Hanging On (29 April)
Earth Day (22 April)
Quote from Wendell Berry (19 April)
Cambodia's Disappearing Tigers (2 February)
29 April 2010
City Tree: Just Hanging On
There are a few bow trees in Phnom Penh—the tree under which Buddha received enlightenment—and they receive some attention occasionally, but the rest of the trees along Phnom Penh's city streets are rather on their own. They get little respect and even less attention. This is one tree near Central Market that has definitely seen better days. It's probably a matter of time until its tilt becomes so pronounced that it will collapse completely. Wildlife and natural phenomena are generally ignored unless there is money to be made from them.
22 April 2010
Earth Day
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."
~ John Muir, conservationist
19 April 2010
A quote from Wendell Berry in The Gift of Good Land
| To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of creation. When we do it knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, destructively, it is a desecration. |
2 February 2010
Cambodia's Disappearing Tigers
The World Wildlife Fund reports that the number of wild tigers in the Mekong Region of Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Burma, and China has declined precipitously in the last decade. WWF estimates that there are probably no more than 30 of the big cats left in Cambodia although there were 150-300 tigers in the region just ten years ago. There is some shrinking of the tiger's habitat, but that is not as big a problem as land encroachment, hunting, and poaching. The relatively large swathe of natural habitat in the Mekong region offers hope for rebuilding the tiger population, particularly if the wildlife that tigers prey upon is protected. [WWF photo]