White farmers ‘being wiped out’
White farmers ‘being wiped out’
Over 3,000 have been killed since 1994. Now the ANC is accused of fanning the hate.
A man walks through a field of crosses erected near Pretoria, South Africa, to honour mostly white farmers who have died in farm attacks over past decade.
THE gunmen walked silently through the orchard. Skirting a row of burnt-out tyres, set ablaze months earlier to keep the budding fruit from freezing, they drew their old .38 revolvers.
Inside his farmhouse Pieter Cillier, 57, slept with his 14-year-old daughter Nikki at his side. His 12-year-old son JD was having a sleepover with two teenagers in an adjoining room.
As the intruders broke in, the farmer woke. He rushed to stop them, only to be shot twice in the chest.
In his death throes he would have seen his killers and then his children standing over him, screaming and crying.
Gorillas losing battle against loggers and hunters in Central Africa
March 25, 2010 Gorillas losing battle against loggers and hunters in Central Africa Foreign Staff 2 Comments Recommend? The UN called for more help to protect gorillas March 25, 2010 Gorillas losing battle against loggers and hunters in Central Africa Foreign Staff 2 Comments Recommend? The UN called for more help to protect gorillas Gorillas Continue Reading →
Nursing homes at breaking point, says report
Nursing homes at breaking point, says report
- From: AAP
- March 28, 2010
AUSTRALIAN nursing homes have reached breaking point due to chronic underfunding and staff shortages, with reports of physical assaults increasing by more than 50 per cent and sexual assaults by 36 per cent.
The Department of Health and Ageing was notified of 1411 alleged assaults in nursing homes in 2008-09. Of those, 1121 involved alleged unreasonable force, 272 involved alleged unlawful sexual contact and 18 involved both, Fairfax newspapers say.
In 2007-08 there were 725 reports of unreasonable force and 200 reports of unlawful sexual contact.
Keneally’s state plan leaked on the web
They may need to enlist Sir Humphrey Appleby on forming a leak enquiry.
Keneally’s state plan leaked on the web
A NEW state plan the Premier, Kristina Keneally, plans to take into a TV debate against Barry O’Farrell tomorrow as her agenda for NSW has been sitting on a government website all this week, in what appears to be another internet debacle for Labor.
The document Ms Keneally and her Minister for the State Plan, Linda Burney, will release looks very similar to a document released to community stakeholders by the former premier Nathan Rees last November.
Even the forewords, with respective pictures of Mr Rees and Ms Keneally, are the same.
Nestle under fire for destroying orang-utan habitat
Nestlé under fire for destroying orang-utan habitat Ecologist 19th March 2010 Nestlé is ignoring the social and environmental crimes of its palm oil suppliers says Greenpeace Orang-utans are losing their forest homes to palm oil plantations that supply Nestlé, according to a report published by Greenpeace. Sinar Mas, which supplies palm oil to food Continue Reading →
500 species of plants and animals vanish because of humans, says study
500 species of plants and animals vanish because of humans, says study
Nearly 500 species of plants and animals have disappeared in England in the past 200 years, according to the first comprehensive audit of native wildlife.
The disappearances, which have been largely attributed to human activities, include four species that did not exist anywhere else. The great auk, a flightless seabird similar to a penguin, Ivell’s sea anemone, Mitten’s beardless-moss and York groundsel, a weed, have all become extinct since 1800.
“These species were lost on our watch. In the late 1980s the last Ivell’s anemone died out in a lagoon near Chichester,” said Dr Tom Tew, chief scientist for Natural England.
The York groundsel was discovered in 1979 by Richard Abbott, a biologist from St Andrews University, offering the first glimpse of “evolution in action” in Britain. However, the fragile existence of the species had come to an end by 2000, partly because of the use of weedkiller by York City Council.