And millions of other birds, animals, livelihoods and precious natural resources will get blackened as well.
Recent unseasonal rains in the region have washed away tons of precious salt threatening the livelihood of hundreds of already poverty-striken salt pan workers.
In their irrational pursuit for our planet's natural resources, they have destroyed ecosystems, wiped out precious biodiversity, fauna and flora, and endangered the livelihood of communities worldwide.
Their livelihood was taking a toll on the precious Guarinó River watershed.
Millions of hectares of precious rainforest and their plants and animals are being destroyed, wrecking livelihoods and polluting rivers.
These conflicts were fuelled by the rapacious global demand for precious minerals, and destroyed communities, dissolved family units, and disrupted farming, livelihoods and migration patterns.
The river fish in the region are a food source and livelihood for tens of thousands of people and a precious environmental resource.
A country that is enthusiastically demanding to join the World Trade Organization is treating its precious labor resources as a burden and inhibiting the economic interests, the very livelihoods, of tens of millions of rural laborers".
In my life and my job, there was a concrete connection between effort and reward, and that's the most precious thing the government took away from us when they deprived us of our livelihoods".
It was the annihilation of their homes and livelihoods that is evident from these shattering scenes of Homs, and the deaths of precious family members, that have driven hundreds of thousands to make that death-defying journey into Europe.
