World Environment Day

The theme for this year World Environment Day is “Your Planet Needs You-UNite to Combat Climate Change”.  We can all do our part to protect the planet by using less and acting more.  Going green is not as difficult as you might think.   Refer useful Green link ie.  “TreeHugger’s How to Go Green Guides” http://www.treehugger.com/gogreen.php

This above pic was taken (almost) at water source of the Melinau River, UNESCO World Heritage’s Mulu National Park.  To the right of the pic is the underground river tunnel (out of view) from where the water actually flow out from Clearwater Caves underground river system http://www.flickr.com/photos/tree22-fting/2483584724/ ie. the water source origin!  This is pristine nature- hope to return to the same spot in future and hopefully see the same.

Food for thought:  Borneo is home to the world’s oldest tropical rainforests which, until a few decades ago, completely covered the island. Among the planet’s most biologically diverse ecosystems, these forests are home to thousands of endemic animal, reptile, insect and plant species as well as orangutans, rhinos, hornbills, macaques, gibbons, tarsiers, slow loris and also at the same time, primary oxygen-producing source for Earth’s atmosphere….North America with only approx 0.05% of Earth’s population produces roughly 1/3 of Earth’s CO emission… yeah, go figure.

Mulu National Park, Borneo:  Mar 2008