Earthquake in China
May 13, 2008 by dryxanne
A friend updated me this morning about the earth quake yesterday in Sichuan, China. I was surprised, and being the ignorant, frankly I didn’t know at all, since I don’t read news that much anyway lately.
So I googled a bit, and stumbled upon New York Times online article ( I lost the link so I won’t link it here), which I should have had in my Yahoo Inbox if only I bothered to check my Yahoo Mails, because I did subscribe to New York Times headlines.
It also stated that, the quake struck near Wenchuan County, home to the Wolong Nature Reserve, the largest panda reserve in China.
Now, I’m not being less humanist or something, but when nature disasters happen, surely humans will be the 1st priority to be saved. Sadly, that leaves (often) animals to be the last priority.
And since I haven’t got any updated news on the Wolong, I just hope that those pandas weren’t harmed badly by the disaster. It’s sad enough to learn that their existence is facing near extinction already, this kind of nature disaster would probably put their numbers lesser. I really hope they’re doing fine there in Wolong.
And of course, all prays go to families of the victims and for the survivors to hang on until the rescues get them out of the collapsed buildings…
