It’s nice to get some news about people who care. We need a lot more of them.
Human beings can be altruistic, caring and selfless.
http://www.boredpanda.com/fukushima-radioactive-disaster-abandoned-animal-guardian-naoto-matsumura/
You open your eyes on an incredible universe.
You live for a certain number of seconds.
You close your eyes and the universe is gone for ever.
All we have are those precious seconds.
What do we do with them?
How many do we waste?
What does a wasted second look like?
You try to live each second as if it is your last.
What is the best thing to fill it with?
Some say love.
Some say beauty.
Some say sex and some creation.
Some only live to exert power and some to accumulate things.
Some hate every second and look to hit out at everyone else.
Some live every second in hate, envy or agony.
Some fill it with prayer.
Some wish for something else.
Some even say that these seconds do not count. It is the seconds after we close our eyes for that last time that begin to have meaning.
I say live each moment and enjoy it for what it is; fill it with love, joy, friendship and beauty. Value the awe. There is nothing when the last one is spent.
There is no point in living for tomorrow. Your eyes may shut forever.
Cassawaries are getting very rare. They are too often the victims of cars and end up as large roadkill. We had given up hope of seeing one. It was getting dark – hence these shots are not as bright and sharp as they could have been. Then this family of gorgeous psychedelic birds walked right out into the road in front of us! Amazing.
This ibis were flocking to roost at the top of some trees in Cairns.
These swallows were getting a free ride on the ferry across to Daintree park.
The Great Barrier Reef is under threat. Global warming is creating a problem with warmer seas and carbon dioxide is creating acid waters. It is killing a lot of the world’s coral. Green Island was a beautiful place. The colours were exquisite. 
The Horn
I’ve got the horn
Ripped straight
From the Head
Does wonders in Bed.
An explosion of lead
Stagger
And dead.
Hacked clean
Into something
Obscene.
Poor eyesight;
It never saw us
The very last
Rhinoceros.
Opher 4.7.2015
We are rapidly wiping out the wild things, the forests, the wilderness as we increase in number and extend our range. Soon the whole world will be a huge concrete and plastic jungle.
We may keep the DNA safe so that in saner times it might be reconstituted into living organisms.
One day, when we’ve become wiser and more civilised, there might be a programme to reinstate nature. I’m not sure I would completely approve. Designed wilderness is a poor substitute but perhaps it will be better than nothing.
If we survive that long.
The rhino is doomed because of superstition and money. You may as well use nail filings as rhino horn. They are exactly the same keratin. There is no medicinal value. It does not give you the horn. Yet the customers will pay. The rhinos will pay and the hunters get paid. That is how decision in this world get made.
The trouble with politicians is that they are after your vote. They will say whatever they believe might win you over. They will promise the earth.
In the end they will cost us the earth.
My blog is different. I speak my mind and I don’t care what anybody thinks. What you get is me. Take it or leave it. I pander to no one.
If I think something is wrong I speak out.
If I think something is beautiful I record it.
I live to communicate and create. I live to change the world for the better.
You will probably agree with some and hate other bits. But that’s OK. I won’t lie. You know where you stand.
I stand for justice, freedom, tolerance, love, peace and happiness for all. I want justice for all life on the planet and an end to overpopulation and environmental destruction.
It’s simple.
The Mekong was an incredible place. The whole industry is fishing. All the banks are lined with nets. The people are out in small boats casting nets. There are big fishing rigs.
The river we went on is a tributary to the big lake. The silty water is very fecund and abounds with small fish. The people catch the tiny fish and grind them to fish paste to ell in the market. The women cover up with masks to protect their faces from the sun. The kids are often naked. Tiny kids swim and dive in the water. There is no health and safety here.
The people are transient fishers. The houses are ramshackle on stilts or floating rafts because the water rises over twenty feet and floods the land. There was a lot of wild-life – big black and white herons, kingfishers and snakes.
I fear that the over-fishing is going to kill the golden goose – the overpopulation is causing immense pressure on the ecosystem. Killing the tiny fish will deplenish the stock.
Cambodia, like all the countries in the region is opening up, overpopulating and changing fast. The jungle is being chopped down. There’s a future time-bomb waiting to detonate – too many people, environmental catastrophe.
Its so beautiful though!
Child labour is apparent.
