fires in Indonesia

In recent months, severe fires have ravaged the islands of Sumatra and Borneo in Southeast Asia. It turns out that these islands are also home to 50,000 orangutans remaining in the wild and new habitat conservationists statistics suggest that one third of the orangutans now in danger of dying due to fire.

Orangutans are already under threat due to the alarming expansion of palm oil plantations, not to mention hunting and the pet trade. But now distressing images of apes fleeing the flames, full of suffering burns and smoke inhalation have emerged. The photo below has gone viral, showing a female orangutan and her son after being arrested for entering a local village to escape the fire.

Indonesia fires have spread to primary forests and national parks, which are some of the last refuges, not only for orangutane s, but also for other threatened species such as rhinos and tigers. So far more than 100,000 fires have burned more than 2 million hectares of forest along Sumatra and the Indonesian half of Borneo. Researchers and firefighters have been working since late summer to track and control the fires, as well as monitor and help orangutans. But due to poor land management practices and the large number of natural ecosystem has been destroyed and replaced with oil palm plantations it has proved impossible to stop the fires.

Day of the Dead

Day of the Dead is a Mexican celebration of indigenous origin in which the dead are honored. This original tradition dates back to pre-Hispanic times, when it was believed that when someone died, was heading to different places according to the circumstances that have perished. This tradition is linked to the pre-Hispanic agricultural calendar and related to the harvesting of the crop. Today is celebrated on November 2 in conjunction with the 1st day when all the saints are celebrated in the Catholic calendar.

The dates in honor of the dead were very important for what they spent two months, during which people put these altars with offerings to remember their dead, emerging hence the current tradition. The decoration of the altar is made with marigolds. The offering was placed on October 31 and no one can touch, as the guests are dead and they are the ones who initiate the treat; later, when they return to the underworld satisfied it is when the dishes can be tested by relatives.

There are many sites that could mention for its particular way of celebrating the dead at this time, Patzcuaro, Janitzio in Michoacan, Tláhuac and Xochimilco in Mexico City, or Cuetzalan in Puebla, to name a few. The party in these places preserves the essence of tradition nationwide, but each site gives your holiday a special touch that makes it unique and unforgettable. If you are visiting any of these places in Mexico in early November, it pays to be a participant in "The Day of the Dead". Rest assured it will be a fantastic and unforgettable experience.

JUNK FOOD

Junk food is characterized by providing a unique taste to the palate, what makes you want to increasingly its consumption.
However, this type of food, lacking vitamins and nutrients, favors the development of diseases.

consequence

The high sugar content, calories, flavors, and fat that contains the junk food, have an impact on your health, why you share five result by overeating junk food.

1. Psychological problems. The consumption of sugars, flavors and fat may detonate illnesses such as attention deficit disorder, anxiety, individualism, lack of communication and frustration in the children.

2. Premature aging. The director of the Gold's Gym, says that the consumption of junk food corresponds to one of the main causes of premature aging, due to the fact that your dermis not oxygenated properly.

3 . Addiction eat in large amounts junk food stimulates the "pleasure center of the brain", which generates compulsive behaviors and effects in the brain such as those caused by drug use.

4. Death. Researchers from the School of Public Health found that people who eat junk food, even once a week, increases 20 ?the risk of dying from coronary heart disease.

5. Extreme sadness. A research The Public Hearth Nutrition, said that the people who have such as habit consume junk food have 51 ?more likely to develop depression.

A healthy diet helps you to avoid the development of diseases, which can leave more expensive. Take care of your health and avoid the consumption of junk food.

PRESERVE THE IMPORTANCE OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS IN DANGER SIGN

Organizations Treasury shares 8 helpful The importance of preserving endangered plants and animals. The tiger, the Iberian lynx, brown bear, or the peregrine falcon are endangered animals. The disappearance of many animals and plants is mainly due to human activities such as pollution.
It is said that an animal or plant species is endangered when the species has shown a decrease of its members in recent years.

Since the beginning of history have become extinct thousands of animals and plants, the variety of dinosaurs, mammoths or saber-toothed cats fearsome species. Scientists estimate that more than two thirds of the animals and plants that lived on Earth are extinct. However these extinctions were due to a sum of natural events, they were not manmade. Among these reasons are, the competition for food or resources or environmental changes.
There are factors that affect the extinction of species where natural causes and human activity are combined. Since the introduction of invasive species on ecosystems (which in many cases are due to human action).

The destruction of habitat or ecosystem where plants and animals live. If the place where they live is affected and animals can not feed and reproduce the species is threatened. If soil conditions or temperature change plants, trees and animals will be affected.