Marine Rubbish Tail Tangled Whale

A whale was found at peril neat Maui, Hawaii ult. The fishery equipments of the rope and the buoy e.t.c. had twisted his tail and body. He would have been dead soon, if he were to remain in this state.

The pros of  National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration U.S. and Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary have succeeded in getting rid him of the fishery equipments that had reached over 20 meters after the deadly struggle. The netizens from the world commented as he were tailed with 'the man made tail of the death'. Though the news the whale that was gone almost to death due to the marine rubbish was saved is the heart warming story, it's severe realities for lots of  the ocean animal to lose their lives from the fishery equipments or the marine rubbish.                      

 

 지난 달 미국 하와이 마우이섬 부근에서 위기의 고래가 발견되었다. 밧줄과 부표 등 어업용 장비가 숫고래의 꼬리와 몸통을 감고 있었다. 고래는 이 상태로라면 곧 죽었을 것이다. 미국 국립해양대기청과 하와이혹등고래보호소의 전문가들이 사투를 벌여 20미터에 이루는 어업 장비를 제거해냈다. 사진을 본 해외 네티즌들은 인간이 만든 '죽음의 인공 꼬리'를 단 것 같다고 말한다. 해양 쓰레기 때문에 죽을 뻔한 고래가 살았다는 소식은 훈훈한 미담이지만, 많은 해양 동물들이 어구나 쓰레기 때문에 생명을 잃고 있는 게 현실이다.

(사진 : 죽음의 꼬리를 가진 고래) (picture: the whale tailed with the death)

8 Shaped Turtle out of Plastic Wrapper

 According to Korea Herald Business of the 18th ult., there was shown the malformed turtle shaped '8' instead of the ordinary oval due to the plastic scraps.

 It has reported Earth Picture, the photographs on the nature put a picture of the deformed turtle on it's
Twitter lately. The back of the turtle in the picture is neither oval nor hexagonal, but '8' shaped. As you see, the vinyl cans wrapping strap was inserted amidst the waist that is the middle of 8 character.

 This is 'the 8 shaped deformed turtle' which was found in Branson, Missouri in June, 2006. Though the strap was gotton rid of immediately upon the finding, the odds of the recovery remained very scarce. According to the news, the age of the turtle was assumed of 20 by the result of X-ray examination. As the bowels including the lung was grown in the malformation, the turtle being poor at swimming, there was known the big probability of being drowned.

 The netizens at seeing the picture responded "how ackward was the turtle", "the deformed turtle is shocking" e.t.c.

From Online Joongang Ilbo


인간이 버린 쓰레기 때문에 타원형이 아닌 ‘8자형’ 몸을 가진 기형 거북이가 등장했다고 헤럴드경제가 18일 보도했다.

헤럴드경제에 따르면 자연 사진 전문인 어스 픽처는 최근 자신의 트위터에 기형으로 변한 거북이 사진을 게재했다. 사진 속 거북이의 등은 둥그런 타원형도 육각형도 아닌 ‘8자형’이다. 8자로 나뉘는 중간엔 음료수 캔을 포장할 때 사용하는 비닐이 끼워져있다.

이는 2006년 6월 미국 미주리주 브랜승에서 발견된 바 있는 ‘8자 모양 기형 거북이’다. 발견 즉시 비닐이 제거됐지만 회복될 가능성은 작아 보인다. 외신에 따르면 엑스레이(X-ray) 검사 결과 거북이의 나이는 20세다. 폐를 포함한 장기가 기형적으로 자랐고 수영도 능숙하지 못해 익사할 위험이 크다고 한다.

해당 사진을 본 네티즌들은 “거북이가 얼마나 거북했을까”, “기형 거북이 충격적이다” 등의 반응을 보였다.

 

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Plastic Scraps found at the Stomach of Whale

 The Whale Research Center of National Fisheries Research & Development Institute has cleared the lethal cause of the Steno bredanensis, a dolphin that had died during the cure after being found grounded in the fore sea of Jeju Island was due to the intake of the ocean rubbish the 12th inst. The pictures are about the dead whale tide landed on the frontal sea of Jeju the 26th August of the last year and the vinyl materials of 80 cm horizontal 50 cm vertical found out at the stomach. 2013 March 12th << Whale Research Center>>





국립수산과학원 고래연구소는 제주 앞바다에서 좌초된 채 발견돼 이후 치료받다가 폐사한 '뱀머리돌고래'(Steno bredanensis)의 사인이 해양쓰레기 섭취 때문이라고 12일 밝혔다. 사진은 지난해 8월 26일 제주 앞바다로 떠밀려 왔다가 폐산한 고래모습과 고래 위장에서 검출된 가로 80cm 세로 50cm의 비닐물질. 2013.3.12 < < 고래연구소 > >

Production Base in Bangalore, India

 The company has decided to establish her first production base at Bafna Silk Creations Pvt. Ltd., 1/2 Puttanna Road, Gandhi Bazar, Basavangudi, Bangalore, Karnataka 56004 India as the attached images with the following equipments and manpower.

 

 

 

* Processes and facilities

(1) raw materials storage(120 square M); stacks, racks and cold storage cabinet for adhesive cans, lift car

(2) cocoon shattering(60 square M); 2 sets of fiber swarf shredder and crusher

(3) fiber swarf boiling(60 square M); 2 sets of high pressured cauldron and furnace

(4) washing at laundry(60 square M); 2 sets of laundry

(5) washing at running water(60 square M); water tank with purifier, pipe, tub and pump

(6) hot air drying(60 square M); hot air dryer

(7) web transferring; air blower

(8) web beating(288 square M);12 sets of vertical and horizontal beater

(9) needle punching(300 square M); 2 sets of needle puncher
(10) jetting of adhesive agent(167 square M); 2 sets of pulverizer

(11) drying of non woven fabric(556 square M); 2 sets of hot iron tubing device

(12) calendering of non woven fabric(206 square M); 2 sets of ironing device

(13) trimming of non woven fabric(247 square M); 2 sets of trimming device

(14) roll goods storage(120 square M); stacks, racks and lift car

(15) factory office; 30 square M

                                                                 * Manpower

(1) preparatory processes; 2 personnel per process(team head & team mate), total 12 persons

(2) prime process; 7 personnel per 1 set of proper machinery system(team head 1 & team mates 3 & assistant team mates 3 for 3 shift per day) x 4 sets = total 28 persons

Ban Ki-moon urges leaders to move on 2015 climate deal

The following article is transcribed from "Carbon Finance".

  The UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has called on world leaders to agree a global climate agreement by 2015, as he identified climate change as one of their most urgent challenges.

  “It is time to move beyond spending enormous sums addressing the damage [caused by climate change], and to make the investments that will repay themselves many times over,” Ban told US think-tank the Council on Foreign Relations yesterday.   “A global climate change agreement would give us the engine we need to advance us decisively on this path,” he added.

  He called for governments and business leaders to mobilise the political will for a global legally-binding climate change agreement by 2015, saying: “World leaders have pledged to reach an agreement, and we must hold them to that promise.”

  Ban welcomed US President Barack Obama’s recent speeches on climate change, which he called a “new resolve” to address climate change and give it high political priority. Climate change is one of the two biggest issues – equal to the situation in Syria – currently facing global leaders, threatening “huge global consequences” and risking “the harsh judgment of history should present trends continue”, Ban said. Both these threats require collective action and must involve the US to be solved, he added.

  Elza Holmstedt Pell

Green Climate Fund(GCF) in Songdo

 The Green Climate Fund (GCF), which will distribute climate finance to developing countries, has appointed Ajay Mathur as director ahead of the UN climate conference in Doha.
 Mathur was until recently director general of the Indian government’s Bureau of Energy Efficiency, where he set up a host of programmes over the past six years, including market-based mechanisms, specialised funds, and a system of tradable certified energy savings.
 He will head the interim secretariat until a permanent secretariat is created – expected before the end of 2013 – with its own executive director.
 The GCF was launched at the last round of UN climate-treaty talks in Durban, South Africa, to help channel the promised $100 billion per year by 2020 to developing countries to support climate change mitigation and adaptation activities.

 After months of delay, it was agreed in October that the GCF should be based in Songdo, South Korea, and the proposal was endorsed at Doha afterward.  The GCF headquarter building completed in Songdo, an economic free zone of Incheon is now ready to welcome the staff and the guests from all of the world whole heartedly.

US Congress Launches Bicameral Climate Change Task Force

 (The following article is cited from 'Carbon Finance'.)

 The US Congress has launched a task force to address climate change, but doubts remain that politicians will agree on comprehensive legislation to help address the issue.
Following President Barack Obama’s strong statement about the threat of climate change last week, Congressman Henry Waxman (D-California) and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) have formed a bicameral Task Force on Climate Change.

 “We intend this new group to bring the attention and energy to the issue necessary to get something done,” Whitehouse said.

 Waxman and Whitehouse will co-chair the task force, which will focus on climate change and developing effective policy responses.

 “Congress and the public need to understand that climate change impacts are turning out worse than expected and our window to act is closing,” Waxman said. “This threat is not waiting until we are ready to deal with it.”

 The task force will seek relevant information and release periodic reports, memoranda and correspondence to advance its goals.

 “First and foremost, I hope they will elevate the issue even more than it otherwise would be,” said Nathan Willcox, federal global warming programme director for Environment America. “Global warming is not discussed as often as it should be.”

 Waxman was the co-sponsor of the comprehensive climate legislation – including a cap-and-trade programme to reduce carbon emissions – that barely passed the House of Representatives in 2009, and failed to gain traction in the Senate.

 “Sure, it's a sign of how far expectations have fallen since Waxman's last major foray into climate change legislation,” said Cara Horowitz, Andrew Sabin Family Foundation executive director at the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA.
“But nevertheless, it's nice to see the phrases ‘urgency,’ ‘carbon pollution,’ and ‘havoc’ coming from Congress, along with any political acknowledgment of what scientists have been telling us – that our window to act is closing,” she said. “So let's take it and push.”

 The chances of passing comprehensive climate legislation in the near term are “pretty slim,” but the legislators could consider smaller pieces of legislation that could promote clean energy such as the production tax credit for renewable energy, Willcox said.

 “At this point unfortunately, we do not have the votes to pass [broad] climate legislation,” he said. “I hope that will change before too much longer.”

 Through executive action, Obama can lay out specific steps that federal agencies will take to ensure the US meets its pledge made at the UN climate talks in 2009 in Copenhagen to reduce its emissions by 17% by 2020 from 2005 levels, according to a letter the legislators sent to the president on Thursday.

 The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can set emissions standards and the Department of Energy can set tighter energy efficiency standards, the legislators said.

 “EPA both legally and logically has an obligation to set emissions limits on power plants,” Willcox said. “I do expect the administration to move ahead with standards for power plants.”

The need for executive action is highlighted by the fact that virtually all Republicans opposed comprehensive climate legislation and voted to strip the EPA of its regulatory authority in the last Congress, according to the letter.

 “Progress in Congress may be so difficult or protracted that you should not hesitate to act,” the legislators said.

 Movement by the EPA could encourage legislators who feel like it’s their job to address carbon emissions to advocate more forcefully for a legislative solution, Willcox said.

 “Action by the administration will only help bring more support in Congress,” he said.

Gloria Gonzalez