Scientists are hailing the discovery of a patch of rainforest in northern Mozambique as one of the most significant finds in years.
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Another white person discovering something everybody else knew was there. Leave these pple alone w/ your progress. U ve done enough already. Let God find atleast one green patch on earth.
Nice racism.
It's native OVERPOPULATION that is destroying the eco-systems of Africa: Land clearance, wildlife poaching result!
thanks 4 nothing google earth
Not so fast! You can see the secret Chinese military base, and even UFOs!
My medication just wore off. Sorry.
Bye bye rainforst :(
I just went to Google Earth and discovered some other hitherto unknown locales:
• An untamed jungle in Albany, NY.
• An enormous quicksand pit in Afghanistan
• A large and growing sinkhole in Sacramento
• Actual green in Greenland
I'll let you know if I spot anything else.
Look up Jeffrey Dahmer, get his home address, then use the Google Earth button to Google Maps, turn on street view, you'll get a fascinating glimpse of this fiend's neighborhood.
He's been DEAD for years, fool!
The people of Greenland are actually pretty happy about that.
Well, there goes the biome.
The trees and all the animals will be gone within a year. Thank you google.
No, sooner. Barbeque.
Just what these poor people need, the white man arriving with civilization and progress.
LOL
Why, oh why do they continue to publicize places like this? This jungle will soon be descended upon by locusts called developers, sightseers, hikers, people in jeeps, people with dogs. It'll be a battered, litter-strewn former paradise in no time. I'm surprised there isn't a coke sign and a mcdonalds there already.
When you find something wild and undiscovered, be it animal, jungle, insect, fish, or even human, please keep your mouth shut. Let some one thing stay free.
Too bad they found it. Now some profit-making company will chop it down.
I hear you. I was thinking the same thing or worse.
The SOMEONE is the Africans themselves, seeking to live a pseudo-Western(??) lifestyle.....
Why are they there? Get off their continent.
...just like Columbus 'discovering' America, despite the healthy native population.
I once went to "the last outpost of diving civilization" for a dive trip. It was a tiny island "in the middle of nowhere." It took us days of increasingly more primitive travel to reach this remote spot, with a simple resort, and with only a limited number of divers allowed to dive the reef on any one day. We were even shown the official government decree protecting this rare reef.
We were asked to take great measures to protect the reef and as a group we were dedicated to this idea. AND, the diving was unworldly beautiful. However, we soon saw that each day the reef was taking injury - unintended, little bits at a time, but daily.
One day a fellow traveller and I decided to walk around the island. What we found on the opposite side of the island was straight out of a SNL skit. A larger resort, with many, many Japanese divers - more than the decree would allow in the waters - arriving in speed boats, and diving the reef. It turns out that the brother-in-law of the minister in charge of protecting this "jewel" had gotten a concession for this resort. The Japanese divers laughed when we told them of our travels to arrive in this spot. They said they had all modern conveniences to arrive there. They could dive the spot for the weekend and be home in time for work on Monday.
More:
In the meantime, our "concessionaire" was off-island." When he finally arrived he was SOOO excited. He had just come back from a trip to a "new, undiscovered" reef - "never dived before!" He told us how soon we might be able to plan a trip to that reef, my fellow divers were ecstatic, we were getting in on the "bottom rung!"
I stood up and said, "What about this idea? Since it's never been dived before, how about if we just leave it that way. Why don't we just let it be?" I was met with cold stares and was shunned for the rest of the trip.
Let the exploitation begin! :D
... :(
:D , :( ???
What are you, bipolar?
W O W !!!!! AND DOUBLE W O W!!!! Now it will become polluted with developers and tourists.. DRAT!
Well, that's great! Now kiss it goodbye.
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First Posted: 06-11-09 03:21 PM | Updated: 07-12-09 05:12 AM