Abram and Sarai (Abraham and Sarah)

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Mummified monk

The mummified monk that rests inside an ancient Buddha statue

In a museum there was a Buddha statue that had a monk inside. It was discovered by researchers. The private owner of the Buddha was trying to restore the gold-paint on the outer part of the Buddha statue. When the preservationist removed the timber platform, the preservationist saw two pillows under the Buddha statue. The preservationist also saw Chinese characters in a lotus stance. In 2014, the statue was lent to the museum in the Netherlands. Two of the men scientists agreed that they should do a CT scan.

In the ancient ritual that a monk will go inside a Buddha and was allowed to slowly eat a diet of nuts,  berries, tree bark and pine needles until he is at the edge of death. People trust that the skeleton belongs to Liuquan. The scientists still don’t know why Liuquan (the monk in the Buddha statue) was encased in the statue for 200 years. The secret was revealed at Hungary’s natural history museum in Budapest.

By: Joshua C.

          

Deforestation

Deforestation

Imagine how it would be with no trees, Oxygen, fruits or veggies?  People just cut down trees if its just for 1 single building? Deforestation can make us die because we won’t have any more oxygen to breathe in.

If people cut down hundreds of trees everyday. We humans can be affected with lung diseases. We can die from all these lung diseases we might have. It can also affect the animals that are in that area because animals also breathe in oxygen.

People cut down trees to make farmlands, furniture and roads. It is not useful just for farmlands. Why can’t they make it in an open space?  

Most of New Zealand’s trees are gone because people are making it into furniture .

It can be solved by, not cutting lots of trees on the same day and grow more trees. People can also make private places so that they can’t cut down trees in that area.     

  

Contamination of water

Contamination of water

I wonder how it will be with contaminated water? If litter gets thrown into the drain it can cause death to sea creatures because the litter goes straight to the waterways and goes to the rivers, streams, oceans and the sea. Our families keep the finest trees with the finest fruit and veggies so we put pesticides. We put pesticides on so insects don’t go to the tree and eat it. When the rain comes down the pesticides come off and goes down to the drain and destroys the clean water.

Acid rain can be caused by water that is contaminated with litter. When the rain comes down and you get in the rain you might feel itchy because the water that went up to the clouds is dirty. If this keeps happening there might be diseases and viruses going around.

Contaminated water can break the food chain and can cause extinction. If the litter gets eaten by an animal the animal will choke and die. If whales sharks, fish etc. get extinct the food chain will be broken. The animals that eat fish and sharks will starve to death! Men and women will not get to get any more fish because the food chain will be broken.

If you don’t want to drink unclean water do not litter anywhere even if you are just in your garden.

By: Joshua C.

Fruit flies

As I drive pass Mt. Albert to pick up my sister, I see a big sign that says “ Beware you are in the fruit fly area”. What will be the effects to the resources of New Zealand?

Fruit flies harm lots and lots of our fruits and veggies. That is called contamination. The economy of NZ will go down. The biosecurity is not safe because that is how fruit flies get into New Zealand.

The horrible fruit flies get to pass New Zealand’s biosecurity lots of times because they are very tiny. The money will go down if the fruit flies infest all the fruits and veggies. Fruit flies can give us diseases and we can die from the diseases.

We can get rid of the fruit flies by spraying insecticide or by making fruit fly traps.