Category: Pets
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National Geographic Society, the Pristine Seas Project and Davidoff Cool Water to create the world’s largest marine reserve
Today, the ocean covers 72% of the surface of the Earth, but only 1% is protected. National Geographic, through the Pristine Seas Project, seeks to protect some of the last pristine spots of the oceans and to create marine protected areas. In 2012, the partnership kicked off with an expedition to the Pitcairn Islands in…
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Life of Pi is helping to save the tigers
Join LIFE OF PI to help WWF double the number of tigers in the wild by 2022. The largest of all the Asian big cats, the wild tigers face a number of threats, including habitat loss from human activities such as clear cutting for agriculture and road development, climate change and poaching. Every part of…
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The curse of the plastic. Plastic lost at sea is an environmental and potential human health hazard
Plastic: The threats of oceans and coasline Take a look around you- most of what we eat, drink, or use in any way comes packaged in petroleum plastic– a material designed to last forever, yet used for products that we then throw away. Each year, humanity pours six million tons of plastic into the sea. The oceanographer…
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“If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live” – Albert Einstein
EU countries will vote on plans to ban bee killing pesticides. Spain, Germany and the UK are threatening to block the ban, under the pressure of the chemical lobby. Not a single bee has never sent you an invoice. And that is part of the problem – because most of what comes to us from…
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“The world once again had a chance to take action to safeguard polar bear populations and failed”
Only 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears remain in the wild, living in Canada, Greenland, Norway, Russia and the United States. Leading polar bear scientists believe that two-thirds of the world’s polar bear populations will be lost by the year 2050. More than 400 polar bears are needlessly exploited, hunted and killed annually to supply the…
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Victory for sharks and manta rays: Indonesia creates sanctuary in the ‘Amazon of the Ocean’
‘Amazon of the Ocean’: Indonesia creates sanctuary for sharks and manta rays In a move to protect a 46,000-square-kilometre area of ocean, Indonesia, currently the world’s largest exporter of sharks and rays, has announced the creation of a sanctuary for sharks and manta rays. The remote ocean dive destination is part of the Coral Triangle, an…