators decimated New Zealand's native and endemic species, who had evolved without needing defence from mammals for millions of years. Since human arrival, at least 51 bird species, three frog species, three lizard species, one freshwater fish species, one bat species, four plant species, and a number of invertebrate species have become extinct.

Wild – as nature intended.​

ZEALANDIA has a vision to restore this valley to the way it was before the arrival of humans. With its 8.6km fence keeping out introduced mammallian predators, birds such as the tūī, kākā and kererū, once extremely rare in the region, are all now common sights around central Wellington. Other vulnerable native species such as tīeke, hihi, little spotted kiwi, and tuatara remain thriving safely in the sanctuary.


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FLEA said:
can never understand people buying bottles of water when you can buy beer , seriously maybe in a 3rd world country or even 2nd but in most western countries tap water is easily avil and safe so why waste money on bottled water
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Cumberland Gap Spring Water will get you higher than beer. Higher than LDS actually. Only $5 a 24 pack, or free if you drive over there. How do they do it?
 
Can't work out what this had to do with the environment but apparently it was funny. :laughing:


The whole rest of us.........good structure


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