The
Peru-based Organization of Research and Conservation of Aquatic Animals
(Orca) recently reported that a colony of 30 fur seals had traveled
some 1500 kilometers from their original Galapagos Islands home to
settle in the waters of northern Peru.
This first-ever instance
of the fur seals moving to an area remote to the Galapagos is being
attributed to warmer Peruvian waters due to global warming.
The
Peruvian Geophysics Institute indicated that the average sea surface
temperature in northern Peru has risen 6 degrees Celsius over the past
10 years and thus now closely matches the sea temperature of the fur
seals’ original native habitat.
More fur seals and other marine species are thus expected to act similarly in migrating to Peruvian waters.
Our
appreciation, scientists at the Organization of Research and
Conservation of Aquatic Animals and Peruvian Geophysics Institute, for
these observations of marine animal response to global warming effects.
May such disrupting signs accelerate our actions toward lifestyles that support a restoration of balance to our planetary home.
As
on previous occasions, Supreme Master Ching Hai spoke again with
concern for the Earth’s fragile balance as she offered ways to encourage
both awareness and hope in young people during a May 2009
videoconference in Togo.
Supreme Master Ching Hai:You
can show how the migrating birds have to fly farther and farther to
find a place to nest, and the polar bears swim longer and longer now
because there is no more ice until sometimes they drown of exhaustion,
or why the neighboring country has so many floods in recent years, so
many disasters, etc.
Tell them how climate change is affecting real lives, real animals, real people, and their own lives as well.
But it’s also important to show the young people that there is still hope; we can still save the planet.
It’s a chance to be true heroes, by being vegan and spread the news of this solution.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/7193082/Sea-lions-abandon-Galapagos-Islands-for-warm-Peruvian-waters.htmlhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8503397.stm
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