newsflash two.

after the shock of the tornado in Burma the other week, two days ago there was the biggest and most devastating earthquake that China has seen for years and the epicenter of the quake was in the province directly north of my site. the reason i am mentioning it here is that the risk is the same as my site in terms the landslides triggered by the quake, and the excessive regional rainfall currently exaggerating the problem.

sadly, many have lost their lives in collapsed buildings due to the quake, but many lives could have been saved by reducing the many landslides that buried many other buildings and obliterated roads making the movement of aid impossible in some places. the planting of trees in combination with drainage channels and piling which is very much in the plans of the Chinese government, but is slow to implement on a such a massive scale will help. this is why my project proposes such an important system that can be realistically and quickly reproduced on a village scale, to protect the local population from landslides and provide a longterm sustainable and productive eco-system.