Monday, 30 November 2015
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Thursday, 26 November 2015
Chinese Millionaire Goes Broke Saving Dogs Destined for Slaughterhouse
A Chinese millionaire has spent his entire fortune – and then some – saving thousands of dogs from being butchered for food. He even bought a slaughterhouse and turned an abandoned building into a massive shelter. Wang Yan had been running a successful steel manufacturing business in Changchun city three years ago when his cherished dog went missing.
“I went looking everywhere, but all to no avail,” he told Sina News. “Finally someone let me go into the slaughterhouse to try my luck there.” He didn’t end up finding his pet, but the gruesome sights he witnessed were so deeply traumatic that he felt compelled to establish an animal shelter at an old steel mill.
He provides whatever food and medical care he can to the dogs. There were over 1,000 of them at the shelter at one point, but now there are only about 200, because most of them have been adopted.
However, even adoption won’t ensure a dog’s long and happy life. A law was recently passed by a municipality in Shandong province outlawing dogs. “All dogs must be removed from the district,” said a statement by the committee. “Otherwise authorities will enter your house and kill your dog on the spot.” But that won’t stop Yan from carrying on and saving as many dogs as he can from becoming food. His endeavor has put him spiraling into debt, but he doesn’t regret it. “I don’t accept monetary donations. I only hope that kind-hearted people will be able to donate a few supplies to help.”
Wednesday, 25 November 2015
Tuesday, 24 November 2015
An Ancient Chinese Ginkgo Tree Drops an Ocean of Golden Leaves
This towering ginkgo tree is located within the walls of the Gu Guanyin Buddhist Temple in the Zhongnan Mountains
in China. Every autumn the green leaves on the 1,400-year-old tree turn
bright yellow and fall into a golden heap on the temple grounds drawing
tourists from the surrounding area. You can see more photos here
Monday, 23 November 2015
This 'Extinct Squash' Has Been Grown From 800-Year-Old Seeds
In 2008 a group of archeologists yielded a clay pot in an archaeological
dig on the Menemonee Reservation in Wisconsin. Nothing special you
might say, archeologists do find clay pots all the time. But this one
800 years old clay pot did contained a real treasure, it contained seeds
from an extinct squash species.
To make it even more extraordinary, a group of students planted some of
the seeds to see if 800-year-old seeds were still viable. And as it
turned out, they were! The result was an ancient squash and they named
it the ‘Gete Okosomin’, which roughly translated means ‘Really Cool Old
Squash'
Sunday, 22 November 2015
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