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*It was the fire of 1939 that burnt itself most fiercely into memory: 'Black Friday', Friday 13 January. Named by a day, it represented a summer of destruction. In that January 1.4 million hectares across the state burned. Whole settlements were incinerated, 71 lifes were lost, and most of Victoria's mountain forests were destroyed. In the environmental history of European Victoria there is perhaps no more significant date. (Tom Griffiths, "Secrets of the Forest") | *It was the fire of 1939 that burnt itself most fiercely into memory: 'Black Friday', Friday 13 January. Named by a day, it represented a summer of destruction. In that January 1.4 million hectares across the state burned. Whole settlements were incinerated, 71 lifes were lost, and most of Victoria's mountain forests were destroyed. In the environmental history of European Victoria there is perhaps no more significant date. (Tom Griffiths, "Secrets of the Forest") | ||
*Every year millions of hectares of tropical forest disappear. It is estimated that between 1960 and 1990 more than 20 % of these forests were lost (33% in Asia and 18% in Africa and Latin America). To make matters worse, this process of destruction doesn't show any signs of stopping. In fact, current deforestation of the Amazon proceeds at an even greater speed than in the 1980s, when the issue started to arouse worldwide concern. (http://www.wrm.org.uy) | *Every year millions of hectares of tropical forest disappear. It is estimated that between 1960 and 1990 more than 20 % of these forests were lost (33% in Asia and 18% in Africa and Latin America). To make matters worse, this process of destruction doesn't show any signs of stopping. In fact, current deforestation of the Amazon proceeds at an even greater speed than in the 1980s, when the issue started to arouse worldwide concern. (http://www.wrm.org.uy) | ||
| − | *There was a deep cave with a vast mouth, yawning and jagged | + | *There was a deep cave with a vast mouth, yawning and jagged<br> |
guarded by a black lake and the gloom of a forest, | guarded by a black lake and the gloom of a forest, | ||
over which no birds at all could safely hold a course upon their wings | over which no birds at all could safely hold a course upon their wings | ||
such was the vapour gushing into the high vaults from the black maw. | such was the vapour gushing into the high vaults from the black maw. | ||
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When Errinundera moved to Forest, the founder, Devdan, had already faded away. A fragment of the World Factbook Entry is remembered from that time:
- "The Region of Forest is rich with wildlife of all shapes and sizes and is completely covered by a large forest."
Errinundera became UN delegate on 3 May 2006 and was able to re-activate regional control.
Regional power is low.
There are currently 8 nations active in the region (in order of regional power):
- The Cool Temperate Rainforest of Errinundera - superpower
- The Kingdom of Karock - superpower
- The Holy Republic of Light in Nationstates - eminence grise
- The Commonwealth of Eungella - dealmaker
- The Disputed Territories of Siberian Taiga - diplomat
- The Dominion of Wawona - truckler
- The Great Works of Carboni - vassal (had been a power but left the region for a time)
- The Kingdom of The Dawn Tiger - minnow
Another nation that has faded away since Errinundera gained regional control was The Free Land of Hope in Nature. It had a motto appropriate for the region, "Without nature, we are nothing".
A notable feature since the re-activation of regional control has been the regular update of the World Factbook Entry, at least weekly, with quotes from various sources. A record of these entries gives a good feel for what the region is about.
- The whole region was like an abandoned flower bowl, filled to overflowing with green, living things; and, protected on all sides by the ferocious barricades of the mountains, those lovely reaches of forest lay so far inland the inhabitants believed the name, Ocean, that of a man in another country. (Angela Carter, “Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest”)
- It was the fire of 1939 that burnt itself most fiercely into memory: 'Black Friday', Friday 13 January. Named by a day, it represented a summer of destruction. In that January 1.4 million hectares across the state burned. Whole settlements were incinerated, 71 lifes were lost, and most of Victoria's mountain forests were destroyed. In the environmental history of European Victoria there is perhaps no more significant date. (Tom Griffiths, "Secrets of the Forest")
- Every year millions of hectares of tropical forest disappear. It is estimated that between 1960 and 1990 more than 20 % of these forests were lost (33% in Asia and 18% in Africa and Latin America). To make matters worse, this process of destruction doesn't show any signs of stopping. In fact, current deforestation of the Amazon proceeds at an even greater speed than in the 1980s, when the issue started to arouse worldwide concern. (http://www.wrm.org.uy)
- There was a deep cave with a vast mouth, yawning and jagged
guarded by a black lake and the gloom of a forest, over which no birds at all could safely hold a course upon their wings such was the vapour gushing into the high vaults from the black maw.
