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IT’S OFFICIAL, DONALD TRUMP IS A HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATOR, ACCORDING TO AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
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“Obama sugar-coated imperialism but Trump has shown an in-your-face kind of imperialism,” said protest leader Renato Reyes,
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A man sits on a bike beside a garbage filled river in Manila on May 26, 2016. (Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images)
After an initial assessment, conducted on Monday, the World Food Program already estimates some 2.5 million people will need food assistance for at least the coming six months.
The WFP has moved quickly to begin feeding the millions of displaced and hungry people scattered about the country. A WFP spokesperson told Quartz that the food assistance includes the following:
- Nearly half a million high energy biscuits (HEBs), which come loaded with nutrients and vitamins, carry roughly 450 calories a piece, and are relatively light in weight, have been delivered to Manila from Dubai, senior spokesperson Steve Taravella told Quartz. But such shipments are neither sufficient to feed the millions presently without food in the Philippines nor capable of reaching their desired targets at present. ”Now the challenge is getting them from Manila to where the need is greatest,” Taravella said. “The infrastructure has been so decimated by the storm that the task has been made extremely complicated—roads are impassable, airports are inoperable, the country’s ports are completely destroyed.”
- Another 550,000 nutritional bars, which were donated by the US government, are currently waiting in Anchorage, Alaska, from which they will be delivered into the Philippines.
- WFP is also procuring an additional nearly 1.8 million HEBs to ready for shipment. And it’s transporting rice via ship by way of Sri Lanka.
Part of what has made the situation in the Philippines so dire, aside from the fact that Haiyan was one of the most powerful storms ever to hit land, is that the country was barely afforded enough time to breathe in the wake of the 7.2-magnitude earthquake a month earlier that killed over 100 people and caused its own massive damage.
So far, the US government has pledged $7.75 million in cash to help the WFP deliver food to the Philippines, and the United Nations, which briefed Asia on Tuesday on the need for substantial donations, has specifically asked for an additional $83 million for the organization. Anyone, however, can donate on the WFP’s website.
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World Wildlife Fund’s new campaign to protect the Coral Triangle. Click the map, find an empty lot of coral reef, and “buy” a piece of critical ocean habitat.
“Coral Triangle: The world’s richest garden of corals and sea life
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The waters of the Coral Triangle hold the highest diversity of iridescent corals, fish, crustaceans, mollusks and marine plant species in the world. The area sustains over 120 million people and garners more than $12 billion a year from nature-based tourism. A complex mix of diverse habitats – from river estuaries and mangrove forests, to sea grass beds and coral reef ecosystems – support this array of marine biodiversity. Sea turtles, whale sharks and mantas feed, breed and migrate in these rich and sheltered waters.
This abundant marine life is now at risk. Unsustainable fishing, poorly planned development, pollution, a growing population and the effects of climate change are all contributing to the degradation of the Coral Triangle. WWF develops sustainable solutions that will both benefit local communities and businesses and save one of the most diverse marine habitats on Earth.
WWF’s goal in the Coral Triangle We plan to reach the following targets by 2020:
- Coral Reefs: 50 percent increase in area of priority coral reef habitats that is protected and sustainably managed with effective financing in place
- Species: Zero decline in the populations of 3 endangered marine turtle species (leatherback, hawksbill, green) from 2008 levels
- Transforming business: Halting and reversing the degradation of key marine resources - coral reef habitats, turtles, reef fish, and tuna
Actions for on-the-ground conservation efforts and sustainable resource management will focus on existing WWF project sites in the Sulu-Sulawesi, Banda Flores Marine, Bismarck Solomon Seas and Fiji Island Marine ecoregions.”
-WWF