Panfu Cares
My dear little pandas:
I have often read your comments on the blog where you showed compassion and care for the world we live in. Many of you have shared your opinions on the interaction between the human being, the wildlife and the planet we live in. I found the need to have a special place in the blog to have a conversation with all your pandas and hopefully we can inspire each other to care. So here is the start of our new blog series that will simply be known as “Panda Cares”. We want the world we live in to be a friendly and enjoyable place like the world we have in Panfu. So from now on, I will write to you about issues that are on my mind and I welcome your comments on other areas that you care deeply about. Now, let me get to something that has been on my mind.
The Oil Spill
I am sure you all have heard about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The tragedy started on April 20 when a big oil rig owned by a company called BP exploded during oil extraction. Since then about 1 million gallons of oil has been spilling into the Gulf area every day! It has become the single worst environmental disaster in the history for the United States.
A map detailing the oil spill is here for you to see the devasting effect it has on the coastline.
What does all the red box on the map meant for the wildlife living in the area? Devastation! Almost 2,000 wildlife such as birds, turtles and dolphins are found dead in the spill area. The explosion was an accident but it is still sad that so many lives are lost. Unfortunately, we cannot turn back the time to undo the damage to our environment. It seems that the company BP and the government is doing many things to help clean up the mess but I wonder if they could have done things to prevent this accident from happening in the beginning as this was not the first oil spill.
Back in 1989, before many of you are born, a similar thing happened in the coast of Alaska. That time, thousands of animals died immediately and scientists later estimated that as many as 250,000 seabirds, at least 2,800 sea otters, 300 harbor seals and billions of salmon and herring eggs were lost. The worst part for you to know is that the Alaska oil spill is actually the smallest in terms of crude oil spill compared to other major oil spills. Alaska spill lost about 32 million gallons and the ongoing oil spill is already being estimated at 336 million gallons. Can you imagine the damage to the environment and the wildlife being 10 times worse? I wish someone has learned from our past mistakes and I certainly hope the current oil spill will teach all of us something.
We all need oil in our life but what are things that we can do to prevent disaster like this from happening? How can we as little pandas help in such big problems? I believe small things can have huge impact. I want to hear about your ideas on how we can help prevent another oil spill from happening. Perhaps we can consider use less oil, or we can study hard to find ways to minimize the impact of oil spill, or we can write letters to oil companies to ask them to be more careful with their operations. Whatever is on your mind, I want to hear your thoughts. Leave us your opinion or your questions here. Feel free to discuss this with your parents and friends and come back share your conversations with them with all the pandas here.
Love and peace
Your Kamaria
July 6th, 2010 at 11:31 am
my idea is well i think we shouldnt go to places where oil spills will happen or even bring
oil to places or it might cause danger and i think that we should use a little less oil
so we can save the enviorment and then animals wont be killed
July 6th, 2010 at 11:41 am
Just how anyone in the sciences or government, currently dealing with the huge environmental disaster occurring in the Gulf of Mexico, can intimate all is well with the air we breathe, the food caught in those waters and eaten and the rain falling from the sky, is beyond my comprehension.
http://just-me-in-t.blogspot.com/2010/07/toxicologic-synergy.html
July 6th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Well, I think so too! Everything should be normal, and the way it was about the time the western cowboys were still walking the Old West!! It WAS old fashioned, but it was nice to live (I’m not talking about the wars). Everything should be fine, and not violent like nowadays….
Peace dudes!! lucijap
July 6th, 2010 at 1:11 pm
hey guys! I know I might sound like a little scaredy cat but I am really scared about the world ending in 2012 because everyone is talking about it and Im really scared incase its true and some people are saying its because the seas are rising from global warming and the earth is going to be flooded and Im really scared I really am and this Gulf spill is making me worried even more. to help the Gulf spill clean up I would write a letter to some of the oil companies to convince them to be carefull while collecting all the oil.
I think it would be great if we had like a little competition where pandas have to write a letter that they would send to the oil companies telling them to be carefull once the pandas have created the letters they could email them to panfu and max or ella or kamaria could choose the best one and send them away to a couple of oil companies that would be really cool!
July 6th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
i think we should leave the oil where it is.in the ground!i dont think we should use fossil fuels.i think we should use renewable energy, like wind turbines and solar panals.its better for the enviorment and it costs less.and did you know, scientists in mexico are working on water turbines!you place a windmill thing, in the mexican gulf, it gets hit by a wave and it makes electricity!GO TEAM GREEN!!:)
July 6th, 2010 at 2:18 pm
Dear Kamaria,
I am sure all of us are desperately worried about the oil spill. Us as children usually don’t include the cost and logic included but I will give my ideas:
A) a pump that sucks the water and sucks the oil and bad water out of the sea and clean the water. Since this takes away water, it will he good for the melting ice aswell. When we separate the oil from the water we could maybe use it.
B) we could add more water to the sea thinning out the oil and eventually it will disappear.
All of the ideas will be expensive that everyone thinks up so I think everyone should start by raising money. The US is a very rich country but this is a way we can help also. Maybe all schools can get involved and businesses also.
Thank-you for your time Kamaria.
Yours Sincerely,
Tiredtedd.
July 6th, 2010 at 5:23 pm
oh no!Kamaria you are very kind for letting the little ones know and we could do something called a survey where we write on paper questions and we get pandas writing there answers and we can get pandas to raise money and coins to get the oil spill away from the water and make sure water supplies are back on track cus they may end.
Pandas we need your help and as kamaria said its true and we need you to help so get your mums,dads or whoever to stop the spill!if you agree with me then comment here and we shall stay alive and be brave and save the water that is spilling down the drain!email your friends to tell them to help save our water and raise money and get the oil out of the way.
Help needed!
the help you give may make many people happy and you might be on the news to save the day.
it would be horrible to see your water shrink and never come back so you would be dirty and thristy forever.
Panfu meeting
since you may comment on this and think its not true then believe it because i will be holding a meeting with the people who want to make the water survive on kidpanda at the lake so please meet me there now and ill discuss other stuff too.
now hurry and never forget to save earth
July 6th, 2010 at 6:11 pm
i feel so sorry that the oil leak happened on my birthday!
I’VE GOT A SUGGESTION, I’M ON MOSHI MONSTERS AND they have a forum and u can make ur own disscusions and chat to people and it’s alot of fun so plz can u do the same with panfu?
July 6th, 2010 at 7:02 pm
hello
July 6th, 2010 at 9:06 pm
Dear Kamaria,
We could drive our cars less! Since cars run on gas, which is made of oil, we could reduce the number of oil that goes in the water! The less oil we use the less oil the companies will produce! We could also help stop pollution! We could walk to places or bike or carpool!
Thanks for your time,
Jazz507 (a.k.a. PANFU LOVER!)
July 7th, 2010 at 12:26 am
mmm… i think that if we say to our parents to not use there cars we can save on oil or gasoline so we dont waste it… then we can go out and walk insted of using the car!!!! Or we can write a letter to the oil company and say to them that please to hurry up cause many animals are dying!!!
July 7th, 2010 at 7:55 am
loyal pandas listen!
the oil spill is heading to great britain and i want this to stop!theres a meeting set by me on kidspanda at the lake for all happy pandas.kamaria come too and please comment if you agree with me
July 7th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Um i live in lousiana and i miss eating seafood like boiled crab fried shrimp and crawfish (Mudbug)And I Feel Sad about the oil spill i live 40 miled from the gulf so its 2 hrs
July 7th, 2010 at 5:04 pm
I like the pic where some pandas are around the plant earth and how old are you because you are ONLY ALOUND ON FACBOOK WHEN YOU ARE 13 OR OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 7th, 2010 at 5:41 pm
Dear Kamaria Max and Ella,
I wonder if they could…Maybe they’d have to burn some of the oul first, then they might be able to get to the hole.
I have an idea of what they can do about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Maybe they could try and fix the hole then burn the oil.
Thanks For Listening,
Fireball7797
July 7th, 2010 at 8:03 pm
my idea is well i think we shouldnt go to places where oil spills will happen or even bring
oil to places or it might cause danger and i think that we should use a little less oil
so we can save the enviorment and then animals wont be killed.
Poor innicent fish and other animals will die.
like: sharks and whales
On April 20, 2010, an explosion occurred on the semi-submersible offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 rig workers and injuring 17 others. On April 24, it was found that the wellhead was damaged and was leaking oil into the Gulf. This significant spill poses a serious threat to wildlife, affecting as many as 400 species along the coastal areas of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.
July 7th, 2010 at 8:07 pm
On April 20, 2010, an explosion occurred on the semi-submersible offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 rig workers and injuring 17 others. On April 24, it was found that the wellhead was damaged and was leaking oil into the Gulf. This significant spill poses a serious threat to wildlife, affecting as many as 400 species along the coastal areas of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.
Its not fair that inocent marine wildlife should not suvie this oil spill.
I am crazy about all animals so I think people should be more careful when handleing oil.
July 8th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
I don’t think the should have ever drilled on the coast and it is common since not to because if you drill on land it spews out and can be stopped but if it is in water it is hard to stop because of the water pressure and people can be under long even with the air mask on. If they want drill for oil do it on land because it won’t hurt animals and is is SO much easier to clean and stop.
July 8th, 2010 at 3:55 pm
i got reported for bad language now i cant talk how long does it last
July 9th, 2010 at 3:25 pm
The oil is killing about 1,000,000 fish a day it’s not fair they did nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And the Pellagin’s are getting oil all over there bodys making them un abel to fly. And the beaches are all full of oil!!!!!!!!!
July 10th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
Everyone should try and use less oil if possible and every company that goes off to sea should make sure everything is in order and make sure no disaster could happen but for us to make them do that we should write a letter or send an e-mail.
July 10th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
Being eco is awesome. you could have like a group like gold pandas except green pandas instead and you get free green paint for your panda
July 11th, 2010 at 9:44 am
they need 2 stop cutting down the rain forist no i get why they are bilding an eco villge on the boder of carlisel we will allbe dead at this rate!
July 11th, 2010 at 9:45 am
they need 2 stop cutting down the rain forist now i get why they are bilding an eco villge on the boder of carlisel we will all be dead at this rate!
July 11th, 2010 at 9:46 am
July 11th, 2010 at 9:47 am
July 11th, 2010 at 10:37 am
HAPPY BIRTHDAY have a nice day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 11th, 2010 at 12:02 pm
Happy bday ella:D
Maybe we could have 2mounths of gold panda it will b amazing or we could have 2weeks of goldpanda days!!!
July 11th, 2010 at 1:48 pm
i think u should do like a whole green day turn everything different shdes od green and put up posters about being eco friendly and stuff like tht
July 11th, 2010 at 3:31 pm
yo yo yo pandas boy do i got a story 4 u well i was in my room and my mam said wer going to arfica to see the world cup ( because my dad plays for span ) i was so happy but we cant stay for the final i dont no why but we cant but when i was der all i heard was SPAIN SPAIN SPAIN SPAIN i even said it with them and most people that live in countrys that are not in the final manly want spain to win im not from spain but i still want them to win and anyone and i mean anyone reading this and soports spain i want u all to say spain ten or more times on panfu
July 11th, 2010 at 9:39 pm
fatty
July 12th, 2010 at 1:39 am
who news flash you shore are popular i wish i was this popular loooooooooooookkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk at all the massigase you got and by the way it dos not wory if you spell things rong because this is the best website on my computare you can do evry thing on it by the way hello!!!!! i llllllllllllllllllloooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeee your names!!!!!!!!!! i wish i had them and i hope you have a verry happy birthday!!!!!!!!!!!! and i realy hope you will be my frend i am 8yo i am a girl
July 12th, 2010 at 3:18 am
hey pepole on the rado peole say justin bieber is a indeind hahahaha
July 12th, 2010 at 3:19 am
bye peole its me abby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bye buddyHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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July 12th, 2010 at 3:20 am
hey guys!
July 12th, 2010 at 3:21 am
i have to go bye bye boys and grils
August 25th, 2010 at 6:11 pm
poo
August 31st, 2010 at 8:35 pm
how do you pick a diffent animal!!!!!!!1111111
October 1st, 2010 at 6:52 pm
i think we could use less oil which could save our enviroment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 1st, 2010 at 6:54 pm
we could, be green and we should have a green day to show our support and turn the colourgreen!!
October 2nd, 2010 at 2:38 am
hi i am new here and i was just thinking to my self i really want the oil to go away and if it does not it might efect the crechers in the living sea and if i were iving down there i would move away very far as soon as i know it was there so good luck and feel well for the people who are sick from cleaning up the oil spill
October 10th, 2010 at 6:52 pm
one thing is that i wish there was a good thing for someone and i want to tell the people who are cleaning the oil spil that play on don’t let this be so hard and don’t be lases but just do something for our world so the oil spil will not get werse. thank you
October 13th, 2010 at 12:04 am
i think we should all take a part in this clean up and change that route in untill the oil is cleaned up.
October 18th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
omg i wise i can help but i can beacase i have school
October 18th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
clean up the oil spill is good if no one did the fish birds will die and now us its up to us to save the world
October 25th, 2010 at 11:53 am
EEEEEKKKKKKK :0 (that is a worried face if it does not come up as a yellow face)
ANIMALS MIGHT DIE
November 3rd, 2010 at 10:31 am
I think should not get the oil from the ocean and from outher places.
November 5th, 2010 at 11:40 pm
i’ve made up a song that is awsome or AWSOME.
November 5th, 2010 at 11:43 pm
uhhhhhhhhhhhh *smiles*
to much for that
November 17th, 2010 at 2:32 am
i think we should get oil from oceania and not to close to hawai and we should get two ships to go one of the ship picks up oil and the other one could get people to put som suits and hold the tubes so they don’t fall apart:)
November 22nd, 2010 at 5:28 pm
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November 28th, 2010 at 6:32 pm
ilove panfu very
December 5th, 2010 at 4:55 pm
hi
December 23rd, 2010 at 11:28 am
yay rescling
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December 24th, 2010 at 8:10 am
Kameria please tell me if itz Gold Panda Day tomorrow!
Is it?
oh itz Christmas so it should be…
January 23rd, 2011 at 5:22 pm
Dear Max, Ella and Kamaria, I think we should use less oil and we shouldn’t use our cars as much that what causes pullution.
January 23rd, 2011 at 5:25 pm
March 6th, 2011 at 7:00 pm
Hi again guys! Hope there was some good ideas
March 6th, 2011 at 7:07 pm
Here’s another: We should all (probably everyone) try to clean it up and use oil suckers because we can’t clean it up in one day! even in a year or more, we wouldn’t be able to clean it all up! So: we should stop using our cars like I said: and also because it works. We would even save millions and trillions of animals on the way! I suggest it would be good.
Sarah78945
March 15th, 2011 at 10:02 pm
You are right miley87964. We will save animals whatever it takes!
May 23rd, 2011 at 6:21 am
my idea is…well…we shouldnt go to places were oil spills will happen
June 29th, 2011 at 9:06 pm
this amost made me cry.all those beautiful animals gone. in my apinen we should find more ways to help the world not deystoy it.here are some tips:try to reycle trash not trow it away 2:use refileable bottles not ones you just trow away. you can see more at other websites BYE!!!
June 29th, 2011 at 9:12 pm
my comet is we should not use cars all the time it uses a lot of oil if you ask my we should walk more often. if we dive everywhere all the time it uses alot of oil.and it does not hurt to exersise.does it?
July 1st, 2011 at 7:35 pm
miley87964 you are soooooooooo right i should you a friend request.but thats beside the point.my point is we should also move the animals to a safer location so that way all the different animals dont get whiped out.sarha78945 you are right to when im older i will try to run for govener or prestend try save the world.
July 1st, 2011 at 7:39 pm
hi heres a easy save the world sugeston,you should try to go out and exersise one hour Day it saves energy and youll get more fit. see ya later
July 19th, 2011 at 3:37 am
tell your teacher that you want to make a differnce in the world so take part in a school project to save the world thank you and GO WETLAND WARRIERS
July 23rd, 2011 at 10:29 pm
Yes i think this was a very sad day for the world. i just wish the environment and animals didnt have to suffer. they didnt do anything, the animals lives were just taken!We should use a little less oil and more careful workers so accidents like this dont happen!What they should reconsider is their location.Its best to put oil factories in a place where they can cause the least bit of damage if such an incident ever happened again.
December 29th, 2011 at 11:34 pm
Hey panfu crew!!
At the underwater school the other rooms mabye one of them could be the toilet save panfu room. pets and animal the envirament don’t frow bottle in normal bins. Recyle when you get drink from the underwater school atally come up and frow in the bin. Maybe you can make pafu like and envirament game and make it fun and make kids care. Change there heads if there bad make then good make them have good thinking.
Thank you this was nichole26 wishing to be a model or a news reporter
Paws up for panfu & Paws of luck
March 18th, 2012 at 4:01 pm
I hope dogs don’t die! They go in water sometimes at the beach!
well…they MIGHT die!
May 12th, 2012 at 8:22 pm
Have you ever wathched a ppograme on the TV called ”Shocking sites” Kamaria?It shows ALL of the oil spills in HISTORY! happy
May 23rd, 2012 at 8:03 pm
We could donate money to a Panda like a doctor on Panfu and the money we send turns to REAL money and then we could send it to the people trying to stop the oil spill and then they could buy thingd they need to stop it and help animals!
I hope they all survive and get help.My school has a poster of it with animals and helping the oil spill.There’s one picture of a pelecan covered in oil! I feel bad for the poor animals with there water all oily and…bleh 
June 5th, 2012 at 2:07 am
OMG I LIVE BY THERE! :0