A ‘Biblical’ Plague of Locusts Has Put Millions on the Brink of Famine: “We Have Never, Ever Seen What We Have in the Last Six Months”
A new generation of locusts is hitting Africa, Pakistan and India.
A new generation of locusts is hitting Africa, Pakistan and India.
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"This new generation of locusts has been spotted as far south as Congo, as far north as Iran and as far east as India."
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"Locust swarms have already ravaged countries like South Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia."
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"Xinjiang is the only province that direct borders Pakistan-controlled territory, although India has also started to face problems with locust infestations, and recently announced that it would be cooperating with Pakistan on measures to alleviate the problem."
"These locusts travel in swarms up to 40 miles wide, each one can eat the equivalent of its own body weight every day, and the swarms can travel close to 100 miles in a 24 hour period."
"Let us hope that the containment measures being taken in China and elsewhere will help, but at this point the number of cases just continues to escalate."
"Experts warn that if left unchecked, the number of locusts could grow by 500 times by June, when drier weather will help bring the outbreak under control."
Each one can eat its weight in food every day.
A single locust swarm in Kenya measured 2,400 sq km!
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison is telling us that the fires “could burn for months” before they finally go out.
You can have little "cool' fires every five years to clean up the fuel or a big fire every few decades, but you eventually will get a fire. You do the maths.